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25A742 Shameek J. Halls v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Application bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-agreement second-circuit summary-order Question not identified.
25A433 Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit Question not identified.
25-396 Hernan Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-03 GVR criminal-prosecution foreign-commercial-bribery honest-services-statute judicial-interpretation second-circuit statutory-vagueness 1. Whether the honest-services statute criminalizes foreign commercial bribery. 2. Whether the honest-services statute is unconstitutionally vague.
25A313 Lairon Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit Whether, by signing a plea agreement with a generic appeal waiver, a criminal defendant waives his right to challenge his attorney's past, present, an…
25A209 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias Question not identified.
25A170 Andrew E. Roth v. Austin Russell, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Presumed Complete counsel-of-record procedural-ruling second-circuit supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-7431 Keisha Reynolds v. HNS Management Co., Inc., dba CTTransit, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney law-of-the-case second-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment vested-right 1. Whether Hodge v. Police Officers , 802 F.2d 58, 60 (2d Cir. 1986) creates a vested right when petitioner has previously benefited from a court appo…
24-1091 Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell Second Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response Waived interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts 1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial courts d…
24-6823 Thomas Caves v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm the judgment of conviction and …
24-981 Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, pka Ed Sheeran, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied agency-interpretation chevron-deference copyright-law first-impression legal-judgment second-circuit 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously abdicate its responsibility to "decide legal questions by applying their own judgment " by inst…
24-6753 John Martin v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j…
24-6572 Victor Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing 1. Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreeme…
24-6455 Ernest Murphy v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's "favorable" definition that is incongruent with well-established Const…
24A712 Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud Question not identified.
24A647 Owen Marlon Alexander v. Andreea Gleeson, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete complaint-adjudication district-court judicial-review pro-se rehearing-petition second-circuit Question not identified.
24A629 National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar Second Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-challenge second-circuit sports-league standing time-extension Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a consumer alleging disclosure of personal information to a single business entity, rather than to th…
24A596 William Stenger v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction second-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A425 Brandon Green v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-appeal extension-of-time pro-se second-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-364 Anthony Futia, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-question federal-appellate-review guarnieri-precedent petition-for-certiorari second-circuit summary-order Does the Summary Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Anthony Futia, Jr. v. United States of America, No. 23-860, en…
23-1259 BLOM Bank SAL v. Michal Honickman, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-03 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-standard civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgments judgment-finality rule-15(a) rule-60(b)(6) second-circuit Whether Rule 60(b)(6)'s stringent standard applies to a post-judgment request to vacate for the purpose of filing an amended complaint.
23-7273 Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit The Due Process Clause provides that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process requires notice, …
23A751 Samuel D. Isaly v. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete certiorari judicial-procedure petition second-circuit supreme-court time-extension Whether this Court's decision in Semtek permits the lower courts to do as they did here—rely on Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41's presumption that …
23-810 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment since the defendant did …
23-506 Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited Second Circuit 2023-11-14 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality if it shows the arbitrator "might reasonably be thought biased,"…
23-414 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence 1. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 permits a district court to order a new trial "if the interest of justice so requires." The district court he…
23A69 James Owens, et al. v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete forum-non-conveniens judicial-deference piper-aircraft plaintiff-choice-of-forum second-circuit terrorism-victims 1. This case presents an important and recurring question concerning the legal standard for dismissing suits filed in U.S. federal court under the doc…
22-7766 Ramon Ramirez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. HAS THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERRED IN ITS CONCLUSION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION BASED ON EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE INTERSTATE…
22-6799 Emeka Dominic Okongwu v. County of Erie, New York Second Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied IFP amendment appellate-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment district-court due-process judicial-procedure reconsideration second-circuit standing summary-judgment 1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN REFUSING TO ALLOW THE PETITI…
22-5862 Gregory Ramos v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-circuit sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's determination that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel consistent with the Sixth A…
22-5750 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus second-circuit section-2255 standard-of-review Where the COA determination under § 2253(c) requires an overview of the claims in the habeas petition and a general assessment of their merits, did th…
21-7802 In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus Question not identified.
