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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6430 Maurice Fleming v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-30 Denied IFP accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation a cVxnp/\ 4rUe. principle. -lluxA C\ on AUe uncarrobara-t^d -te.s4t Cour4A rt(jt i in COAtyicVion C-ann^l be. bad o4 an accomplrcet Kv\c.»a y sec oc …
23-7040 Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. Tennessee 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation 1. is the petitioner constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States constitution violated when the Tennessee…
23-6091 Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th…
22-6614 Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a 1) Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of…
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt 1) Illinois Supreme Court Rule 451 requires the West court and accepts' certain principles which are at the heart of certain oral accepts' certain pri…
20-1592 Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing 1. Whether a plaintiff satisfies the "clearly established law" prong of qualified immunity by identifying prior authority that articulates general leg…
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…
19-8653 Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Petitioner is challenging all Drugs Minus-Two pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (c)(2). Reduction of Sentence, Petitioner is eligible to receive the …
19-821 Isaac M. Nsejjere v. Reuben Smith, et ux. Washington 2019-12-31 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection legal-principles state-action unequal-protection 1. Is a state action constitutional when it leads to deprivation by denying a process that is "due", and premised on unequal protection under the law?…
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…
18-8786 Stephen Krell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights controlling-legal-principles deficient-advice effective-assistance-of-counsel legal-principles misapprehension-of-case plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-counsel-incompetence Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to the effective assistance to counsel during the plea bargaining stages of the proceeding is implicated when tria…
18-8228 Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden Ohio 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review The state courts sua sponte dismissal of my petition was A departure from the Accepted And usual course of Judicial proceedings including claims of Ex…
18-1060 Michael A. Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Stephen D. Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-clauses constitutional-standing due-process fourth-amendment fundamental-justice jurisdiction legal-principles material-change pre-trial-seizure standing statutory-basis takings unclean-hands 1. On the merits and as applied to the facts and evidence in this case did specified principles of fundamental justice, including unclean hands, const…
18-6615 Eugene Riley, III v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP 6th-amendment criminal-justice due-process evidence jury-instructions law legal-assessment legal-principles separateness-of-events 1. Whether Riley was denied his 6th and 4th Amendment Right to have his jury assisted via instructions on the application of legal principles to the e…
18-5186 Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing The lower courts deprived the Pro Se, Petitioner of Due Process and the disregard to address the limitations within the patent Claims as well as the v…