| 25-6759 |
Carlos Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review |
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), a claim foreclosed by binding circuit precedent may nonetheless be "debatable among jurists of reason" w… |
| 25A877 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 25A861 |
Giordano Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
|
certificate-of-appealability federal-procedure habeas-corpus institutional-constraints law-of-case pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6681 |
Victor Correa v. Scott Wyckoff, Executive Officer, Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights default-judgment due-process federal-procedure judicial-discretion |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that it had authority to deny respondents' strategic lawsuit against public participat… |
| 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 … |
| 25-6293 |
Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161. |
| 25-5948 |
Jody D. Kimbrell v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedure pro-se venue-change |
1. Under Federal Rule for venue change can Central District Court of California change rule procedures if plaintiff is pro se?
2. Can Ninth Circuit i… |
| 25-5888 |
Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction |
1. The court has without jurisdiction to chose the file a certified legal for stitioner? And petitioner did not receive it?
2. The court violated pro… |
| 25-5853 |
Clarence Santiago v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-5779 |
Teddy Roosevelt Sibley v. Robert Jackson, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5457 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-08-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 25-5390 |
Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines? |
| 25-5364 |
David R. Kauffman v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-procedure judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition rule-16 |
On October 3,2023, Petitioner David Ryan Kauffman ("Mr. Kauffman ") filed
a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court f… |
| 25-5324 |
Kenneth Alfred Linville, Jr. v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief |
A. Did the state and federal courts decide that newly discovered evidence was not newly discovered evidence on the checks?
B. Did the state and feder… |
| 25-5313 |
Kevin William Cassaday v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Was the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 13th & 14th U.S. Constitutional Amendments
purposefully denied to Mr. Cassaday?
2. Upon arrest Mr. Cassaday aske… |
| 25A168 |
Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden |
Which party bears the burden of proving proper venue? |
| 25-140 |
Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
|
contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause |
1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.… |
| 25-5284 |
Bobbie Ray Edwards v. Milton Graham, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix subject-matter-jurisdiction vi-amendment |
i. WHETHER PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS CLAIM CAN BE DENIED UNDER
28 U.S.C. 2241 (a)(c)(3) FOR "LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION" BY
THE DISTRICT COURT… |
| 25A98 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5156 |
Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay |
Whether, on de novo review, the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements that the prosecution's chief witness made to the police prejudici… |
| 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… |
| 24-7256 |
John Douglas v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery-sanction federal-procedure judicial-discretion pro-se section-1983 |
Whether a dismissal of a meritorious and complex de-consolidated Federal Section 1983 lawsuit is appropriate as a discovery sanction pursuant to FRCP … |
| 24-7010 |
Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability ( COA) complies with… |
| 24-6921 |
Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In Wis. Dep't of Corr. v. Schacht, 524 U.S. 381, 391 (1998), this Court noted it hasn't yet decided whether sovereign immunity implicates subject matt… |
| 24-1036 |
LaWanda Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidentiality-regulations court-order federal-procedure patient-privacy substance-abuse-records summary-judgment |
To investigate or prosecute a substance abuse program or a person holding the records, law enforcement personnel must obtain a court order premised up… |
| 24-6496 |
In Re Maestro M. Faison, aka Maestro Matthew Faison |
|
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-rule eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus supreme-court-retroactivity |
3) . The United States Appeals Court, Eleventh Circuit, has created a Questions " resolving clause [?]:
4) . The United States Appeals Court Eleventh… |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies (i) to habeas filings made after a prisoner has exhausted appellate review of his first petition, (ii) to all second-in-t… |
| 24-6453 |
Steven Michael Cenephat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
character-evidence evidence-rule federal-procedure intent-element mental-state prior-crime |
Does a court, in deciding whether a defendant's prior crime is relevant to the non-character issue of intent under Rule 404(b), need only determine wh… |
| 24-769 |
Joan Stormo, as Assignee of Peter T. Clark v. State National Insurance Company |
First Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
|
certification diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-procedure federalism state-law |
Federal courts sitting in diversity must apply the laws of the relevant state as rules of decision. 28 U.S. Code § 1652. Certification of questions to… |
| 24A671 |
Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law |
Question not identified. |
| 24-720 |
Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-error court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-strike |
1. Did the Court of Appeals err in ignoring a Motion
to Strike the affidavit of attorney Steven Brill when
that affidavit was submitted contrary to fe… |
| 24-697 |
Terry J. Clark v. Debra Anne Taylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction case-preclusion district-court federal-procedure legal-doctrine rooker-feldman |
1. The first question presented is about Rooker-Feldtman, what standards exist for any and all appellate courts EXCEPTIONS to Rooker-Feldman?
