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25-6923 Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-27 Pending IFP appellate-review harmless-error legal-standard preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-resentencing 1. Is remand for resentencing required when it is unclear whether the district court applied the correct legal standard in making a factual finding es…
25-6809 Michael Wayne Keller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP commonwealth-instruction heat-of-passion jury-instruction legal-standard malice-definition trial-court-error 1) Was the definition of malice given to the jury a proper Virginia model jury instruction defining heat of passion? 2) Did counsel for appellant req…
25-6785 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard Generally, relevant evidence is admissible at trial. Evidence is relevant —in civil and criminal cases alike —if "it has any tendency to make a fact m…
25-6790 Diego Castillo-Pedraza v. United States Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-decision circuit-court-review evidence-rule-404b judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing-review 1. Was the Third Circuit decision to affirm the District Court's 404(b) Ruling and sentencing correct?
25-6704 Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25-6522 Miguel Angel Macias-Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-review supreme-court-review This petition presents two questions. First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled? Second, whether th…
25-6486 Marvin Bowman v. City of Chicago Board of Education Seventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-procedure harm-analysis judicial-error legal-standard summary-judgment Whether or not the courts errored when they applied the significant harm standard to this case when this court had already ruled against it? Whether o…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright 1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations …
25A441 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review Whether police conduct a Fourth Amendment search of a home (thus requiring consent or a warrant) when they use a drug-detection canine to sniff the do…
25-439 Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-procedure legal-standard non-patent-case venue Whether a defendant who raises the affirmative defense of improper venue in a non-patent case bears the burden of proving that venue is improper.
25A404 Ángel Forteza-García v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal federal-public-defender first-circuit legal-standard time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-289 Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response Waived 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment Courts in every federal district apply Rule 56 to 2255 motions; the application, however, is uneven. In the Second Circuit, the summary-judgment rules…
25-276 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure legal-standard non-signing-party reasonable-inquiry rule-11 sanctions Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 permits a court to sanction represented parties for violations of that rule. In Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic …
25-5586 David Priest v. Bentley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-ruling district-court inmate-rights judicial-discretion legal-standard pro-se-litigation ARE PRO SE INMATE LITIGANTS HELD TO THE SAME LEGAL STANDARD THAT A LAWYER IS HELD? WAS THE PLAINTIFF GIVEN PROPER NOTICE OF HIS NEED TO RAISE HIS ISS…
25-254 Khamraj Lall v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard sentence-reduction 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violated fundamental due process principles by granting a stay requested by the government to delay proc…
25-5255 In Re Alex Anderson 2025-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination Question not identified.
25-5236 Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes substantial burden upon religious practice and did it erroneously find impermissible bind…
25-90 Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen…
25-5078 Lawrence J. Turner v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance direct-review ineffective-assistance issue-preservation legal-standard reasonableness-test Whether, in assessing direct-review counsel's performance based upon the omission of a preserved issue, lower courts should either apply the clearly s…
25-5022 Shemica Taylor v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied IFP executive-immunity federal-statute judicial-immunity legal-standard prosecutorial-standard rule-60 In Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. (2024) whether a (former) officer of the Executive branch is entitled to immunity from prosecution requires distin…
24-7391 Angel L. Martinez v. Howard Sissem, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard 1. Was the District Court's decision that Petitioner received effective assistance of counsel, contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of c…
24A1205 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard Question not identified.
24-1243 Tri-Corp Housing, Inc. v. Robert Bauman Wisconsin 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation jury-trial legal-standard public-figure wisconsin-supreme-court (1) When is a claimant an "involuntary public figure" within the meaning set forth in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S. Ct. 2997, 41 L.…
24-7175 In Re Kevin Ogden 2025-05-12 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process jurisdiction legal-standard self-representation trial-rights Did The Supreme Court Of New Mexico Lack Jurisdiction To Rule And Convict The Petitioner Prior To Trial? Did The Supreme Court Of New Mexico Apply Th…
24-7066 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-proceeding constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process evidence-exclusion legal-standard I) Were due process Constitutional rights violated by respondent's agency proceeding ? II) Did DC Court Of Appeal violated petitioner's constitutiona…
24-7050 Juan Carlos Sotelo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal jury-selection legal-standard trial-procedure Dismissal of a juror based on a purported unwillingness or inability to follow the law is impermissible when the impetus for the dismissal stems from …
24-6916 David C. Lettieri v. Suffolk County Police Second Circuit 2025-04-02 Denied IFP judicial-review legal-standard procedural-interpretation statutory-analysis strikes vacated-judgments 1. Does vacated judgments count as "strikes?" 2. Does abuse of power count as "Immident danger?"
