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25-6694 Donny Ray Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant 1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid…
25-271 United States, ex rel. Mark J. O'Connor, et al. v. USCC Wireless Investment, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defense civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality public-disclosure qui-tam 1. Whether the D.C. Circuit erred by requiring plaintiffs to anticipate and negate in their complaint a False Claims Act affirmative defense, in direc…
24-6423 Davonte Laron Chaney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment materiality probable-cause search-warrant 1. DID THE SEARCH WARRANT AFFIDAVIT ESTABLISH PROBABLE CAUSE WHEN THE AFFIANT MADE MATERIALLY FALSE STATEMENTS IN THE AFFIDAVIT?
24-224 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Dismissed Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law This petition presents a question nearly identical to that already before the Court in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, No. 23-980. The circuits ha…
24A143 Stacy Makhnevich v. Novick Edelstein Pomerantz, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete consumer-protection debt-collection false-representation fdcpa materiality statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
24-5217 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony In Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), this Court held that the prosecution violates due process when it withholds favorable evidence and the evide…
24-5176 Antonio Santonastaso v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation Section 1001(a)(2) of title 18 only criminalizes the making of material false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States gove…
23-1095 Patrick D. Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2) circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits making a "false statement" for the purpose of influencing certain financial institutions and federal agencie…
23-980 Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Amalgamated Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure loss-causation materiality pleading-standard risk-disclosure securities-fraud This petition presents two important questions that have divided the federal courts of appeals. First, the circuits have split three ways concerning w…
23-6629 Gilbert Dean Bicknell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a brady-materiality brady-v-maryland district-court-finding due-process federal-sentencing guidelines-determination judicial-discretion materiality prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing-information united-states-v-booker 1) Whether the materiality analysis from Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), which has developed almost entirely around proceedings with binary out…
23-546 Corporate Management, Incorporated, et al. v. United States, ex rel. James Aldridge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy cms due-process executive-compensation false-claims-act government-investigation materiality medicaid medicare medicare-reimbursement pay-and-chase 1. Where the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) makes paym ents pursuant to a "pay and chase" policy, are the certifications of Stone Co…
23-5759 Meredith McConnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment false-statements federal-statute materiality neder-v-united-states ninth-circuit omissions wire-fraud Does an indictment charging the offense of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, require pleading and proof of a specific false statement or o…
23-252 United States, ex rel. Michelle Calderon v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC Seventh Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review causation civil-penalties civil-procedure due-process false-claims-act materiality summary-judgment Did the Appellate Panel erroneously uphold the granting of summary judgment in favor of Respondent in finding no evidence of causation for a jury to c…
23-5369 Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation In the Eleventh Circuit, in a prosecution for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922…
22-1111 Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Third Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Relisted (3) agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable, and if so, whether it requires that the Defendant(s)…
22-7466 Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (12)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-punishment due-process evidence-suppression false-testimony kyles-v-whitley materiality napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony 1. a. Whether the State's suppression of the key prosecution witness's admission he was under the care of a psychiatrist and failure to correct that w…
22-7111 Tony Khong v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-vs-maryland de-novo-review evidence-suppression giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-vs-whitley materiality ninth-circuit united-states-vs-bagley Did the Ninth Circuit's de novo disposition of Petitioner's Brady claim in the habeas corpus context, which focused exclusively on Bagley's earlier ru…
22-6947 Alexander Samuel Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 due-process entrapment false-statements fbi-investigation government-fabrication materiality statutory-interpretation Whether a statement made to FBI agents can be material and knowingly false under 18 U.S.C. §1001(a) when the criminal enterprise underlying the statem…
22-6772 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Marion Bowman's convictions and death sentence rest on the compromised testimony of three witnesses who identified Bowman as the murderer. Two—James T…
22-759 Michael Gramins v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter…
22-6687 Robert Dee Carter v. Deon Clayton, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review brady brady-materiality charges-convicted circuit-court due-process materiality pro-se-status rule-59 rule-60b 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit depart Brady by artificially heightening the threshold for materiality based on Petiti…
22-6500 Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-09 Dismissed Amici (2)Relisted (21)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility 1. Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty…
22-6046 Terrioues Owney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process late-disclosure materiality materiality-standard new-trial witness-credibility Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny Owney's right to constitutional due process by applying an erroneous standard in ass…
22-5827 Jasmine Perry and Evans Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley materiality rico-indictment suppressed-evidence 1) Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to determining th…
22-5429 Omar Shariff Cash v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland circuit-split due-process harmless-error impeachment-evidence materiality standards-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Should this Court resolve the division among the Courts of Appeals and determine the appropriate standard for a court to apply in determining whether …
22-5058 Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Relisted (5)IFP aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced …
22-5050 Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell Seventh Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence The Seventh Circuit's Opinion has stretched The United States Supreme Court's Opinion in Brady v. Maryland beyond.its logical bounds when compared wit…
21-1578 Quannah L. Harris v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure damages fraud fraud-claims fraudulent-intent materiality reliance rule-9b 1. Did the Court misapprehended the law and facts in affirming the District Court's decision to dismiss the fraud claims based on the failure to state…
21-8045 Marcellus Overton v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea materiality materiality-standard plea-withdrawal reasonable-defendant rule-11 united-states-v-dominguez-benitez 1. When a defendant seeks to withdraw his or her guilty plea based upon the Government's failure to timely disclose exculpatory evidence, is the "mate…
21-1517 Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.…
21-1445 Ellen T. Thatcher v. Department of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights due-process jury-determination materiality perjury summary-judgment veterans-administration Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals make a clear error when they termed perjury "meritless," failed to consider the materiality of Thatcher's perjur…
21-1411 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2022-05-03 Denied Amici (2) brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Petitioner James Milton Dailey was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. He has since discovered that the State made knowing use of perj…
21-7718 Mark A. Winger v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process materiality materiality-standard perjury post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-agurs witness-perjury Wnether a State prisoner's post-conviction petition claim of a Brady violation alleging perjury by a State's witness at trial/ whose false testimony p…
21-1326 United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno…
21-1314 United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A) when neither the common law nor the text of the statute support such a…
21-7170 Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation 1. May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial…
21-7162 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence Whether it is Consistent with this Courts holding in CAPERTON v. A. MASSEY COAL CO., 556 U.S. 868, 129 S.Ct 2541 (2009) and the Imperatives of Due Pro…
21-1145 Molina Healthcare of Illinois, Inc., et al. v. Thomas Prose Seventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act implied-certification implied-false-certification material-noncompliance materiality pleading-requirements pleading-standard rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-compliance This petition presents the same question as Johnson v. Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care LLC, No. 21-462, and United States ex rel. Owsley v. Fazzi As…
21-6909 Mark Allen Geralds v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP brady brady-materiality cumulative-analysis due-process giglio-violation materiality prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland strickland-prejudice trial-confidence 1. Whether the materiality inquiry for Brady and the prejudice analysis for Strickland require a cumulative analysis in determining whether confidence…
21-6804 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-01-10 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl…
21-6751 Rudy Mendoza v. United States Third Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights deportation due-process material-evidence materiality victim witness witness-testimony 1. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROVIDE NOTICE TO A DEFENDANT PRIOR TO UNILATERALLY DEPORTING THE SOLE WITNESS AND SOLE ALLEGED VICTIM OF A PENDING CRI…
21-6412 Rebecca Stampe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 GVR IFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review government-disclosure in-camera-review materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion Can the district court, consistent with Brady and its progeny, refuse in camera review of evidence that is plausibly subject to disclosure under Brady…
21-5537 John Creech v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy?
21-151 Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi v. Texas Texas 2021-08-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (16) brady-violation burden-of-proof due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Petitioner was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole based on the identification testimony of a single eyewitness who was t…
21-5283 Richard Todd Haas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement materiality materiality-analysis probable-cause recklessness search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in refusing to engage in a materiality analysis of the information omitted from the affidavits to determine whether t…
21-5128 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the…
21-5102 Jaime Meza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence I. Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to …
21-5039 Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony I. Petitioner pointed to the Government agent's testimony about his "recruitment" role and activities for co-defendant Patrick Stein, and admitted tes…
20-1779 Carlos A. Morales-Vázquez v. Óptima Seguros First Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied contract-avoidance disclosure federal-maritime-law insurance-disclosure marine-insurance maritime-insurance maritime-law material-risk materiality reliance uberrimae-fidei Does the traditional doctrine of wberrimae fidei continue to apply in its strict form (as held by the First Circuit in the decision below and also by …
20-1608 North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best North Carolina 2021-05-18 Denied alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review Does an appellate court violate the core princ ipals of Brady in post -conviction review where in its materiality analysis it disregards both evidence…
20-1463 Mortgage Investors Corporation, et al. v. United States ex rel. Victor E. Bibby, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response Waived agency-actions agency-knowledge false-claims-act fee-noncompliance government-agency government-payment-decision materiality regulatory-compliance veterans-affairs When a government agency pays claim s despite actual awarenes s of widespread noncompliance with certain regulatory requirements, whether evidence of …
20-7674 Kuantau Reeder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility In a murder prosecution in which the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office presented no scientific evidence, no video evidence, no motive evidence…
20-1321 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1001 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case materiality sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability since he has made a substantial showing that he was denied Due Process under the Due …
20-7078 Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA…
20-7062 Alfred L. Cross v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment-defect intent intent-to-defraud jurisdiction materiality materiality-element plea-bargaining Whether the Decision below squarely conflicts with McCarthy v. United States and Neder v. United States, where Mr. Cross Held a Constitutional Right t…
