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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A919 Jeremiah Banks v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Application exhaustion-of-remedies federal-habeas-petition good-cause habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay-of-proceedings Question not identified.
25A719 Pamela McKethan v. GSLS GA, LLC Georgia 2025-12-18 Application certiorari family-emergency good-cause pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted this Court's opinion in Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick…
25A22 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension Question not identified.
24-6230 La'Tesa Cobbs v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-01-03 Denied IFP appeals-board good-cause misinformation procedural-error resignation unemployment-insurance 1. Does the false information Petitioner received about the position with J. Paul Getty Trust explain why she declined the security officer position o…
24A112 David Hatchigian v. ABCO, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules good-cause pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension Question not identified.
24-5028 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver Before 2014, Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure required certain enumerated types of motions to be filed before trial, and stated that…
23-7577 Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process good-cause ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief postconviction-counsel potentially-meritorious rhines-standard rhines-v-weber voir-dire L Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel cannot establish "good cause" under Rhines v. Weber? A…
23-6867 Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP consumer-dispute consumer-disputes credit-reporting-agencies credit-reporting-agency data-furnishers fair-credit-reporting-act frivolous-claims good-cause rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations 1. Whether each dispute sent to a Credit reporting agency or a data furnisher by a consumer that has not been determined to be frivolous or irrelevant…
23A730 Darron Henderson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete appellate-work extension-of-time federal-defender good-cause supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-806 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-cause intervening-circumstances judicial-discretion pioneer-investment-services 1. Whether in overview of the textual language set forth in Fed. R. App. P 4(a)(5)(A) (ii) did Congress afford differing terms allowing the lower cour…
23-711 James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits 1. Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets …
23A493 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion Question not identified.
22-1052 Patricia Hermann v. Jonathan B. McFarland, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion procedural-motion reconsideration time-extension Where a party moves three days before the deadline for an extension of time to file a responsive pleading pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 6(b)(1)(A), a…
22-6731 Lamon Demetrus Wright v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation confrontation-rights due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts good-cause good-cause-standard hearsay hearsay-reliability reliability supervised-release What manner of hearsay should be considered "reliable" when federal courts decide whether the government has established "good cause" to deny confront…
21-8033 Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
21-5953 Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour…
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ…
21-5489 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion 1. Whether, in direct conflict with decisions of other circuits, the Eighth Circuit correctly held that under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(c), a defendant who …
21-173 Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived agency-closure alternative-service civil-procedure covid-19 due-process good-cause judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-rules service-of-process 1.) Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion by finding and deciding that the District Court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing P…
20-1823 K. S. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2021-07-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-timeframe due-process good-cause notice-of-appeal procedural-fairness state-supreme-court Whether a due process violation under the 14 Amendment exists when a State Supreme Court refuses to permit the docketing of a late notice of appeal fi…
20-1813 Terry Foster, et al. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1516, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied 501b due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty good-cause labor-law lmrda subject-matter-jurisdiction union-member union-membership 1. Did expulsion of a union member without his presence constitute a lack of due process, good cause as defined by 157.01 LMRDA, Section 501(b)? 2. D…
20-7372 Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Whether, under current Rule 12, after a defendant has made a timely motion to suppress evidence that did not include a particular argument, should the…
20-1138 Cimznhca, LLC v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction good-cause good-cause-analysis intervention motion-to-intervene non-final-order procedural-due-process standing 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously exercised jurisdiction over a non-final order by creating a motion to intervene when the G…
20-6413 Maxine Shepard v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause pro-se-litigant procedural-default service-of-process standing 1. Whether the COA improperly held- in conflict with the decisions of other courts - that the Petitioner did not show good cause to excuse any proce…
20-5816 Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver 1. When a defendant raises a new theory on appeal in support of a suppression motion filed in district court—in this case, a lack of probable cause fo…
19-7493 Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness Whether THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARBITRARILY and ERRONEOUSLY Denied APPELLANT NOTICE of Appeal FOR LACK of JURISDICTIO…
19-898 Kimberly D. Collins v. Gwendolyn Thornton Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion service-of-process statute-of-limitations Some five years ago, in Chen v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, Md., 135 S. Ct. 475 (2014) (mem.), this Court recognized at least a 7-1 circuit spl…
19-6825 Jorge Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
18-5601 Jose Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a…