24-6895 Herbert Lavonne Wiggins v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied IFP factual-findings judicial-review legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence procedural-defect writ-of-certiorari (1) Whew did the law pass, Saying the courts do Hot have to ad; udicate the Mercts oa a writ? (2) How Can a court refuse to adjudicate on the ments a…
24-958 Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge In its prior decision in this case two Terms ago, this Court unanimously held in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), that the Second Circ…
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…
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
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?
24-6481 Frederick Stampone v. Michigan Supreme Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-standard liberal-construction pro-se-pleadings procedural-interpretation OV£R 71 YEA&5 OLD WITH NO CRIMINALJr Petitioner stampone is NI STORY, WAS ARRESTED IN THE SAME COUNTS WARRENT WAS ISSUED ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES OF KID…
24-6314 David C. Lettieri v. City of Binghamton, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-interpretation imminent-danger judicial-strike legal-standard procedural-review 1. What is considered "imminte danger?" 2. Is Neitze v Williams, 490 U.S. 319 incorrect? 3. What is constred as a strike?
24-675 Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied certificate-of-innocence federal-damages legal-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unjust-conviction Whether a petitioner has satisfied the third element of Section 2513(a) when he did not engage in misconduct or neglect that proximately caused his pr…
24-6166 Hector Arturo Campos v. Texas Texas 2024-12-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon legal-standard provocation self-defense sudden-passion In the review of a Sudden Passion case, is all evidence of former provocation immaterial? Trial transcript shows evidence was removed from the scene …
24-6009 Christian Guadalupe Contreras-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A482 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A401 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standard seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-463 Marta Sanchez, et al. v. Anthony Guzman, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-rights governmental-defendants legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether a civil rights plaintiff bears the burden of disproving the affirmative defense of qualified immunity for governmental defendants or whether g…
24-5783 Genaro Alberto Nunez Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-253 Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity The Petitioner, Avery Curry Archuleta, asks this Court to clarify that trial courts instruct juries that any decision on a self-defense must be unanim…
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.
24A23 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied civil-procedure eleventh-circuit legal-standard stay-of-proceedings supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23-7593 Kaleel Hinton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard petition-for-writ post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing time-limitations Question not identified.
23A1018 Luis Marin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete criminal-case legal-standard ninth-circuit procedural-error time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress's power under the Define and Punish Clause by defining a …
23-7396 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard standing superior-court IS IT THE AUTHORITY OF THE SUPERIOR COURT TO HEAR/SEIZE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF A DEFENDANT? IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT LEGITIMATE …
23-1180 Palani Karupaiyan v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law alternative-relief civil-procedure extraordinary-relief extraordinary-writs judicial-review legal-standard mandamus standing writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Petitioners prayed 14 reliefs which were as Writ of Mandamus or Prohibition or Alternative so the questions were part of three test conditions require…
23-7341 Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error.
23-7310 In Re Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. 2024-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings Question not identified.
23A832 Alexander Bayonne Stross v. Zillow, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete copyright-infringement direct-infringement legal-standard ninth-circuit proximate-causation volitional-conduct Whether the Ninth Circuit's requirement that plaintiff prove that a defendant commit "volitional conduct" in the form of an affirmative act to recover…
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 …
23-842 Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity.
23-6683 Antoine Poteat v. Gerald Lydon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Pennsylvania State Police, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights fabrication-of-evidence legal-standard malicious-prosecution pro-se pro-se-pleading section-1983 speedy-trial 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson and McDonough? 2. Whether a Speedy Tr…
23-6639 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cert-denial civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances judicial-decision legal-standard procedural-ruling rule-60(b)(1) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b supreme-court-rule 1. Whether Lower Court Misapplied Cert. Denial On 10/5/15 Was A Judicial decision Rendered Erroneous By Subsequent Legal Or Factual Changes Also Quali…
23-6525 Michael Dukes v. E.M.S.A. HSA Stephanie Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-proceedings due-process evidence extraordinary-circumstances judicial-procedure legal-standard material-evidence obstruction obstruction-of-justice standing DOES OBSTRUCTION PREVENTING DISPOSITIVE MATERIAL EVIDENCE FROM BEING PRESENTED IN COURT CONSTITUTE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES?
