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25-6796 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2026-02-12 Pending IFP california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion Whether or not vwsf te * j w heVh tr net f Ae s'^.rioi/s h>w <JC A v ^5 'A. jjirvK^, f cdM^cdVon fh<ff Q&pofe$ F&l'* bi&Trt&r i~o a. ter-rn <?r b bt …
25-6731 Keith Lashon Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-waiver consideration contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plea-agreement Whether general contract principles, such as the requirement of consideration, and negotiated exclusive remedies, apply to the enforcement of appellat…
25-6703 Pedro Cesar Villalobos-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error 1) Did 3rd Circuit Court err by blatantly accepting District Court 's erroneous interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order, not sig…
25-6237 Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Contreras v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-construction supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6038 Daniel Stewart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Pending IFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction In Stinson v. United States , 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explainin…
25-6007 Gabriel Escalera-Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-analysis supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-396 Hernan Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-03 GVR criminal-prosecution foreign-commercial-bribery honest-services-statute judicial-interpretation second-circuit statutory-vagueness 1. Whether the honest-services statute criminalizes foreign commercial bribery. 2. Whether the honest-services statute is unconstitutionally vague.
25-5517 Joshua Rodriguez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha…
25-227 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter…
25-5390 Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines?
24-1325 Go New York Tours Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Response Waived factual-inference judicial-interpretation plausibility-standard pleading-requirements summary-adjudication twombly-iqbal There is substantial confusion and inconsistency among the lower courts concerning how to interpret and apply the "plausibility" pleading standard, le…
24-7310 Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation The Appellant respectfully requests the Court to determine the applicability of Oregon Revised Statute 14.270. Appellant finds ORS 14.270 to be in vio…
24-7268 Oscar Olalde-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
24-1143 Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are "for," as Brulotte and Kimble require.
24-1136 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law 1) Does the text of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law", limit its application to the Legislature and, thus, allow the Judiciary to craf…
24-7149 Samuel James Weaver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts?
24-1039 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response Waived brushaber-doctrine circuit-court-conflict judicial-interpretation legal-precedent supervisory-power supreme-court-rule 1. Under Supreme Court Rule 10(a), whether this court should exercise its "supervisory power" to resolve the conflict among the circuit courts of appe…
24-6839 Ralph W. Baker, Jr. v. Ta-Nehisi P. Coates, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-25 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP copyright-law expression-of-ideas intellectual-property judicial-interpretation literary-rights originality Whether the court of appeals departed from this Court's decision that an author's arrangement of words is protectible: The right thus secured by the …
24-6848 Derek Steven Trumbull v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity rule-of-lenity separation-of-powers statutory-construction Do the separation of powers and the canons of statutory construction, most fundamentally the rule of lenity, permit the judiciary to defer to an agenc…
24-6571 Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent I. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? II. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, a…
24-6545 Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts…
24-6490 Jose Omero Carrizal-Osornia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-6477 Wilmer Yonathan Doblado-Padilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-6455 Ernest Murphy v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's "favorable" definition that is incongruent with well-established Const…
24-6425 Cameron Cates v. Jared Shlemovitz, dba Junto Sounds, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP copyright-law creative-works judicial-interpretation legal-petition procedural-fairness public-domain How is it that, according to the Second Circuit, "all on the common wellspring that is the creative works draw public domain,"? What good is copyrigh…
24-6404 Degny Oshmarlin Molina Villatoro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24-6388 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit internet-immunity judicial-interpretation platform-liability section-230 user-content a) The 9th circuit's interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c) (1) subverting statutory interpretation. This was called "republishing nonsense". b) Th…
24-6304 Rafael Paredes-Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test 1. Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce, both directly and under Pike v. Bruce Church (among many ot…
24-6117 Michael Eric Pennington v. Texas Texas 2024-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-precedent trial-procedure Is the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent? Was Trial Counsel Ineffective in conceding Pennin…
24-626 F.W. Webb Company v. Vincent N. Micone, III, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor First Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied administrative-exemption employment-law fair-labor-standards-act judicial-interpretation labor-regulations regulatory-compliance The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) creates an overtime exemption for "administrative" employees as that term is "defined and delimited from time to t…
24-604 Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend…
24-5845 Jackie Robinson v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-statute judicial-interpretation remedies section-1983 Question not identified.