2. Does… |
| 24-6213 |
Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the United States Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of Hughes v. United States 263 F.3D 272,… |
| 24-688 |
Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a cou… |
| 24A612 |
Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari excusable-neglect extension-of-time federal-procedure pro-se supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5999 |
Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review |
WAS CRIMINAL CONVICTION #01-690(JAF) OF JUNE 7. 2002 INVALIDATED WHEN SOLICITOR GENERAL ELIZABETH B. PRELOGAR RESIGNED ON JANUARY 26, 2022 TO ANSWER T… |
| 24-5988 |
In Re Bryan Lee Gregory |
|
2024-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus |
(1). DID CHIEF JUDGE SMITH VIOLATED 28 USC 352 (A) BY DETERMING
DISPUTED FACT;IN MR.GREGORY'S COMPLAINT AGAINST DISTRICT JUDGE
STEVEN BOUGH AND OTHER… |
| 24-5892 |
Toccara Yvonne Puller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5918 |
Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights federal-procedure judicial-review rule-59-motion rule-60-motion subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal court has Subject-Matter Jurisdiction under the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 6(b)(2) or any other federal law to "Order, Adjudge, Decree " o… |
| 24-5834 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure |
1. COA Standard. The COA inquiry requires courts to, among other things, conduct a general assessment of a defendant's claims. In his COA Brief to the… |
| 24A385 |
Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-procedure legal-briefing time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 24-344 |
James T. Foster v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the eleventh circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the … |
| 24-5621 |
Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Are varied definitions of the clear error standard of review and results of such definitions pertaining to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permissib… |
| 24-5615 |
Merl Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations |
Where a criminal judgment is amended to impose restitution obligations that were generically imposed but left undetermined in the original judgment, d… |
| 24-5443 |
Antoine D. Craig v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5438 |
Michael Bowe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24-5408 |
George Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-procedure investigative-process judicial-review jury-verdict legislative-pay south-dakota |
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| 24-5341 |
Charis Mapson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5325 |
Richard Moaney, aka Richard Daniel Moaney, IV v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Under Substantive maritime law, is the only basis for State and Federal concurrent subject matter jurisdiction, pursuant to 28 USC § 1333, admiralty a… |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
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| 24-5179 |
Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court |
A Louisiana Executive Pardon of a felony sentence erases the criminal history and restores civil rights and liberties to a party.
An Executive Commuta… |
| 24-5142 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 24-27 |
Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections |
1. Can arguments in support of a court's subject-matter jurisdiction be waived?
2. The Federal Magistrates Act provides that a "judge of the [distric… |
| 23A1093 |
Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7641 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b |
Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e… |
| 23-1261 |
Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been… |
| 23-7593 |
Kaleel Hinton v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard petition-for-writ post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing time-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7586 |
Christopher Eugean Brown v. Sergeant Ashley Kern |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech incarceration judicial-discretion standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1234 |
Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing |
1. Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, acted in a BIAS decision in failing to reverse the District courts ' ruling by denying Petitioner 's… |
| 23-7466 |
Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi |
California |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law |
1. Honorable Chief Justice Guerrero, of the California Supreme Court, Case S 283118, and the 3 Judges Panels, of the State of California, Riverside Co… |
| 23-7437 |
Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit utterly failed or abandoned its duty to engage in the GOA process with respect to four remaining COA issues: Issues One, Two… |
| 23-7301 |
Reginald Burrell v. Sharon Langham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraudulent-judgments habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supervisory-power |
Whether thi U.S.Cou.rT of appeals for thi Eleventh Circuit Entered. a decision, or proposed to inter a decision in Conflict coith other U.S. Courts of… |
| 23-1152 |
Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether if I didn't give consent for my case to be conducted by the magistrate Judge Kelly Pate. Rule 73. 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). A record must be made of… |
| 23-7255 |
Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine |
1. Whether the 11th Circuit Court erred when it did not consider Horace's medical records and expert witness statements raised in argument to the Dist… |
| 23-1056 |
Joseph Brent Mattingly v. R.J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure common-carrier corporate-law federal-procedure fela parent-company subsidiary summary-judgment veil-piercing |
This case filed under 42 U.S.C. §§51, et seq. (the Federal Employers Liability Act, or "FELA"), presents three questions, to wit:
1. Whether, and to … |
| 23-7066 |
Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 give a federal court of appeals jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's motion under Rule … |
| 23-7048 |
Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6989 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendants compassionate-release criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing-factors |
Whether the lower court properly applied the evaluation of the sect. 3553 factors among differently situated co-defendant to denied Petitioner's compa… |
| 23-6970 |
Kathy R. Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power civil-procedure court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel due-process erisa-claim federal-procedure mediation mediation-rights rule-52-findings statute-of-limitations |
1. Question 1 - Whether the USDC D.E. #51-52, #55 and USDC-COA4th 's Doc. #23
Orders Have Reversible Err and/or Was an Abuse of Power and an Abuse of… |
| 23-6921 |
Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review solitary-confinement |
Question not identified. |
| 23-966 |
Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether or not 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges, with apparent intent to issue new cross-designations each year, in pe… |
| 23-973 |
Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
|
certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification |
1. Should cooperative federalism, comity, efficient federal practice, and the divergent decisions in the Circuits prompt the Court in the wake of Lehm… |
| 23-959 |
Colin Montague v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation |
The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23-894 |
Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
The petitioner brought a breach of contract action in Nevada state court against the law firm which represented him in a bankruptcy filed by his ex-wi… |