21-7395 Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus …
21-1170 Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-24 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud—which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person'…
21-6940 Ferney Salas Torres v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conv…
21-869 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-13 Judgment Issued Amici (41)Relisted (2) artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work Whether a work of art is "transformative" when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material (as this Court, the Ninth Circuit, a…
21-681 Andy Altahawi v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived capital-gains-tax civil-procedure consent-judgment restitution rule-60 rule-60(b) sec second-circuit tax-implications Whether the Second Circuit erred when it upheld the district court's denial of Altahawi's motion pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(5) and (6) to make …
21-5684 Zaire Paige v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-confrontation constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-v-allen judicial-discretion second-circuit trial-rights Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to be present at his trial, where the judge ejected him after a single, brief, spontaneous, non…
21-157 Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation Second Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of…
20-8281 Dominic Franza v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure discretion judicial-procedure legal-precedent mandate-recall recall-of-mandate second-circuit Was it an abuse of discretion for the Second Circuit to deny Petitioner's Recall of the Mandate motion when the Second Circuit's very own decisions re…
20-1644 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion, as eleven …
20-7820 Michael J. Little v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP constructive-amendment criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process foreign-accounts green-card-holder indictment second-circuit stirone-v-united-states tax-reporting willful-violation Whether the indictment was constructively amended to add additional undeclared "overseas" accounts not among those specifically identified on the grou…
20-1454 Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany Second Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception Question not identified.
20-7300 Robbull Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI and this Court's decision in Rehaif when it denied Bryant's co…
20-6895 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is Constitutionally impermissible - wher…
20-6808 Thomas Traficante v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and Congress' intent to provide a streamlined scheme of sentencing re…
20-6638 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is Constitutionally impermissible - wher…
20-6581 Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable based on the standards for certificate of …
20-6569 Quincey Frye v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha…
20-6399 Duwayne Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen…
20-6381 Domenico Anastasio v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
20-644 Terrence Pendergrass v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal I. Contrary to the holding in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of app…
20-6165 James Edward Sandford, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies …
20-5973 Efrain Santos v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-5794 Scott T. Wilbert v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion 1. Should certiorari be granted because the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the denial of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment suppressio…
20-163 Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal "money or property" fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by…
19-8821 Jose Santiago-Ortiz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied IFP -criminal-organization -federal-criminal-law -murder-statute -organizational-intent -substantive-nexus #NAME? criminal-organization federal-criminal-offenses murder second-circuit sixth-circuit substantive-nexus Whether federal criminal offenses that include, as an element, a substantive nexus between a charged murder and the defendant's alleged secure his pos…
19-8564 David Ojeda v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokelin~ v. United States, U.S. 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019), in holding that a…
19-1087 Charles M. Hallinan v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as…
19-7865 Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct, as the Eighth Cir…
19-7661 Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) I. May The Second Circuit Court; Of Appeals Determine That The'Underlying Offense Of Hobbs Act Extortion? Threatening Physical Violence In Furtheranc…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration (1) Whether Mandamus should issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit compelling the Chief Clerk of that Court to issue a Wri…
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing "1) whi…
19-7253 Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT WRONG TO DENY THE RULE 60(b) MOTION AND CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, REPSECTIVELY, WHEN THIS COURT HAS …
19-7206 Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime Question not identified.
19-654 Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo Second Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing A claimant may assert a claim for monetary damages under the Rehabilitation Act if there was intentional discrimination. Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 18…
19-6012 Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power 1. Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducate…
19-203 David Greenberg v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr…
19-5595 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process false-evidence government-misconduct government-misrepresentations habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit 1- Did The Denial of COA Violate of Appeals Denied Effective When A Clear Claim ofDue Process Where The Second Circuit And Meaningful Review As ACourt…
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S…
19-5134 Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force …
19-5083 Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline –a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiri…
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9657 Joseph Howard Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit I. Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay, as in the Second Circuit, or no…
18A1286 Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller Second Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process hostile-work-environment qualified-immunity second-circuit workplace-violence Question not identified.
18-9379 Paul A. Light v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines I. Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines, on a man whose crime was viewing pornography alone in his home,…
18A1203 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-death-row second-circuit supreme-court-review Question not identified.
18-9089 Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing The plaintiff's intellectual property was featured in defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl. Judge Jesse M. Furman of the New York Southern District granted…
18-1069 Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver 1. Whether the Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to consider and determine a liability for an incorrect taxable year when it does not have jurisdiction ove…
18-6600 Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-486 Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247 (2010), this Court held that Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act does not apply ex…
18-6308 Edwin Hernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense jury-instructions second-circuit sentencing 1. Did the Second Circuit err in finding that the district court's charge correctly stated the requirements for the duress defense. 2. Did the Second…
18-373 Floyd Rose v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with…
18-321 TVEyes, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC Second Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Amici (1) 17-usc-107 campbell-v-acuff-rose commercial-success copyright-law fair-use market-harm second-circuit statutory-factors transformative-use In copyright law, the defense of fair use covers the transformative use of a work for research, comment, criticism and parody. Whether a use is "fair"…
18-5913 Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition…
18-5516 Isaiah Galbreath v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-5251 Sarjo Dambelly v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c…