24-5765 Robert Lance Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented.
24-5674 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-jurisdiction supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
24-288 Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of "proximate cause" is unreasonable because it fails to honor the breadth of the RICO statute and ignores…
24-5424 Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Oklahoma 2024-08-30 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct This is a case about: (1) the State of Oklahoma's suppression of material and exculpatory impeachment evidence in its possession to evade the presenta…
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence The Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial whenever a court's order dismissing a criminal case constitutes an "acquittal." Under this C…
24-5409 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the categorical approach as applied to "violent felony" enhancements under the Armed Career Criminal Act and "crime of violence" enhanc…
24A209 Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete certiorari court-review judicial-interpretation legal-standard petition time-extension Question not identified.
24-5341 Charis Mapson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5214 Hsiu Ying Tseng v. Mona D. Houston, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-review ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the prosecutorial misconduct did not violate due process?
24-5128 Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear…
24-42 Scott Meide v. Pulse Evolution Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-assignment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing unbiased-judiciary I Has F.R.Civ. P. I been abrogated by judicial fiat? II Should the Rules Concerning Unpublished Opinions Be Rewritfen and/or Modified? Do We Have a…
24-47 Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101.
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the "state-created-danger" doctrine by recognizing t…
23-1373 Capital Cartridge, LLC v. J. Michael Issa, as Trustee of the HMT Liquidating Trust Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied avoidance-provisions bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-litigation creditors-committee derivative-standing judicial-interpretation statutory-authority Under the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions, whether a creditors' committee has "derivative standing" to bring suit on behalf of the estate, and …
23-7772 Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY? 730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,…
23-1327 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez 1. Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind,…
23-1174 Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) ("Rule 704(a)") allow an expert to opine that a person's conduct complied with the person's legal duties? Does R…
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether, for purposes of applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a prior conviction's elements can be d…
23-7203 Vladimir Blasko v. Lasha Boyden, Acting United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-role extradition extradition-treaty foreign-state-law judicial-interpretation requesting-state-law statute-of-limitations treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations treaty-provisions The first question presented is when the express terms of an extradition treaty require a district court to determine whether the statute of limitatio…
23A913 Richard Shean, et al. v. ZRS Management, as Manager for Arbors at Orange Park Florida 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-interpretation supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-7076 Jose R. Villavicencio v. Myron N. Terlecky Sixth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights drafting-error due-process exemptions iRA-exemption judicial-interpretation land-contract ohio-revised-code standing Is an error in the drafting of a land contract something that the court can ignore even as the validity of that land contract is central to the case. …
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review Question not identified.
23-6950 Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. His sentence was increased pursuant to section 3C1.1 of the United States Sentenc…
23-6954 Charles B. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED…
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm…
23-6749 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having "physically restrained" a victim, where the conduct at issu…
23-6733 Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based …
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS -ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE FOR ADII.WHE…
23-6493 Shannon Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m…
23-763 JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. Texas 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-standard clear-and-unmistakable-evidence evidence-standard first-options-precedent first-options-v-kaplan judicial-interpretation post-termination post-termination-claims state-supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-supreme-court Whether a state supreme court can disregard the "clear and unmistakable evidence" standard established by the United States Supreme Court in First Opt…
23-749 Edith Littlefield Sundby, as Trustee v. Jeffrey Myers, et al. California 2024-01-10 Denied amendment-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-rationing standing supreme-court-review takings Whether, "as the final arbiter of the law", this Court will "guard " the Constitution by enforcing the Amendment III due process guarantee, or permit …
23-6387 Montgomery Lebeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anticipated-imprisonment concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation same-incident sentencing-guidelines state-charges ussg-5g1.3(c) When a state term of imprisonment is anticipated to result from another offense that is relevant conduct to the federal offense of conviction, the Fed…
23-647 Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2) 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing Should this Court 1) adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in his concurrence to the denial of certiorari in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, …
23-5975 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent 1. Are inferior courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in particular, allowed unrestricted and unrestrained freedom to interpret the clear and une…
23-474 Hearst Newspapers, L.L.C., et al. v. Antonio Martinelli Fifth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 17-usc-507(b) civil-claims civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-law discovery-rule judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations Whether the "discovery rule" applies to the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil claims. 17 U.S.C. 507(b).