20-6800 Harry Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-v-maryland constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence materiality prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness How does a court determine whether evidence that the prosecution did not share with the defense before trial is "favorable" under the standard announc…
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 It is, or at least, was well established that in order to withstand a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a…
20-678 M&T Bank Corporation, et al. v. David Jaroslawicz, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Amici (2) compliance corporate-governance disclosure disclosure-obligations materiality public-company regulatory-compliance risk-factors sec-regulation securities-disclosure securities-regulation (1) Whether Item 105 of Regulation S-K, which obligates public companies to discuss material risk factors in registration statements, periodic SEC fil…
20-286 United States, ex rel. Stacey L. Janssen, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Megen Corin Duffy v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act materiality medicare medicare-reimbursement patient-arrival-times quality-reporting reimbursement statutory statutory-quality-reporting Whether a Medicare provider's knowing falsifications of hospital patient arrival times, known by the hospital to be material to statutory quality repo…
20-222 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., et al. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-25 Judgment Issued Amici (24)Relisted (2) basic-v-levinson burden-of-proof materiality price-impact reliance securities-class-action 1. Whether a defendant in a securities class action may rebut the presumption of class wide reliance recognized in Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 22…
20-163 Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal "money or property" fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by…
20-5124 Allen Fitzgerald Calton v. Texas Texas 2020-07-21 Dismissed IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion materiality petition-review (1) whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as the ultimate factfinder in Texas habeas corpus proceedings abused its discretion and erred wher it …
19-1424 Kevin LeBeau v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions materiality restitution seventh-circuit strickland strickland-claim strickland-v-washington 1. Was the omission of the concept of materiality from the bank fraud elements instruction error requiring a new trial? 2. Did the Seventh Circuit er…
19-8615 Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection 1. For the crime of mail fraud, what level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's ju…
19-8326 Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland Maryland 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply …
19-1094 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2020-03-05 Denied brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-diligence exculpatory-evidence giglio-claim giglio-v-united-states jailhouse-informant jailhouse-informants materiality materiality-standard perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant advancing a Brady claim must demonstrate that he or she could not have uncovered the suppressed evidence through the exercise of d…
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…
19-7469 Olga Palamarchuk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent This case raises questions concerning the standard by which materiality is to be determined in a mail fraud case. The United States Supreme Court in U…
19-7414 Latray Whitley v. Texas Texas 2020-01-24 Denied IFP brady-disclosure-obligations brady-rule cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process federal-inmates giglio-disclosure giglio-rule giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality prosecutorial-misconduct state-prosecutors witness-testimony Whether the state district court's determination that 1. written, 5K1 and Rule 35-based cooperation addenda between two federal inmates who testified …
19-7361 Edward Shevtsov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard The federal mail, wire, and bank fraud statutes proscribe material misrepresentations. The circuits are divided over the standard for proving material…
19-7368 Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud Materiality is one of the essential elements of mail and wire fraud. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999). A false statement is "material" if…
19-848 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 coram-nobis decisionmaker-influence escobar-clarification false-statements fraud fraud-prosecution materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar The federal False Statements statute expressly applies only to a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry. The Circuits disagree…
19-685 Edward George McGregor v. Texas Texas 2019-11-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility cross-examination due-process false-testimony materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the materiality of false testimony knowingly used by the prosecution determined by asking whether the jury would have convicted the defendant had t…
19-6646 Paul John Denham v. California California 2019-11-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication false-testimony material-evidence materiality napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct pyle-v-kansas I. Whether Paul John Denham's Constitutional right to due process as defined in Napue v. Illinois (1959) 370 U.S. 264, 79 S. Ct 1173, 3 1. Ed. 2d 1217…
19-495 Martin Shkreli v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud In prosecutions for mail, wire and bank fraud, which require a finding of a loss or an intended loss by the victim, a "no ultimate harm" instruction h…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent 1) a.Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? Where the 4th Circuit has denied equitable tolling…
19-6104 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud 1) Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a "Materiality" determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court o…
19-411 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (8) brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment materiality self-incrimination suppressed-evidence witness-testimony When assessing under the Brady materiality standard whether "disclosure of the suppressed evidence to competent counsel would have made a different re…
19-5642 John Emmett Brown, Jr., and Derrick Louis Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense exculpatory-evidence government-disclosure materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony In the context of a duress defense, is the government's untimely disclosure of exculpatory evidence that (1) corroborates the defendants' wellgrounded…
18-1312 Steven Mateski v. Raytheon Company Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure false-certification false-claims false-claims-act fraud fraud-allegations government-contract government-contracts materiality rule-9(b) rule-9b subcontract-compliance Two questions are presented: 1. Did the Complaint give Raytheon sufficient notice of the particular misconduct alleged to constitute fraud, so that i…
