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25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe…
25-6626 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton, Superintendent, Downstate Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination Whether an attorney has necessarily provided ineffective assistance of counsel when, after making successful Batson claims, he fails to insist on a re…
25-6609 Roger Hoan Brady v. Sircoya M. Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability judicial-error procedural-default racial-discrimination voir-dire 1. In light of the missing voir dire transcript, did the U.S. District Court erred when it held that Petitioner's Batson claim was procedurally defaul…
25-6519 Cornelius Davis v. Southeast QSR LLC Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment-law racial-discrimination workplace-retaliation Fact 1. Racial Discrimination. Based on my first argument Tenecca Brunner is Caucasian, she is a female and I'm black male. She got her job back. Fac…
25A718 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Application batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard (1) whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may set an impossible standard in post-conviction review of an ineffective Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (…
25-676 In Re John A. Shepardson 2025-12-10 Pending Response Waived attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s…
25-6254 Jorge C. Ferretiz-Hernandez, Ignacio Felix-Salinas, and Elias Chiroy-Cac v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
25-614 Jefferson A. McGee v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeal district-court federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination Whether the appeal in this action lacked merit to proceed and therefore should not have been allowed to proceed.
25A614 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2025-11-24 Application employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Question not identified.
25A510 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Application batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-511 William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of a heightened and unprecedented evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian …
25A455 Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop Question not identified.
25-5827 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment WHETHER A STATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PERVASIVE Unconstitutional Statute purposed to deny it's African American Citizens their equal protection of law …
25A241 James P. Baumgartner v. United States Armed Forces 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection jury-composition military-justice panel-member-selection racial-discrimination Question not identified.
25A237 Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete civil-rights-removal federal-jurisdiction pro-se-removal racial-discrimination remand-review section-1443 a. Does a notice of removal have to explicitly cite 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) as one of the bases for removal in order to avail of the reviewability of a su…
25-195 St. James Parish, Louisiana v. Inclusive Louisiana, By and Through Their Members, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied article-iii-standing environmental-justice governmental-entity land-use-decisions racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations 1. Article III Standing Environmental justice activist organizations, acting as the Plaintiffs and purporting to have suffered harm as the result of …
24-1271 Malik Leigh v. State Bar of Florida Florida 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-conduct racial-discrimination 1. Whether disciplining or disbarring a civil rights attorney for speech critical of judicial bias and racial injustice violates the First Amendment…
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-03 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination 1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia…
24-1156 Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. Nevada 2025-05-12 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire During voir dire, the trial court granted the defendant's peremptory challenge against Dinyal Khan, a man born in Pakistan, after expressing concern t…
24-6718 Juan Carlos Gamez-Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-896 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii 1. Can a complaint allege direct violation of Title VII? 2. Should the case go back to the district court to discover the hiring information the empl…
24-6352 Juan Alberto Muria-Palacios v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation When a law, such as 8 U.S.C. § 1326, was originally adopted for an impermissible discriminatory purpose, does a later silent legislative amendment or …
24-6278 In Re Sherly Cadet 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 The history of U.S. Supreme Court decisions demonstrate that a Court of Appeals should grant a pro se plaintiff IFP status, pursuant to 28 U.S.C, §191…
24-6255 Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination i) The defendant has been, since September 2017, committing fraud and assault against jail its custom ers (billions of consumers) maliciously shipping…
24-6221 Adaeze Nwosu v. Karla Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Whether it is legal and/or constitutional for sitting judges to affirm illegal and unconstitutional ex-parte discussions of sitting judges with a w…
24-6200 Carlos Guadalupe Sanchez-Felix v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Must a court considering the reenactment of a provision that was originally adopted for a racially discriminatory purpose give meaningful consideratio…
24-6002 Alfredo Viveros-Chavez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-540 Weih Steve Chang v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2024-11-13 Denied Response Waived china-initiative equal-protection executive-immunity korematsu-precedent national-security racial-discrimination 1. Whether, the racist discrimination sanctioned in Korematsu v. United States. 323 U.S. 214 (1944) continues to be a viable legal doctrine under whic…
24-5874 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling Does this Court's decision in Jennings v. Stephens, 574 U.S. 271 (2015), allow Petitioner to raise procedural defenses on remand?
24A377 Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill Kentucky 2024-10-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations due-process family-law judicial-bias parental-rights racial-discrimination Question not identified.
24-5790 Inmer Isai Mayorga-Jacinto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-5766 Gilberto Nicolas Campos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation The government prosecuted Gilberto Campos under a statute with undisputed racist origins. Congress criminalized illegal reentry into the United States…
24-5741 Wanda Nelson v. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, et al. California 2024-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-immunity law-enforcement racial-discrimination 1) Whether Government Code §821.6, as written, is a violation of Petitioner's right to Equal Protection under the United States Constitution, the Cali…
24-5686 Luis Ernesto Prado-Crespo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-5659 Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination In the trial of Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz, a prosecutor used a peremptory strike to keep a Latino man off the jury. The prosecutor said that he preferred a…
24-5668 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2024-09-30 Denied IFP batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the factors outlined by this Court in Flowers v. Mississippi, 588 U.S. 284, 139 S. Ct. 222…
24-5612 Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2024-09-23 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-error due-process jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether due process of law requires reversal where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the prosecutor who prosecuted the case no long…
24-289 Yolanda D. Tyson v. Town of Ramapo, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test prima-facie-case racial-discrimination May an employer dispute plaintiff's prima facie case of racial discrimination by disputing the similarly situated status of comparators on a ground ma…
24A251 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-5455 Nelson Alexis Colato-Gallardo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-5423 Cessaly Denise Hutchinson v. State Bar of California California 2024-08-29 Denied IFP civil-rights corporate-liability legal-ethics medical-malpractice racial-discrimination settlement-dispute 1. WHETHER MS KAGAN'S MESOTHELIOMA COMPLAINT USED RACE TO BLACKMAIL SETTLEMENT BY MULTINATIONAL TALC POWDER, ASBESTOS AND PHARMACEUTIAL CORPORATE DEF…
24-5422 MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied IFP employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance "For the purpose of Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause, does a state employer's refusal to take a required step for the hiring of a person beca…
24-112 Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-5193 James E. Clifford v. Carla Walker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights default-judgment due-process fair-adjudication fourteenth-amendment procedural-error racial-discrimination (1.) Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgme…
24-5173 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination 1. Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an "unpleasant experience" with police (namely, "dr…
24-5129 Sergio Estrada-Maduena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-5026 Claudio Alvarez Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 constitutional-law discriminatory-effect discriminatory-purpose equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the illegal re-entry statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1326, violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment because the law was enacted with…
23-7846 Yair Ramirez-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights-framework civil-rights due-process equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-origins statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23-7702 Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment 1. Whether the fact that Respondent, Maverick Tube Corporation, fabricated false (fraudulent) evidence of a photograph of a truck in the foreground wi…
23-7674 Eric Wright v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals' refusal to grant Mr. Wright habeas corpus relief in respect to his claim of unlawful racial discrimination in the selection …
23-7634 Claudio Salas-Bautista v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination-analysis due-process equal-protection immigration judicial-review legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-statute statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23-7571 Corey Goings v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining racial-discrimination sentencing I. Whether the Plea Agreement's general waiver of appeal rights included a waiver of appealing a sentence based on the impermissible factor of race.
