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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6814 | Tony Minh Le v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of … |
| 25-6750 | Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit | Petitioner Shawn Johnson was a felon only because of his nonviolent offenses of manufacturing and uttering counterfeit United States currency. After b… |
| 25-867 | Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe… | |
| 25A768 | Elephant Insurance Company, et al. v. Christopher Holmes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Application | article-iii-standing common-law-tort data-breach fourth-circuit intangible-injury transunion | Question not identified. | |
| 25-511 | William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of a heightened and unprecedented evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian … |
| 25A441 | Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review | Whether police conduct a Fourth Amendment search of a home (thus requiring consent or a warrant) when they use a drug-detection canine to sniff the do… | |
| 25A371 | Rashun Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5768 | Lorene Chittenden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-interpretation fourth-circuit intervening-change legal-deadline restitution-statute timely-appeal | In People v. Weeks 498 P. 142, 2021 CO 75, the court interpreted the restitution statute, 18-1.3-603, C.R.S. (2021). The court concluded that the rest… |
| 25-5649 | David Anthony Runyon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence fourth-circuit murder-for-hire postconviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | To hold that petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) conviction for conspiracy to commit murder for hire resulting in death was a valid predicate "crime of v… |
| 25-302 | Patsy Talley v. Dale R. Folwell, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fourth-circuit pre-deprivation procedural-rights property-rights state-treasurer | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in a published opinion has ignored decades of law establishing the right to pre-deprivation due process in… |
| 25A204 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5330 | Raymond Dugan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the "Joint-Venture " doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? 2. Should t… |
| 25-5190 | Curtis Dickerson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirators expert-testimony fourth-circuit hearsay insufficient-evidence monetary-forfeiture | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Dickerson's appeal, where the District Court improperly entered a $2,400,000.00 Order of Monetar… |
| 25A87 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Trooper First Class Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit petition pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | QUESTIONS TO BE PRESENTED (AS CONCEIVED TO DATE): 1. Are officials or law enforcement officers covered by or entitled to a defense of Qualified Immun… | |
| 25-5125 | Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default | Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that the Petitioner was not prejudiced by his defense counsel's failure to rec… |
| 25-52 | Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti… |
| 25-34 | Continental Finance Company, LLC, et al. v. Tiffany Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Pending | Response Waived | arbitration-provision consideration contract-law federal-arbitration-act fourth-circuit maryland-law | Does the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit courts to apply a heightened consideration standard solely to contractual arbitration provision… |
| 25A18 | Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-standard criminal-trial due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury or the defendant, issue an instruction regarding the meaning of the "be… | |
| 24-7357 | Christopher Scott Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit obstruction-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred because the District Court improperly accepted a plea and proceeded with sentencing where Mr. Jones had not been a… |
| 24-1219 | Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff | I. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ("Fourth Circuit ") properly AFFIRMED the district court 's order. Pet. App. A, p. 3a. … | |
| 24-7298 | Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e | 1. Did the United State District Court of Columbia South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err Under Rule 59 E, on Motion to Alter or A… |
| 24A1150 | Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Presumed Complete | capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance | Question not identified. | |
| 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. | |
| 24-7165 | John Laurence Berman v. Richard Jordan, Senior Judge, Circuit Court of Maryland, Montgomery County, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | IFP | briefing-procedure court-rules fourth-circuit judicial-process legal-fraud procedural-integrity | 1) Is the Fourth Circuit's published "informal briefing" sheet a fraud, such that its statement (the following) is ignored: "The Court will consider t… |
| 24-1076 | John Sigley v. ND Fairmont LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act dischargeable-misconduct employment-discrimination fourth-circuit medical-condition-disclosure post-offer-questionnaire | Whether an individual's decision not to disclose a medical condition on a post-offer questionnaire receives protection under the ADA? |
| 24-6930 | Demetris Sean Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court effective-assistance-counsel evidence-suppression fourth-circuit | 1. At issue herein is whether the District Court erred by allowing evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights by State offic… |
| 24-6682 | Raequan Rucker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court. |
| 24-6652 | David R. Kitchen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit home-detention judicial-review sentencing-discretion supervised-release | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's discretion in sentencing Mr. Kitchen to six (6) months of home detention for a s… |
