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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1120 Anita Louise Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability Question not identified.
24-981 Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, pka Ed Sheeran, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied agency-interpretation chevron-deference copyright-law first-impression legal-judgment second-circuit 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously abdicate its responsibility to "decide legal questions by applying their own judgment " by inst…
23-7196 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment I. If the court holds a hearing to put a PLEA PROPOSAL on the record, and the Government OFFERS a 3 point deduction for acceptance of responsibility i…
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…
23-5376 Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION VIOLATES PRINCIPLES OF FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS BY HAVING GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE BASED UPON A PRO SE PLEADING …
23A107 Matthew Edwin Gronda, et al. v. Title Check, LLC Sixth Circuit 2023-08-07 Presumed Complete 28-u-s-c-section-1927 attorney-liability bad-faith first-impression frivolous-claims sanctions-on-counsel Question not identified.
22-6982 Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard WHETHER MANDAMUS REVIEW ON ISSUE OF FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO CLAIM THAT WAS CREATED BY WAY OF INTERVENING CHANGE OF FIRST STEP ACT…
22-6698 Robert Hadley Gross v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law first-impression frivolity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-merit non-frivolous-appeal rational-defendant roe-v-flores-ortega totality-of-circumstances This is a criminal case, which involves issues regarding ineffective assistance of counsel, frivolity, and first impression. 1. Is the Roe v. Flore…
22-5361 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory Construction case. Whether a Plea of Jurisdiction extends to Respondents ' f…
22-5108 Zachery Keesee v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-statute arkansas-supreme-court capital-murder conviction due-process first-impression nonjurisdictional-argument separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court violated due process by affirming Keesee's capital-murder conviction based on a nonjurisdictional argument that …
21-301 Mario Lamont Sims v. Bank of New York Seventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment first-impression judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-openness judicial-transparency judicial-tyranny Whether the conduct of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the anonymous three judge p…
21-5492 Marcus Phillips v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure drug-agent-testimony drug-enforcement expert-testimony first-impression legal-admissibility mental-acuity perceptive-ability witness-credibility This court has not decided whether expert testimony about mental acuity is admissible to show a person's ability to observe and to act to exercise dom…
20-922 Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-09 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal 1. Federal regulations provide that "[i]f the date designated for execution passes by reason of a stay of execution, then a new date shall be designat…
19-6451 Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals Rhode Island 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by not allowing Petitioner's appeal to proceed on the merits. The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing …
19-5434 Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs…
19-13 Tennessee v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention certification diversity-jurisdiction federal-court first-impression judicial-procedure state-constitution state-constitutional-issue state-law state-statute Whether a federal court exercising its diversity jurisdiction should certify an important state constitutional issue of first impression to the State'…
18A1361 Raymont Wright v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete first-impression indictment-dismissal judicial-power mistrials prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers Whether trial courts have inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following multiple mistrials for deadlocked juries (not whether court…
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REVIEW AND REVERSE THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S OPINION HOLDING AN APPELLANT IS WITHOU…
18-7518 Kevin Holt v. J.A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-cfr-chapter-1-2-61 federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-judicial-system first-impression good-time-credits life-sentence military-prisoner military-prisoners military-prisoners-life-sentence presumptive-release sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-4206 title-18-usc-4206a Should the Supreme Court of the United States hear this case that presents a substantial issue of first impression in the Federal Judicial System that…
18-7079 Franklyn Morillo v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted 1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though …