| 25-1024 |
Frank Faillace v. Zoe Hollis |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-25 |
Pending |
|
employee-status fair-labor-standards-act misclassification private-right-of-action retaliation statutory-interpretation |
The Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") prohibits retaliation by an employer or "any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer… |
| 25-6906 |
Namir White v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-25 |
Pending |
IFP |
controlled-substance-offense drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing… |
| 25-6911 |
Gregory W. Pheasant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-25 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-law criminal-law executive-power intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Whether § 1733(a) violates the nondelegation doctrine by giving the Executive near-unfettered power to define what conduct is subject to criminal puni… |
| 25-1012 |
HMTX Industries, LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law major-questions-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority trade-act |
Whether USTR's streamlined authority under Section 307 to "modify" an existing tariff action confers on the agency essentially unlimited power to expa… |
| 25-6896 |
Dylan Jerelle Pettyjohn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit facial-challenge felon-in-possession-of-firearm second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit has held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is facially constitutional? |
| 25-6847 |
Andre Lamont Rawls v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the judge in the Southern District of Mississippi erred by ordering the 60-month supervised release revocation sentence at issue to run consec… |
| 25-6848 |
Dennis Lenin Carranza-Clavel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review deportable-alien plain-error-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-970 |
Rami Ghanem v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
|
acquitted-conduct beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit federal courts from increasing a criminal defendant's authorized punishment based on conduct—including… |
| 25-971 |
Robert Wayne Hutton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
|
child-sexual-abuse-material circuit-conflict criminal-law fourth-amendment privacy-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as a matter of law, secretly recording a minor's ordinary and routine nonsexual activity falls outside the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)? |
| 25-6817 |
Gerald Kemondre Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights firearm-regulation historical-tradition machinegun-conversion second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a handgun affixed with a machinegun conversion device constitute s an "arm" under the Se cond Amendment' s plain text, thus requiring the gove… |
| 25-6796 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion |
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| 25-6789 |
Richard Brundige v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment, either on its face or as applied. |
| 25-956 |
Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
|
covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation |
Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") to fund "payroll costs" in order that small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandem… |
| 25-6761 |
Kennan Alexis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation non-violent-drug-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals who, like Petitioner, only have felony convic… |
| 25-6760 |
Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii |
Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days? |
| 25-942 |
In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. |
|
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed "challengin… |
| 25A901 |
Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Application |
|
average-manufacturer-price false-claims-act medicaid-rebate pharmaceutical-regulation qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified.
The petition text provided is an "Application for an Extension of Time" to file a petition for certiorari, not a petition fo… |
| 25-6729 |
Antwaun O. Heaggeans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6730 |
Daniel Carlos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling recidivism supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-922 |
Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
|
agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review
the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District
Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for … |
| 25A888 |
Patrick Tate Adamiak v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
|
bruen-standard criminal-possession firearm-relics national-firearms-act second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6702 |
Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25-6712 |
William Louis Armstrong v. Boyland Auto BGMC LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court-discretion frcp-service in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation statutory-interpretation |
1. I filed with an IFP motion; the court found me indigent (including for counsel recruitment). I moved for service under FRCP 4(c)(3), but the distri… |
| 25-6714 |
Ivan Granillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-crime immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation transportation |
What mens rea is required for the element that the defendant transport or move the noncitizen "in furtherance " of a violation of law ? |
| 25-6718 |
Otto Melvin Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split deportable-alien individualized-finding sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-6723 |
Victor Dema v. Jennifer Toth, Director, Arizona Department of Transportation |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-courts forum-defendant-rule immigration-jurisdiction ninth-circuit removal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
A. Whether All The Ninth Court Of Appeals ' Decisions Rendered Against
This Particular Petitioner In This Very Case, Conflict With All The Other
Fed… |
| 25-916 |
OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights |
Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re… |
| 25-917 |
Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Air Carrier Access Act, 49 U.S.C. § 41705 — which provides that "an air carrier may not discriminate " against qualified individuals wi… |
| 25-6698 |
Dalando T. Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6699 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing |
Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient … |
| 25-6704 |
Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 25-900 |
Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
|
admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft |
1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso… |
| 25-913 |
Keegan L. Lovell v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction |
The relevant federal criminal statute requires that
"[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military
Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano… |
| 25A868 |
Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Application |
|
certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A866 |
Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
|
circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified.
The document provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition … |
| 25-6677 |
John Wayne Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York… |
| 25-6678 |
Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing |
Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un… |
| 25-6682 |
Fidel Aramboles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment |
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or ammunition, for … |
| 25A853 |
Joseph Sullivan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
criminal-prosecution data-security jury-instruction nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6662 |
Pierre Burns v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-of-mistake first-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the District Court's prohibition against presenting a defense of mistake of age in a case arising under 18 U.S.C. § 225l(a) created a viola… |
| 25-6675 |
Paul Wright v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law disability-claims judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-jurisdiction veterans-benefits |
Is an impacted veteran entitled to judicial review of a definitive
decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assert jurisdiction under
38 U.S… |
| 25-889 |
G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families |
Pennsylvania |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when dete… |
| 25-893 |
Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower |
Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B) that a relator have "knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclos… |
| 25-6663 |
Richard Kirkland Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure firearm-possession knowledge-inference temporary-occupancy |
Whether the mere presence of a firearm s in a bag on a shelf in a residence is sufficient to presume a defendant's knowledge and constructive possessi… |
| 25-6646 |
Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while
dismissing unrebutted record evidence as "unpersuasive, " without pro… |
| 25-6648 |
Nathan Bermea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exc… |
| 25-6650 |
Michael Ledon Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-6652 |
Jarmarl Thornton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6653 |
Randy Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the district court obviously err by considering the retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), in violation of Esteras v. United States,… |
| 25-879 |
American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Amici (6) |
administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation |
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to applia… |
| 25-6641 |
Ervin Thornton, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac… |
| 25-868 |
Brandon Hughes v. National Football League |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
consumer-rights data-disclosure personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act video-service-provider |
The Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") prohibits a "video tape service provider" from "knowingly disclos[ing], to any person, personally identifiab… |
| 25-6621 |
Lamar Reese v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
legal-procedure ohio-revised-code petition-denial post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation trial-court-error |
Did the State trial Court err in denying Petitioner's Post Conviction Petition that was filed under Ohio Revised Code 2953.23(A)(1)? |
| 25-6622 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-863 |
G'Ante Butler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in… |
| 25-6606 |
Robert Paul Rosell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-851 |
Ashley Grayson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law |
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) prohibits intentionally intercepting wire or oral communications or di… |
| 25-6594 |
William James Forbis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6597 |
Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6599 |
Harry Whitman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-resentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fact that a prisoner is serving a sentence that is significantly longer than the law would now permit, in light of the First Step Act's no… |
| 25-839 |
Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation |
Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test applied… |
| 25-843 |
Disability Rights New York v. New York State Department of Health, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing disability-rights federal-jurisdiction individual-rights protection-and-advocacy statutory-interpretation |
Whether DRNY, as a Protection & Advocacy System authorized by Congress to bring lawsuits in its own name on behalf of individuals with disabilities pu… |
| 25-6574 |
Christopher Michael Arredondo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25A819 |
Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6557 |
David Calhoun v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing |
I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re… |
| 25-6558 |
Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
judicial-construction legal-hermeneutics legislative-intent plain-meaning statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the statutory language is plain, must courts enforce it according to its terms? |
| 25-6566 |
William Dahl v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law factfinder-standard federal-statute judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2252A criminalizes the receipt of child pornography. A depiction counts as child pornography if its "production . . . involves the use of … |
| 25-818 |
Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits |
Whether "[t]ime credits" under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release. |
| 25-6530 |
Terry Lee Gammage v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d… |
| 25-809 |
Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
The first question presented is whether 29 U.S.C. § 1386(b)(1)'s instruction to "reduce[]" any "withdrawal liability" of an employer in a subsequent p… |
| 25-811 |
Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence? |
| 25-817 |
Charles W. Christopher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards |
What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity? |
| 25-6517 |
Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation |
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199… |
| 25-6523 |
Dennis Martin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6513 |
Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment firearms-regulation gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits those under indictment from shipping, transporting, or receiving any firearm or ammunitio… |
| 25-6514 |
Epifanio Leos-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-law notice-clause prior-conviction recidivism sixth-amendment |
Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 25-6492 |
Arthur Fayne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud |
1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis).
Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 1343 conf… |
| 25-6494 |
River William Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conduct-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion political-beliefs sentencing |
1) Whether a Defendant can be held accountable at sentencing for conduct that was dismissed?