| 23-6737 |
Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b |
1. In determining whether a hearing related to equitable tolling is warranted, do the unsworn representations of an attorney —while that attorney is o… |
| 23-851 |
John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing |
1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal … |
| 23A675 |
Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights dismissal federal-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se rule-12b6 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6513 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing |
Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s… |
| 23-6407 |
Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. |
California |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution federal-procedure interlocutory-order judicial-review standing state-court state-courts |
Question 1:
Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case
impairs / offense / invalidate my Federal Constitution and Due p… |
| 23-705 |
Stephen Robert Deck v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration |
Whether California's sex offender registration mandates under Calif. Penal Code section 290 place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's l… |
| 23-6295 |
Gregory I. Ezeani v. Jeffrey S. McClain |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights document-theft due-process federal-procedure fraud impersonation privacy privacy-rights subpoena-fraud |
1. The Pro se presents that the third circuit court decision requires review for due process right violation because the court failed to recognize tha… |
| 23-6287 |
Parnell R. May v. Kawhun Tims, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force federal-procedure judicial-review qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6191 |
In Re Colby Jerome Hale |
|
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation |
8) What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an Appeal from the U.S. District Court. If you do exactly what the rule… |
| 23-6094 |
Dena Inez Minton v. Miranda Richardson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus legal-documents prisoner-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5986 |
Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5845 |
In Re Kennedy Wright |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5814 |
Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5685 |
In Re Bobby Richardson |
|
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-procedure jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-discretionary-duty rule-12b1 standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE RELIEF, INCLUDING A WRIT OF MANDAMUS FROM THIS COURT, TO COMPEL THE LOWER COURT(S) TO ADJUDICATE PETITIONER'S FED.… |
| 23-5590 |
In Re Jamar L. Williams |
|
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5577 |
Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires judges to disclose and disqualify at all stages of a criminal proceeding, including collateral appellate pro… |
| 23-202 |
James William Hall v. Tammy O'Brien, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct standing subpoena subpoena-service summons |
Do a plaintiff or a defendant have a right to an oral-argument in his other case if requested and to respond to the judges remarks calling the case (f… |
| 23-5398 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment amendment constitutional-rights district-court-review due-process federal-procedure federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-15 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
1. Whether 6. Cet feate ok Aero. okility Shaisutd (Sou to Rextiews | shothor the United States District Court Fac the Ulestetn District of | Nacth Coc… |
| 23-157 |
Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity |
1. Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment,
Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th… |
| 23-5212 |
DeAndra Stephenson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence notice-requirement standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5169 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s… |
| 23-5071 |
Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation |
Would a jurist of reason find the District Court Clerk made a procedural error by failing to issue and mail the November 15th, 2021 termination order … |
| 23-5056 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure first-amendment fraud judicial-review summary-judgment |
Whether The Violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment (Rule 60(d)(3); 18 U.S. Code § 1341; 18 U.S. Code § 1519 be allowed to stand uncorrec… |
| 23-5047 |
Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings |
1. Whether Court op Appeals A&useo rrs discretion cuhtre ^senior . Circuit judees uuwo mle
mem Be Us ofthe originally assigned diuision hearing a cas… |
| 23-5048 |
Leonard W. Houston v. Highland Care Center, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing |
The lower Court has not permitted the Plaintiff-Appellant, pro-se to proceed with this action in forma pruperis, and thus subject said "Motion Stateme… |
| 22-1251 |
Simon V. Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-fraud administrative-law agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-procedure fraud injunctive-relief regulatory-misconduct standing |
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) knowingly falsified its review of an offshore wind farm, concealing contamination harmful to human h… |
| 22-1244 |
Angela Joseph v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-procedure job-performance protected-class summary-judgment wrongful-termination |
Whether summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civic Procedure Rule 56 standard was improperly granted to dismiss a case of employment discrimination … |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7710 |
Michael Walker v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-evidence credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule federal-procedure judicial-review standing state-law timeliness |
1) He 5uppieME CowftT SfafeJ 4KaV -Vhe peV.'URfef rO^ '
ReUbitClftifris OF ccfiiVVuFcnal CXCcR tOi-W\ ^uEvJvAence .v6
peYA.cn ^ of ^tu3
r p^-V.-ViC^rW… |
| 22-7694 |
Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing |
Petitioner contends California defendant officers, and agents engaged in conspiracy cover-up of corruption in promoting themselves, intimidation, stal… |
| 22-7655 |
Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
1. Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time §2255 motion was "second [or] successive?" |
| 22-7609 |
Akiaz Marqiez King v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reed-v-goertz sixth-amendment state-law-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
Should the Court grant a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand this case for the Ninth Circuit to consider this Court's intervenin… |
| 22-1014 |
Estate of Rex Vance Wilson, et al. v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court exceptions federal-appeals federal-procedure issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-arguments preservation-of-claims standard-of-review |
1. Where a plaintiff adequately argues and preserves a federal claim or a state law claim before the district court, may the plaintiff advance new arg… |
| 22-993 |
In Re Krishna Maharaj |
|
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review |
WHETHER, GIVEN THE CHAOS IN THE
LOWER COURTS ON THE EXISTENCE OR
SCOPE OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT NOT TO BE IMPRISONED
WHEN FACTUALLY INNOCEN… |
| 22-7139 |
Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden |
First Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
WHETHER OR NOT MR. RICHARDSON'S SPECIAL PLEA TO THE LOWER COURTS LACK OF FACTUAL DEDICATE THUS DECISION PURSUANT TO WARS UNOPPOSED FED P. CH /, P 12(b… |