23-5800 Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment AppelWi-V aliened "tW-p deknciarvW 3ocVisor\3bft€S and. Tu.rf\ff dea^ed hirv^ op-Ids ti c^VvVs ar»<Ur -VU AtvervArKfv^ o/d fteldyoa-^ La^-d vise ar>d…
23-5662 Charles Keith Wampler v. Alicia Handwerk, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-laws due-process interpretation judicial-interpretation judicial-writing legal-argument legal-interpretation legislative-drafting legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-laws word-definition It is an established fact that some laws, whether they be statutory laws or case laws, can be written in a way that is confusing to the lay person. Wh…
23-5621 Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn…
23-5221 Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-80 Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation Whether, to decide if a claim involves a domestic application of a statute, courts may consider factors other than whether the conduct relevant to the…
23-5053 Joann Artis Stevens v. Town of Snow Hill, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administration-of-justice civil-procedure civil-rights judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-remedies litigation-efficiency pre-trial-motions pretrial-motions rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 1. This Claim is of exceptional importance, and is a vehicle to remedy the issues and conflict in our Judicial Systems by of Pretrial Motion 12(b)(6) …
23-5012 Matthew Nix v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court 1. Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate r…
22-7883 Latron Y. Cross v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing speedy-trial standing state-court-review Question not identified.
22-7831 Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment /\ppe//<-tbS Cbor'C drr id i'Ae /jtp^icA Ctvrd-^ fi)e.cf do/t./- jQM -tie fit fiD t) t M.}dj <?*. Q\4r peHH ox«A "AWBr 6o.y uokt/i, k& o-f- po$$}b c…
22-1210 Colgate-Palmolive Company, et al. v. Rebecca McCutcheon, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied actuarial-assumptions benefit-determination circuit-split deference erisa erisa-plan-administrator-discretion extrinsic-evidence judicial-interpretation plan-administrator statutory-and-regulatory This Court has repeatedly held that when an ERISA plan expressly confers upon the plan administrator discretion to interpret its terms, that interpret…
22-7588 Eric Lee Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach.
22-7438 Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction A. Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super. 1989) Cour…
22-7212 In Re Solomon Roberts 2023-04-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-discretion pluralist-rule standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
22-7114 Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
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…
22-6897 Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6809 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues?
22-6603 Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-653 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states Under § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G "), a four- level increase applies to a defendant 's offense level, " if a…
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
22-644 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explaining…
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers 1. Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err when it interpreted your holding in Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S.Ct. 1188 (2018) to mean that "in assessing the rea…
22-6417 Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-12-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling Surgte bo cfe£ CQ mode 0/0^QOTLt&zhe ^wve //ujruiW suclnC.C ncujr'n S kmc ? 3. wUe-Hoer- 4^e AisfricV ccu^rV oWsei) Ai'scn^en iVuiV^r> Hr. o^pomVtw…
22-6121 Michael Paul Conn v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-11-21 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP bouie-principle bouie-v-city-of-columbia due-process judicial-interpretation notice notice-requirement retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration west-virginia Did it violate the Petitioner's due process right to notice pursuant to Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347, 84 S.Ct. 1697, 12 L.Ed.2d 894 (1964) …
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…
22-465 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) cercla cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution contribution-action damages declaratory-judgment environmental-liability judicial-interpretation response-costs statute-of-limitations CERCLA's three-year statute of limitations for an "action for contribution for any response costs or damages" under § 113(f) begins running on "the da…
22-6022 Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s…
22-5981 Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
22-397 Maria Solange Ferrarini v. Ipek Irgit, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied 17-usc-507b civil-procedure claim-accrual copyright-infringement federal-circuit-split judicial-interpretation laches laches-doctrine petrella-v-mgm statute-of-limitations Whether the judge-made laches-like ownership claim accrual test applies to bar a copyright infringement suit brought within the three-year look-back p…
22-295 In Re Deborah Walton 2022-09-28 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals? Did the District Court denying the Petitioner her …
22-5688 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing Question not identified.