23-783 Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection 1. Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof by requiring a whistleblower to prove causation by a "preponde…
23-752 Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Second and Tenth Circuits, that a defendant may be held liable for contributor…
23-642 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts implied-waiver legal-standard professional-judgment waiver Whether federal courts have a duty to apply the correct legal standard to a due process claim or can the court apply the wrong legal standard based on…
23-6243 Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-618 Delano Marco Medina v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standard Whether it is consistent with due process for a court to convict a criminal defendant without finding that the defendant is guilty.
23-6181 Deryke Matthew Pfeifer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question property-rights statutory-provisions takings Question not identified.
23-447 Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force I. Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances …
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements (1). Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relie…
23-5777 Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5634 Jacob M. Currey v. Illinois Illinois 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Wvv^-VVie-r W "»£ -far ck svulf d,ouc4 c\eM o rd^6+ c\ -VM^eAy^ pec? ^\<?4^o 4c? b'4h<i rc^xjftj g\jvr4y ^) \€o-& ,c\j\A v/ \l > 4 y iv(4> r^V^A" £X.…
23-274 William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. Rhode Island 2023-09-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court Whether the judge-made "clearly established law" qualified immunity standard, which lacks textual, historical, and logical support, and which does not…
23-5463 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment bills-of-attainder due-process impartial-judge indian-territory issues-of-first-impression jurisdiction legal-standard state-sovereignty 1. OKLAHOMA LACKS JURISDICTION IN INDIAN TERRITORY DUE TO ITS STATUS AS A STATE OF THE UNION BEING VOID AS RESULT OF ITS FORMATION, CREATION, AND ADMI…
23-5333 Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit 1. WHETHER OR NOT, THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ERRED IN THEIR DECISIONS WHI…
23-5196 James Calvin Massey v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff 1. Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act —even one that is petty , predictable , and uncharged —is alwa…
23-67 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement 1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party…
23-68 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law 1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party…
23-5181 Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5136 Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing Question not identified.
23-15 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement 1. Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the issue of trademark infringement was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and t…
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…
22-1201 Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the "absolutely clear" standard if it maintains the authority …
22-7547 Carl Lee Ashley v. Mary Boayue, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-standard objective-prong prison-conditions standing DID WE ' OOURT OF APPEALS ERR IN FINDING THAT PETITIONER COULD NOT ESTABLISH THE OBJECTIVE PRONG OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS.
22-1108 Reuben Haley v. Urban Outfitters, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the grant of summary judgment against petitioner was error?
22-7477 Douglas Manning v. Sgt. St. Paul, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights culpability damages defendant-rights due-process evidence-interference judicial-discretion legal-standard plaintiff-burden representation standing (aM VW Aefendartis PePre5e/iiai*on 5o P-elaW H He ;haf/flftd ConSecjt'eO^e HHt P/airHf Should beheld fW rT oi/liy an W/iHHe l)efeniafiH aaV^) H (t\ay…
22-1005 Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters Minnesota 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in City of Tahlequah v. Bond, 142 S. Ct. 9 (2021) (per curiam), Rivas-Villegas v. C…
22-6998 David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
22-6906 Joseph Johnson v. Casey Campbell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel due-process habeas-corpus judicial-prejudice legal-standard lower-court-error petition-review standing summary-judgment 1. Did the lower court err in granting Correctional Defendants' motion to dismiss? 2. Did the lower court err in granting Defendant Wexford's motion …
22-668 Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination 1. Should any law repugnant to the U.S. Constitution (the Supreme law of this land) prevail? 2. Has this Court ever extended liability to individual …
22-646 Sergey Pustelnik, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived artificiality fraud intent legal-standard market-manipulation scienter securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether scienter alone may satisfy the tradition ally separate artificiality requirement to establish market manipulation?
22-6448 Rickey Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP case-review civil-rights compelling-circumstances compelling-reasons due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion legal-standard petitioner-relief relief standing Whether extraordinary and compelling reasons exist in granting Petitioner relief in this case?