2) Whether a Defendant's sentence can be enhanced becaus… |
| 25-6477 |
Warren Harold Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy hobbs-act judicial-precedent sentencing |
Whether Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961), should be overruled or limited as violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause where petitioner was… |
| 25-782 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin… |
| 25-6468 |
Derrick Hahn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to an individual based on his past conviction for a non-violent offense.
… |
| 25-6470 |
Jose Ferrer-Sosa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-violation fair-trial mental-health-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing witness-competency |
1. Whether the right to a fair trial is violated when a judge tells the jury that the only witness to a conspiracy was competent, after the witness ha… |
| 25-6473 |
Clover McGregor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-restriction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment. |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6460 |
Brad O'Neal Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner. |
| 25-6462 |
Jamaur Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery … |
| 25-763 |
PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand
this case to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did … |
| 25-6433 |
Avis Coward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-6435 |
Lenny Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-6438 |
Frankie Acosta v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits
anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a term e… |
| 25-6440 |
Juan Guajardo-Martinez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-law-enforcement immigration-authorities indictment-delay speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should recognize the "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act when federal law enforcement and immigration authorities work togethe… |
| 25-6441 |
Kamlesh Banga v. Lawrence R. Lustig |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
article-three judicial-recommendation magistrate-judge objection-standard procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court violates 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) and Article III when it adopts a magistrate judge's recommendation through complete judicia… |
| 25-6442 |
Michael Hinds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac… |
| 25-762 |
Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency |
Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC… |
| 25-6422 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800, under which Petitioner was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, enacted in… |
| 25-6427 |
Devin Joe Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-747 |
Matthew Cline v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely… |
| 25A743 |
Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
|
circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6431 |
Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 25-6415 |
Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any… |
| 25-735 |
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of the jurisdiction, recognized by this Court in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 (1974), … |
| 25-6416 |
Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con… |
| 25-731 |
Yellow Turtle Design, LLC, et al. v. Sonya Salkin Slott, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-distribution chapter-7-liquidation creditor-priority settlement-approval statutory-interpretation |
In Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 580 U.S. 451, 457, 137 S.Ct. 973, 979, 197 L.Ed.2d 398 (2017), this Court held, "The [Bankruptcy] Code makes clea… |
| 25-6397 |
Mark Dyer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t… |
| 25-707 |
Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona… |
| 25A713 |
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6406 |
Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence |
Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-6407 |
Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-6393 |
Cortez D. Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-701 |
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
critical-declining-status mass-withdrawal multiemployer-pension pension-plan-termination special-financial-assistance statutory-interpretation |
Whether a multiemployer pension plan that terminated through mass withdrawal before the 2020 plan year is eligible for Special Financial Assistance un… |
| 25A702 |
Mark Alan Deakins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-697 |
Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en… |
| 25A700 |
Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Application |
|
circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6390 |
Busch Sereal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non… |
| 25-6363 |
Arturo Amaran v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law fifth-amendment judicial-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Given the United States Supreme Court's now long standing and clear 5th Amendment jurisprudence, do Florida Courts have authority to expand, or oth… |
| 25-6367 |
Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a… |
| 25-6368 |
Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Luis Garza-Gomez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to po… |
| 25-6354 |
Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) when the court's expressed… |
| 25-6341 |
Selvin Edgardo Molina-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing |
If a federal criminal defendant fails to present rebuttal evidence, is the district court is free to adopt the Presentence Report's findings without f… |
| 25A682 |
Medical Staffing of America, LLC, dba Steadfast Medical Staffing, a Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Secretary of Labor |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Application |
|
economic-realities-test employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor statutory-interpretation worker-status |
Question not identified. |
| 25A679 |
Matthew Lee Pelton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
criminal-statute ninth-circuit pecuniary-damages restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A680 |
MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
agency-overreach erisa multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
This document is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. It does no… |
| 25-6323 |
Donald Irving Hill, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-rights felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York… |
| 25-6329 |
Tommie Slack v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-possession control criminal-law dominion firearm-possession intent |
Whether establishing constructive possession of a location is sufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband found in the location occu… |
| 25-6309 |
Melquan Thawney v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s categorial ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional. |
| 25-6311 |
Christopher Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6313 |
Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-6316 |
Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver |
Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months?
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 25-6293 |
Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161. |
| 25-655 |
In Re Rayon Payne |
|
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violations due-process judicial-bias procedural-limbo statutory-interpretation venue-transfer |
1. Whether a United States District Court may transfer a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) to a judicial district where the Plaintiff has already demonst… |
| 25-6281 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Dubois, because it … |
| 25-6285 |
Rudy Altamirano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-6286 |
Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit |
Is the Appellate Court able to violate 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(D) arguing that this statute is not mandatory but a simple guideline?
It is incontrovert… |
| 25-6272 |
James Taylor v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa legal-standing nonjudicial-foreclosure statutory-interpretation |
I. Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692, is Freedom Mortgage Corporation a "Debt Collector" under the FDCPA's Primary Definition, when attempting to collect debt?
… |
| 25-632 |
Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4), may a court independently, and without deference to the arbitrator's determination, decide what claims are presented in a p… |
| 25-636 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
|
confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets |
1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote… |
| 25-642 |
Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 25-6266 |
George Ugochukwu Egwumba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent criminal-law identity-theft means-of-identification possession-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove a defendant possessed a means of identification without the consent of its owner – that is, stole the identity – to … |
| 25-6267 |
Alphonso Lataurean James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
application-note constitutional-review criminal-conviction firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented for review are: (1) Is whether Application Note 14(b) unreasonably interprets the text of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), such that no defer… |
| 25A636 |
Princewell Arinze Duru v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
|
criminal-enhancement fraud-conspiracy identity-theft lawful-authority statutory-interpretation victim-definition |
Question not identified. |
| 25-619 |
Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o… |
| 25-6259 |
Sam Boyd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure |
When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey… |
| 25-6250 |
Richard Ruston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1), as well as the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), as cross-referenced in section 3583(d)(1), means "and," o… |
| 25-6251 |
Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of
right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the
opportu… |
| 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… |
| 25-6239 |
Elijah D. Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that … |
| 25-612 |
Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
|
criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the word "expunged" in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or does an expungement under state law have to… |
| 25-6212 |
Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol… |
| 25-6213 |
Samuel Galbraith v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
federal-review habeas-corpus parole-board procedural-adequacy state-remedy statutory-interpretation |
When a person has no cause of action and no right of action to appeal the affirmative decision of a parole board, does the simple ability to mail and … |
| 25-6217 |
Christopher Wuchter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t… |
| 25A611 |
Paul Kenneth Cromar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Application |
|
criminal-statute pro-se-petition property-seizure statutory-interpretation tax-law tenth-circuit |
Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(b), which criminalizes forcible rescue of "property after it shall have been seized under this title," applies to property ju… |
| 25-6198 |
Steven Perez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights firearms-acquisition meaningful-constraint second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted of interstate transport and receipt of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and conspiracy to commit this offense… |
| 25A607 |
Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6180 |
David Craig Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea. |
| 25-6187 |
Maurice Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-6188 |
Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6189 |
Javonte Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6190 |
Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
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| 25A601 |
Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
|
erisa multiemployer-pension pbgc-deference pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6169 |
Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who… |
| 25-6151 |
Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure medication-administration pretrial-custody sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Is a twenty-five year term of supervised release with stringent special conditions including the forced administration of medication "greater than nec… |
| 25-6153 |
Marco Antonio Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Below, Petitioner Marco Antonio Sanchez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a … |
| 25A585 |
G'Ante Butler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on "resist[ing], opposing], impeding], intimidat[ing], or interfer[ing]" with federal officers while they are "e… |
| 25A588 |
Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-public-defender first-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25A592 |
William Dahl v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6132 |
Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof congressional-intent evidence-law fundamental-rights legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a mandatory statute enacted by Congress to protect an important
fundamental right titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wir… |
| 25-6137 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
In light of United States v. Taylor , 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A),… |
| 25-6138 |
Michael Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo… |
| 25-6140 |
D. B., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families |
Vermont |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
child-welfare due-process family-reunification parental-rights reasonable-efforts statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 42 U.S.C. § 671(a)(15)(B), which mandates that reasonable efforts "shall be made" to reunify families, requires state courts to ensure that… |
| 25A580 |
Tony Phillips v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-review criminal-trial due-process judicial-discretion life-imprisonment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25A581 |
Ashley Grayson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
clean-hands-doctrine congressional-intent judicial-exception privacy-protection statutory-interpretation wiretap-act |
Whether the Federal Wiretap Act's exclusionary rule in 18 U.S.C. § 2515 applies to unlawfully intercepted communications regardless of whether the gov… |
| 25-6116 |
Frank Iglesias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion early-termination ninth-circuit sentencing supervised-release |
Did the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion in finding that Petitioner is not entitled to shortening or terminating supervised release of his sentenc… |
| 25-6119 |
Charvez Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio… |
| 25-6122 |
Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-scrutiny criminal-law due-process felons-rights firearm-possession second-amendment |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-6126 |
Nathaniel Durham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error |
This case presents two important repeatedly occurring criminal-law questions that affect many defendants and have divided judges within the same circu… |
| 25-6127 |
Brodrick Eugene Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violate the Fifth and Sixth amendments? |
| 25-6129 |
Paul Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearms-rights gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, on its face or as applied to Petitioner, because the Se… |
| 25-574 |
Ron K. Elfenbein v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
criminal-conviction false-representation health-care-fraud medical-billing statutory-interpretation upcoding |
When an allegedly false statement is premised on an ambiguous rule open to multiple reasonable interpretations, can the government secure a defendant'… |
| 25-6105 |
Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State… |
| 25-6106 |
Rico Gonzalez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-6107 |
Davon Amos Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6108 |
Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25-6109 |
Dion Marsh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant due-process fifth-amendment remorselessness self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant's silence. |
| 25A553 |
Shirley V. Remmert v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure district-court frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6080 |
Warren Ellwood Shelton, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing |
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| 25-6086 |
Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation |
A core purpose of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is to eliminate arbitrary sentencing disparities. As part of that reform, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) r… |
| 25-6088 |
Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize… |
| 25A542 |
Deoman Reeves v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
|
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-563 |
Logan A. McLeod v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-10 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
court-of-appeals-armed-forces factual-sufficiency military-justice national-defense-authorization-act statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has statutory authority to hold that a conviction is factually insufficient under 10 U… |
| 25-6062 |
Carl Morgan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals based on their past conviction for a non-violent offense.