| 24-6575 | Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(1)(N) requires that, before a district court accepts a plea of guilty, it must first "inform the defendant of… |
| 24A766 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6482 | In Re Petera Micale Carlton | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is Petitioner still a career offender based upon the Decision of the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Simmons, 649 F.3d 247 (4th Cir. 2011?I. | |
| 24-6204 | Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard | Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo… |
| 24-6110 | Askari Danso MS Lumumba, fka Dale Lee Pughsley v. Jeffrey Kiser | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | first-amendment fourth-circuit inmate-correspondence overbreadth prison-regulation turner-balancing | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with this Court's decision in United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460 (2010), that a prison… |
| 24A550 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-544 | Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error | 1. Whether, in conflict with the opinion of this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has improperly limited the post-conv… |
| 24-5735 | Robert G. Moore v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | IFP | district-court due-process evidentiary-ruling fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-error | (1) Did the Fourth Circuit and District Court abuse its discretion under the 14th amend. for not deciding on the merits that the de Fenda. of de Siber… |
| 24-5401 | Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MS. ESTEP'S ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY ALLOWING TH… |
| 24-5403 | Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d | I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Have Jurisdiction Over Petitioner's Claims of a Constitutional Magnitude? II. Was the Fourth Circuit Court… |
| 24A192 | Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-circuit innocence-project post-conviction writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 24A196 | Michael Scott Hoover v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit ineffective-counsel procedural-due-process writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | \Adun <x W^\ucV c^ci 4te orkkj w&k<*j4-^ ?ro?P^r ^>sWi4-?6r\ k tie alW) a a**. 4o frtc&J Os^l ct\\.tOz (Mins In^ V^r Case (\&n-Um 4r +ke offeah CDorV… |
| 24-5141 | Marcus Jay Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap… |
| 24-78 | Intelligent Waves, LLC v. Marthe Lattinville-Pace | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | adea age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission fourth-circuit | Does a claim of age discrimination under 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. fail in the absence of but-for causation? |
| 23A1162 | Donte Parrish v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1152 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1135 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1074 | Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Incorporated, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Presumed Complete | contributory-liability copyright-infringement digital-millennium-copyright-act fourth-circuit internet-service-provider safe-harbor | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7502 | Kevin Day v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4a1.3(b) criminal-history district-court-discretion downward-departure fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to give Mr. Day a variance sentence and a shorter period of incarceration based upon a … |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7286 | Francis Arthur v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment because the Government depor… |
| 23-7133 | Garry Hines v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable 2. Whe… |
| 23A868 | Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Presumed Complete | capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus | Question not identified. | |
| 23A861 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing | Question not identified. | |
| 23A842 | Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7003 | Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 23A833 | Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights fourth-circuit legal-access prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 23A801 | Richard Arlee Champion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-review en-banc fourth-circuit inmate-rights petition-for-rehearing | Question not identified. | |
| 23A784 | Kamal Mustafa v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 23A781 | Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6585 | Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony | I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability II. Shoul… |
| 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. | |
| 23-6477 | Jamaile L. Huey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime | Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23A541 | Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-circuit | Whether the ACCA's different-occasions element must be found by a jury rather than a sentencing judge. | |
| 23A536 | Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 23A482 | Mark Anthony Crudup, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-deadline withdrawal-of-counsel | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6018 | Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-5978 | Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-voluntary plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntariness | Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Dismissing Mr. Person's Appeal Pursuant to An Appeal Waiver When He Argued that His Plea was Not Knowing and Volun… |
| 23-5790 | Brock Brian Beeman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice | Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5766 | Richard Todd Haas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any … |