22-6399 Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review 1. Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice? 2. Manifest Weight of the Evidence. 3. Can a "Juris…
22-6342 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-relief jurisdiction legal-standard mandamus parallel-proceedings prohibition standing Petitioner's reliefs were prayed as Writ of Mandamus or Prohibition or alternative so the questions were part of three test condition of the Writs.
22-6103 Serdar Tatar v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b I. Whether or not the district court's denial of Mr. Tatar's. Motion for relief under Rule 60(d)$3) , (b)(3), and (b)(6), for fraud, and or fraud upo…
22-5913 John Berman v. Kristin Draper District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-interpretation continuity extortion fund-freezing hj-standard judicial-review legal-standard ongoing-entity predicate-acts regular-way-of-doing-business rico rico-continuity 1. Does the DC Circuit 's statement on RICO continuity directly contradict the HJ standard: "the threat of continuity may be established by showing…
22-158 Jeremiah D. Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response Waived courtroom-conduct due-process fair-trial government-witness judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jury-consideration legal-standard witness-behavior Is a Government witness' inappropriate behavior in the courtroom gallery an improper consideration for a juror?
22-5222 Travis Lee Combs v. Washington Washington 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings Question not identified.
22-5198 Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari 1) Why did no evidence appear in the here written states of Virginia search? 2) Why did no evidence 'presented,' as proof of ever-violation of the cl…
22-5190 Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States First Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard 1. Should certiorari be granted where the district court itself called this case a "close" situation when an unqualified Special Agent with the Bureau…
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…
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences.
22-5098 Arthur Torlucci v. California California 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-8146 Gregory Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by…
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review X emn injury selection rebuffed In seating <X laiASftJ ijuror, or<de/>r,v<dlffn <rf the naa/»dcjclecl nw/nber peresnptdfy c.V>ftlle/^ex should have ke…
21-1552 Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops Whether, before proceeding to the qualified immunity analysis, courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his aut…
21-8106 Jay Jurdi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi…
21-8079 Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines?
21-8001 Charles James v. Thomson Sailors Homes, L.L.C., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied IFP architectural-works circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-scope fee-shifting legal-standard qualitatively-significant-similarity thin-copyright-protection thin-protection The most important questions for any form of intellectual property are what gets protection, i.e., the subject matter, and the scope of that protectio…
21-7920 Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error 11. Whether his Court Will Certify that A Manifert has been Cireumvented by the lower injustice disregarded by the Appelliate Also been Courts and rul…
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Magnitude by Not Considering petitioner Body Cam evidence which under Mive the case against petitioner, andanswers petitioners Sole resened aplWhhe n …
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred when the Court dismissed Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability when other juri…
21-7513 Jonathan Carvalho v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-effective-death-penalty-act arbitrary-decisions constitutional-reliability due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard lower-courts supreme-court trial-court-procedure Does the Supreme Court's leeway, and the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") deference, for lower courts to determine due process viol…
21-1281 Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronic hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-re…
21-7384 Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the jury's verdict as to Count One should be reversed as the evidence against Mr. Lane was constitutionally…
21-7357 Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range?
21-7230 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Question not identified.
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent (1) Did the lower courts erroneously employed the wrong legal standard (2) Was the Court Of Appeal decision in conflict with controlling opinion of t…
21-1189 Arthur Dale Lothringer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived alter-ego circuit-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-law due-process legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation texas-law Whether Texas statutory law supersedes Fifth Circuit precedent regarding alter-ego determinations.
21-7063 Salahudin Shaheed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing Has thousands of people been wrongfully convicted by Courts of law, facts (drug introduction into correctional institutions) and "illicit sex acts)" i…
21-7036 Jeffrey Davis v. Orange County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arrest-validity civil-rights criminal-procedure detention-challenge district-court-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard prima-facie-evidence standing Whether the district court departed from the essential requirements of the law, in the absence of prima facie evidence attached to its order to refute…
21-6926 Willie Wilcher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Wlu4er He Low<tf Courh fai j urtsAicfan fa tJWn decJ? fa CAtej i*Sed P-eh<if \js 2/<?/ faoli), An^ fa gownm^ Few fro^ por veriifW- Hef Pekb^,%/fav he…
21-6455 Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT PETITIONER'S FIFTH, EIGHTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED?
21-6459 Daniel Lowell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1(a) carjacking criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-burden federal-criminal-law felony-murder-rule legal-standard temporary-safety When applying the felony murder rule under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) to the crime of carjacking, what must a defendant show to establish that he has reached a …
21-6351 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing sWtub/u diced upp-eoj i or ab(mdioml upm o~kW ri c^kf +o uoa'weM l fU i ocluis Yk J1 *$>\WvV Reor^ 7 * qOhod is kV\fes\\old i<\ (k{\ o^'^-to 4 ^ "Y…
21-648 Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-03 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness In Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, this Court will determine whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Kentucky Attorney General's m…
21-6128 Tommy Pabellon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-step-act intervening-changes-in-law intervening-law judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-judgment motion-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari standard-of-review Whether a lower court's failure to apply the proper standard of review effects its judgment in reviewing a petitioner's case based on clear intervenin…
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: …
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er…
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as…
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
21-5642 Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, …
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress?
21-5414 Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN IT VIEWED THE EVIDENCE AT SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THE LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO PETITIONER AND DENIED H…
21-149 Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo Tenth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity The questions presented are whether the lower Court err in their decision granting Qualified Immunity and Probable Cause on grounds, which conflicts w…
21-5267 Robert Drawn, IV v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court-assessment due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard qualified-immunity reasonable-jurists summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari DID PETITIONER DEMONSTRATE THAT REASONABLE JURISTS WOULD FIND THE DISTRICT COURT'S ASSESSMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS DEBATABLE OR WRONG ...
21-98 Frank C. Warner v. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied circuit-confusion civil-procedure contract contract-enforcement debt-collection economic-policy legal-standard promissory-note statute-of-frauds Circuit Confusion exists in the matter of Promissory Notes. This Court must resolve this issue and set one standard for all 50 states. Failure to do…
20-1760 iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied 35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard The questions presented are the same as those presented in the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in connection with American Axle & Manufacturin…
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements Question not identified.
20-8108 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-1621 Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit…
20-8059 Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard opinions-below procedural-question standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Did U.S Loots of Appeals theee CABE ge laws ANd DecsioN the 28 WRong SAme Jreaction get Disteicr LOT PO Both worg GheG I WAS A faRE State 20 clam Peti…
20-7807 Woodrow Andrew Clark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claims-assessment constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-standard patent procedural-merit reasonable-jurists standing takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the District Court's assessment of Claims one and two debatable or wrong? Or that the issues presented are adequ…
20-1377 William V., et ux. v. Copperas Cove Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process educational-services idea-statute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act legal-standard procedural-waiver special-education standing Is not specifically naming non-dispositive factors, when actually arguing the factors, a waiver of claims? When an IDEA-eligible child with a disabil…
20-7132 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-1066 Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity 1. Whether qualified immunity shields public university officials from liability when the reasoning—but not the holding—of a binding decision gave the…
20-1002 Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson Tenth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons I. DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT FAIL TO FOLLOW ITS OWN LAW AND THAT OF OTHER CIRCUITS WHEN IT DISMISSED MR. MCAFEE'S APPEAL ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE B…
20-922 Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-09 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal 1. Federal regulations provide that "[i]f the date designated for execution passes by reason of a stay of execution, then a new date shall be designat…
20-919 Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest…
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…
20-6721 Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT PETITIONER'S FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED?