23-7499 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-17 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination I. Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of sho…
23-7490 Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business ' premises for work because her admission woul…
23-7347 J. Guadalupe Figueroa-Juarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23A929 Arkansas State Conference NAACP, et al. v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete political-process private-plaintiffs racial-discrimination redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
23-7167 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing This courts precedent in the united states Vi Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 set. (2019), Kentucky v. Batson, 476 U.S. 79, Miller-elv.dretke, 545 U.S. 23…
23-7026 Pedro Valencia-Ayala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23-1005 Ann Redd-Oyedele v. Santa Clara County Office of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment employment-practices preponderance-of-evidence racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether a Court may properly grant summary judgment where a party failed to establish, by a preponderance of evidence, as shown in the records, tha…
23A806 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Question not identified.
23-6832 Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing I. What is the test of Levans Vs (Las pad invites, vi cld-ionkUMMb. rights. 2. kklhir an Off Mil OfFi'air sfill fliiairfto for ..fjjiflliTi'di immunf…
23-6804 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-02-21 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have "broad discretion" to refuse to …
23-6605 In Re Darius Lake 2024-01-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection legal-procedure precedent racial-discrimination sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6534 Lucious M. Jackson v. Florida Florida 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination scotus (1) Whether the state court's disregard of a Officer of the Court Reliance on FRAUD to Justify A Discriminatory Jury Strike Contradicts the Holding of…
23-723 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent In Davis v. Passman, 442 U.S. 228 (1979) and Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court made clear that claims for gender discrimination and cla…
23-6344 Michael Broomer v. Delaware Delaware 2023-12-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment trial-counsel Under U.S. Constitution Amendment(s) 4 and/or 5, and/or 14, does defendant have a right to due process? Was my right(s) violated? Under US Constituti…
23A569 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-law ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Question not identified.
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1. Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on "an unreasonable determination" of the facts. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2). 2. Whether the Geo…
23-630 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine Recently, Justice Thomas remarked how, despite the clear constitutional prohibition against racial classifications, government actors continue to "go …
23-6221 Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23-6219 Manuel Rodrigues-Barios v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-criminal-law immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23A515 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Question not identified.
23-6133 Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate crime(s), false imprisonment, racial discrimination, persecution, emotional distress, and…
23-501 Norman A. Mallory v. Rocky Mountain Human Service SSVF Tenth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied civil-rights covid-19 equal-protection public-accommodations racial-discrimination veterans-affairs I Isn't this race discrimination, when a black elderly veteran applied to a veterans program for some help during the covid-19 pandemic and was treat…
23-5914 Samuel O. Araoye v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination forensics government-liability policy-maker-liability racial-discrimination record-alteration veterans-rights Where Respondent [City Government] and its individual policymaking authorities violate the Appellant's Constitutional rights under 14th Amendment per …
23-5890 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-26 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination Whether Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee of fundamental fairness require courts to provide fu…
23-5884 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Melinda H. Reagan, President, Amberton University Fifth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment academic-credits civil-rights due-process equal-protection private-university racial-discrimination state-action 1. The Pro se presents that the decision of the fifth circuit court of appeal violates due process right of 14th amend right of the pro se for failure…
23-5732 Wayne Harris v. Sergeant Stash, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deportation due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malicious-prosecution racial-discrimination wrongful-conviction Petitioner Wayne Harris was accused of selling drugs to a confidential informant following an investigation in Luzerne county Pennsylvania 2003 . The …
23-5710 Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination (1) Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objectio…
23-5683 Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment child-removal civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection race racial-discrimination state-immunity 1. Did a conspiracy exist among the appointed State employees, the Osceola School District, the Osceola Police Department, and Families, Inc. to deny …
23-5659 Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection post-hoc-justifications racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether it is proper for a court conducting a comparative juror analysis to consider "favorable characteristics" in otherwise comparable jurors when t…
23-5603 Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation This appeal presents this Court with an opportunity to resolve an conflict in the Circuits concerning the construction of Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), namely w…
23-248 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2023-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (9) batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C…
23A224 Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii Question not identified.