… |
| 25-6064 |
Marcus Gerrod Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A529 |
FemtoMetrix, Inc., et al. v. Hovik Nazaryan |
California |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
civil-liability form-1099 fraudulent-filing information-return statutory-interpretation tax-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 25A538 |
Village of Scarsdale, New York v. Scott Bessent, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
administrative-law charitable-contributions chevron-deference internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation tax-deduction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-551 |
United States v. Shaheem Johnson |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Pending |
|
criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court permissibly found "extraordinary and compelling reasons" to allow reduction of respondent's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c… |
| 25-6054 |
Clyde Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Whether, because the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts are split, a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality o… |
| 25A527 |
Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-549 |
Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
"A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction" of a United States court where "the action is brought ... to confirm an award made pursuan… |
| 25-6039 |
Allan Douglas Wilson v. Department of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-rights compensatory-damages due-process evidence-preservation mootness-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the D.C. Circuit's reliance on mootness doctrine to avoid addressing a case of first impression regarding temporary deprivation of citizens… |
| 25-6041 |
Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 25-540 |
Beyond Nuclear, Inc. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-licensing congressional-action judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do the Administrative Procedure Act and the constitutional separation of powers doctrine prohibit an agency from issuing a license conditioned on Cong… |
| 25-6026 |
Martino Antwion Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6027 |
Deondre Lamont Bain v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6028 |
Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 25-535 |
Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III |
Arkansas |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power makes private conduct illegal absent a clear statement that Congress intended to do more… |
| 25-5998 |
Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024) are structural errors, or whether they are subject to harmless or plain error revi… |
| 25-5999 |
Eric Dennard Parker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-5985 |
Anne M. Lynch v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instruction prosecutorial-discretion statutory-vagueness |
Whether petitioner's payment violated the honest-services fraud statute?
Whether the district court's erroneous fiduciary duty jury instruction requi… |
| 25-5989 |
Chian Chiu Li v. Apple, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
enablement negative-limitation patent-law specification-requirement statutory-interpretation written-description |
Section 112(a) of Title 35 requires that a patent include a specification containing "a written description of the invention ... in such full, clear, … |
| 25-519 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-concession preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
After remand from this Court, Petitioner Efrain Lora was resentenced to thirty years in confinement because he supposedly directed a murder. But the G… |
| 25-5972 |
Ramiro Gomez-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-statute federal-definition realistic-probability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a federal "crime of violence" definition for… |
| 25-5974 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing |
Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d… |
| 25-5976 |
Henry Leon Marrow, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5981 |
Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25A484 |
Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-515 |
Michael Kail v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation |
In Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (2010), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1346 covered only bribery and kickback schemes, expressly excludin… |
| 25-5962 |
Ismael Adan Ortiz-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize… |
| 25-5964 |
Oladayo Oladokun v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
agency-deference judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines ' commentary promulgated
without notice-and-comment rulemaking retains binding
authority after Loper Light Ente… |
| 25-5952 |
Theo M. Owens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5944 |
Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 25-5946 |
Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5938 |
Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5924 |
Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25-5916 |
Luis Espinal v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5918 |
Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f… |
| 25-475 |
Jason Camp v. Los Angeles Unified School District |
California |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
educational-funding federal-education-law regulatory-compliance school-district-manipulation statutory-interpretation title-i-funding |
1. Whether a school district's deliberate manipulation of federal Title I enrollment counts to maximize funding allocations—while systematically diver… |
| 25-5909 |
Stevie Gomez Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights felony-conviction firearm-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-466 |
Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Granted |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm. |
| 25-468 |
Walter Rosales, et al. v. Condon-Johnson Associates, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
|
district-court federal-claims futility-exception remand statutory-interpretation supplemental-jurisdiction |
Does a District Court have supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1367 to dismiss a proffered amended complaint deleting all federal claims pursua… |
| 25-469 |
Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits
firearm possession by all unlawfully present
noncitizens, is unconstitutional on its face underth… |
| 25-470 |
Scott Cannon, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
|
derivative-claim erisa-preemption first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation wrongful-death |
Whether a claim for wrongful death under Massachusetts law is preempted by ERISA. |
| 25-5903 |
Joseph Vicarlos Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-453 |
Stephen K. Bannon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-15 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
committee-authority congressional-subpoena criminal-intent due-process statutory-interpretation willful-conduct |
Whether "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful.
Whether the proper composition of… |
| 25-457 |
Topaz Johnson, et al. v. High Desert State Prison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Relisted (5) |
civil-procedure court-fees filing-fee in-forma-pauperis incarcerated-plaintiff statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1) require each incarcerated plaintiff filing in forma pauperis to pay the full amount of a filing fee whether or not he is f… |
| 25-459 |
Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Granted |
Relisted (2) |
audiovisual-services consumer-definition disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act |
The question here is whether the phrase "goods or services from a video tape service provider," as used in the VPPA's definition of "consumer," refers… |
| 25-447 |
Mark Schena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
compensation-scheme criminal-liability healthcare-referral kickback-statute medical-marketing statutory-interpretation |
Whether paying a healthcare marketer a commission when a physician independently makes a patient referral and receives none of the compensation qualif… |
| 25-5857 |
Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018.
Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser… |
| 25-441 |
Guardian Flight, L.L.C., et al. v. Health Care Service Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split contract-breach erisa-standing injury-in-fact no-surprises-act statutory-interpretation |
The No Surprises Act ("NSA") is Congress's solution to the problem of surprise medical bills. Under the NSA, insurers must cover services provided by … |
| 25-5860 |
Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that a phone containing child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspeci… |
| 25-5862 |
Byron Reyes-Ayala v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
This petition presents two questions.
First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled?