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib…
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions? 2. Have the courts …
22-5459 Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h…
22-5437 Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati…
22-163 Lenair Moses v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter…
22-5386 Pamela Bond v. McKean County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation pennsylvania-law property property-tax real-estate real-estate-law tax-assessment tax-delinquency taxation vehicle-transfer The 2005 Dodge Caravan owned by the Petitioner in this case was still registered in the State of Pennsylvania when she signed it over to Bednar Metals…
22-5193 Shaidon Blake v. Maryland Maryland 2022-07-26 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard Vv^vci+t\e Caucus use rVs irrWpuAaV* on' QftA appWtoA\6r\ &F cW\ o,aA y, WetsW* n In pe-VI Vione.0 £ASc. c*UiOtj A"HoCaty& t^c6 SS ecfcC \r\«A *<^. D…
22-5112 Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one …
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum State's choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rule…
22-5020 Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement A year after he was discharged from the Army with a disability pension following brain, spinal, and psychological injuries from a scud missel attack w…
21-8133 Gary L. Boyle v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent course-of-conduct criminal-acts criminal-sentencing discretionary-sentencing federal-guidelines guidelines judicial-interpretation same-course-of-conduct sentencing-discretion separate-course-of-conduct united-states-v-booker This Court's decisions (as best Boyle can research) have not defined or applied in the discretionary sentencing context, and apart from any Guidelines…
21-1551 Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul Seventh Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor.
21-8041 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-interpretation procedural-protections standing state-law vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether an unaddressed constitutional claim not affirmatively contradicted by the record deserves relief, and if so, should review under Due proces…
21-1283 Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case…
21-7429 Damon Ramon Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-law crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation seminole-rock seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines Does the Sentencing Commission's commentary impermissibly expand the unambiguous definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to include atte…
21-7408 Randy Dingle v. Talmage S. Baggett, Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-242 42-usc-1983 case-coherence civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-induction occurrence-analysis planned-action procedural-reasoning standing Although comparable occurrences appear to rehash the same thing, the conclusion should not be made that those occurrences are valid or impossible. The…
21-7354 Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida Florida 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U…
21-1232 Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System First Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity 1. Should the clear and unambiguous words of the 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution be the basis for judicial determinations relating to…
21-7211 Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Petitioner's (Plaintiff's) Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to Due Process of the Law by permitting such egregi…
21-7001 Adam J. Tenser v. Beth Silverman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-interpretation legal-solicitude liberal-construction pro-se self-representation slander standing Whether this Court's articulation of the pro se liberal construction rule in Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 529 (1972) implies a general withdrawal of the…
21-1037 Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, by disregarding properly established U.S. authorities (Corpus Juris Secundum, C.J.S.), to surreptitiously create its own copyright law sys…
21-1021 Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson Eighth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (4) adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.
21-6848 Juan Manuel Lopez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-major-crimes-act judicial-interpretation major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights new-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), announced a new rule of criminal procedure. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' indepe…
21-920 Kalab D. Willman v. United States Armed Forces 2021-12-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete…
21-6658 Donald Ray Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary?