| 22-7081 |
Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
1. Does petitioner have the right to have his patrons heaped and his allegations disputed by Respondents?
2. Should there Bank on £ then Writ -#e7t/ … |
| 22-825 |
James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings |
The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens against takings of property without due process. Due process includes, at a minimum, personal jurisdiction,… |
| 22-746 |
Damion Kentrell White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 22-6714 |
Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court |
CAN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SANCTION THE DISTRICT COURT'S RECHARACTERIZATION OF A PETITIONER'S CLAIM AFTER SUCH CLAIM HAS BEEN LIBERALLY CO… |
| 22-6622 |
Marvin Eduardo Luna Gomez v. Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus prison-disciplinary-proceedings standing wolfe-v-mcdonnell |
Question not identified. |
| 22-670 |
Pacesetter Consulting, LLC v. Herbert A. Kapreilian, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arizona-law civil-procedure damages damages-rule federal-courts federal-procedure service-of-process special-appearance statute-of-limitations waiver-doctrine |
Special appearance. In federal courts, "special
appearances" no longer exist—and have not for many
decades. But lawyers file them every day and distri… |
| 22-6419 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-forfeiture cash-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure property-rights rule-41g |
Should Mr. Wright be allowed a return of his seized cash when Mr. Wright filed a motion under Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) to return the cash, and the gover… |
| 22-6355 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
1) whether the Ninth Circwit's 10-7.22,
ORDER,granting Respondent's
motion To Revoke In Forma
Pauperi's under 28 U.S.C.8
1915(g),Three strikes provisi… |
| 22-553 |
Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching |
QUESTION 1: Should Arbitrators deciding a Federal case have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure … |
| 22-6226 |
James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court |
Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion petitioner habeas corpus petition on "Presumption Of Correctness" an mandate… |
| 22-507 |
Tyson Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonabl-jurists-debate reasonable-jurists |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claim (i.… |
| 22-6089 |
Heeralall Puran v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus math-mistake time-limitation untimely-petition |
Whether Petitioner Puran Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether Equitable Tolling Should Apply to Permit an Untimely Ha… |
| 22-6069 |
Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6050 |
Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct legal-filing procedural-due-process statutory-law supreme-court-precedents |
Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed:
• to criminally "dismiss " the strikingly meritorious appeal that presents
such questions as … |
| 22-5965 |
Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. |
Texas |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause |
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a (Rule 91a) Dismissal of Baseless Cause of Action, became effective March 1, 2013, and suppose to be similar to Feder… |
| 22-5885 |
Christopher Surles v. Warden, Limestone Correctional Facility, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-government federal-procedure notice-of-appeal procedural-rules standing time-limitation time-limits united-states-agency |
Does the Order of Dismissal (Appendix Z) does that make the United States a party to the appeal?
What is the time limit for the filing of a notice of… |
| 22-5725 |
Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5635 |
Vladimir Vladimirovic Brik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process federal-procedure gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance material-evidence second-petition successive-petition |
Are second-in-time petitions raising newly discovered material Brady violations "second or seccessive" within the meaning of §2255(h)'s gatekeeping pr… |
| 22-5628 |
In Re Tony Walker |
|
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether The April 24, 2004 Standings Order of The Court of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. § 1503(b) and 28 U.S.C. § 1658?
2. W… |
| 22-239 |
Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition |
When a court of appeals authorizes adjudication of a claim in a second or successive habeas petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), is the distr… |
| 22-5491 |
John Michael Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-5270 |
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
What is "inadequate or ineffective" to file a Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s Savings Clause? |
| 22-68 |
Perry Adron McCullough v. David F. Levi, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-authority standing tort-claim |
Ex-prisoner seeks Tort claim for monetary damages and restoration of his second amendment rights; due to prosecutor's default of failure to prove juri… |
| 22-5081 |
Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing |
a)When USCA does not have jurisdiction to Constitutional challenges, US Supreme Court has (Original) Jurisdiction for the [following] reliefs petition… |
| 21-8170 |
Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure |
1. It's A WillFul disrerpect oF vuited states Dirtrict Court Chiet Jude I. Rndal Hall's order,"For Not Considering the herits of hay crJE.
2. It'5 A … |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-7993 |
Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing |
No sworn affidavit from a victim, no evidence of a crime, no 2 witnesses to a crime. 4th amendment is clear. NO IMMUNITY
FRCP RULE 12 A (i) states a p… |
| 21-7955 |
Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty |
1) Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in
which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner?
2) Do federa… |
| 21-1419 |
Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when
the lower court even specifically stated in the
initial per curiam opinion and judgment that
"[t]he c… |
| 21-7715 |
Lacy E. Lewis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Framework as Explained in Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 120 S.Ct. 1495, 146 L.Ed 2d 389 (2000), For Review For 28 USC 2254, applicable to t… |
| 21-1366 |
Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order |
Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements, if applicable, to be listed in the show cause order to satisfy proper notice re… |
| 21-7652 |
Damian Scott Olvera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability as dictated by §2253(c)(2) and this C… |
| 21-7588 |
Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment |
#1. Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal, (Bias and Conflict of Interest was questionable)?