Second, whether th… |
| 25A415 |
Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25A416 |
Kyle John Roberts v. Regions Hospital |
Minnesota |
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights judicial-review medical-malpractice standards-of-care state-court statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5842 |
Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5847 |
Charlie Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp… |
| 25-5849 |
Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. The handwritten or heavily corrupted te… |
| 25-5853 |
Clarence Santiago v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-428 |
Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
contract-award court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit interested-party procurement-law statutory-interpretation |
Congress has provided the Court of Federal Claims with exclusive jurisdiction to hear claims brought by "an interested party objecting to " 1) "a soli… |
| 25-429 |
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Granted |
|
immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu… |
| 25-5830 |
Kortney Moore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.… |
| 25A409 |
Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5812 |
Michael Barreto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion mental-competency statutory-interpretation |
If a district court orders a competency examination under § 4241(b) based upon reasonable cause to question a defendant's competency, is it mandatory … |
| 25-5820 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge conditional-pardon felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25-5825 |
Laterrence Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-411 |
John Doe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo… |
| 25-5796 |
Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "knowingly" in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) (sexual abuse) applies only to "causing another person to engage in a sexual act" or whether it ex… |
| 25-5797 |
Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing |
1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP
sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder
bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of
jus… |
| 25-400 |
PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection |
Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra… |
| 25A392 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5802 |
Tommy Phonthalangsy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-390 |
Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
GVR |
|
circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv… |
| 25-5781 |
Michael Cobbs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c) remains valid despite the court's decision i… |
| 25-5790 |
Kyle Davey v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an "unlawful user"
of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25A382 |
United States v. Erik Matthew Harris |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
as-applied-challenge drug-users firearms-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-383 |
Mark Van Epern v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a defendant "uses" a minor to engage in "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) by surreptitiously recording the minor nude … |
| 25-5770 |
Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard |
1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 25-5772 |
Rudy Mario Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5776 |
Thomas Scott Perkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
comparative-analysis federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin… |
| 25-379 |
Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law article-three-standing election-integrity public-records statutory-interpretation voter-registration |
Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int… |
| 25-5758 |
Jerry Otis Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comply with the text and historical tradition of the Second Amendment in permanently disarming all felons, regardless of of… |
| 25-5762 |
Muhammad Masood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 25-5763 |
James Lee Winn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-restriction conditions-of-release deprivation-of-liberty sentencing-conditions statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether Special Condition #11 of the imposed conditions of supervised release, requiring Mr. Winn to abstain from alcohol and stay out of bars, violat… |
| 25-5769 |
Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25A371 |
Rashun Suncar v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-375 |
CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r… |
| 25-369 |
United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference chevron-doctrine federal-officer-removal judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo ,
603 U.S. 369 (2024), permits a court to (a) accept an
agency's reasonable construction of a statut… |
| 25-5748 |
She Ler Yer Lee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso… |
| 25-5747 |
Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5731 |
David Alexander Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
under the Second Amendment.
2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-5737 |
Antwan Elvago Coplen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
(1) WHETHER A COMBINATION OF "EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING
REASONS" THAT MAY WARRANT A DISCRETIONARY SENTENCE
REDUCTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)U) (… |
| 25-5717 |
Raul Acosta v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5720 |
Gregory Bartunek v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing |
Whether the rights of due process and to a jury trial are violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, including, but not l… |
| 25-5724 |
Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-342 |
Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact… |
| 25-5707 |
Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5710 |
Philip Alejandro Powers, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-act criminal-law greater-evil justification-doctrine necessity-defense |
Should a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act in order to avert a greater evil be denied the protection of the necessity defense if he cou… |
| 25-333 |
Tangtang Zhao v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution |
What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, … |
| 25-5695 |
Frank Deonta Leopaul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5696 |
Anatole Mbe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing |
Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov… |
| 25-5697 |
Desmond Copeland v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5699 |
In Re Mark Woods |
|
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law federal-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
1. Did the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
violate the suspension clause of the United States Constitution
Art.I, section 9,cl… |
| 25-5685 |
Anthony Lemicy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
I. CAN THE GOVERNMENT PROVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT OF "USE" "FOR THE PURPOSE" WITHOUT
THE MINORS TESTIFYING(direct evidence), OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE… |
| 25-5693 |
Yasmani Gurri Rubio v. City of Alexandria, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure rule-12b3 statutory-interpretation venue-dismissal |
QUESTION 1
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when a federal
district court dismisses an action with prejudice for imp… |
| 25A326 |
Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. National TPS Alliance, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (4) |
administrative-discretion homeland-security judicial-review statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status tps-termination |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5678 |
Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1). |
| 25-313 |
Chinook Indian Nation, et al. v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law court-recognition federal-jurisdiction indian-law statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition |
Does a federal court have jurisdiction to recognize the existence of an Indian tribe where the findings in the Indian Tribe List Act, Public Law 103-4… |
| 25-320 |
Alaska, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
alaska-lands federal-regulation land-management navigable-waters public-lands statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States can regulate fishing on Alaska's navigable waters under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, when its statut… |
| 25-5667 |
Antonio Deante Town v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5668 |
Matthew Chambliss Coleman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-303 |
Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against its employees "on the basis of disability." … |
| 25-5649 |
David Anthony Runyon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence fourth-circuit murder-for-hire postconviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
To hold that petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) conviction for conspiracy to commit murder for hire resulting in death was a valid predicate "crime of v… |
| 25-5655 |
Walter Lavelle Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5656 |
Kara Sternquist, aka Cara Sandiego, aka Kara Withersea v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Kara Sternquist's prior convictions are old and nonviolent. She has no history of being dangerous, but was herself a victim of violent c… |
| 25-5657 |
Pierre Demetrius Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5658 |
Devontae Lamont Royal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A304 |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law chevron-deference fda-regulation market-exclusivity orphan-drug-act statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-308 |
Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Pending |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
inter-partes-review patent-act patent-applications printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent applications that became publicly
accessible only after the challenged patent's critical date
are "prior art * * * printed publicatio… |
| 25-5634 |
Shawn M. Robertson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25A294 |
Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5620 |
Terry Duane Qualls v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25-5624 |
Nathaniel J. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5627 |
Lennie Edward Coles, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-287 |
Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh… |
| 25-5607 |
Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment.
2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti… |
| 25-5609 |
Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing |
While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet decided "wha… |
| 25-5610 |
Greg Gogin v. Michael Meisner, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process habeas-corpus presentence-investigation sentencing-accuracy statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant's sworn testimony while on the witness stand and under oath should be given credence as to the facts of his case and can defendant… |
| 25-5614 |
Franklin Jerome Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5617 |
Magdoulen A. Sawires v. Elizabeth Board of Education, et al. |
New Jersey |
2025-09-11 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation teacher-dismissal whistleblower-protection |
Teacher wrongfully dismissed, according to New Jersey Statutes Title 18A. Education 18A § 17-47, for school employees in New Jersey " When the dismiss… |
| 25-5618 |
Jamil Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the
Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by
Mitchel… |
| 25-5597 |
Joseph Carroll Bush, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5599 |
Raymond Lamont Seward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5600 |
In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard |
|
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… |
| 25-5601 |
John Edward Mason, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5603 |
Germaine Edward Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5580 |
Moises Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing |
Did David L. Rallens' (act) of sending a Private Investigator Coteban Hearnandez to MEXICO Violate my Constitutional Rights and Due Process law Under … |
| 25-5590 |
Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-law retroactivity second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), recognized a new right that is retroactivel… |
| 25-264 |
Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of … |
| 25-5577 |
Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence |
Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" … |
| 25-5563 |
Joseph Lee Smith v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review manslaughter post-trial-motions sentencing specific-intent writ-application |
WHETHER THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED
PETITIONER'S WRIT APPLICATION FILED ON DIRECT APPEAL AND
THE CLAIM THAT PETITIONER POSSESSE… |
| 25-5565 |
Marcus Delars Branson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on… |
| 25-250 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
executive-orders international-emergency-economic-powers-act nondelegation-doctrine presidential-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority |
1. Whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Pub. L. No. 95-223, Tit. II, 91 Stat. 1626, authorizes the tariffs imposed by Pres… |
| 25-253 |
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Pending |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights |
Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti… |
| 25-5550 |
Jermaine Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5554 |
Marcus J. Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5535 |
Jason Daniel Carbajal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially?
2. Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment as applied to individuals with conviction… |
| 25-5514 |
Joseph Lee Betancourt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 25-5519 |
Demario D. Henderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5520 |
Dennis Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether the predicted outcome and the potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement… |
| 25A244 |
Tremon Staley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5493 |
Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release |
When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 25-5503 |
Bobby Nathaniel Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-228 |
Detrina Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc., dba FITE, dba FITE TV |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split personally-identifiable-information privacy-law reasonable-foreseeability statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act |
The Video Privacy Protection Act forbids a "video tape service provider" from disclosing without consent "personally identifiable information," which … |
| 25-5477 |
Cornell Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5482 |
Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25A227 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Global Health Council, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-08-27 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-procedure-act executive-power impoundment separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5470 |
Hombra Lavail Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion esteras-precedent sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Esteras v. United States, 145 S. Ct. 2031 (2025) and in order to maintain uniform application of this Co… |
| 25-5471 |
Jakari Alexander Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5433 |
Jon Jesse Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5434 |
Christian Lamont Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5437 |
Sequan Anthony Fowler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5438 |
Tamonte Finney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5439 |
Naim Greene v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5441 |
Azontay Malik Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5443 |
Donovan L. Crews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5454 |
Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY DEVIATING FROM FLORIDA 'S STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION ON DEATH BY UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTIO… |
| 25-5421 |
Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5423 |
Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5424 |
Kiyel Tyquello Kearney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5415 |
Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 25-5417 |
Shalik Rasheem Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A201 |
Michael Donell Glover v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Question not identified. |
| 25-201 |
Mahsa Parviz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
|
consent-requirement criminal-statute identity-theft mandatory-sentencing means-of-identification statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), titled "Aggravated identity theft," imposes a mandatory consecutive two-year prison term on one who, while committing a liste… |
| 25-5399 |
Neda Mehrabani v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights discovery-violation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance medicare-billing sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued because I was denied a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel … |
| 25-5407 |
Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-possession federal-jurisdiction interstate-movement statutory-interpretation |
Apparently exercising its authority under the Commerce Clause, Congress criminally prohibited the simple possession of a firearm that was "in or affec… |
| 25-5408 |
Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-review judicial-discretion legal-error miscarriage-of-justice procedural-standard statutory-interpretation |
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Vultvxo^ on on erroneous \/ieuJ oQ \o.ui AmaunA - in~CohArov££S… |
| 25-5410 |
Kyle Syphax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi… |
| 25-193 |
Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect |
Under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n), third-party petitioners asserting an interest in property that has been forfeited to the federal government must file a veri… |
| 25-5388 |
Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5375 |
Arturs Spila v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
1. Was there "insufficient evidence" presented by the United States to convict Spila of money laundering conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i)… |
| 25-5376 |
Wesley Swick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release |
I. Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. Rico v. United States, No. 24-1056, presents the same question. |
| 25-5377 |
Vincent Deritis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct video-voyeurism visual-depiction |
Does a video voyeur produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when he records images showing the minor engaged in on… |
| 25-5381 |
Shameika Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit… |
| 25-5382 |
Meleke Osborne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a ny felony violates the Second Amendme… |
| 25A190 |
United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law chevron-deference labor-law nlrb prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-178 |
Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, LLC v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
excise-tax highway-tractor safe-harbor statutory-interpretation tax-exemption taxable-article |
The term "taxable article" or its equivalent are used repeatedly as a term of art throughout the tax code, case law, and Internal Revenue Service guid… |
| 25-5357 |
Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-171 |
Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation |
In a prosecution for racketeering related offenses, does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity … |
| 25-5334 |
Billy Joe Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 25-174 |
Bart Wade Reagor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud criminal-conviction false-statement loan-application material-misrepresentation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is in direct conflict with this Court's recent holding in Thompson v. United States… |
| 25-5338 |
Avontae Guiden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-justification probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-5343 |
Kendrick Jarrell Beaird v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Pending |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deferen… |
| 25-5331 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A… |
| 25-5332 |
Francisco Melgar Cabrera v. Christian Lepe, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act detention-review extradition-treaty federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER: EXTRADITION TREATY VIOLATIONS
ARE COGNIZABLE UNDER 28 USC §2241(c)(3)
RATHER THAN UNDER §2255(a); A PERSON HELD
IN CUSTODY IN VIOLATION OF A… |
| 25-157 |
Richard Hall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute burden-of-persuasion criminal-defense federal-health-care-program safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
The Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"), 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b), generally bars "remuneration" to induce referrals for health care goods and services for w… |
| 25-161 |
Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
asset-seizure criminal-law forfeiture proceeds property-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether in a forfeiture action seeking "proceeds," defined in 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(2)(A) as "property of any kind obtained directly or indirectly, as th… |
| 25-164 |
Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-law individual-right-action retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether federal whistleblowers have to prove "retaliatory intent" in an Individual Right to Action, (IRA), under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancem… |
| 25-5319 |
Timothy L. Elliott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-150 |
Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit "sex-trafficking" if the person gives unc… |
| 25-5299 |
Alfred Lamar Shavers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-prohibition firearm-possession second-amendment |
WHETHER THE CRIME OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER UNDER THE SECOND AMENDMENT WHERE THERE IS A BLANKET PRO… |
| 25-5301 |
Mario Leequan Thorne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5302 |
Cameron Edwards v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on his prior convictions violates the Second Amendment.
2. Wh… |
| 25-5303 |
Jae Michael Bernard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
firearm-prohibition gun-rights historical-tradition misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a permanent lifetime prohibition for a misdemeanor conviction, which was adopted by Congress in 1994 and codified in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) and… |
| 25-144 |
Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered government developments that post date a trademark applicant's filing to support a refusal under … |
| 25-146 |
Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri, & Zahida Aman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federalism legislative-intent plain-meaning state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation |
When applying the plain language of a broadly worded federal criminal statue would intrude on an area historically left to the states, must a court ap… |
| 25-5292 |
John Charles Volungus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
adam-walsh-act civil-commitment conditional-release district-court-authority medical-treatment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248(e) and other federal mental health statutes, which authorize the conditional release of a civilly committed persons under … |
| 25-5297 |
Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5269 |
Michael D. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Pet isioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe , Sentence in violation of& sp… |
| 25-139 |
Michele A. Cornelius v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legislative-intent sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation |
Does "any dispute " under the EFAA mean any dispute arising between the parties or just the first dispute arising between the parties? |
| 25-5276 |
David Leroy Earls v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to
18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous
language … |
| 25-5283 |
Deandre Blackman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure judicial-discretion revocation-hearing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether courts may rely on the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when determining the length and conditions of additional supervision following a supe… |
| 25A147 |
Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death |
Whether this Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, 592 U.S. 80 (2020) clarifies the test for statutory preemptio… |
| 25A149 |
Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law compensation-benefits pension-benefits statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-benefits |
1. This case concerns the interpretation of regulations governing veterans' benefits. And in particular, it concerns the construction of an important … |
| 25-5263 |
Marvin Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5258 |
James Joseph Bryant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic… |
| 25-5259 |
Antonio Marshall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5250 |
Edgardo Antonio Romero-Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-106 |
Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
|
attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the "use, attempted use, or threatened us… |
| 25-108 |
Donald Wayne Bush, et ux. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split judicial-authority non-dischargeable-debt statutory-interpretation tax-liabilities |
1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §505(a)(1) confers jurisdiction on the bankruptcy court to adjudicate the amount and legality of a debtor's tax liabilities.
2. … |
| 25-5225 |
Manuel Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure multiple-violations prison-term sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A court, in imposing sentence upon a criminal
defendant, may include as part of the sentence a term of
supervised release. If the defendant violates t… |
| 25-5226 |
Nashaun Drake v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5228 |
Geber Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) violates the Second Amendment on its face.
2. Whether the govern… |
| 25-5229 |
David Loren Waldeck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
Is a reviewing court permitted to insert a "judicial gloss" in construing an unambiguous statute when determining whether a law enforcement officer's … |
| 25-5205 |
Jesus Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-statistics sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin… |
| 25-5200 |
Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing |
(1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,… |
| 25A102 |
Maryland, et al. v. 3M Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-procedure federal-officer-removal government-contractor jurisdictional-removal pfas-contamination statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5176 |
Mario Gabriel Rodgers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comport with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 25-5178 |
Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5181 |
Samuel Adam Sanchez-Tena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been indicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding o… |
| 25-5168 |
John E. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing |
John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t… |
| 25-5170 |
Mark Richard Walters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud? |
| 25-81 |
Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Pending |
|
circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change… |
| 25-82 |
Malcolm Wade Pipes v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure disability-retirement inactive-duty-training military-law military-reservist statutory-interpretation |
Whether a military reservist, who was lawfully ordered to engage in remedial fitness training without pay and points, and suffered injury, was on inac… |
| 25A86 |
Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions:
1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System… |
| 25-61 |
Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the … |
| 25-5124 |
Jacob Graves v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As… |
| 25-5128 |
Albert Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release covid-19-relief due-process federal-prisoners sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. §4205(g) , the law on compassionate release, allowing only
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to file a Motion for relea… |
| 25-5099 |
Franklin Ray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeal-waiver due-process plea-agreement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
After this Court re-interpreted the Aggravated Identity Theft statute in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 132 (2023), Petitioner was factually in… |
| 25-5109 |
In Re Maria Dolores Navarro Martin |
|
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
discretionary-power due-process federal-declaratory-judgment immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. The question presented is whether the District Court had jurisdiction of this
suit under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act.