21-6629 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta…
21-6618 Jamie Matsuba and Takaharo Thomas Matsuba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 27-year-old-opinion due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent loss-calculation mortgage-fraud rents-gained sentencing-guidelines Whether a loss calculation determined using "rents gained" in a mortgage fraud case violates due process when it is based on a single 27-year-old opin…
21-869 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-13 Judgment Issued Amici (41)Relisted (2) artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work Whether a work of art is "transformative" when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material (as this Court, the Ninth Circuit, a…
21-6476 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standing Whether the district Court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's decision in Ellis v. United States, 356 U.S. 674, 78 S.Ct 9…
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MISAPPLIED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION OF SANDIN V. CONNER, 515 U.S. 472 (…
21-6440 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-5935 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation 1. Does not the law say anything the Jury did not hear is Now Evidence ? 2. Is the Court abusins there decreation by issuiny denied order on Clian? …
21-5870 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standard standing state-courts takings the governments and the courts duty to snsure the long standing legal principle of fair notice in lighto this Courts decision in Rehaif? Question 2: …
21-5688 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Corizon Health, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure disputed-facts facts-unavailable judicial-interpretation legal-standard motion-procedure petitioner respondents summary-judgment Did the trial Court Judge of the rs wiVPi facts Were Omto/MZ to PHhner in order to ckfe fa the (\-esfordents MobiM fbrS)mmary J\jdf Mart accurst him f
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United …
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review There is a split between the United States Circuit Courts regarding whether the "inextricably intertwined " standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Ev…
21-5270 Robert Stanard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings 1. Does the taxing powers oF Congress negahes Operson's Possessory Vakeresd in Suineralip of A Ciena, A. Where doos Ivhersioke Commern bean ond end W…
21-5271 Paul Surine v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc…
21-5186 Mihran Melkonyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1.) Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a…
21-5071 Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California California 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice Question not identified.
20-8409 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2021-06-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case …
20-8172 Jorge Antonio Perez, aka Steven Mark Hamm v. Gavin Newsom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-sentencing free-speech judicial-interpretation prior-conviction-doctrine standing state-secrets-doctrine Is the Circuit Court wrong in applying the "State Decisis Doctrine" and also is the Circuit Court wrong by stating in writing that the murders of litt…
20-1630 Susan Chen v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-interpretation legislative-power pro-se-representation separation-of-powers The Courts "have power to say what the law is, not what it should be." Obsergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (Roberts, J., joined by Scalia and T…
20-1601 Xiu Jian Sun v. David B. Cohen, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction divine-intervention due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing mandarin-translation religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows 1. To fulfill Jehovah, - t…
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), permit a federal habeas court to assign "implicit" factual findings to a state court's order when appl…
20-7784 Bryan Keith Goins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari (1) Do my Prior Georgia Code ANN 3 16-3-30 lb Possessis with inent to Dis Tribute methamphetanine 4 or my TeNNeSSEe Code ANN. 339r 174 lsE PossEsSiON …
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure ARE FEDERAL COURTS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH PENDING STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS? DOES CONVICTION AND SENTENCES ON ALL COUNTS BECOME THE FINAL JUDGMENT O…
20-1394 PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre…
20-1352 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in…
20-7542 Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-23 Denied IFP court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing Question not identified.
20-7474 Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the…
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statute s of limitations and the coor…
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error 1o Whether Petitioner's trial Counsel sleeping during the Commonwealth's witness directexamination is a critical stase of the triali Whether it consti…
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura…
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should be purved n apped process totlly regerded to Direct Appea be properly-conpetent exected Whers the mess rea and actus rea have wotbees presested…
20-958 Rickey Leon Scott v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aedpa civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation precedent stare-decisis 1 When a Justice contributes the necessary fifth vote to a majority opinion but also writes a concurrence interpreting that opinion , should lower cou…
20-6755 Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6760 Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas Texas 2021-01-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-872 Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity Though unstated in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the common law, qualified immunity doctrine sets forth a two-prong test for claims of qualified immunity: (i) w…
20-836 Marcus Broadway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) agency-deference due-process judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines stinson-deference (1) Do courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines? (2) Do the rule of leni…
20-6668 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied IFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove…
20-6525 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2020-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals divorce-proceedings due-process judicial-decision-making judicial-interpretation legal-principles pension-division standing state-constitutional-law Are the NYS Court of Appeals' rulings consistent with the NYS constitutional requirement to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of d…
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court I would like to be able to have a lawyar uppointed to me on this matter because of my income Im asking for the courts to provide me with one. so I con…
20-6329 Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
20-621 Hua Cai v. Huntsman Corporation Tenth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Relisted (2) code-of-conduct contract-elements contract-formation contractual-obligations employee-handbook employment-contract employment-contract-terms judicial-interpretation non-retaliation-policy policy-documents 1: Usually employer and employee will sign a set of policy documents on top of employment contract, such as Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct, Code o…
20-6252 David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28 USC 2244 (d)(1)(A) when Ohio Rules of Appellate Procedure prohibit the only remedy rai…
20-579 Zimmian Tabb v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh…
20-574 Jake Corman, et al. v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-deadlines election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause intervention judicial-interpretation legislative-power mail-in-ballots presidential-electors Just last year, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consistent with the authority vested in it by the United States Constitution, enacted a statute una…
20-542 Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-26 Denied Amici (9)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-election-day federal-election-statutes judicial-interpretation mail-in-ballots mail-in-voting pennsylvania-supreme-court preemption A Pennsylvania statute unambiguously provides that absentee and mail-in ballots must be received by Election Day. Brushing that requirement aside, a 4…
20-5937 Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th…
20-5759 Charles C. Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND CIRCUIT COURT MISINTERPRETED AND MISAPPLIED THE "RELEVANT CONDUCT" PROVISIONS OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION, G…
20-5700 Antonio Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction Question not identified.