23-5502 Juan Antonio Hernandez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amendmen…
23-5275 Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act 1. When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amend…
23-5023 Kirby R. Thomas v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-trial due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection petit-venire racial-discrimination 1) Whether Louisiana deprived Mr. Thomas of his right to an impartial jury trial before his peers through a petit venire selection process that effect…
22-7892 Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation dd 0\ier IMd CQSS5 of >gtn radon oojans J prooP oP a conspiracy Subj ecV fc\acX lasers "Vo discipline and cl S^ecxf .ccxmpaiQn do d^screib *n FKrrl …
22-1247 Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e2 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national ori…
22-7838 Tori Smith v. Jehovah's Witnesses Organization, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied IFP civil-rights defamation due-process hate-crimes judicial-bias racial-discrimination religious-persecution standing 1. This case is based on Racist Discrimination against the Plaintiff, a Black Woman that is being barred/blocked from filling a lawsuit against a Whit…
22-1163 Charles Anthony Dread v. Maryland State Police Fourth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process malicious-intention qualified-immunity racial-discrimination summary-judgment (1) Was the Trial Court's denial of the Petitioner's Motion for Summary Judgment and Request for Hearing without granting the Petitioner a Hearing he …
22-7575 Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court 1. Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury when it refused to grant a…
22-7503 Earnest A. Davis v. Porsche Cars of North America, et al. California 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-forms due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-process procedural-fairness racial-discrimination standing 1.) Are U.S. judicial officers presiding over civil cases required to process standard court forms such as Applications for Requests for Entry of Defa…
22-7448 Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some…
22-7445 Kalavathi Shunmugam v. Redevelopment Authority of the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blighted-list breach-of-agreement court-transcript due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination takings takings-clause Kalavahi Shunmugam, the Petitioner, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted because the personnel action violated her constitutional r…
22-1051 Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. Washington 2023-04-28 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing Appellants seek review of the jurisdiction of the State Court and a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington denying Appellants' petit…
22-972 Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether, considering the "cat's paw " employment theory in what circumstances, an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination in viola…
22-7191 Terrence Hammock v. Gail Watts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection racial-discrimination redistricting standing voting-rights Question not identified.
22-917 Nayonn Gray v. Autozoners, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights contract contract-services discriminatory-intent material-fact pretext racial-discrimination section-1981 summary-judgment Whether summary judgment should be granted when there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether a defendant's refusal to provide services requ…
22-757 Jonathan Roberts, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Relisted (5) civil-rights defendant-conduct due-process emergency-approval equal-protection injury-in-fact legal-standing predictable-events racial-discrimination standing During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval for lifesaving oral antiviral treatments. Facing a seve…
22-6579 Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire DID THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT BY ITS FAILURE TO APPLY THIS COURT'S STANDAR D SET F…
22-6484 Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop 1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis…
22-6417 Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-12-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling Surgte bo cfe£ CQ mode 0/0^QOTLt&zhe ^wve //ujruiW suclnC.C ncujr'n S kmc ? 3. wUe-Hoer- 4^e AisfricV ccu^rV oWsei) Ai'scn^en iVuiV^r> Hr. o^pomVtw…
22-6369 In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey 2022-12-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing Should this court use its power to grant A writ of habeas Corpus to A Moorish American Sovereign Man who has No Available Forum to raise his compellin…
22-501 Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff…
22-6118 Wilbert Glover v. Matt Bostrom, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-treatment prison-conditions qualified-immunity racial-discrimination RE. GLOVER NV. BOSTEM, TAL. PETITIONER WILBERT GROVER AND OTHER INMATES OF ADC RAMSEY COUNTY JAIL SEND SEVERAL INTERNAL GRIEVANCES THAT WERE REJECTED…
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as…
22-6057 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-11-15 Denied Relisted (15)IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection racial-discrimination I. Whether Mississippi continues in the present case to erroneously misapply Batson v. Kentucky by considering the prosecutor's purported justificatio…
22-5988 Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator…
22-412 Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (17) civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte…
22-359 Roda T. Gidey v. Settlement Corp., et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-18 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection interpleader racial-discrimination real-estate summary-judgment Most of the Defendants in interpleader cases in real estate transactions in the District of Columbia are African Americans even though they are only h…
22-5839 Daniel Mason v. Colorado Colorado 2022-10-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the Colorado Supreme erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the peremptor…
22-341 Nebraska, ex rel. Timothy L. Ashford, P.C. L.L.O., et al. v. Donald Kleine, et al. Nebraska 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process prosecutorial-recusal racial-discrimination standing Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of constitutional law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court whi…
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a st…
22-5781 Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio…
22-306 Lindsay O'Brien Quarrie v. Stephen Wells, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act contract-law due-process mendacity property-rights racial-discrimination standing title-vi 1. Whether ignorance of the law can excuse racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.) and theref…
22-5679 Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona Arizona 2022-09-26 Denied IFP batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Dwandarrius Robinson is a black man who was sentenced to death by a jury that the State scrubbed clean of all but one minority juror. The State used i…
22-5671 Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws by disallowing three of Petitioner's peremptory challenges to white jurors a…
22-5667 Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the standard this Court established in Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny, when it requires a …
22-5651 In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El 2022-09-22 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment Question not identified.
22-5624 Tiffany Leigh Marion v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and its progeny apply to equal protection claims challenging a prosecutor's decision of whether to exte…
22-263 Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Immediately after beginning his employment with Respondent as a pharmacist in March 2015, Petitioner became the direct object of his Caucasian coworke…
22-5439 In Re Tyvon Montrey Spencer El-Bey 2022-08-24 Denied IFP brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge political-sovereignty racial-discrimination standing Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus for Tyven Mendvey Spencer-e/-Bey, an American Sovereign on that has compelling claim?
