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25A739 Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-23 Application appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari 1. This case presents several significant and complex constitutional issues that warrant a carefully prepared petition for a writ of certiorari, which…
25A588 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-18 Application constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-public-defender first-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-470 Scott Cannon, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied derivative-claim erisa-preemption first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether a claim for wrongful death under Massachusetts law is preempted by ERISA.
25A413 Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review extension-of-time federal-appeal first-circuit procedural-standards writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A404 Ángel Forteza-García v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal federal-public-defender first-circuit legal-standard time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5820 Tevon Ngomba v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure first-circuit obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred by summarily affirming the district court's imposition of a two-level offense increase for…
24-5600 Abimael Narvaez-Rosa v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-circuit incarceration-term judicial-breach plea-agreement sentencing-error Whether the United States court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in rejecting Narvaez-Rosa's claim of a procedural sentencing error, when the Un…
24-5172 Hassan Abbas v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the constitutional protections as to venue when it comes to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy pr…
23-1207 Assassination Archives and Research Center, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2024-05-10 Denied Response Waived cia-records dc-circuit declassification executive-order executive-orders first-circuit foia-request jfk-assassination kennedy-assassination national-security 1. Whether the CIA may refuse to search and disclose its operational records that relate to the presence of a convicted Nazi assassin in the company o…
23A917 Luis Arana Santiago v. Luis T. Maldonado, et al. Puerto Rico 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete administrative-action constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit pro-se university-procedure Question not identified.
23-6817 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether the First Circuit's Judgment perform as a valid decision by a quorum according the Supreme Court's decisions in NGuyen v. U.S. , 539 U.S. 6…
23A466 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2023-11-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review first-circuit judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S…
22-6374 Damian Perry v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-circuit same-offense sentencing-enhancement successive-punishments Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the application of Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution therefore removing any practi…
22-6042 Ryan Hayes v. United States First Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing I. Whether considerations of equal protection and due process required the First Circuit to entertain Mr. Hayes' appeal where Mr. Hayes had not challe…
22-5568 Douglas Gordon v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct Whether the First Circuit correctly determined that the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully for t…
21-6744 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Question not identified.
21-5953 Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour…
21-232 Veena Sharma v. Domenic S. Terranova, et al. First Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dismissal-without-hearing due-process first-circuit hearing judicial-review jury-trial pro-se-petition procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations summons Whether the District Court and U.S. Appeals Court for the First Circuit decision of dismissing Petitioner's claim without issuing summons to Responden…
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation Does the ADA require employers to provide accommodations to employees who do not need them?
20-1088 David Carson, as Parent and Next Friend of O. C., et al. v. A. Pender Makin First Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (55)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-rights equal-protection espinoza-v-montana first-amendment first-circuit religion-clauses sectarian-instruction student-aid-program Does a state violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an oth…
20-6991 Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable.
20-6732 Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand.
20-6140 Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel when it addr…
20-6122 Jerome Capelton v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint …
19-8892 Edwin G. Perez-Cubertier v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-proceeding collateral-proceedings counsel-rights first-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation withdrawal-from-conspiracy In Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003), this Court held that a convicted federal defendant may first bring an ineffective assistance of coun…
19-7909 Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-6941 Michael Collins v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony 1. Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career C…
19-6820 Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or…
19-5992 Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura First Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to grant certificate of appealability where, contrary to their stated denial, petitioner presen…
18-967 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. First Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power A. Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of her constitutional right to a jury trial when it massaged the facts in violation of Rule 56 and , …
18-6660 Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute because Congress intended such allegations of false advertising of nonprescript…
18-6505 Brian Powell v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109…
18-6057 Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-6008 Anibal Pagan-Romero v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial dictionary dictionary-use due-process fifth-amendment first-circuit jury jury-instructions presumption-of-prejudice remmer-presumption remmer-v-united-states A. Whether the Petitioner was denied due process of law where the District Court, over the objection of Defendant provided the jury with a dictionary …