20-5455 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Aurora Bank, FSB, et al. California 2020-08-24 Denied IFP arbitration-award civil-procedure court-conflict due-process henry-schein-inc-v-archer-white-sales-inc judicial-corruption judicial-interpretation non-judicial-arbitration notary-affidavit schein-rules standing A recalled judge in 2018, Mr. Aaron Persky of Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, granted relief in 2012 to strangers to an alleged f…
20-5222 Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), meriting remand or reversal?
20-5022 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing Tetmonoe, COunnckl AU<en1 A>?., fscspecrfo GoGmu TAG Tferrion Fo^ <A)Fir oF Ceen'oRe feUouiifOGr Ttfe OF>PoBG&tfto "pe£ Cu.iRtUM"3 Crpi-nion oF Tfc …
20-5012 In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross 2020-07-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation Should a writ of Prohibition be issued under the U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari in this case or Writ of Mandamus, I also stated or whatever the…
19-8918 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of person's property once it no longera serves a government purpose in the prosecu…
19-8928 Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-8829 Anastasia Purnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing SHOULDENT A COURT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS ABUSE OF DESCRETION WHEN IT FAILS TO FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW AS IT IS WRITTEN??? SHOULDENT A RULE OF LA…
19-8483 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Does new evidence of actual innocence, discussed in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), require that it was not available at trial, as interpret…
19-8477 Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
19-1267 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. v. George Bell, et al. California 2020-05-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure control judicial-interpretation legal-standing litigation-control non-party preclusion preclusion-doctrine rigid-test rigid-two-part-test totality-of-circumstances Federal law permits someone to be subject to preclusion when they have exercised "control" over a lawsuit, even if they were not formally a party to i…
19-8116 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case …
19-8095 Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL TO FILE A MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY FILE A MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGM…
19-1146 Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach In Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14 (2004), this Court mandated that a conceptual approach –not a spatial approach –be utilized to d…
19-8013 Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-03-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Question not identified.
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar 1. Did the Ninth Circuit 's opinion contradict this Court 's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 19…
19-7646 Davion Fitzgerald v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub…
19-7632 Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings can a person really sign away the U.S. constitution's guaranteed rights, and amendment 14 the U.S. cnstition, that in ladder part is a right, as well …
19-7615 William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing Question not identified.
19-7512 Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7338 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines 1. Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms e…
19-7319 Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings Question not identified.
19-7042 Christian Rosado v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t…
19-725 JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2019-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau…
19-6794 Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination 1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta…
19-640 Andrew Clarke, et al. v. Ray D. Goodson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-theory standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process really mean anything, or is it mere mythology? Does equal protection of the law, apply to everyone, or not?