United States Eastern District Of Wisconsin, 2… |
| 21-7545 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-7532 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. International SOS, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conley-v-gibson copyright-ownership federal-courts federal-procedure federal-statute joint-employment pleading-standards remedies software-engineering sullivan-v-little-hunting-park |
a) In Civil rights complaint, when the Plaintiff alleged that Joint employers did not pay to the plaintiff is enough for FCP Rule 8(a) 's short and pl… |
| 21-1318 |
Gregory Bogomol v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search |
1. What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
2. Does… |
| 21-7192 |
Thomas Johnny Wilkins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-interpretation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-evidence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-supervisory-power |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7202 |
In Re Mohammed Kwaning |
|
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-imprisonment |
IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE DISCHARGE, WHERE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT TRIED AND IMPRISONED PETITIONER FOR INFAMOUS CRIMES WITHOUT PRES… |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with … |
| 21-1052 |
United States, ex rel. Jesse Polansky, M.D., M.P.H. v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure false-claims-act federal-procedure government-dismissal judicial-conflict qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and what standard applies if the gov… |
| 21-6790 |
Timothy Ryan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
1. DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT AND/OR DISTRICT OF INDIANA—SOUTH BEND DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING RYAN'S § 2255 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WI… |
| 21-6781 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing |
ONLY Lsswize #Q of USCAY 420-7897 (Appenclix D)
Tadge has the Authonty to der Ne United States Feclere. adge Nas 7 / a petendent to V's late. Uni teo… |
| 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… |
| 21-963 |
Neil McNaughton v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process erickson-precedent federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-accountability judicial-reasoning pleadings pro-se-pleading standing twombly twombly-plausibility |
1. As demonstrated by the rulings of the district court and the circuit court in this action and in a prior related action, does the persistent misapp… |
| 21-6692 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 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… |
| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-832 |
Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
|
anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove |
The question presented is:
1. Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with this Court's decision in Shady Grove? In pa… |
| 21-6451 |
Ada Maria Benson v. IHSS DPSS, In Home Supportive Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure frivolous-litigation labor-law standing wage-theft workplace-assault |
In the US Supreme Court Volume 408 Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 U.S. 104 (1972) "The person cannot be declared a Frivolous (vexatious) litigant un… |
| 21-6410 |
Steve Herbert Speckman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review limitations-period petition-deadline statute-of-limitations supreme-court-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6398 |
Roy M. Belfast v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-review standing takings |
Did The Anpellate Court Aid In The Violation Of The Powers Suspending The Writ of Habers Seperation, " :Corpus And Constitufiondl Avoidance Doctrine :… |
| 21-6247 |
Andrew Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Does an inordinate delay of almost six years -- as a matter of law -- render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the … |
| 21-616 |
Lee W. Yeager v. FirstEnergy Generation Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment legal-redress notice opportunity-to-be-heard pleading-amendment standing |
Whether a federal district court's outright dismissal
of a stayed action without having first lifted that stay,
to permit ruling on plaintiff's pendin… |
| 21-6032 |
Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court in direct contrave… |
| 21-5934 |
Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations |
The issue is whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are a part of the "direct review" process under 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-5886 |
Sasha Trieste McGarity v. Birmingham Public Schools, dba West Maple Elementary - Bloomfield Hills |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1652 28-usc-8004 civil-procedure court-rules due-process electronic-filing federal-procedure legal-service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Does filing an answer with the court via electronic means but failing to serve the plaintiff satisfy service of process in accordance with 28 U.S. Cod… |
| 21-5796 |
Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law |
A State Law Is At Issue In These Condemnation Cases On Being Repugnant To The U. S. Constitution; But If No Final Appealable Judgment Has Been Issued … |
| 21-5787 |
In Re Randall Thomas McArty |
|
2021-09-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion
enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio
of nelease or paude.
2). Whether 28 usc 246 … |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5622 |
Michael C. Sullivan v. Karen Carrington, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment forest-service government-liability judicial-canon judicial-conduct takings |
WHETHER : The Fifth (5th) Amendment of the United States requires the United States government and its agencies to pay just compensation for wrong doi… |
| 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… |
| 21-5477 |
Clifford Senter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-5422 |
Jeffrey Alan Olson v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-selection due-process federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-independence judicial-selection standing |
Rather than the President of the United States should Federal Judges, Federal and Appellate Judges and United States Supreme Court Justices and Chief … |
| 21-5390 |
Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-5318 |
Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review |
When reviewing a habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. §2255, where the court is considering for the first time whether an erroneous jury instruction on… |
| 21-93 |
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power |
A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Depart from the Accepted and Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings to Su… |
| 21-5171 |
Stephen Cummings v. Dolby Laboratories, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law federal-procedure judicial-immunity property-rights standing |
1. That, the lower court (and-or previous appeals court) have decided a legal matter in error, and in conflict with State and Federal Law.
2. That, (… |
| 21-5008 |
Brittany Crownhart v. Anne Magill Collins |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-review property-rights search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8446 |
Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law |
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| 20-8386 |
Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE … |
| 20-8359 |
James Christopher Castle v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Relief is sought from void ab initio emergency judicial order which void issued are dedicated upon an operation by Eastern District of California Chie… |
| 20-8351 |
Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY REVERSED THE DISTRICT COURT ON THE ISSUE OF LAW OF WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD VALID SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDIC… |
| 20-8332 |
Damen Rabb v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-claim standards-for-coa-determinations successive-petition |
1. After a court of appeals finds that a petitioner has met the prima facie threshold to proceed in a successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244… |
| 20-1705 |
Renovo Services, LLC, et al. v. George Badeen, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
|
amount-in-controversy class-action-fairness-act district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federalism-separation-of-powers removal-statute rules-enabling-act separation-of-powers statutory-deadline statutory-deadlines |
This appeal presents important questions not yet settled by this Court related to federalism and the separation of powers. Specifically, the case pres… |
| 20-8145 |
Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing |
1. There has been no redress of my grievance.
2. The Defendants did not make a single valid point, but still prevailed in the case. That is unjust.
3.… |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-1579 |
Vivian Epps v. CVS Health Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process electronic-record-freedom-of-information-act federal-procedure federal-rule-60 judicial-misconduct natural-justice ninth-circuit standing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit 3-panel Judges, TASHIMA,SILVERMAN, and OWENS had
INFRINGED the Rule of NATURAL JUSTICE for NOT giving the Appellant the … |
| 20-7596 |
Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding that jurists of reason could not have found it debatable that the district court erred by dismissing Petitione… |
| 20-1343 |
Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur |
1. Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in … |
| 20-7525 |
Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process |
Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process?
Is Sandin v. Conner, 518 U.S. 472 (1991) applicable to parole challenges?
