| 25-884 |
Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-23 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading… |
| 25-5191 |
Steven Edward Stein v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's determination that "equally accessible" evidence has not been suppressed by the State is contrary to Brady and … |
| 25-5183 |
Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation dna-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence |
IS DNA DIFFERENT FOR BRADY CLAIMS?
The State prosecutors suppressed DNA evidence of a third-party contributor which their own expert had labeled ''im… |
| 24-1151 |
BDO USA, LLP v. New England Carpenters Guaranteed Annuity and Pension Funds, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
auditing-standards fact-specific-analysis financial-misstatement materiality-standard professional-compliance securities-fraud |
Whether the materiality requirement for securities fraud liability is satisfied per se by an auditor's statement of compliance with professional stand… |
| 24-1089 |
Feanyichi E. Uvukansi v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof due-process habeas-corpus materiality-standard perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
The state courts found that the trial prosecutor
knowingly presented and failed to correct perjured
testimony that the only eyewitness to identify p… |
| 24-949 |
Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
|
anti-fraud-provisions disgorgement investor-protection materiality-standard sec-enforcement securities-law |
1. Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission
("SEC") can seek, and the courts are authorized, under 15 U.S.C. §78u(d)(5) or §78u(d)(7) or Liu v.… |
| 24-542 |
United States, ex rel. James Heron v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
false-claims-act foreclosure-fraud materiality-standard original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam |
1. The False Claims Act allows qui tam relators to sue those who violate the Act, but its "public-disclosure bar" requires courts to dismiss qui tam l… |
| 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… |
| 23-5726 |
John Holden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 2nd-amendment bruen bruen-test constitutional-review felony-indictment firearm-prohibition material-false-statement materiality-standard second-amendment |
Question 1: Is the criminal prohibition on the receipt of a firearm by a person under felony indictment (18 U.S.C. § 922(n)) constitutional under the … |
| 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)… |
| 22-6822 |
Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim? |
| 22-6476 |
Robert Fratta v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard selective-disclosure state-procedural-ground texas-code-criminal-procedure |
Whether § 5(a)(1) is an adequate and independent state procedural ground to bar review of a Brady claim where the petitioner discovers new exculpatory… |
| 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… |
| 22-77 |
David Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (7) |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence material-evidence materiality-standard third-party-confession |
Where a defendant denies participating in a particular criminal act, is another person's confession
stating that he and someone else committed the act… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 21-1411 |
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… |
| 21-7170 |
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… |
| 21-6804 |
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… |
| 21-6688 |
Freddie McNeill, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-claim brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression judicial-review materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility witness-reliability |
Whether a reviewing court considering a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must assess the reliability and credibility of the witnesse… |
| 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… |
| 21-151 |
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… |
| 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… |
| 19-8439 |
Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation catch-me-if-you-can criminal-procedure due-process kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality-standard new-trial-motion perjury rule-33 trial-perjury |
1) BRADY VIOLATIONS - "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" - When, in direct violation of the
district court's specific discovery order, the Government fails to turn… |
| 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… |
| 19-7361 |
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… |
| 19-843 |
Daniel K. Holtzclaw v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
|
defense-counsel-exclusion dna-evidence due-process ex-parte-hearing exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fair-trial forensic-expert in-camera-hearing materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. DNA evidence played a central role in this sexual assault case, in the form of a "match" between DNA from a complaining witness and the major contr… |
| 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… |
| 19-5031 |
Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility |
(1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a 25-to-life sentence with add… |
| 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… |
| 18-7395 |
Wilfred H. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence |
1. Under Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does the materiality standard require
that the suppressed evidence directly go to proving any count … |
| 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 … |
| 18-6428 |
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… |
| 18-274 |
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 … |
| 18-186 |
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… |
| 18-101 |
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 … |