22-161 Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Mr. Nieto's and Mr. Vallodolid's convictions should be reversed because the Government's peremptory striking of qualified Hispanic prospect…
22-5377 Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden First Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Whether peremptory challenges of racial minorities during jury selection in criminal trials should be subjected to a heightened judicial inquiry of st…
22-109 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-education racial-discrimination school-segregation I. Whether a Black mother and her Black child/student who walks through the main entrance of the public school doors every morning as does the non-…
22-5229 Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court, New Jersey erred in concluding that the Equ…
22-5081 Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing a)When USCA does not have jurisdiction to Constitutional challenges, US Supreme Court has (Original) Jurisdiction for the [following] reliefs petition…
21-1610 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-06-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law 1. Whether a Black mother of a public school student who walks her young Black, student into school every morning through the main entrance and not th…
21-1588 Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-06-24 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis 1) Does a trial court violate the requirements of the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it bases a permanent child custody orde…
21-1499 Mahesh Ramchanndani v. Sunil Gahdhi, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-law federal-statute property-rights racial-discrimination security-deposit standing tenant-rights Statement by Landlord in an email exhibit 001 Deal is Approved but being that their money is in India , I need 4 months deposit - 1 month of that wil…
21-7911 Lincoln Dille, aka Lincoln Dille II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial standing I. 15 ^ MS SUPREME COURT'S decision ta ConPlich loVhd PMTSOU )(. KENTUCKY RTG UXXI in which 4de S-hade. used all dr •hs'percmnPdarv cRalWneVshrikeS/ …
21-1416 Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii After alleging that his immediate supervisor, the President of his Catholic high school, invoked racist stereotypes against Black people and other per…
21-7722 Santonio Byars v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination voir-dire 1) Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred where it did not find that the State's reason requesting the removal of two Black prospective jurors was…
21-7658 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment of the…
21-7620 Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination WHETHER WHITE FEDERAL JUDGES OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI UNDER COLOR OF MISSOURI LAWS WILLFULLY SUBJECTED PETITIONER BASED ON HIS…
21-7584 William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-04-11 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire 1. Did the state postconviction court violate Batson and its progeny by refusing to consider evidence that this Court's precedent expressly permits? …
21-7504 Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing Why wasn't Exhibits B.1, B.d to stand as Jurisdiction? Order denying my motion asking for adjudication legal or illegal strategy App B.1 dealing with…
21-7455 Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California California 2022-03-24 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes This case presents an important question over which lower courts are openly and intractably divided regarding the proper method for assessing mixed mo…
21-7437 Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington 1. Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), be presumed for an claim based on counsel's failure to object to unconstituti…
21-7307 Jennifer McFarland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination venireperson Whether the government's preemptory strike of Prospective Juror 128, the sole black venireperson in the 31-member pool of potential jurors, violated M…
21-7302 Christian Peterson v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jury-selection race-discrimination racial-discrimination Did the Kansas courts err in failing to recognize race discrimination under Batson.
21-1110 Travis Boys v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-02-10 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky due-process Johnson-v-California jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination Whether, in conflict with Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), the Louisiana appellate court applied an impermissibly high burden of proof at t…
21-7025 Derrick Garrell Samuels v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-composition jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Should a writ of certiorari been granted to determine if Samuel's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was forced to proceed to trial as the o…
21-1051 Mengyang Li v. Shepherd University President's Office West Virginia 2022-01-28 Denied Response Waived academic-promotion age-discrimination national-origin-discrimination professional-advancement promotion race-discrimination racial-discrimination scientific-contributions scientific-research teaching-university It is a practice of Age Discrimination in deeming an old scientist (Petitioner)'s very significant scientific contributions prior to his changing care…
21-6771 Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi…
21-939 Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. Texas 2021-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr…
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather…
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review If a trial court legally errs in applying the final step of the process under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), can a federal court of appeals c…
21-730 'Lanre O. Amu v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2021-11-17 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Whether in light of the public Oaths taken in The Name of God to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office, the seven Justice…
21-6245 Robin Moore v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination 1. Whether the (Court's) failure to specifically find that the prosecution had made a preliminary showing of racial discrimination when denying a crim…
21-6221 David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction Massachusetts 2021-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat Whether the petitioner, a senior African American prisoner complaining about systemic racism in a letter he mailed to the governor of Massachusetts at…
21-6114 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-11-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion Question not identified.
21-6057 Eugene Korte v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing voting-rights Question not identified.
21-6048 Shakina Ortega v. Higgs Fletcher and Mack LLP, et al. California 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-court racial-discrimination self-representation self-represented summary-judgment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals ' decision to uphold the granting of the summary judgment motion when discovery was not complete, in conflict with the…
21-6008 Keyaira Porter v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure For over a decade now, Courts have found themselves intractably divided on two important issues regarding the enforcement of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U…
21-5957 Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the United States Ma…
21-5893 In Re Sandra Black 2021-10-05 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion systemic-racism 1. How is it possible for a black person to have constitutional rights to be treated EQUAL to a white person's rights, privileges, benefits and advant…
21-5850 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination 1. Whether, and in what circumstances, this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary (repugnant) to Federal law and DVA Policy & Proc…
21-437 Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County Maryland 2021-09-23 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines racial-discrimination takings zoning zoning-violations Were unjustifiable excessive fines (all of the maximum permit by the law) imposed by the Calvert County's Planning and zoning employees to the Petitio…
21-5734 Tony Lamar Vann v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing A fOUCt of ft ctd C»qiU UbGftlLy piANT Q81M& ori &LmK MM, am r/% ewers p/s&cM# /ul ut6AL ptfcAP/^ (j\m wow peoof.)
21-5649 Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro…
21-380 Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (5) adoption-preferences child-custody child-placement congress-authority congressional-authority federalism indian-child-welfare-act racial-discrimination state-law state-sovereignty 1. Whether ICWA's placement preferences — which disfavor non-Indian adoptive families in child placement proceedings involving an "Indian child" and …
21-5588 Ivan Goodlaw v. California California 2021-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing takings grocde and complering 9th pychicti problens efc deennt c a firtil? admenti nonitionh b
21-5549 William D. Lauga v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-federalism privilege-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities procedural-bar racial-discrimination sixth-amendment 1. IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA VIOLATING THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT BY NOT ADDRESSING CLAIMS RAISED BY PETITIONER ON A LAW THAT IS …
21-267 James Garfield Broadnax v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge cullen-v-pinholster evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011), a federal habeas petitioner may present evidence of a prosecutor's r…
21-236 Charles A. Dread v. Maryland State Police Fourth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing hearing maryland-rule-2-311(f) official-responsibility racial-discrimination summary-judgment (1) Was the Trial Court's denial of the Petitioner's Motion for Summary Judgment and Request for Hearing without granting the Petitioner a Hearing he …
21-5374 Patrina Harrison v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 banking-services civil-rights civil-rights-act equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-housing-act home-loan racial-discrimination I. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 can Defendant Wells Fargo Bank and its Branch manage deny Plaintiff "access to servicing her federal home becaus…
21-172 Melvin G. Perry v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C., dba North Central Baptist Hospital Fifth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied circuit-conflict civil-rights contract-enforcement contract-rights contractual-relationships racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation third-party-interference Does section 1981 prohibit a third party from interfering, on the basis of race, with the right of an individual to make or enforce a contract?