| 23-264 | Jay Hannah v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | ada ada-accommodation business-decision disability-rights employment-discrimination equipment-modification fourth-circuit judicial-review reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification union-employee | This is a crucial matter involving the rights of disabled, union employees to receive reasonable accommodation that has not yet been, but should be, d… |
| 23-5469 | Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct | 1) Whether this court's wae fo as - a rele? be ion fir Concdusron that fe: t made _-+he eat showin of dea na, tot het Hae eli Tia —_———i prsceducal cu… |
| 23-5433 | Kingsley Azubuike Ononuju v. Virginia Housing Development Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 agency-regulation constitutional-rights fourth-circuit improper-eviction rule-12b6 rule-60(b)(4) rule-60b4 section-1983 tila tila-claim void-judgment | A. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the ruling of the district Court in which granted "Rule 12(b)(6) motion " of the Respondent against TILA cl… |
| 23-158 | Dora L. Adkins v. Fitness International, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal district-court district-court-order emergency-complaint fourth-circuit in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing | 1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ("Fourth Circuit") properly AFFIRMED the district court's order that adopted the recommend… | |
| 23-5313 | Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when the Court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability on Grounds that Dispositive Pr… |
| 23-5131 | Xavier Dominique Garris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rehaif-error remand standard-of-review trial-probability | 1. WHETHER, IN A CASE WHERE REHAIF ERROR OCCURRED, THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FAILING TO REMAND THE CASE TO THE DISTRICT COURT TO MAKE THE DETERMINAT… |
| 22-7832 | David Troy, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-1207 | Columbia Falls Aluminum Company, LLC v. Atlantic Richfield Company | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion cercla district-court environmental-response-costs equitable-allocation fourth-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review | Whether a district court's equitable allocation of environmental response costs pursuant to Section 113(f)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Respo… | |
| 22-7711 | William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING TO ADMIT EVIDENCE OF THE APPELLANT'S … |
| 22-7692 | Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five Justices of this Court agreed that offenses with a reckless mens rea do not qualify as a "vio… |
| 22-7534 | Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law | Question not identified. |
| 22-7498 | Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING AS RELEVANT DRUG WEIGHT UNCORROBORATED STATEMENTS OF TWO COOPERATING DEF… |
| 22-7414 | John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding the District Court proceedings, Petition for Writ of Mandamus and other ma… |
| 22-7389 | Gerald Lee Banks v. A. W. Wingfield, Acting Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellant-court case-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing-error | Did the Appellant err when it violated its own precedent in denying Banks sentencing error? Did the Lower Court err when it violated Fourth Circuit p… |
| 22-7322 | Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari | Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by denying a certificate of appealability? |
| 22-7290 | Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance o… |
| 22-7216 | Terrell Anderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo… |
| 22-946 | Martin Jay Manley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of other circuits, in holding that for purposes of applying the categorical approach t… |
| 22-932 | North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law | 1. Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the "Government Speech" doctrine to limit the speech of private citizens… |
| 22-7035 | Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Applying a "Plainly Unreasonable" Standard of Review for Mr. Person's Supervised Release Violation Sentence ins… |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G… |
| 22-6972 | Deandre Earp v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing | Whether a General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act. Whether the peti… |
| 22-797 | Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions | Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-747 | Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-02-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause | When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within? |
| 22-736 | Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-6719 | Michael Anthony Conage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6683 | Terrell Javon Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6625 | Ledger Lynn Hammonds, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-circuit franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions preliminary-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-challenge | What is the proper test in determining whether or not a preliminary showing for a Franks hearing has been met when analyzing material omissions? Assu… |
| 22-6586 | Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A… |
| 22-633 | Stacey A. Kincaid, Sheriff, Fairfax County, Virginia v. Kesha T. Williams | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | 42-usc-12211 ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition disability-rights dsm-5 fourth-circuit gender-dysphoria statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, found in the DSM-5, is excluded from the ADA's definition of disability under 42 U.S.C. § 12211(b). |
| 22-6413 | Rajul Ruhbayan v. Rebecca Beach Smith, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jury-trial sentencing-finality sixth-amendment supervisory-powers | 1. Whether this Supreme Court or Solicitor General should invoke its supervisory powers to deter the illegal acts of and implement a remedy for the Fo… |