18-8481 Ricky Thompson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process government-disclosure government-investigation materiality sealed-affidavit sealed-records At trial, the petitioner sought to prove the existence of two separate conspiracies. One in Ohio and the other in Tennessee. During discovery, the pet…
18-8218 Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v…
18-1124 Stephens Institute, dba Academy of Art University v. United States, ex rel. Scott Rose, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived department-of-education escobar escobar-standard false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca federal-financial-aid financial-aid incentive-compensation-ban incentive-compensation-ban-icb materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar In Universal Health Services v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar, this Court held that a misrepresentation about compliance with a legal requirement must be mater…
18-1030 United States, ex rel. Thomas A. Berg, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived energy-savings-performance-contract false-claims-act government-knowledge materiality scienter statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements utility-cost-savings Although fraud-in-the-inducement taints all subsequent payments, belated discovery of the truth can leave the Government with no practical choice but …
18-1010 Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law The U.S. Courts of Appeals are currently split on whether the federal securities laws impose a duty on corporate issuers to update a statement that wa…
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices 1.Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence in its possession p…
18-708 Robert L. Bertram, Jr., Bryan S. Wood, Robin G. Peavler, James W. Bottom, and Brian C. Walters v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived common-sense criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process duty fraud insurance insurance-fraud materiality sixth-circuit This Court has repeatedly held that a statement or omission is materially misleading, and thus fraudulent, only if it could influence the targeted dec…
18-699 Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter This Court has affirmed False Claims Act (FCA) liability, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., under a theory of "implied false certification." See Universal Hea…
18-674 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor …
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand 1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.…
18-597 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation 1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total…
18-6589 Liddon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation 1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t…
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent At Petitioner's murder trial, the State's only fact witness testified the victim was shot once at one location and his body moved and dumped at anothe…
18-482 Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC Eighth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for constructi…
18-442 Jesse R. Benton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied 18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE MATERIALITY REQUIREMENT IN 18 USC SECTION 1001 CAN BE TURNED INTO A MERE FALSITY REQUIREMENT IN THE FEC REPORTING CONTEXT OR WHETHER TH…
18-6214 Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether this Court should clarify that under Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86, 98 (2011), when the federal habeas courts evaluate the summary den…
18-410 Corey D. Yates v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-02 Denied brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he did not know of the evidence suppressed by t…
18-5933 Mary Wilkerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence juror-dishonesty juror-misconduct kyles-v-whitley materiality post-trial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct rule-of-evidence 1. Whether, under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and Kyles v. Whitley 514 U.S. 419 (1995) the Courts may consider information that arises after…
18-274 Michael Jay Stewart v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-fraud jury-instructions kokesh-v-sec mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard naive-and-careless omissions-theory reasonably-prudent-victim sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations 1. There is widespread conflict regarding the meaning of the federal criminal fraud statutes. While the confusion existed long before Neder v. United …
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution. Whether as a result of t…
18-5535 Paul Lynn Schlieve v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland case-dispositive-motion due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment materiality prosecutorial-duty suppression-motion suppression-of-evidence 1. Does the Prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory evidence pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution include disclosure of…
18-186 Samuel David Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-oversight civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-burden due-process false-claims-act legal-technicality materiality materiality-standard regulatory-compliance religious-freedom standing 1. How can be properly submitted to the rigors of the dispositive effects of materiality standard of False Claims Act [FCA] violations ; something hid…
18-5527 Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense 1. The Fourth Circuit contends in its decision that the Appellant failed to establish that the alleged Brady violation was material. Is the decision b…
18-144 Keith Byron Baranski v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility After being released from custody following a conspiracy conviction, Keith Baranski challenged his conviction by filing a petition for writ of error c…
18-101 Patrick Jon Evers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation Can false representations be "material" for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor …
18-5255 Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility In de novo review of a Brady claim, where the Commonwealth suppressed evidence of inducements provided to its witnesses, may a court find the suppress…
18-5253 Dennis DeCiancio v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there…
18-65 David Aronstein, et al. v. Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure corporate-misrepresentation disclosure disclosure-requirements due-process investor-communications material-omission materiality sec sec-disclosure securities-law securities-regulation securities-regulation-sec united-states-v-ohagan The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), through its regulatory releases under Item 303, has defined the circumstances under whic…
18-35 Pennsylvania v. Roderick Andre Johnson Pennsylvania 2018-07-05 Denied brady-analysis Brady-materiality confessions constitutional-procedure corroborating-evidence criminal-confession criminal-procedure due-process materiality prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment 1. Whether the prosecution's nondisclosure of arguably impeaching information relating to a witness who linked the defendant with two murders can be m…