2. Whether The Att… |
| 25-5112 |
Brian Lee Corbett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion rule-35 sentencing supervised-release |
In this case, the district court held a hearing at which it revoked Corbett's term of supervised release and imposed a term of imprisonment as a resul… |
| 25-5114 |
Emiliano Nava Munoz v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-precedent legal-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-doctrine |
Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558, 558 (2019) abrogated or overruled its earlier decision in Stinson v. United States, 508… |
| 25-5090 |
Joseph Anthony Zinnerman, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-precedent probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-5091 |
Andres Burgara v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-offense drug-possession simultaneous-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Does the simultaneous possession of one type of controlled substance in two different locations constitute a single offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1… |
| 25-5087 |
Tashawn Burns v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Is Hobbs Act robbery a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after United States v. Taylor, 596 … |
| 25-5088 |
Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-innocence statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism |
This Petition seeks an order granting a certificate of appealability or. in the alternative, plenary review of the following questions:
1) Whether re… |
| 25-5072 |
Khaled Miah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat |
Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi… |
| 25-5067 |
Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child… |
| 25-25 |
Avianca Group International Limited v. Burnham Sterling and Company LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy-code chapter-11 debt-accrual lease-obligation payment-timing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, for purposes of Section 365(d) of the Bankruptcy Code, the "obligation" of a Chapter 11 debtor under a lease "aris[es]" as soon as the obliga… |
| 25-5061 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence prisoner-rights sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5063 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022), is a conviction for federal bank robbery under Section 2113(a) categoric… |
| 25-5049 |
DaJohn M. Hymes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5053 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-review habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation transfer-order |
The question presented is whether a circuit court errs in finding that a transfer order is not appealable, dismisses a petitioner's appeal of the dist… |
| 25A22 |
Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5034 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri… |
| 25-5038 |
Nicholas Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-deceit collateral-estoppel federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure new-york-law statutory-interpretation |
If Marrese v. Am. Acad, of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 470 U.S. 373, 380 (1985) and/or 28 U.S.C. § 1738 are controlling, should the Federal Court recognize … |
| 25-5041 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals violates- due process by declining to recall a mandate
where a petitioner demonstrates that he was convicted of a non-e… |
| 25-5009 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25-12 |
Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. |
Kansas |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
|
airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
1. Have various State and Federal Courts, when asked to apply The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, inconsistently legislated from the benc… |
| 25-5025 |
Santos Isabel Huete-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled?
Second, whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacat… |
| 25-5027 |
Gregory Stevens v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5028 |
Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1: Whether the relationships listed in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve both jurisdictional and su… |
| 25-8 |
Matthew Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness |
I.
Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible
right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is
unconstitutionally vague.
II.
Whether th… |
| 25-2 |
Deon Reese v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-conspiracy due-process judicial-precedent pinkerton-doctrine statutory-interpretation vicarious-liability |
Whether this Court should overrule Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946). |
| 25-5 |
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, a California Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Granted |
Amici (16)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
asylum-application border-entry immigration-law immigration-officer statutory-interpretation u.s.-mexico-border |
The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be… |
| 25A5 |
Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7526 |
Dwayne Lamonica Ford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7527 |
Kh'Lajuwon Amari Murat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent judicial-construction plain-meaning revocation statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether, when a district court revokes a term of supervised release and imposes a period of imprisonment followed by a new term of supervised relea… |
| 24-7528 |
John A. Sam v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-ban second-amendment |
Does the application of Section 922(g)(1) to Sam plainly violate the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7529 |
Matthew Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-7502 |
In Re Aaron Franklin Johnson, Jr. |
|
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review power-of-attorney statutory-interpretation |
The Question Presented is if Mr. Johnson is entitled to a habeas relief and extraordinary writ due to the State of Maryland pattern of abuse and negle… |
| 24-7505 |
Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1) DID THE COURT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIA REFUSING TO GRANT PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE TO WHE… |
| 24-7509 |
Jacob Mathias Rubinstein v. Eric Rardin, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody-credit detention-definition federal-statute legal-restrictions statutory-interpretation |
1. Does "official detention" under 18 U.S.C. §3585(b) include, in addition to "detention" under 18 U.S.C. §3142(e), restrictive forms of "release" und… |
| 24-1312 |
James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re… |
| 24-7501 |
Jacob Allen Judd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-prohibition nonviolent-offense prior-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual whose prior convictions for "crime[s] punishable by imprisonme… |
| 24-1309 |
East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether time spent on "integral and indispensable" activities is measured based on reasonable duration (as three circuits have held), or actual dur… |
| 24-7475 |
Samuel Mateo-Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins 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… |
| 24-7480 |
Otis Ray Whitehead, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis felon-prohibition firearm-possession historical-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court may uphold the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) based solely on this Court's statement in District of Columbia v. Heller, 55… |
| 24A1266 |
Kyle Syphax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7471 |
Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Seventh Circuit decided Quintin Ferguson's 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) arson conviction was a crime of violence that subjected him to United States Sentenc… |
| 24-7460 |
Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen… |
| 24-7449 |
Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating the ultimate merits of a habeas petition at the COA stage, often on prejudice grounds, violate… |
| 24-7433 |
Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "affecting commerce" element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at … |
| 24-7435 |
Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G… |
| 24-7417 |
Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7419 |
Cardari Bradley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7425 |
Joshua Sutherland v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment?
Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment? |
| 24A1239 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7410 |
Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing |
Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c… |
| 24-7398 |
Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7400 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-7402 |
Braddic Deshaun Rollerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted markedly different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s constitu… |
| 24-7403 |
Michael Stapleton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals create a split in Circuits by affirming Movant's convictions and sentences for crimes that were committed simultanously under… |
| 24-1262 |
RDFS, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-authority certificate-issuance judicial-review natural-gas-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may defer to FERC on the threshold question of FERC's authority to issue blanket certificates without determining the legal… |
| 24-7379 |
Andra G. Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Green is serving a life sentence for pleading to a single count of murder with all the facts in relation to a crime of violence, under 18 U.S.C § 924(… |
| 24-7372 |
Guy Cuomo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
computer-crime computer-fraud criminal-intent social-security-fraud statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
1. Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer "without authorization" within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-7360 |
Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing |
Question (1)
In light of Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314,119 S.Ct. 1307,
143 L. Ed. 2d 424 (1999) and Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct.
1… |
| 24-1234 |
United States v. Ali Danial Hemani |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Granted |
Amici (23)Relisted (3) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7347 |
Joshua Caleb Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7349 |
Reymundo Arredondo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation |
When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements… |
| 24-7340 |
Jerrell Anthony Bazile v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted markedly different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s constitu… |
| 24-7342 |
Jose Gomez Quiroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-firearms-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been indicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding o… |
| 24-1220 |
Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would b… |
| 24-7331 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Article IV standing requirement. Respondent failed to establish federal question jurisdiction, which made the controversy non-justiciable. Article III… |
| 24-7334 |
Brandon Rashaad Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 24-1215 |
Miniso Depot CA, Inc., et al. v. Yongtong Liu |
California |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act piecemeal-litigation sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation |
Should claims within the scope of an arbitration agreement that are unrelated to sexual assault or sexual harassment continue to be arbitrated under t… |
| 24-7318 |
Wesley Eron Swick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but each has overl… |
| 24-7323 |
Jody D. Owens v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-controlled-substances-act sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in United States Sentencing Guideline ("U.S.S.G.") U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) only covers offenses… |
| 24-7303 |
Donterrian M. Lavender v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal defendant-rights federal-sentencing sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Lavender's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 24-7310 |
Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation |
The Appellant respectfully requests the Court to determine the applicability of Oregon Revised Statute 14.270. Appellant finds ORS 14.270 to be in vio… |
| 24-1203 |
Bernhard Jakits v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's instructions to the jury
regarding the statutory terms "sexually explicit
conduct" and "lascivious exhibition" were … |
| 24-7286 |
Christopher Glen Mason v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7290 |
Paul Curry, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law harmless-error second-amendment sentencing-procedure |
First, whether as several courts of appeal have held, all Apprendi errors including Erlinger violations should be treated as trial errors subject to t… |
| 24-7291 |
John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-intent federal-crime intent-element maritime-jurisdiction property-theft statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person acts with "intent to steal or purloin" for purposes of the felony offense in 18 U.S.C. § 661 whenever he knowingly takes and carries … |
| 24A1151 |
Day Pacer LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
do-not-call-registry FTC-enforcement outbound-telephone-call plain-language statutory-interpretation telemarketing-sales-rule |
Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly interpreted the Telemarketing Sales Rule's definition of "outbound telephone call" under 16 C.F.R. § 310.2(x) by… |
| 24-7271 |
Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7275 |