21-135 Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii 1. Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe ("Monroe") to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable estoppel can only arise…
21-5262 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2021-07-29 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination /- 771 e /cjJfr Federal Courts Jef rived tii5 Petitioner of his congressional right to Full round oF his initial Federal habeas review ly dismissing …
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation 1. Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been dean for litigation. 2. Whether an emp…
21-5147 Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena held in United State v. Cardena 842 F.3d997 h Ci. 2016) Soastomae ts Sections [a(), a), a(3 Seprate Crimes with their Own elemerts? #2: was the jury …
20-8419 Bridget Brown Parson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceeding civil-rights default-judgment document-forgery due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage mortgage-fraud racial-discrimination standing 1. NO RESPONSE BY ANY OF THE APPELLEES IN THIS CASE TO THE LAWSUIT REGARDING THE ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND THE FACT THAT…
20-1799 Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) when in affirming the peremptory striking of the only qualified African-Ame…
20-7980 Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing Does it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl…
20-1560 Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. Georgia 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination 1. Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice, when unsubstantiated, is not a facially race neutral explanation under step two …
20-7758 Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14 Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment VI;…
20-1431 Charmell Brown v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response Waived batson-framework batson-v-kentucky jury-selection peremptory-strike pretext prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether, at Batson's first step and in the absence of any explanation from the prosecutor, a court may rely on factors apparent in the record to expla…
20-7683 Paul Wesley Baker v. California California 2021-04-07 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-standard equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When the defense challenges a prosecutor's exercise of a peremptory strike of a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 487 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 171…
20-7645 Joshua Horn v. Walmart Stores, Inc. California 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-administration-of-justice judicial-misconduct liberty-interest racial-discrimination systemic-racism 1. Whether, in accordance with this Court's directive regarding the interpretation of due process and equal protection, the trial court's awarded judg…
20-1330 June M. Domino v. California Correctional Health Care Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct pattern-of-discrimination racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii 1) Seven (7) government agencies failed in applying Title VII mandates as outlined in our United States Constitution; Was this a coordinated effort …
20-1308 Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire Where the trial court engages in tainting a jury (especially during voir dire) making it clearly pro-defense by punishing pro-plaintiff potential juro…
20-7311 Juan Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent Was Louisiana's Jury verdict Scheme that convicted petitioner in violation to the U.S.C.A. 14th Amendment of the Louisiana's Constitution? Standard se…
20-7154 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights Question not identified.
20-6993 Clarence Jackson v. Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-licensing bar-admission civil-rights due-process equal-protection legal-discrimination legal-profession racial-discrimination systemic-racism white-supremacy 1. Does the background that is established in the recently filed Petition for Writ Certiorari in this court at case number 20-5544 the 98 plus percent…
20-989 City of Newark, New Jersey v. Fraternal Order of Police, Newark Lodge No. 12 New Jersey 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process equal-protection municipal-authority police-oversight racial-discrimination 1. Does a state supreme court violate the Equal Protection Clause by reading state statutes to preclude its largest city from protecting Black citizen…
20-1004 Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII hostile-work-environment claim to a trier of f…
20-6871 Angnem Green v. New York New York 2021-01-13 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Petitioner an African-American man, was tried for the crime of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, namely cocaine. During the prosecutor's closin…
20-808 Johnny Duane Miles v. California California 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (1) batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis death-penalty jury-selection peremptory-challenges pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination During jury selection for Johnny Duane Miles's capital murder trial, the prosecutor used his peremptory challenges to remove every Black prospective j…
20-757 Timothy L. Ashford v. Office for Counsel for Discipline, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-discipline bad-faith-exception civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity race racial-discrimination standing younger-abstention The question presented is whether the federal court should abstain in an attorney disciplinary action when the Nebraska state court has placed bad fai…
20-719 Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation (1) Does RACIAL BIAS DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECT THE FEDERAL COURTS TREATMENT OF MARGINALIZED PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHEN ADDRESSING THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY A…
20-697 Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination When Petitioner, a Black man, was sentenced to death in a Texas federal courtroom after the prosecution struck four out of five Black prospective juro…
20-6386 James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada Nevada 2020-11-19 Denied IFP batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin…
20-596 Leroy E. Scott v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection home-rule-powers municipal-abatement racial-discrimination seventh-amendment special-assessment-liens standing summary-judgment Is the PER CURIAM Affirm opinion, as applied in this case, a pretext for discrimination? Pursuant to Article VIII, Section 2, Florida Constitution, a…
20-497 Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner ("Azeez "), a colored citizen, knowing that he was falsely arrested and indicted…
20-489 Pedro M. Bess v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-15 Denied convening-authority court-martial due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment military-justice racial-discrimination standing 1. Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825, as applied in Petitioner's case, violates the Fifth Amendment. 2. Whether the lower court erred in declining to remand Pe…
20-463 Robert A. Heghmann v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived candidate-rights civil-rights congressional-elections congressional-primaries democratic-party election-law political-parties racial-discrimination standing voter-standing voting-rights Does a voter have standing to challenge racial discrimination by the Democratic Party in Congressional Primary Elections based upon the challenged dis…
20-5987 William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr…
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review (1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just…
20-200 Morgan McCoy v. Michael Bullock, et al. Ohio 2020-08-20 Denied 8th-amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process evidence landlord-tenant-law prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination selective-enforcement standing 1. Does pretrial court dismissing prima facie case before its evidence filing deadline constitute R. 103(D) plain error in constitutional violation of…
20-5397 Wilbert Romon Banks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining racial-bias racial-discrimination trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel venue-change WAS BANKS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING HIS FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS PETITION, A SUBSTANTIAL CLAIM WITHIN …
20-5286 Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination 1. "This Court firmly has rejected the view that assumptions of partiality based on race provide a legitimate basis for disqualifying a person as an i…
20-67 Delaney E. Smith, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contradictory-rulings due-process en-banc-panel federal-removal notice-of-appeal racial-discrimination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals forfeited subject matter jurisdiction to make rulings when Court failed and then refused to file Notice of A…
20-5036 Jermond Perry v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment I. Was counsel's objection at the moment the pattern emerged sufficient to warrant a full Batson inquiry withrespect to all strikes in the alleged p…
19-1449 Ronald E. Davis v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing tax Question not identified.