| 22-6344 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule. Whether the… |
| 22-6205 | Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment | ^ l^i i +U«. Fo\at4F (L\fC\J\\ \ Cov^r'V o4 4^*v\^r-»4 o4 "VV\e. Ff\r po \ rv "frKt cF^-Vnc* COvat-V ( vniK®.re_ **W JUs4r*c4 COwrAca,cr jr\ c\ $V\An… |
| 22-6210 | Aaron Michael Crick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-6214 | Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. GALLION'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERR… |
| 22-6099 | Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing | What inhibits a Court of Appeals' discretion to invoke the waiver doctrine? Whether a court of appeals should apply the waiver doctrine to a litigant… |
| 22-6108 | Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | 1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION OF SECU… |
| 22-5919 | Devonta Doyle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-criminalization fourth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-crime morrison-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez | 1. Whether Fourth Circuit precedent, which is consistent with precedent from all other Circuits, holding that an intrastate robbery's de minimis effec… |
| 22-5854 | Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing | 1. Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. G… |
| 22-5857 | Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Care… |
| 22-5703 | Charles Michael Ledford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal | Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 824 U.S. 473 (2008) standard for a court of appeals to decline to issue a certificate o… |
| 22-5524 | Deandre Johnson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus petition-for-writ standing unlawful-detention | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision denying petitioner's writ of mandamus is in direct conflict with decisions of this Court and other circuits rega… |
| 22-5420 | Lawrence E. Mattison v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-circuit civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure writ-of-error | 1. Whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals made an error of Law when is failed to protect the 14th Amendment. 2. Whether the 4th Circuit contradicte… |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5094 | Garfield D. Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-5007 | Lann Tjuan Clanton, aka Tjuan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-sting federal-sting-operation fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement | I. WHETHER, AFTER WINNING THE RIGHT TO FILE A BELATED APPEAL DUE TO COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF APPEAL, THE FOURTH CIRCU… |
| 21-8270 | Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing | 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner 's Petiti… |
| 21-7959 | Salito Marques Good v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release | (1) Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction when a sentence for violating … |
| 21-7860 | Erick Rahumid Hobbs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-circuit imminent-harm warrantless-search | 1. Whether law enforcement's warrantless collection of real-time cell-site location information (CSLI) is reasonable under the "imminent harm" clause … |
| 21-7867 | Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance | I. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory minimum… |
| 21-7683 | Nelson Conto v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure | 1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF APPELLAN… |
| 21-7674 | Jamie Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO… |
| 21-7680 | In Re Israel Romero | 2022-04-21 | Denied | IFP | abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing | 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Fourth Circuit) err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision by the court in Britt… | |
| 21-7583 | Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony | 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Cr… |
| 21-7581 | Ice Tee Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit reversible-error state-prosecution | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HUDSON'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY I… |
| 21-1155 | Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing | I. Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the … |
| 21-7169 | Latwon James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal … |
| 21-7107 | Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT CANADA HAD BE… |
| 21-938 | Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | GVR | Relisted (2) | capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | I. Did the Fourth Circuit violate basic principles of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when it failed to reweigh the whole of the evidenc… |
| 21-6643 | Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review | Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o… |
| 21-6509 | Adesijuola Ogunjobi v. United Nations, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure complaint-dismissal covid-19-class-action district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-immunity merit-of-complaint procedural-rules standing subject-matter summons-service | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held, district court has the absolute authority to dismiss a valid complaint on its own without allowing summon… |
| 21-797 | Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation | Article 3 of the Hague Child Abduction Convention requires that a parental agreement have legal effect under the substantive law of the country of the… |
| 21-6260 | Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence | Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a "particularly defer[entional]" standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv… |
| 21-5670 | Elijah Vines v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent | WHETHER A THIRD PARTY POSSESSES AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE SEIZURE OF ANOTHER'S CELL PHONE WHEN THAT PHONE IS PASSWORD PROTECTED, THE OWNER OF THAT P… |
| 21-391 | Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent | 1. Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, i… |