Jacob Thomas Mireles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-7278 |
Malik J. Moss v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process right violated when the Sentencing Court relieved the Government of its constitutionally mandated burden … |
| 24-1187 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion drug-approval fda-regulation medical-innovation statutory-interpretation |
Congress enacted the Fast Track program to speed the development and approval of certain novel therapies. It required FDA to designate "a new drug" as… |
| 24-7260 |
Dawon Hennings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 24-7261 |
Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7265 |
Myron Dreun Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law federal-guidelines judicial-deference precedent-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deference due to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 24-7253 |
William Danta Toney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7254 |
Legarius Deshawn Bonner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process PROTECT-Act revocation sentencing supervised-release |
DOES THE COURT VIOLATE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE UPON REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, WHEN THE COURT EMPLO… |
| 24-7255 |
Jarred Adams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process legal-analysis sentence-length sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
Whether sentence length is the exclusive means to determine if a subsequent sentence is more severe for vindictive sentencing analysis? |
| 24A1105 |
Brad Greenspan v. Google, LLC, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
crime-victims-rights-act due-process judicial-review mandamus petition statutory-interpretation |
i. Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's Crime Victims' Rights Act petition as "moot" rather than addressing it on the merits as r… |
| 24-7232 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-7234 |
In Re David Diehl |
|
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court-jurisdiction federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-successive-claims statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 24-1172 |
Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conspiracy enterprise-definition federal-criminal-law racketeering rico-statute statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), the members of an "enterprise" must share a common illegal or frau… |
| 24-7212 |
Dequarn Markeyth Bell v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 24-7218 |
Jose Alfredo Delara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
Second, whether this Court should grant certiorari, vaca… |
| 24-7202 |
Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation |
I cannot reliably extract the "Question(s) Presented" section from this document. While the OCR text contains a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header, the ha… |
| 24-7188 |
Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for being an unlawful user of marijuana in possession of a firearm, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), must be vacated be… |
| 24-7194 |
Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing |
1. This Honorable Court has declared that Counsel renders ineffective assistance
in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence ina capita… |
| 24-7182 |
Antjoun Riddick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal government has the authority under the Commerce Clause, Art. I, § 8, cl. 3, to regulate the noncommercial, intrastate possession o… |
| 24-7183 |
James Little v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing |
James Little pled guilty to a single petty offense arising from the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. After a successful appeal challengi… |
| 24-7168 |
Raymond Charles, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-1148 |
Dominic Michael Mason v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sentencing |
WHETHER DOMINIC MASON IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND RESENTENCING WHERE HIS FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CON… |
| 24-1149 |
T. Kimberly Williams v. Elton Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coverage-provision employee-retirement erisa multiple-employer-plan pension-plan statutory-interpretation |
This petition involves three questions of exceptional importance:
Whether the pension plan at issue in this case, designed and operated for over 70 y… |
| 24-7161 |
Todd Sheffler v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation |
First, in Fowler v. United States , 563 U.S. 668 (2011), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a) required the government to prove a "reasonable likel… |
| 24-7141 |
Kerry D. Gayfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7143 |
Kelvin Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7148 |
Julia Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute document-fraud false-statement federal-criminal-law immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C.A. §1546(a) reaches "authentic" immigration documents that are generated following a false statement (as oppos… |
| 24-7153 |
Melvin Clay Blake, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7122 |
Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing |
1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent… |
| 24-7105 |
Andre Johnson v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law census civil-rights constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-7115 |
Elroy Wilkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Does a voyeur produce or possess visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when the images recorded the minor engaged in onl… |
| 24-7098 |
Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights |
Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "significan… |
| 24-7088 |
Sam Autry Fletcher v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-claims evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Title 28 U.S.C. §2254(e)(l) or any other provision of the AEDBA, or any clearly established U.S. Supreme Court authority give frderal district… |
| 24-7095 |
Javier Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins 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… |
| 24-7082 |
Edgar Llausas-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion safety-valve sentencing |
1. Whether the district court improperly relied upon the subjective belief of the prosecutor without support in the record that petitioner lied when h… |
| 24-1109 |
Karl Hansen v. Tesla, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award issue-preclusion predispute-arbitration sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-claim |
1. Whether a confirmed arbitration award on related
or overlapping claims may be given issue-preclusive
effect so as to bar a Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX")… |
| 24-7069 |
Thomas M. Adams v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals judicial-review military-justice petition-review statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the mandate under 67(a)(3) permit the CAAF to deny review where petitioner has presented a meritorious issue? |
| 24-7071 |
Raul Palacios-De Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7072 |
Du Truong Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-7062 |
Damone D. Oakley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2326 criminal-procedure double-counting sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2326(2) and Guideline enhancements implemented by the Sentencing Commission constitute double coun… |
| 24-7047 |
In Re Sefe A. Almedom |
|
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law court-jurisdiction judicial-authority legal-fraud state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation |
Does The State Supreme Court Of Ohio have More Power And Authority than The U.S. Supreme Court?
Would this constitute Political Fraud Upon The Court … |
| 24-7049 |
Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit step outside the bounds of § 2254(d) by considering reasons not found in the CCA's reasoned opinion to determine the reasonablen… |
| 24-7051 |
Gmerrio Underwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7057 |
Earl B. Penn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24-7039 |
Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Is A-V UviifeA S%Ws of /\mex\GQ 4-Vie -V^e. U.O i'WA Si-afes ^eAeve\ 'QsAti of ho&e\\eA& 'ficoe&Aj&s ule, 40 CeXO CA>?
, SheuV^ 4-Vie Un; (W,f ha/e O… |
| 24-7040 |
Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does Jones v Hendrix , 599 U.S. 465 (2023), a recent Supreme
Court holding which only addresses "[] a prisoner asserting an
intervening change in… |
| 24-7032 |
Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24-7013 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt |
1. In light of United States v. Stitt , 586 U.S. 27 (2018), can the Texas burglary statute – which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible – prop… |
| 24-6990 |
Abdul Kilgore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence, including a complaining
witness's video statement and photographic evidence, in a superv… |
| 24-6994 |
Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t… |
| 24-6996 |
Deonta Damon Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-1072 |
Raizel Blumberger v. Ian B. Tilley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general-removal federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption health-center-liability public-health-service statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether, as the Ninth Circuit held, but contrary to the views of three other circuits, a defendant who disagrees with the Attorney General's timel… |
| 24-6981 |
Luis Alfredo Felix-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6982 |
In Re Lawrence J. Gerrans |
|
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner being detained and imprisoned in violation of the 1.
Constitution, Statutory laws or Federal Rule(s) of Criminal Procedure?
Is Petition… |
| 24-6965 |
Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on agency guidance issued after the alleged conduct, especiall… |
| 24-1066 |
Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation |
In Black v. United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split on this question: "Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 ap… |
| 24-1062 |
The Hertz Corporation, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
absolute-priority-rule bankruptcy-code make-whole-premiums solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation unmatured-interest |
The Bankruptcy Code disallows claims for "unmatured interest," i.e., claims for interest that has not yet accrued when the bankruptcy petition is file… |
| 24-1056 |
Isabel Rico v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Granted |
Amici (4) |
criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine |
Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. |
| 24-6922 |
Lorenzo Vazquez-Alba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-criminal-law illegal-entry immigration-law judicial-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court properly enter judgment under both 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2)? |
| 24-6924 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1), and post-conviction supervised release restrictions prohibiting possession of a firearm on any supervisee regardless of … |
| 24-1040 |
Elliot McGucken v. Valnet, Inc., a Canadian Corporation, dba TheTravel.com |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
copyright-infringement fair-use public-display statutory-interpretation technological-process unauthorized-use |
Whether the exclusive right to publicly display a copyrighted work, 17 U.S.C. § 106(5), is infringed when a website operator publicly shows a copyrigh… |
| 24-6913 |
Johnson Saint-Louis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the federal bank robbery statute, 18 USC §2113(a) is indivisible and thus not a qualifying "Crime of violence" under 18 USC §924(c)? |
| 24-6914 |
Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) is applicable to a case in which the state court rejected the petitioner's claim o… |
| 24-6892 |
Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6898 |
Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-1029 |
Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an action may be removed to the
district court after it has been dismissed in the state
court, here the District of Columbia Superior Court… |
| 24-6881 |
Brandon A. Rowell v. Adult Representation Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-case constitutional-provisions court-punishment criminal-action legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. Can the court punish an individual for a criminal action that resulted from a civil case. |
| 24-6852 |
Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment |
1. - Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause
of the Fifth Amendment by sentencing the Petitioner in accordance with… |
| 24-6858 |
Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
intrajudicial-claims judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus-relief objective-observer statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the D.C. Court of Appeals "overpowering " standard for determining the
indisputability of §455 (a) claims of appearance of bias that do not cla… |
| 24-1022 |
Susan Hutson v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction motion-to-terminate prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a State or local official who moves to terminate prospective relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(1)(A) bears any affirmative burden beyond demons… |
| 24-6847 |
Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing |
Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting … |
| 24-6854 |
Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights judicial-misconduct sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit whistleblower-protection |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in disregarding the unanimous findings of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 1514A?