Is Vitek v… |
| 20-7473 |
Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-1273 |
Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret |
1. Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are "judicial proceedings" ent… |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7212 |
Kareem Davenport v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court |
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| 20-7077 |
Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-provisions federal-procedure first-step-act gall-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-standards sentencing-reform statutory-provisions supreme-court-review united-states-v-booker |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 20-1079 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review |
1) Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 (Authority of internal revenue enforcement officers) establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents and did Special … |
| 20-918 |
In Re Johnathon Kelly |
|
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence |
①. Does the petitioners "Wrongfully Excluded" actual innocence evidence allow the petitioner to gain review of his actual innocence claim under the Sc… |
| 20-800 |
Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus |
Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t… |
| 20-745 |
Ismael Lechuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr… |
| 20-697 |
Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination |
When Petitioner, a Black man, was sentenced to death in a Texas federal courtroom after the prosecution struck four out of five Black prospective juro… |
| 20-667 |
Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-litigation civil-procedure federal-action federal-procedure procedural-waiver state-procedural-mechanisms statute-of-limitations third-circuit waiver writ-of-summons |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the court below, erred in determining that the failure of defendants to contest, … |
| 20-6252 |
David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28 USC 2244 (d)(1)(A) when Ohio Rules of Appellate Procedure prohibit the only remedy rai… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not
apply in the puni shment phase? |
| 20-581 |
United States, ex rel. Integra Med Analytics, L.L.C. v. Baylor Scott & White Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
3rd-circuit 5th-circuit alternative-explanation alternative-explanations false-claims-act federal-procedure pleading-standards relator statistical-analysis |
Numerous circuits have held that a relator may state a claim under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-32 (the "FCA"), by alleging "particular det… |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-5946 |
Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity |
I. May a personal locker be a disciplinary notice wrote in fact if nothing wrote links the sulprit to it?
II. May a tribunal limit its review of a pr… |
| 20-5927 |
Gene Michael Diulio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to… |
| 20-5767 |
William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution |
May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan… |
| 20-5668 |
Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Along with the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit requires petitioners that qualify for equitable tolling to show diligence during the perio… |
| 20-5587 |
Zachary Joseph Love v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus kaufman-v-united-states townsend-factors townsend-v-sain |
In a habeas corpus proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 originating from a federal district court, where facts have not been established on the record to… |
| 20-5451 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution |
When Petitioning For Federal Habeas Relief a 2nd Time, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where "Conceding Guilt" Nevertheless Could Not Wa… |
| 20-5441 |
Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate that the District Court's limitation on the cross-examination of the prosecutor about objections to the use… |
| 20-169 |
Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err when it affirmed the District Court's imposition of sanctions pursuant to Rule 11, for the removal by Petitioners Lawrenc… |
| 20-5370 |
Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S PETITION IS TIMELY AND/OR THE ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN PETITIONER'S CASE ARE EQUATABLY TOLLED UNDER HOLLAND V. F… |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a… |
| 20-69 |
William O. Fuller, as Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Otis Fuller v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction court-of-appeals federal-procedure hypothetical-jurisdiction res-judicata standing steel-company subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals panel can, consistent with Steel Company v. Citizens for A Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998) and the Constitutional… |
| 20-5115 |
Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue |
Mr. Gerson Serrano-Ramirez was tried and convicted on in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Prior to and during tr… |
| 20-5013 |
Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause |
(A) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit relied on HECK v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, the usual part of malicious prosecution and its favora… |
| 19-8864 |
Calvin D. Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority federal-procedure judicial-authority judicial-conduct procedural-due-process |
1. Are Judges bound by: ABA Rule 2.15:, Judicial Canons 1-5, and FRCP Rule 46 while under color of [F]ederal authority?
2. Can the judge Fail to foll… |
| 19-8686 |
Beverley M. Harris v. The Bozzuto Group, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-access discovery due-process federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the Court should resolve the following questions for which the Federal District Court, Newark New Jersey rejected/denied Petitioner's evidence… |
| 19-8674 |
Rolando Gus Paez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system civil-procedure dismissal-rule due-process federal-procedure federalism federalism-doctrine habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation |
Does Rule 4 of the rules governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Court, which provides that "[i]f it plainly appears from the petit… |
| 19-8505 |
George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8436 |
In Re Michael A. Young |
|
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing |
I. Whether indigent petitioner's "GATEWAY" FACTUAL INNOCENCE" Showing while being Constructively "DENIED appointment of Counsel on" FIRST and "ALL" ot… |
| 19-1272 |
Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy |
Whether under the doctrine of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases, as the Fi… |
| 19-8377 |
Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations |
ARE THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (FRAP) TOO RESTRICTIVE OR INFLEXIBLE IN RESOLVING IMPEDIMENTS TO TIMELY LITIGANTS HAMPERED BY THE CONJUNCTIVE… |
| 19-1243 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing |
1. Did trial court deprive the petitioner of his constitutional rights when he denied petitioner total access to the court when he denied the petition… |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-1157 |
Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling |
The plaintiffs in these lawsuits are individuals who were swindled out of large sums of money in one of the largest "Ponzi" schemes in American histor… |
| 19-964 |
Christopher Lawrence v. University Hospital, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity due-process federal-procedure interpleader interpleader-statute minimal-diversity pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the decision of the 11th Circuit violates Petitioners Chaslie Lawrence and Petrice Ricks rights as beneficiaries to allow and select enjoining… |
| 19-7189 |
Kevin D. Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing |
1) Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge Reed Charles O'Connor abuse his discretion when he refused to recuse himself/ in violation of the… |
| 19-791 |
Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
|
appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver |
Whether federal district courts possess the authority to require appeal rights to be waived as a condition for receiving an award available under law.… |
| 19-6972 |
Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation |
The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th… |
| 19-6994 |
Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione… |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS
DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN… |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his
18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6829 |
Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal |
When the court does not file the summons and compliant for a Petitioner that was granted to proceed in forma pauperis, dose it violate Petitioners due… |
| 19-6785 |
Bobbie London, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline residual-clause statute-of-limitations unconstitutionally-vague vagueness-doctrine |
1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career… |
| 19-659 |
Miladis Salgado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice |
1. When does a civil forfeiture claimant "substantially prevail" under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)?