| 21-297 | Travis Croft v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking, S.C. Code § 16-3-1075, is categorically a crime of … |
| 21-284 | In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd | 2021-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk | I. This Court has long held that it, "has power to issue a mandamus, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, and that the writ will lie in a pr… | |
| 21-271 | Raymond Benitez v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-immunity civil-procedure fourth-circuit governmental-unit hospital-authority local-government private-hospitals statutory-interpretation | Can a multibillion-dollar "hospital authority" that operates in multiple States in a manner indistinguishable from private hospitals be a "local go… |
| 21-5463 | Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing | Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the "interests of justice" and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 143, 129 S. Ct. 1423… |
| 21-5386 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5360 | Danta Omar Roberts v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and… |
| 21-5229 | Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court? |
| 21-5092 | Dawn J. Bennett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal | Does a district court at sentencing apply an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range if it refers to the range … |
| 21-5098 | Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION FOR SECURI… |
| 20-8181 | Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals below erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the Uni… |
| 20-8186 | Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation | DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
| 20-8144 | Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure 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. … |
| 20-1638 | Emmanuel Edokobi v. Paul W. Grimm, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct letter-order pre-filing-injunction standing | When Reviewing a District Court's ruling to dismiss a civil case against Respondent Judge Paul W. Grimm should the Court of Appeals dishonor its own U… |
| 20-8108 | Roy Lee Dykes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? |
| 20-7677 | Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska | Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska; and whether circuits can prohibit counsel from discussing reas… |
| 20-7703 | Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), because the Fourth Circui… |
| 20-7489 | Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing | I, WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT RELIED ON CONTROLS TO DENY PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AS LAWFUL EVIDENCE. 2. WHETHER THE FOURTH CI… |
| 20-7476 | Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement | Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… |
| 20-7256 | James Timothy Cobb v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… |
| 20-7221 | William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregate-prejudice criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Fourth Circuit's judicial precedence of not reviewing multiple ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the cumulative effect and aggr… |
| 20-7192 | Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine | Whether the rule announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review. |
| 20-7186 | Brian Dale Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7188 | Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-7132 | Roy Lee Dykes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? |
| 20-7079 | Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors | Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the United States V McCarthy Rule. Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circu… |
| 20-6941 | Frank Joseph Dodge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-897 | Kyle Kopitke v. Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, North Carolina State Board of Elections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | anderson-v-celebrezze ballot-access candidate-signatures constitutional-rights election-law fourth-circuit independent-candidates march-filing-deadline north-carolina petition-requirements | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit decision requiring all independent candidates to file their ballot access qualifying petitions by the date of North Caro… |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6703 | Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-court factual-dispute fourth-circuit government-breach hill-v-lockhart legal-interpretation plea-bargain plea-contract prejudice prejudice-standard | If the government refused to dispute the factual manifestations of the I. Petitioner's government breach daim because clause three of the plea contrac… |
| 20-6647 | Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to… |
| 20-6563 | Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner had not made the requisite showing by reference to a (CoA), when two courts of appeals … |
| 20-6476 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim | When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's dismissal of petitioner's claim of "tortious interferenc… |
| 20-6415 | Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se… |
| 20-6374 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-6336 | Eric Troy Snell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under "assumed error har… |
| 20-6209 | Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry | CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO REVIEW THE JUDGEMENT BELOW WHERE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT DENIED CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILTY IN CONFLICT WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS … |
| 20-6165 | James Edward Sandford, III v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies … |
| 20-407 | Nancy Massenburg v. Innovative Talent Solutions, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-vii | 1) Whether the Fourth Circuit properly upheld the district court's dismissal of Title VII claim where the particular discriminatory practice had been … |