19-6661 Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation A. IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION-OF-POWERS , WHICH PROHIBITS WJUDTGIAL ENCROACHMENT ON THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF CONGRESS TO MAKE LAWS, VIOLATED, WHEN…
19-521 ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Amici (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 1. Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it "involves" or incorporates an ab…
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut 2019-10-15 Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
19-6158 William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion 1) In ruling that the statement that Judaism is a "doctrine of hate", with to "violence and murder" nothing more, is so equivalent that literature mak…
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing 1. Whether This Court's Conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886), in Conjunction with W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environment…
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error 1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal .foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON 507U…
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction whEthER Countq clinton Heit ANd NURSE JA:l violAted PEtitioNER's 14+h Right AMENd mENt BY DENYiNg oppurtonity the him to woRk IN food 2 SERV.CE ; whot…
19-371 Stephen S. Wise Temple v. Julie Su California 2019-09-19 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-exercise free-exercise functional-approach hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc judicial-interpretation ministerial-exception religious-education religious-institutions transmitting-faith Whether courts should apply a functional approach to the ministerial exception that does not punish religious institutions for employing non-adherents…
19-304 Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. Virgin Islands 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to …
19-5832 Daniel G. Durain v. Florida Florida 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt In a First degree premeditated murder trial, can motive be used to establish premeditation? If so, is a defendant's conviction unconstitutional where…
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
19-5674 Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 S. Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
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.…
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISINTERPRETED THE BUT-FOR CAUSATION TEST IN LIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN, AND INAPPROPRIATELY APPLIED THE CONTRIBUT…
19-41 Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from …
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, Fed. R. Crim. P. 24(c)(3) dictates proceedings to follow. Does the Thi…
18-9739 Timothy Paul Malone v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation I. Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a l…
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R…
18-9493 Jose Santillan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United …
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence QUESTION No. 1: Did the Ore. State Bar and the Ore. Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the Bar American Association's Model Rules of…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law 1. Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collate…
18-9344 Samuel J. Yarber v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.…
18-9213 James Paine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-analysis criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation perceived-seriousness point-calculation sentencing-guidelines seriousness similar-offenses u.s.s.g.-§4a1.2(c) united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should the court analyze whether a conviction is similar to the offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c) as a group or solely for perceived seriousness w…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of petitioners-defendants blood for his the purpose of determining blood alcohol level violate the established constitution…
18-8872 In Re Samuel Lewis Surles 2019-04-17 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment I. PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FAILED TO RULE ON THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S APP…
18-8550 Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. Florida 2019-03-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE…
18-8518 John Moses Burton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing QUESTION (1): When and how should the courts be bound to the presedent set by the high Court's opinion? QUESTION (2): Is it time to re-evaluate the l…
18-1231 Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. New York 2019-03-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." (fE ftl?. (fli) ! Attorney for …
18-8394 Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8130 Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing 1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement.
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-1037 Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab Facing disputed marks with words in or originated in foreign language and foreign cultural symbol, judges should first get to know the true meaning of…
18-7586 Zachary T. Frey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally vag…
18-7473 William Dale Albright v. Kansas Kansas 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent QUESTION 1: DOES THIS COURT'S DECISION IN ALLEYNE V. UNITED STATES, 570 US 99 (2013) ANNOUNCE A NEW RULE OR WAS IT DICTATED BY APPRENDI V. NEW JERSEY,…
18-7326 Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's "plain statement…
18-7086 Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,…
18-728 Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui…
18-6643 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision Sobhy Iskander, a state prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis r extraordinary circumstance moves this motion on a writ of certi- orari that a state co…
18-6274 Robert Klein v. Centennial Ranch and Aspen Mountain Ranch Association Colorado 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-obligations constitutional-rights court-orders discrimination due-process judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-procedure legislative-intent prevailing-party-rights pro-se-litigation standing state-courts-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts are following what the legislators have put in place through the statutes? Have the legislators put Statutes in place for reasoni…
18-6187 Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship 1) Did the appeals court err affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization pursuant citizenship application when the Su…
18-6173 Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine…
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Did the lower courts disregard this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeat the public…
18-6063 Craig Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should resolve spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran…
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Question not identified.
18-262 Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows Lord god of host Jehovah s…
18-254 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows Lord god of host sent the …
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed sentencing rec…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c…
18-5488 Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review Does the Lower Court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer…
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing 1) Did the court of appeals decide that a severe physical condition, one that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is not a disability under …