| 25-5605 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Phillips v. State , 299 So.3d 1013 (Fla. 2020) , denying some capital defendants the retroactive effec… |
| 23-1290 |
Michael Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or… |
| 22-255 |
Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by basing a defense to § 1983 on "equality and fairness" rather than determining whether the common law in 1871 pro… |
| 22-5587 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus |
Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability ("COA") from a specifically chosen circuit judge?
… |
| 21-1306 |
Stacy Penning v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1021, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity |
1. Whether the proper remedy for the collection of an illegal fee is refund or restitution, regardless of the purported good faith of the fee collecto… |
| 21-785 |
Richard Riccardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states |
Whether the exception to the procedural default
rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)
applies where this Court has held declared a theory… |
| 21-5713 |
Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework |
Jurisdiction and- the-Teague-Standard: 1 .
Does the Court have t*fie power to review a State Collateral Review
Court 's failure to give Retroactive E… |
| 20-7107 |
Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
1. Whether NELSON V. COLORADO 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that ha… |
| 19-8235 |
Justin K. Eaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1). Since the Sentencing Commission is to serve a similar function to interpreting guidelines as this Court does in interpreting statutes under Braxt… |
| 19-683 |
Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
|
retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule |
Federal prisoners generally may challenge their convictions and sentences only by filing a direct appeal and, if unsuccessful there, one petition for … |
| 18-7448 |
Charles Foxx v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines.
2… |
| 18-7453 |
Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines.
Whet… |
| 18-6548 |
Salvatore Leone v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |