| 25-5797 |
Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing |
1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP
sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder
bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of
jus… |
| 21-7013 |
Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity |
The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh… |
| 21-6512 |
Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict |
Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6391 |
Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 20-203 |
LaDonna Degan, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights dallas-pension-statute federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment legislative-amendment property-interest retirement-funds takings-clause |
Prior to 2017, retired Dallas police and firefighters had the right to withdraw the earned and accrued retirement funds deposited in their Deferred Re… |
| 19-5301 |
Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict |
Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca Bad Bertrand? In this first degree murder prosecution, the jury returned an eleven-to-one… |
| 18-9135 |
Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction of (10) years when the (O.G.S.) offense gravity score was changed from Felony (1) t… |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta… |
| 18-1092 |
Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Does a plausible allegation that a facially "neutral" law acts as a proxy for viewpoint discrimination state a valid claim for relief under the Fir… |