20-6718 Jason J. Johnson v. California California 2020-12-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure 1. Under the "newly discovered evidence rule" does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as evidence the movant could not have possibly disc…
20-6563 Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner had not made the requisite showing by reference to a (CoA), when two courts of appeals …
20-6471 Israel Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-standard due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard standard-of-review testimony-readback trial-procedure WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURT'S APPLICATION OF THE ABUSE OF DISCRETION STANDARD IN RELATION TO THE DENIAL OF A RE…
20-5979 Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing Assembly Bill 29u2 allows the Court to recall andlor resentence the defendant upon recommendation of the district Attorney of the Cownty in Which the …
20-5980 Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States District of Columbia 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can ex Vab<d c\o,\w^ od 5U\\D]e,cd -N\cx-VYex— J^\SdlcYon over Come a procedure^ detrr? VJb<v\ burden o-P proo-P \s epu'w-ed do £>V\ow Cour-| 5 Iqc K…
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circcit Court of Appeals Compound the error, when petitioner's request For counsel was denied, because …
20-5683 Carlton Smith v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-standard standing state-court structural-defect (1) Does the states's waiver standard of fundamental Standard of the Federal constitution? (2) Does a state collateral review court's failure to revi…
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT'S PETITION DOES NOT…
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the law regarding allegations of Counsel being ineffective regarding Plea Negotiations …
20-5358 David Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure davis-precedent davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration legal-standard reasonable-probability reconsideration standard-of-review supreme-court-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5223 Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8830 Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra…
19-8670 Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8650 Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-…
19-8625 Dedric Davis v. Florida Florida 2020-06-05 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal legal-standard motion petitioner standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN NOT GRANTING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL
19-8319 Tarvares James Watson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT?
19-8264 Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing I. Mental Incompetency The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced for commission of an offence as long as such inc…
19-1093 Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White Fifth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni…
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing The question presented, then, is whether the lower courts err in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason co…
19-7853 Jaime Monzon-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling fugitive judicial-discretion jury-evidence jury-instructions legal-standard trial-procedure Did the district court abuse its discretion by permitting a jury to hear evidence that Petitioner believed he was a "wanted fugitive," evidence that d…
19-7788 Ulises Corrales Vega v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-jurists split standing summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari I. DID THE PETITIONER RAISE A SUBSTANTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM THAT WAS NOT SO PATENTLY FALSE OR FRIVOLOUS AS TO WARRANT SUMMARY DISMISSAL?
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others? ii. Whether the United States C…
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…
19-7458 Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation (1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth…
19-7331 Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness 1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim? SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t…
19-7258 Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection 1. Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence? Subsidiary question: whether the case …
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation (1) The judgment of the United States District Court has violated long standing precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the United States Cou…
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO…
19-6729 Cedric Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights 1. Did the District Court violate my Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent? 2. Could the District Court use my 19% year old priors as proof of show…
19-6705 Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before an appellant requests status under Rule 24 and cert? Does a Court of Appeal cou…
19-6682 Zhaopeng Chen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact…
19-593 City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process legal-standard monell-doctrine monell-liability monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-liability policy-custom policy-or-custom policymaker-notice untrained-or-unsupervised-employees What, under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Serus., 436 U.S. 658 (1978), and its progeny, constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrai…
19-6426 John Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances finality finality-exception legal-standard relief-from-judgement relief-from-judgment timely-filing timely-motion Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief from judgement where he files a motion in a timely fashion and provides the district court with extraordinary…
19-6447 Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky WhEther The power appiled in this case to assert Judiciol authority wos Contrary to this and other circutr in light of thcwhole record. WhEther the I…
19-6312 Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY.
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice WHETHER THE MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN HOLDING THAT PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY COU…
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing WHEN A DEFENDANT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) IS HE THEN ENTITLED TO CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? ISS…
19-6067 Francisco Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. SMITH, AND CONFLICTS WITH THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT IN UNITED STATES V. DARDEN? II. WHE…
19-5981 William James Truesdale v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer Whether the united states Distriet court Middle District of Florido Tompo Division deliberately OF OBJEETIONS" U.S. DiSTrIET JUdYe ORDER DENYFNG MOTEO…
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES v. SWOPES , 892 F.…
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing 1. Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or t…
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard A: WHETHER THE DISTRICT STATE COURT OF APPEALS RENDERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, WHEN UNREASON…
19-5220 Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness This Case involves the Trial and Appellate Counsels Performance falling Below an objective Standard of Reasonableness, that prejudice the Petitioner. …
19-5155 William M. Russell v. KS Ventures, LLC Montana 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process genuine-issues judicial-review legal-standard material-fact material-facts standing summary-judgment 1) Did the findings of the lower courts result in a violation of certain rights of due process? 2) Did the court(s) properly conclude that there were…
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…
19-25 Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Seventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2) accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review WHETHER THE LOWER COURT, IN CONFLICT WITH THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN ERICKSON V. PARDUS, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL …
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOLLOWED THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN BUCK V. DAVIS, EXPLAINING THAT THE COA STAGE IS NOT COEXTENSIVE WITH A …
18-9611 Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th…
18-9613 Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment Whether Petitioner's due process right to present a complete defense in his civil commitment trial was violated when the state court prevented him fro…
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction (1)-Do thπ AStAchKO Okut stortk Couht OROARS VTOLAK A-DUE PROCASS (B-AEt tO SUSPANO HAAKA -CONUS. ( A VFOLATON OF US. CONAt AA 2 WheN Loth Cok Rrrue t…
18-9400 Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial Question not identified.