| 20-5804 | Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing | Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circcit Court of Appeals Compound the error, when petitioner's request For counsel was denied, because … |
| 20-5824 | Trenard Caldwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error | Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed that … |
| 20-5792 | Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal | Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties on each si… |
| 20-346 | D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit, consistent with this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should have exercised jurisdiction and c… |
| 20-5453 | Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review | Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5424 | Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007). |
| 20-191 | Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and co… |
| 20-5251 | Michael Owen Harriot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar | IS WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S LACK' AUTHORITY SEE 28 U.S.C. § 1291, ON ITS OWN TO RAISED § 2401(b)'S TIME BAR WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT'S OPINION DID … |
| 20-35 | Joshua E. Frankel v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process federal-courts feres-doctrine fourth-circuit incident-to-service insurance-law military-tort separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying an unduly restrictive "situs and status test" for the determination of whether the acts at issue were "in… |
| 19-8752 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing | UniTiaot*., X>ee*iG t ^JL.AWod *£>*., Kespecr A oolS'N-iiT THis 'Tfennori Foi£ GG'£,T °F C_t6n o^o.£\ Folloupf'^? TWe. o^polbO'SlfeD "pe£ CjU^iONj … |
| 19-8716 | Eric Martin Pepke v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing | Did the Eastern District of North Carolina err in summarily dismissing Pepke's motion under Rule 12(b)(6) to challenge the constitutionality of 18 U.S… |
| 19-8639 | Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit | Question not identified. |
| 19-8616 | Anthony Helton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-8605 | Courtland Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat… |
| 19-1307 | Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect | Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part… | |
| 19-8450 | Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing | 1. whether the Court of Appeals forthe Fifth Cireuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the united States District court issuin… |
| 19-8414 | Ashford James Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Since 1990, this Court has required the lower courts to use the "categorical approach" in courts' evaluation of a criminal defendant's prior convictio… |
| 19-8198 | Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-circuit injunction standing | 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unpublished opinion and judgment issued on February 26, 2020 that the District Co… |
| 19-7972 | Javier Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code | Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… |
| 19-7872 | Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine | 1. Whether the court should have assist this prose litigate with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to … |
| 19-7776 | Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review: 1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7706 | Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7562 | Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. b18-6662 (January 2019) 2. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016). 3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2… |
| 19-7357 | Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing | Whether the USDO-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice the Petitioner's §1982 Complaint … |
| 19-7231 | Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN NOT ISSUING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE PETITIONER DEMONSTRATED THAT JURIST OF REASON COULD FI… |
| 19-7178 | Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review | Whether oJL not the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under th… |
| 19-7007 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that… |
| 19-6958 | Renee L. McCray v. Samuel I. White, P.C., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | IFP | bona-fide-error civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit jerman-v-carlisle rehearing standing summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for rehearing, when the United States District C… |
| 19-6849 | Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-680 | Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment | The questions presented here are: 1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immu… |
| 19-6619 | Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING DRUG AMOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH CONDUCT OCCURRING SIGNIFICANTLY OUTSIDE THE… |
| 19-6419 | Scott Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining | DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING WILSON'S HABEAS CLAIM(S) ALLEGING COUNSEL'S UNREASONABLE FAILU… |
| 19-6394 | Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent | I. Courts of Appeals may exercise jurisdiction over collateral orders. Petitioner appealed a District Court's Memorandum Order under the collateral or… |
| 19-6292 | Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's finding that the petitioner was not given the opportunity to have a hearing on hi… |
| 19-6124 | Jerry Scott Hill v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony | I. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT NORTH CAROLINA ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO KILL INFLICTING SERIOU… |
| 19-5801 | Emory Chiles v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5501 | Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | GVR | IFP | appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel | Whether in light of the Court's opinion in Rehaif v. United States, No. 17-9560 issued on June 21, 2019 this Court should vacate the opinion of the U.… |