19-8789 Susana E. Verduzco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process executive-power federalism immigration-status obstruction-of-justice racial-discrimination state-sovereignty I. Do the U.S. Constitution and federal law(s) grant Mr.'s Donald Trump and William Barr, the absolute power to order, allow or strong-arm a state to …
19-8498 Winnie Diggs v. Neil Gallucci, Chief of Police, City of Carlsbad, California Ninth Circuit 2020-05-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affirmative-action antidiscrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-process law-enforcement racial-discrimination supreme-court-jurisprudence Question not identified.
19-8402 John Pacchiana v. Florida Florida 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination standing Whether this Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the Florida Supreme Court finding that counsel failed to preserve an ob…
19-1258 Arizona Republican Party, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Judgment Issued ballot-harvesting election-law equal-opportunity precinct-voting racial-discrimination racial-minorities voter-fraud voter-participation voting-practices voting-rights voting-rights-act-section-2 Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prohibits voting practices that "result[] in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen ... to vote on acc…
19-8332 Robert Boyd Rhoades v. California California 2020-04-22 Denied Relisted (4)IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination 1. Whether, by hypothesizing reasons the prosecutors might have had to use half of their peremptory challenges to excuse all four prospective African-…
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Petitioner is an African-American man who was tried for sexually assaulting a white woman. During the prosecutor's opening statement, she gratuitously…
19-8232 William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights Whether this Petitioner is another example of such deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from …
19-8196 Larry Grant Gentry v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether a court should assess such a strike u batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights due-process jury-selection objective-observer-test peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike purposeful-discrimination racial-discrimination 1. Whether a party taints the entire jury selection proceedings by providing a racially discriminatory basis for exercising a peremptory strike at the…
19-8116 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case …
19-8047 Richard E. Daniel v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied IFP coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination right-to-trial (1) Is 1T LAWFUL FOR A DEFENDANT WNOH HAS WAIVED ARRAIGNMENT IN WRITING WITH A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY T% BE BROUGHT BEFORE A TAIAL SUDGE OVER THE SOURSE O…
19-7997 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Dora L. Irizarry, Chief Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation standing Question not identified.
19-7857 Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and a prosecutor offers multiple reasons f…
19-7795 Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights Question not identified.
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Me FEDERAL COURT IN GREENBELT, MD AND THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT IN RICHMOND VA, DENIED MY STATUTORY RIGHTS ASSERTED UNDER BOTH TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RI…
19-7694 Malcolm J. Sanders v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination stop-and-frisk voir-dire 1. Whether qualified persons of color may constitutionally be stricken from juries based solely on prior experiences of being stopped for Driving Whil…
19-1018 Dana Gallop v. Adult Correctional Institutions, et al. Rhode Island 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-death-statute civil-rights constitutional-law political-disenfranchisement prisoner-rights racial-discrimination supremacy-clause unconstitutional Does Rhode Island's Civil Death Statute, G.L. 1956 § 13-6-1, violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, where it is derived from …
19-7465 Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington Washington 2020-01-28 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review patent procedural-rights racial-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
19-7395 Jean Crump v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination 1. This is my second trial. At least five federal attorneys advised my new new attorney Dana Cephas, that Judge William Keller was a racist and he esp…
19-7301 Michael Goodrum v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER IT'S A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, PROSCRIBED IN JACKSON V. VIRGINIA, FOR PETITIONER'S CONVICTION TO BE BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE T…
19-7302 Latefah Shampine v. Sarver's Realty, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-and-witnesses forced-drugging forced-medication free-speech hearsay hearsay-evidence involuntary-treatment judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-dispute racial-discrimination standing Constitutionally speaking, how could Petitioner retain an attorney when she was forced to plead guilty, in Judge Kathleen Satula court, to a horrendou…
19-7142 General P. Haymon v. Michael Johnson California 2020-01-06 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights dred-scott due-process equal-protection jury-trial race racial-discrimination seventh-amendment standing Given the above-mentioned 19th century U.S. Supreme Court's ruling and opinion in the Dred Scott case, the question presented to Chief Justice John Ro…
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 97 (1986), the Court set forth a three-step protocol to prevent racial discrimination in jury selection. It applie…
19-7001 Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment I. Whether pursuant to the Jury Selection and Service Act a criminal defendant who observes a racially skewed venire can be denied time to inspect jur…
19-745 Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD…
19-6839 Patrick R. Smith v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standing Did the INTEGRITY COURTS BELOW UNDERMINE the Court's Ruling in BATSON v. KENTUCKY and FLOWERS v. MISSISSIPPI, thus VIOLATING ALTON CHISHOLM and JASMIN…
19-636 Estate of Earnest Lee Boyland, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-18 Denied Response Waived agency-action civil-rights claims-framework discrimination due-process equal-protection racial-classification racial-discrimination standing strict-scrutiny Is it a denial of Equal Protection for the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA" or "the Department") and Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutio…
19-6647 Michael J. Baxter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts 1. Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a "pattern of discrimination" as necessary to satisfy the first step of t…
19-6593 Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination 1. Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a law suit against the Respondent (s) which w…
19-6494 Sandra J. Staten v. D.R. Horton Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credit-opportunity-act discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination racial-discrimination veterans-benefits veterans-rights 1. Whether due process was afforded to the Petitioner in this cause under the Fair Housing Act and under Code 15 U.S. Code § 1691, know as the Credit …
19-535 Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company Second Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial discrimination and retaliation claims for a reasonable fact…
19-6331 Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida Florida 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework that a defe…
19-497 The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. v. Lincoln Property Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act pleading pleading-requirements policy-challenge prima-facie-claim racial-discrimination racial-segregation robust-causality standing texas-v-icp 1. Whether the pleading of an FHA prima facie disparate impact claim must show the identified policy not only has caused the adverse effects on the ra…
19-6242 Imanol Pineda Penaloza v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination question-not-identified racial-discrimination reasonable-person title-vii Whether sentencing enhancements that are not found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Sixth Amendment, and whether the advisory nature of…
19-6219 C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund Florida 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jim-crow judicial-fairness public-accommodation race-discrimination racial-discrimination res-judicata segregation standing 1. Is it legally sound, to hold de facto segregated evidentiary hearings, although the dejure Jim Crow laws, which enabled and legalized segregation w…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
19-6190 Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-quotas sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' Batson claim, which minimized the constitutional import of the government prosecutor's offer to em…
19-6156 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6)IFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is "second or successive" under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed …
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty 1. Were The Rights Of A Defendant Under The Due Process Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution Properly Observed When Th…
19-6013 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-antidiscrimination-laws national-origin-discrimination protected-characteristics racial-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination sexual-orientation-discrimination workplace-harassment wrongful-termination (I). Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally terminate the employment of an "AT WILL" employee because he/she has filed or attempted to file a …
19-5878 Darries Leon Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice? 2. Whether Petiti…
19-5898 Danny Howell v. Duane Southerland, et al. Tennessee 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions racial-discrimination standing Question not identified.
19-5761 Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Question not identified.
19-260 Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty…
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that th…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-5426 Leonard Stansberry v. Texas Texas 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing statutory-provisions takings writ wrongful-death Whether a Medical Examiner's Opinion as to the cause and manner of death is admissible in a criminal trial when the Opinion given is information obtai…
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha…
19-5359 Kent Vu Phan v. Colorado Legal Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment ada-discrimination ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection intentional-indifference judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination rehabilitation-act QUESTION(S) PRESENTED FOR THE COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES 1- Defendants who have known about petitioner 's disabilities status, but he or she intentional…
19-5132 Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTIONS 'S PRETEXTUAL EXPLANATION FOR EXERCI…
19-5095 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining racial-discrimination retroactivity right-to-counsel school-desegregation supreme-court Petitioner Salerno hereby moves this court to issue a ruling on whether the following two cases are applied retroactively. 1. Missouri v. Frye, 566 U…
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma 's Appellate Court "The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals " deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection of the law afforded to …
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense 1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- …
18-9779 Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status 1. US visa : 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United …
18-9778 Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act 1. US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United S…
18-9710 Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof 1. Whether "mere statistics" are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson v. Kentucky, 475 U.S. 79 (1986) and Johns…
18-9637 Robert Travis Jenkins v. Kansas Kansas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights compliance-burden constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-regulations judicial-review jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation [I] On appeal, Jenkins contendsthe verdictshould be set aside because the prosecutor antialevidence. The inquiry advances in three staqes. If these st…
18-1527 Rattan Nath v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights criminal-liability due-process equal-protection ordinance-enforcement property-rights racial-discrimination revenue-generation selective-enforcement takings vague-ordinance Can New Jersey courts provide cover to racial discrimination by imposing strict criminal liability—even when there is no public nuisance or any compro…
18-9513 Rhonda Reid v. Walter Donnelly, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination sentencing standing I'm asking Judge Sign a Why diol Prior restitution Order in my name on 4-12-11 Why did the trial judge make a decision on Under 0.C.G.Aq17-14.7(0) hyo…
18A1236 Jacquelyn Johnson v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete employment-fairness equal-pay gender-bias racial-discrimination title-vii workplace-discrimination Question not identified.
18-9423 Ayanna Angle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination When a court of appeals finds that a district court, in overruling an objection to the prosecution's use of peremptory juror strikes, failed to comple…
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Plaintiff asserts the continuing violation exception to the Title VII limitation period. If a Title VII plaintiff files an EEOC charge that is timely …
18-9242 Joel Hayden v. Maine Maine 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire "WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE…
18-9168 Melissa Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights Question not identified.
18-1399 Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association Ohio 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas…
18-9118 Emanual Deleon Fields v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing IN TIS CASE FIELDS' OUESTITONED PRESENTED WEITON THIS CASE. WAS IS U.S. CONSITUTIONEL LIGTTS NELE DENTED IN TRIAL COULT NIHEN LOSECUTION DENIED MIS U.…
18-9039 Kent Vu Phan v. National Jewish Health, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP ada ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process environmental-contamination medical-malpractice racial-discrimination standing state-actor 1-Petitioner is disabled on both physical and mental. Suppressed on disabled petitioner instead of protected as the American with Disabilities has rec…
18-8883 James E. Jessup v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Question not identified.
18-8812 James Barr v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing preliminary-injunction race racial-discrimination standing L e frQ( (cz'cI &rwit w 7 4 pe o~ Ae,:::~Werrmy / 4 e d7-4 fi0i aglg~-d /-;P/J ,k,54 ~ I - OF JIV z i ~d jo /1 pe,i-lmer~5 / I do Jci/7' t-7 CL…
18-8721 Kelvin Reed v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts equal-protection error-coram-nobis poverty racial-discrimination The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court have decided that before an evidentiary hearing will be granted to an Error Co…
18-8748 Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination 1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? 2. Whether lif…
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review After the prosecutor admitted misrepresenting her actual reasons for striking a prospective juror, the trial judge was "troubled by" some of the prose…
18-8678 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under t…
18-8612 Jason Johnson v. Paul M. Gonyea, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination DID TRIAL COURT UNREASONABLY APPLY SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT WHEN IT BYPASSED STEP 3 OF THE BATSON v. KENTUCKY REQUIREMENT'S IN IT'S CONSIDERATION OF …
18-8582 Malvin Nater-Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing WHETHER THIS CASE PRESENTS THE COURT WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE CRITERIA UNDER WHICH SUMMARY JUDGMENT IS WARRANTED?
18-1237 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Argante R. Grippa, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied accident appellate-jurisdiction dismissal-without-explanation highway judicial-bias leaving-scene motor-vehicle motor-vehicle-accident negligence new-evidence police-report racial-discrimination state-trooper sudden-stop taxi-driver-negligence traffic traffic-law Cana driver of a motor vehicle on a major highway at a speed of 50 mph, in the extreme fast lane with traffic, suddenly come to an immediate stop with…
18-1217 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the FHA against a l…
18-8375 Zebadiah Holland v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing 1. WHETHER ZEBADIAH HOLLAND IS ENTITLED TO NEW TRIAL BASED ON NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE THAT NOT ONLY COMPLETELY EXONERATES HIM, BUT ALSO SPECIFICALLY…
18-8275 Brian Sawyers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the federal district court should give an implicit bias jury instruction upon request where other courts have recognized that implicit bias is…
18-8235 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination Question not identified.
18-7999 Raoul A. Galan v. Larry Gegenheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error racial-discrimination standing Said writ of certiorari presents a simple question, regarding issues that began in 1987 and are present today. Were the lower courts manipulated by in…
18-7940 Charles Kelvin Johns v. Alabama Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity property-rights Question not identified. racial-discrimination QUESTION ONE: Whether the 11th Circuit has interfered with the black appellant's rights under 42 USC §1981 by denying the injunctive relief required t…
18-7926 Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing WHETHER INOIGENT ANO/OR PRO SE DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS HAVE OR ARE ENTITLED TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FROM THE PRESENCE OP SOCIOLECONOM…
18-1034 Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing Whether the appeal in this action is so insubstantial as not to warrant further review and should not be permitted to proceed?
18-7817 Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California California 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus Courts often reject Batson claims where the prospective juror at issue has a relative with a criminal conviction, a reason that has a disparate impact…
18-7594 James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-01-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP capital-cases civil-rights death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination racial-exclusion standing Does Lanier's systematic discrimination against African Americans violate Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880), Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 2…
18-7536 Jason M. Reeves v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-01-24 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination side-by-side-comparison voir-dire In jury selection for the second trial in this case, the State used 7 of its 12 peremptory challenges on African-Americans, removing only 5 of the 23 …
18-7484 Nimon Naphaeng v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing WHETHER THIS CASE PRESENTS THE COURT WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A STANDARD BURDEN OF PROOF TO ESTABLISH WHETHER A MONETARY LOSS AND ITS AMOUNT IS A…
18-7397 Jackie Breeden, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-exercise free-speech racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Mr. Breeden alleges that had his trial counsel argued under Arkansas Law that his case should fall under the "first offender act" ,as a first time off…
18-7244 Vidal Licea Morales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights Whether Petitioner was denied a fair trial when a government expert witness provided improper testimony that informed the jury that Petitioner was in …
18-7144 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing I. Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a pere…
18-7094 Floyd Daniel Smith v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination This case involves the killing of a white teenager by a black defendant. The case was so racially charged that the defense attorneys – who were also b…
18-7063 In Re Charles A. Dread 2018-12-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing official-responsibility qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing summary-judgment Was the Trial Court's denial of the Appellant's Motion for Summary Judgment and the Request for Hearing without granting the Appellant a Hearing he re…
18-7054 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
18-7007 Ronald T. Spoor v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2256 child-pornography civil-rights due-process equal-protection lascivious-exhibition racial-discrimination rule-414 school-desegregation sexual-proclivities standing uncharged-crimes 1. Must a video be considered in its totality, as opposed to a brief isolated snippet, in determining whether it is a "lascivious exhibition of the ge…
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing 1. Would jurists of reason find the district courts assesment of Washington's constitutional claims debatable or wrong; or that the petition should ha…
18-6973 Andy Edward Minor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing state-court-appeals A.oo SHOULD MINOR'S CONVICTION BE VACATED AND SENTENCE SET ASIDE DUE TO HIS ACTUAL INNOCENCE? PeTiTioner says Yes! B.. SHOULD MINOR'S CONVICTION BE V…
18-6919 Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat…
18-6929 Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP civil-rights climate-change constitutional-crisis due-process environmental-law equal-protection gender-discrimination political-feud racial-discrimination restoration Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth case number 2-18-cv-00611 Was submitted for possible dismissal as frivolous pursuant.
18-6802 Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) requires prosecutors to provide their actual reasons for striking jurors. The prosecutor here provided reasons …
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search At the suppression hearing in this federal criminal case, the district court explicitly relied on Petitioner's race to conclude that there was reasona…
18-6723 Robert Noel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal structural-error WHEN THE DISTRICT JUDGE HAS "A DIRECT, PERSONAL, SUBSTANTIAL, PECUNIARY INTEREST" IN THE OUTCOME OF THE PROCEEDING IS PETITIONER'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCE…
18-6624 Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-08 Denied IFP batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied "just as well" to two white jurors, Foster v. Chatman, 136 S. Ct. 173…
18-6480 Gregory Hill v. James Gammon, Superintendent, Moberly Correctional Center Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-bessemer-city batson-challenge batson-claim constitutional-review due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-jurisprudence federal-habeas jury-selection racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection thomas-v-keohane Gregory Hill's case raises pressing issues of National importance: Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates racial discriminat…
18-6411 Ennis Reed v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire HAS CALIFORNIA AGAIN DEPARTED FROM THE FEDERAL STANDARDS GOVERNING DETERMINATIONS OF RACIAL BIAS DURING JURY VOIR DIRE?
18-6309 Warren Justin Hardy v. California California 2018-10-12 Denied IFP comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment Whether, in a case with racial overtones, the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis, or infer a likelihood o…
18-6286 Lisa Jo Chamberlin v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination 1. Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the disting…
18-438 Carllene M. Placide v. Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline bar-discipline constitutional-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,equal-protection,legal-pr equal-protection legal-ethics legal-practice legal-procedure procedural-fairness racial-discrimination Whether an attorney can be deprived of his/her constitutionally protected right to practice law pursuant to an order of disbarment by the Court below …
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-352 South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference Whether, upon reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that: "The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step o…
18-5924 Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania 2018-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act enables racially motivated majority members of a condominium association to purge a minority member o…
18-5880 Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co…
18-5580 In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El 2018-08-14 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing 1) How is it that Negroes, Blacks, Colored People,etcwbo were deemed three fifths of all other Persons pursuant to Art. (1) sec. (2) of the U.5. Const…
18-5325 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights 1. Once a prisoner requests relief under Motion 2255, must a District Court grant an evidentiary hearing on the prisoner's claims? 2. If the evidenti…
18-5271 Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire 1. Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant…
18-5233 Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment 1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we…
18-5152 Rodney Howard v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that t…
24A286 Marcellus S. Williams v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied batson-violation equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether the trial prosecutor's use of a peremptory strike against a Black venireperson based on the prosecutor's stated belief that the venireperson l…
24A409 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina Denied batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Question not identified.