motion-denial
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-905 | Andrew J. Johnston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors | 1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot… |
| 25-6527 | Brian William Schumaker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent jurisdictional-challenge motion-denial plenary-review record-expansion section-2255 | I. WHETHER the lower courts erred in denying petitioner's motions to expanding the record in the district court and supplementing the record in the co… |
| 25-6405 | Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial | Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea… |
| 25-5824 | Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial | Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record as evidenced in its order denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental … |
| 24-7518 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith | Florida | 2025-06-26 | Dismissed | IFP | appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing | 1 SHOULD THE TRIAL COURT 'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONER 'S MOTION FOR UNSUPERVISED TIMESHARING SHOULD BE REVERSED BECAUSE THE ORDER DENYING THE MOTION … |
| 24-6010 | Carlos Cantizano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel briefing-schedule court-of-appeals due-process legal-procedure motion-denial | May "the Court of Appeals } after approving a noilce of appeal } u)itbdrauJ the briefing schedule on Abe basis that X revested appointment of Counsel… |
| 23-7408 | Melvin Warren Rivers v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-order judicial-review motion-denial probation probation-revocation procedural-appeal revocation | Whether the denial of a motion to terminate probation made during a probation revocation hearing but prior to the final revocation hearing is a final … |
| 23-6697 | Jorge Hernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure court-reasoning discretion due-process judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall motion-denial procedural-due-process reasoning | In order to permit meaningful appellate review of whether a court properly exercised its discretion, a court must provide at least a brief statement o… |
| 23-5488 | Dywane Tousant v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing | Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Has Made a Substantial Showing of the … |
| 23-5128 | In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. | 2023-07-18 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 | 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion? 2. Did the United… | |
| 22-7451 | Bennie C. Rivera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP … |
| 22-6215 | Brenda Davis v. Mallards Landing Associates LTD, dba Mission Pointe Apartments | Florida | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights court-procedure due-process health-and-safety health-welfare housing housing-safety judicial-review mold motion-denial rehearing rehearing-standards | REVIEW POINT I: Whether Petitioner 's Health, Safety and Welfare were protected and attentive while living in unsafe housings particular contaminated … |
| 22-6210 | Aaron Michael Crick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-5864 | David Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-proceeding certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial standing | Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)? |
| 22-5600 | Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing | 1. Where the petitioner-appellont had filed a timely aud sufficient before 455 Agpinst the U.S. District Court Judge be certifed that appeal was not t… |
| 22-5457 | J. Christopher Wreh v. Alex Gianotos, et al. | Texas | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-denial motion-practice rehearing-request standing supreme-court-procedure time-extension | WRIT OF CERTIORARI IS TO REVIEW EXCLUSIVELY OF THE JUNE 27, 2022 MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE REHEARING WHICH WAS DENIED ON JUNE 29, 2022 BY … |
| 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… |
| 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? |
| 20-7964 | John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018. |
| 20-7826 | Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing | Whether the district court and Eighth cir. Erred when they determine that m. Joknson 2ass motion was not retroactive to cases on collateral review, Wh… |
| 20-7180 | William Hugh Wilson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief… |
| 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? |
| 20-5764 | Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Granted | Relisted (2)IFP | counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion | Did the Ninth Circuit error by finding no basis for Interlocutory Appeal, (at 9th Cir. No. 02-80106) And after judgment refusing to allow petitioner t… |
| 20-5561 | Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing | 1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a "complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
| 20-5394 | Eugene Mona, aka Gino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 criminal-sentencing district-court drug-guidelines drug-sentencing-guidelines first-degree-murder motion-denial motion-for-sentence-reduction rico-conspiracy sentence-reduction | Whether the District Court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion For Sentence Reduction pursuant to Amendment 782 to the Drug Sentencing Guidelines b… |
| 19-8784 | Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review | DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? |
| 19-7740 | Yolanda Bell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-dismissal civil-rights collateral-order disability disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion judicial-process motion-denial reasonable-accommodation | Did the Court of Appeals commit legal error and abuse their discretion when denying Petitioner's appeal of the district courts denial of her motions r… |
| 19-6920 | Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION… |
| 19-6827 | Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing | WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DENIED DORCELUS' MOTION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY |
| 18A1314 | Andrew J. Johnston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Presumed Complete | conviction-reversal criminal-appeal district-court-discretion federal-criminal-procedure motion-denial release-pending-appeal | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9682 | Andre Forbes v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appeals-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review motion-denial standing unconstitutional | 1) Whether "rubber stamping" defendant's motion with a order of "Denied" by an Court of Appeals are unconstitutional when Appeals Courts have not re… |
| 18-6700 | Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. | New Jersey | 2018-11-14 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness | Judge Jose Fuentes his opinions of my case are all denials. The first one on October 26, 2015 he denied me case law. Then on October 20, 2017 he denie… |
| 18-6202 | Amil Dinsio v. Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department | Second Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate discretion due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-review mandate mandate-recall motion-denial recall standing | Did the Second Circuit Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion to recall the Court's mandate? See Exhibit B Did the Federal… |