| 25-246 |
Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2025-09-03 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law culpability due-process excessive-fines judicial-standard property-forfeiture |
The question presented is whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underl… |
| 24-7499 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance |
Did the lower courts err in applying the standard for determining whether a certificate of appealability should issue in a post-conviction proceeding,… |
| 24-1030 |
Parker-Hannifin Corporation, et al. v. Michael D. Johnson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-prudence judicial-standard retirement-plan |
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), retirement plan fiduciaries have a duty to remove imprudent investments from their plan wit… |
| 24A770 |
Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard |
Whether a certificate of appealability ("COA") required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) may be denied following a division among state appellate judges on the … |
| 24-477 |
Thomas John Boukamp v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity |
I. In Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), this Court the Dusky standard require that the defendant be
II. Does a defendant have a rational u… |
| 24-5808 |
Cyrus Hazari v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-accommodation disability-discrimination federal-preemption judicial-standard legal-remedy pro-se-litigant |
1. Has one federal judge set the uniform national standard 1 for ending discrimination
based on disability, and 'impeached ' the state courts ' rules… |
| 24-5318 |
Norberto Serna v. O’Brian Bailey, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process judicial-standard miranda-warning |
1. Whether the Court of Appeal imposed a certificate of appealability standard in conflict with Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Miller-El… |
| 23-5993 |
Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error |
Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial … |
| 23-5869 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid "irreconcilable and mutually exclusive" standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St… |
| 23-5271 |
Eric Villarreal v. California |
California |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6226 |
James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court |
Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion petitioner habeas corpus petition on "Presumption Of Correctness" an mandate… |
| 22-5988 |
Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-5938 |
Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its … |
| 21-7662 |
Michael Wayne Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-5436 |
William D. Dickerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 20-1640 |
Frederick M. Weber v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-review core-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-defense home-possession judicial-standard lower-court-uncertainty second-amendment standard-of-review |
What is the proper standard of constitutional review of a law that impacts the core value of the Second Amendment—possession and use of a firearm with… |
| 20-7457 |
Mark Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome
Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which confl… |
| 20-7442 |
Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden |
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| 20-5841 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator |
Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 20-5549 |
Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration |
Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than … |
| 20-5224 |
Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations |
A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual … |
| 20-5073 |
Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless. |
| 19-1333 |
Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review |
1. What is the standard for determining whether
an arbitration award must be vacated for "evident partiality" under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S… |
| 19-8261 |
Sean Ath v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the "substantial evidence" test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm P… |
| 19-7585 |
Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure |
OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY
2. OID THE UNTITEO S… |
| 19-7293 |
Desmond Bowen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) states: "The court shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary." Indeed, there are factors found in § 3553(… |
| 19-5767 |
Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana,… |
| 19-5421 |
Charles Earl Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 18-1507 |
Augustin Zambrano v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review |
Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a… |
| 18-8873 |
Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental |
Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th… |
| 18-6329 |
Adan Sandoval Dominguez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-standard constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-understanding judicial-standard major-depressive-disorder mental-competency mental-health rational-understanding standing trial-rights |
Did defendant meet the competency requirement to stand trial set forth in Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993), which states a defendant must have "s… |
| 18-5265 |
In Re Brandon Lee |
|
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard |
1. SHOULD THE STATE BE PERMITTED TO ISSUE TRUE BILL MISREPRESENTATION OF THE CHARGING INSTRUMENT FOR ALL CRIMINAL MATTERS PERTAINING TO INDIGENT DEFEN… |