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself? Is it considered proper procedure for the Court to add dialogue not supported by th…
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-9032 Michael Slager v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here——Officer Michael Slager's shooti…
18-8997 Troy Williams v. Florida Florida 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief The Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon a "Brady…
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…
18-1326 Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment 1. When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, should their entitlement to qualified immunity be evaluated ind…
18-8916 Steven Lawrence Wright v. California California 2019-04-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review As to Count 1 the murder conviction, Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction of CALCRIM No. 301 lower the prosecution's burden of proof stand…
18-8863 Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process GROUND ONE Whether State's highest court errs by refusing to remedy a Prisoner's Miscarriage of Justice claim, abuse of discretion and cause of willfu…
18-1251 Sandy Annabi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of …
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not, the Court of Appeal, state of Arizona, Correctly denied Appellant's Motion To Dismiss, his Appeal, Submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-553, …
18-1159 The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection Religious organizations frequently confront claims that their names are generic and ineligible for trademark protection. Courts are divided over such …
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing WHETHER THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO REVERSED AND REMANDED FOR A NEW TRIAL IN TWO SIMILARLY SITUATED CASES AS PETITIONERS CASE, CONFLICT …
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7841 Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry I. Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.0 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two co…
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability.
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of couns…
18-7367 Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment In light of this court's decision in Lee v. United States, 198 L. Ed. 2d 476 (2017) was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing whe…
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute I. Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, Such As: (1) A Vague Statute …
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? Whether Lott was denied a constitutional right…
18-7077 JC Christopher Pulham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly…
18-7079 Franklyn Morillo v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted 1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though …
18-6894 David Crosby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT'S HOLDING CONFLICTS WITH THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT'S AND THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT AS IT CONCERNS IMPROPER VOUCHING.
18-6668 Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. Virginia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury?
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Did the circuit court erroneously violate petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evidence? …
18-6341 John William Lieba, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER, SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE EXISTED TO CONVICT MR. LIEBA?
18-408 Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Amici (2) appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order 1. What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent de cree? Is it …
18-401 Faye Rennell Hobson v. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violation evidence fifth-amendment judicial-bias legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant united-states-constitution What is the level of bias that must be demonstrated before it constitutes a violation of a pro se litigant's right to due process guaranteed by the Fi…
18-5988 Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing 1Whether the court of appeals abused its discrection by dismissing petitioners appeal under 28 U.S.C. 1915 (e) after four years of diliberating all th…
18-248 Mohamed Idris Ahmed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived and whether the government must prove by clear an 8-usc-1451-a citizenship-revocation clear-and-convincing-evidence evidence-requirement evidence-standard Kungys-v-United-States legal-standard legal-test maslenjak-v-united-states naturalization-citizenship naturalization-process procurement procurement-element procurement-standard willful-concealment 1. Whether the plurality decision in Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759, 108 S. Ct. 1537, 99 L. Ed. 839 (1988) addressing the procurement element o…
18-200 Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones Michigan 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency Irreconcilable jury verdicts are not grounds for relief, and courts are not to speculate as to why a jury returned an inconsistent verdict. Respondent…
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure 1. Was the federal Court required by Federal law to accept as true any of Petitioners factual allegations that were made and supported in federal cour…
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5522 Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition whether the United Stater District Court of Northern California abused ito discretion by construing Pettioners Federal Rules of Civ.l Procedure Rule 6…
18-25 Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret After a full trial, the bankruptcy court rejected as unreliable the evidence purporting to assert a "lost asset" model of damages in a trade-secret mi…
18-30 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis In an application for a writ of error coram nobis should it be denied based on an unintentional time delay (where laches was not an issue) and the del…
25A900 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas Application constitutional-rights emergency-relief irreparable-harm judicial-review legal-standard stay-application Question not identified.