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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1246 Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law Can oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualify as "maritime commerce," triggering the application of maritim…
23-7187 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-standard mitigation post-hoc-strategy post-traumatic-stress-disorder procedural-history sixth-amendment Leslie Galloway III was sentenced to death after his trial counsel conducted a constitutionally inadequate investigation that failed to uncover his ex…
23-6977 Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable.
23-5285 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Gigi Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals docket-entry ninth-circuit procedural-history retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-fact 1. Did The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Err In Failing To Grant A Certificate Of Appealability When It Denied Petitioner 's Motion For Certificate…
22-6289 Kevin Singleton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements.
22-5226 Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted …
20-1653 Lazelle Maxwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7622 Merle Denezpi v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-31 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-provisions court-of-indian-offenses criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-agency indian-law jurisdictional-issue procedural-history tribal-court ute-mountain-ute-agency Is the Court of Indian Offenses of Ute Mountain Ute Agency a federal agency such that Merle Denezpi's conviction in that court barred his subsequent p…
19-6608 Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This non-capital habeas case arises out of Steve Romero's 2006 conviction in the state court of California for attempted murder and the Ninth Circuit'…
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521 (2011), this Court held that a prisoner who has been denied access to DNA testing under a state statute may bring …
19-122 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (4) campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment.
18A1327 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion disability-benefits erisa insurance-plan own-occupation procedural-history Question not identified.
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the state court f…
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Question not identified.