2. In civil forfeiture lawsuits where a district court… |
| 19-6505 |
Michael Ingram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation |
Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan… |
| 19-582 |
Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law and in splitting from other Circuits by refusi… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6371 |
Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
1. Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence… |
| 19-6263 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Were it that a judge held every reason to believe that Rooker-Feldman doctrine should bar "even [his] constitutional claims, " after a state appellate… |
| 19-478 |
Amadou Sowe v. Pall Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1746 affidavit affidavit-substitution age-discrimination civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure local-rule-violation local-rules owbpa perjury-statute summary-judgment sworn-declaration unsworn-declaration |
Even though the Plaintiffs counter statement is not accepted because of local rule violation, can the Plaintiffs counter statement still be used to sh… |
| 19-6197 |
Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation |
1) Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in Martinez v. United States , that
the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions,
inconsistent … |
| 19-6210 |
Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO RESOLVE
A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SIXTH, FIFTH AND NINTH CIRCUITS ON WHAT IS THE
APPRO… |
| 19-6156 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition |
Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is "second or successive" under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed … |
| 19-6090 |
Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere
serivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a "new judgment" within the
mea… |
| 19-6073 |
Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error |
1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal
.foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON
507U… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
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28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-390 |
William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice |
1. Whether district court orders dedicate any section of the opinion(s) to deny petitioner's Civil RICO 18 U.S.C. 1961-1964, in the verified complaint… |
| 19-5851 |
Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default |
Is there a federal procedural rule, written or unwritten, which permits a United States Court of Appeals and/or a United States District Court to simp… |
| 19-5755 |
Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
60b-motion change-in-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rule-60b statutory-representation statutory-right-to-counsel structural-defect |
I. Whether in ruling on a 60(b) motion for relief from judgment, a court can consider "a change in the law" as one of many wide-range of factors, in d… |
| 19-5570 |
Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review |
Question One
As to the violation of Mr. Barton's right to be free from double jeopardy whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed upon Mr. Barton an impr… |
| 19-5551 |
Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest |
I. Is actual innocence of the crimes for which Petitioner was convicted and imprisoned a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
II. D… |
| 19-5530 |
Leroy Lyons v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights statutory-construction wrongful-conviction |
Motion to shik Coeriosari on in Dieu of granting Coontisani Remand to the ixth Lovicil imstuwith chions to consider the amended Bile5 moerid sfer Rema… |
| 19-5513 |
Charles Head v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari |
I what remedies is available for petitioner when Court appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in deference to the pe… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5463 |
Jesse Dean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley |
Whether the District Court had jurisdiction where Petitioner was indicted for acts which do not constitute a criminal offense?
Whether Petitioner's c… |
| 19-140 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, once an appeal of a remand order has been explicitly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the en… |
| 19-137 |
Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
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bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
A circuit split currently exists over the scope of 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), which provides remedies for the improper filing of an involuntary bankruptcy pe… |
| 19-5325 |
Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5221 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review?
Can… |
| 19-5073 |
In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz |
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2019-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244 (b),(3),(D), when more… |
| 19-5021 |
Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 |
1. WETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS IN "CONFLICT" WITH THE CIRCUT COURTS CASE IN[ MICHAEL D. HURD V. DISTRICT … |
| 18-1567 |
Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
I. Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 169… |
| 18-9680 |
Elester Middlebrook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims |
QUESTION 1
an extraordinary This Court holds that factual innocence equates to
circumstance that overrides a statute of limitation. McQuiggin v. Perk… |
| 18A1295 |
Jesse Mendivil v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
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federal-procedure legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9458 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-relief federal-procedure injunctive-relief mandamus-writ standing writ-of-mandamus |
I- Whether The District Court improperly Violated Petitioner
Musa's Constitutional right
II- Whether Petitioner Musa's is Entitled to Emergency relie… |
| 18-9457 |
Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation |
DOES STRICT CALCULATION OF TIMELINESS AFTER FINDING OF EXTRAORDINARY CURCUNSTANCES CREATED BY A STATE IMPEDIMENT TO FILING 28.U.S.C. SECTION 2244(D)(1… |
| 18-1453 |
Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning |
Before this Honorable Court is the question of when it is appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, in light… |
| 18-9265 |
Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 |
1. Does a district court's denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitute a defect in the integrity of the p… |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.)
… |
| 18-8903 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata |
Should Res judicata and Collateral, Estoppel Doctrines be able to
Barr an Independent or an Original Action in Federal Court when;
the Defendants Witt… |
| 18-8881 |
Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion |
CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ANY FINDINGS OF FACT SPECIALLY AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AS IS REQUIRED BY… |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
I.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FAILED TO RULE ON THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S APP… |
| 18-8817 |
Michael Clark v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bradley-v-fisher civil-rights color-of-law common-law-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech judicial-immunity nixon-v-warner standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Northern District and Second Circuit Courts
violated the Clark Family First Amendment and Common Law
Rights related to the two fraudulent cour… |
| 18-8767 |
Antonio Slaton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-of-innocence federal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-supervised-release revocation-hearing supervised-release |
Whether a state conviction entered via an Alford plea creates an irrebuttable presumption such that a defendant in a federal supervised release revoca… |
| 18-8745 |
Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation |
When underlying USPTO disciplinary proceedings are conducted according to regulations which abolish both 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery under the… |
| 18-8756 |
Jonathan S. Williams v. Dr. Kurk, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process federal-procedure judicial-error prima-facie-case res-judicata standing |
DID THE U.S.D.C; COMMIT LEGAL ERROR BY GRANTING DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS UNDER RES JUDICATA WITHOUT ALLOWING THE APPELLANT AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONT… |
| 18-8717 |
Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel |
DOES THE BLANKET DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUNCED IN SLACK V. MCDANIEL?