| 19-5408 | Gregory Daniels v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S NOTICE OF APPEAL. |
| 19-5270 | Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | GVR | IFP | case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-5196 | Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t… |
| 19-5108 | Donald Covington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5086 | Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Cla… |
| 18-9775 | Dustin Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Washington'S Motion to Suppress the seizure of the… |
| 18-9657 | Joseph Howard Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit | I. Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay, as in the Second Circuit, or no… |
| 18-1540 | VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response Waived | automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct | The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.… |
| 18A1211 | Karolyn Givens, et al. v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Presumed Complete | condemnation eminent-domain fourth-circuit land-use pipeline-easement property-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9046 | Richard Shusterman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deny- ing issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C.§ 2255 ruling when the District… |
| 18-9016 | Henry Earl Miller v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard | Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill… |
| 18-9020 | Michael Marshall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid. |
| 18-8549 | Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute | In 2013, The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Va. Code § 18.2-361(A), a state criminal statute under which Petitioner remains convicted, sente… |
| 18-8410 | Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con… |
| 18-8382 | Guy Ennis Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez, 132 S. Ct. 2357 (2012), which found the false speech and writing subsection of the Stolen V… |
| 18-8359 | Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) | Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8355 | Mario Chester Tabron v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-7984 | James Scott Ervin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determ… |
| 18-7952 | Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague | Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without … |
| 18-7924 | Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY ALLOWING THE ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE TO BE USED TO GRANT MOTION FOR ISSUE PRECLUSION? |
| 18-7878 | John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence | WHETHER the interpretation of conspiracy in the FourthCircuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from t… |
| 18-7802 | Michael Hopson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy | Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict Petitioner of the racketeering conspiracy where the United States failed to prove Petitioner… |
| 18-7588 | Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing | Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7335 | Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Err by denying a Certificate of Appealbility (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of th… |
| 18-7129 | Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis | Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States (138 S.Ct. 2206, 2217, 2220 (2018)) regarding cel… |
| 18-7048 | Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY FAILING TO ASSES THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES PRESEN… |
| 18-6581 | Larry Hailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6352 | Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT THE CROSS REFERENCE UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(C)(l) OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES WAS AP… |
| 18-6231 | Dawud Rahim v. South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-circuit notice notice-requirement parole parole-revocation procedural-rights standing state-deference | Whether the rescission procedure of the Petitioner, granted that prior to convening and reconsidering his parole for rescission the Petitioner was con… |
| 18-6018 | In Re Gary Ivan Terry | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus | Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion… | |
| 18-5995 | Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention | Is Younger v. Harris abstention appropriate when challenging the denial of Constitutional protections at prosecution; specifically when does prolonged… |
| 18-5929 | David T. Odom v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal conditional-plea conditional-plea-agreement criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-appeals-court fourth-circuit plea-agreement standard-of-review statute-of-limitations | Whether a defendant can make a knowing and voluntary decision under a conditional plea agreement when, believing he is preserving his Motion to Dismis… |
| 18-5327 | Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering | -The FourthCircuit First opinion Appendx Findingin Maessis Favor s r Confct ith th econonAppend overlooKing so much of the evidence that was held in t… |
| 18-5063 | Charles Byers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | class-decision counsel-notification criminal-procedure-appeal-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall profitt-v-united-states recall-mandate right-to-appeal supreme-court-review wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred In denying Petitioner's Motion To Recall Mandate When Counsel Failed to Notify Him of his Right to seek review from t… |
| 18A1 | Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourth-circuit judicial-opinion pro-se procedural-rights writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 24A325 | South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC | Fourth Circuit | Denied | constitutional-challenge fourth-circuit governmental-interest irreparable-harm sovereign-definition state-sovereignty | Question not identified. |