DOES 28 U.S.C. § 224… |
| 18-1222 |
Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
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capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition |
After the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit resolved Petitioner's motion under § 2255 seeking habeas relief from his death sentence… |
| 18-8370 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation |
What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n… |
| 18-8290 |
Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii |
Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 codified as 42 USC 2000e protect the Plaintiffs … |
| 18-8236 |
Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States District Court/United States Court of Appeals violated the 10th Amendments of the United States Constitution when they creat… |
| 18-8158 |
Jerry Anderson, II v. Rex Miller, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-error standing |
DID DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DISMISSED PLAINTIFFS CLAIM FOR FAILURE TO STATE CLAIM WITH PREJUDICE WITHOUT AFFORDING PLAINTIFF A OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER… |
| 18-7660 |
LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment |
The Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, O.C.G.AS/-H Enactment of Code, a felory - If these were"Enacted" in violatin of the Georgia Constitotion 201, … |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review when… |
| 18-7636 |
Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
i. Does court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 28 usc 2244(d)(1) to deny review of C.O.A. Challenging District c… |
| 18-7461 |
In Re Brandon Lee |
|
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
affirmative-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure grand-jury indictment judicial-review judicial-supervision legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct |
WILL THE SUPREME COURT INVOKE ITS JUDICIAL SUPERVISORY POWER AS A BASIS TO PRESCRIBE STANDARDS OF PROSECUTORIAL CONDUCT BEFORE THE GRAND JURY IF AFFIR… |
| 18-7370 |
Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations |
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| 18-7368 |
Redmond Howard v. Daryl McCready, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-pleading special-litigation standing |
1) Had Judge Russell III drafted an inaccurate OPINION based on the American Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than the plaintiffs true claim: What the U… |
| 18-7188 |
Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation |
Ten years after Ian Davis was convicted of aggravated murder and felonious assault, the only alleged eyewitness to the crime admitted, in an unsolicit… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-6934 |
Bobby Evans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i… |
| 18-696 |
Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech |
1. Should the Ninth Circuit have reversed itself and exacerbated an unsettled and widening split among the First, Fifth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits by f… |
| 18-6834 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 |
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER RULE 58 FOR A FINAL
JUDGMENT IN DISTRICT COURT FOR A FEDERAL DEATH
PENALTY HABEAS PETITION UNDER THE EIGHTH AND
FOURTE… |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPOSED A DEF'AC']X) LIFE SENTENCE THAT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE STATUTE OF CONVICTION BY CALCULATING THE DEFENDANT'S LIFE… |
| 18-6765 |
Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to resolve the differences in treatment among the various circuits and to clearly establish when a judgment … |
| 18-6719 |
Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice |
(1) Did the Third Circuit err i rendering petitioners's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and "THE END OF THE MATTER," without, the Pennsyl… |
| 18-6626 |
William Foley Miller v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review |
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| 18-582 |
Stephen Yagman v. Michael J. Colello |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
|
anti-SLAPP civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure iqbal rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent twombly |
May a state anti-SLAPP statute be used to dismiss a claim in federal court, when its application is contrary to the Rules Enabling Act, 28 U.S.C. § 20… |
| 18-6507 |
Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit |
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN BERGER THE JUDGE TO RETIRE FROM THE CASE WHEN THE AFFIANT BELIEVES THAT THE JUDGE HAS A PERSONAL BIAS OR PR… |
| 18-516 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant |
By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez and othe… |
| 18-508 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tyson Takeuchi, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech |
By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts … |
| 18-515 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech |
By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts … |
| 18-6173 |
Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe… |
| 18-6087 |
Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions |
I. DOES ASKING THE DISTRICT COURT TO REOPEN THE HABEAS PROCEEDING TO CONSIDER ALL ISSUES PRESENTED CONSTITUTE A SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE §2255 MOTION? |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-5980 |
Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review |
(1) In a federal habeas corpus proceeding where the state court did not hold a hearing or receive evidence to adjudicate facts on a claim, has the hab… |
| 18-5911 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness |
1) Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure if; it contains information about a minor t… |
| 18-249 |
Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request as futile to supplement her pleading under Fed. R.… |
| 18-5636 |
Edgar Searcy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the U.s. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and Committed reversable error in dismissing Ebroni's 42 U.s.C. 5 1983, Appeal, finding no reve… |
| 18-89 |
AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation |
1. Whether a state anti-SLAPP provision requiring an award of attorneys' fees and costs to a prevailing defendant applies in federal court—as the Firs… |
| 18-57 |
Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing |
42 U.S.C. § 1983, allows a person whose constitutional rights have been deprived to bring an action to redress the constitutional deprivation. Article… |
| 18-5135 |
Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling |
WAS HONISH'S FIRST STATE HABEAS WRIT "APPLICATION" PROPERLY FILED WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), AND REQUIRED TO BE TOLLED?
DID THE FIF… |
| 18-5039 |
Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations |
1. In 198 7 petitioner Guy Rowland was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the State of California . In 1994 he exhausted his state remedies… |