… |
| 24-1016 |
RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Pending |
CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. |
| 24-6836 |
Christian Genao v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release |
Federal criminal defendants have a right to be present at sentencing, grounded in the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and codified in Federal Rule … |
| 24-6826 |
Timothy W. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In accordance with the method of statutory interpretation set forth in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110 (2023), should the term "uses" be interpre… |
| 24-6827 |
Charles Anthony Giovinco v. Caryn Flowers, Warden |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-deference concurrent-sentences first-step-act recidivism-reduction statutory-interpretation time-credits |
The First Step Act of 2018 ("FSA") provides that an eligible prisoner "shall earn" time credits if he participates in the FSA's flagship recidivism-re… |
| 24-6812 |
David C. Lettieri v. Broome County Humane Society, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination imminent-danger legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does discrimation count as "immidant Danger?"
2. Does an animal being killed count as "Immidant Danger?" |
| 24-6818 |
Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, as the Fourth, Eighth, a… |
| 24-6788 |
Shannon Lamon Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6789 |
Johnell Lavell Barber, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S.… |
| 24-6791 |
Ladarrell C. Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6794 |
Ismael Moises Haynes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6782 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6766 |
David Lynn Griffith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing |
WHETHER HISTORICAL DRUGS PURCHASED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE DEFENDANT CONSTITUTES RELIABLE EVIDENCE AT SENTENCING TO SUPPORT THE PURITY OF METHAMPHET… |
| 24-6755 |
Xavier Armon Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6757 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish… |
| 24-6759 |
Paul Corey Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6748 |
Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing |
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual pu… |
| 24-971 |
Seafreeze Shoreside, Inc., et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference environmental-policy judicial-review offshore-energy statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit's decision conflicts
with Loper Lights Enters v. Raimondo , 603
U.S. 369 (2024), which requires courts to
independentl… |
| 24-972 |
Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of the federal … |
| 24-6731 |
Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits felon-in-possession firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 24-967 |
Grande Communications Networks, LLC v. UMG Recordings, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Pending |
Relisted (2) |
content-neutral contributory-liability copyright-infringement internet-service-provider statutory-interpretation third-party-notice |
Whether an ISP is liable for contributory copyright infringement by (i) providing content-neutral internet access to the general public and (ii) faili… |
| 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… |
| 24-6713 |
Elmer Alexis Montano Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce state-jurisdiction |
I. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the def… |
| 24-960 |
CoinMarketCap OpCo, LLC, et al. v. Ryan Cox |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure judicial-district nationwide-service personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation venue-provision |
Whether defendants are subject to personal jurisdiction in every judicial district nationwide by virtue of the nationwide service provision, even wher… |
| 24-6703 |
Lewis Mobley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-statute physical-force statutory-interpretation VICAR |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-952 |
South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. |
Arizona |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-preemption indian-law non-indian-ownership statutory-interpretation tax-preemption trust-land |
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 provides that Indian trust "lands … shall be exempt from State and local taxation." 25 U.S.C. § 5108. It is sett… |
| 24-6693 |
Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece… |
| 24-6695 |
Edward Deloach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines |
If a defendant is convicted for attempting and conspiring to file a false lien under 18 U.S.C. §1521, but the document he submitted to a federal agenc… |
| 24-944 |
Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conflict-of-interest due-process investment-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation |
28 U.S.C. § 455 outlines the grounds for disqual ification of judges and magistrates due to potential biases or conflicts of interest. This Honorable … |
| 24-6686 |
Deonta Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect |
In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 24A844 |
Elroy Wilkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-935 |
Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Granted |
Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 24-6661 |
Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand |
WHETHER THE SIXIH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR
CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY REFLECTS A DEVIATION FOR THE DIRECTIVE
SET FORTH BY THE C… |
| 24-6663 |
Darrell Turner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur |
(1) DOES A DEFENDANT MEET THE "SUBSTANTIAL DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT"
STANDARD UNDER 28 USCS § 2253(c), WHEN HE PRESENTS THE 'VACATUR'
OF HIS P… |
| 24-6666 |
Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently
prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has
been convicted of a crime punishable by impr… |
| 24-6669 |
Gregory Stump v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment serial-number-obliteration statutory-interpretation |
Stump asks this Court to determine whether 26 U.S.C. § 5861(h), which prohibits possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, violates th… |
| 24-6671 |
Isaac Doyle Koch v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement official-act resistance statutory-interpretation |
What is the difference between interfering with an official act and refusing an official crime?
What is the effect, when statute disallows all physic… |
| 24-6659 |
Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing |
Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine?
Did th… |
| 24-6634 |
Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay |
When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans… |
| 24-6638 |
Raquel Delgado Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causal-connection criminal-law depraved-heart federal-murder second-degree-murder sentencing |
1. Does the "depraved heart" theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's "depraved" conduct and the vic… |
| 24-918 |
Exclusive Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees civil-litigation court-procedure federal-removal judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order to fulfill the "large objective" of deterring unnecessary federal court removal petitions, district courts are required to expressly… |
| 24-6623 |
LaMorris Allan French v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6625 |
Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-6627 |
Anthony Washington v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment |
Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6628 |
Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde… |
| 24-6606 |
Willie McCoy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-6599 |
William J. Trengove, Jr. v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-circuit-split discretionary-function-exemption federal-tort-claims-act government-negligence legal-duty statutory-interpretation |
Can the Department of Justice, or any government agency, legitimately claim 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) discretionary function exemption (DFE) after being ind… |
| 24-6603 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether or not the "reduced" penalties pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553, commonly referred to as "Hazelwood" or as was amended and specified by Congres… |
| 24-6592 |
Lawrence E. Mattison v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-orders-doctrine court-transfer federal-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is required to
vacate a transfer order if transfer violated 28 U.S.C. §1631.
Whether an e… |
| 24-6582 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is… |
| 24-6583 |
Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6584 |
Colton Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-law first-degree-murder force-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether first-degree murder, under 18 U.S.C. § 1, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 24-885 |
Rockwater, Inc., dba Peerless Manufacturing Company v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
design-features federal-excise-tax highway-transportation statutory-exception statutory-interpretation vehicle-classification |
This statutory interpretation case raises the
primary question as to the plain (best) meaning of 26
U.S.C. § 7701(a)(48)(A)(i) and, in the context of … |
| 24-6567 |
Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the four level enhancement to petitioner's sentencing range for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which… |
| 24-6569 |
Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 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… |
| 24-6575 |
Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(1)(N) requires that, before a district court accepts a plea of guilty, it must first "inform the defendant of… |
| 24-6557 |
Steve Rosado v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-enticement criminal-statute government-overreach motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation trial-court-error |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED CLEAR ERROR DENYING THE MOTTON TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT DUE TO LACK OF PERSUASION FOR THE ATTEMPTED ENTICEMENT?
WH… |
| 24-6558 |
Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-notice statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in including the Government's post-trial misinterpretation of Florida Statute § 794.05 and 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), … |
| 24-6559 |
Ignacio Leyva-Frayre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
I. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
II. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, a… |
| 24-6560 |
Tamaz Pasternak, aka Tomas Pasternak v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law federal-statute fraud-scheme property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-866 |
Converter Manufacturing, LLC v. Tekni-Plex, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law burden-of-proof patent-enablement patent-validity prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the patent challenger always has
the burden of proving that the disclosures in an
asserted prior art patent or printed publication
are enab… |
| 24-6540 |
Narey Perez-Quibus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-test constitutional-methodology gun-rights rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), as clarified in Uni… |
| 24-6544 |
Lemack Bellot v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that "aiding and abetting an attempt" and "attempting to aid and abet" are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c… |
| 24-6545 |
Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order |
In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts… |
| 24-856 |
Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act |
1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting.
2. Whether,… |
| 24-6512 |
In Re John David Stahlman |
|
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, WHEN ISSUING ITS OPINION IN UNITED STATES v. HITE, 769 F.3d 1154 (D.C. C . Cir. 2014) C… |
| 24-6516 |
Broxstonie Demichael Mitchell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6517 |
Edell Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term e… |
| 24-6525 |
Richard Stephens Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-law statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability when its appeals court made such decision off of the Circuit's wrongful eval… |
| 24-850 |
Andrew Kamal v. Femtosense, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation transfer-requirements |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the Clark v. Busey transfer requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
Whether the denial of transfer… |
| 24-6506 |
Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-843 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) provides that "Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually exp… |
| 24-845 |
Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., forecloses a qui tam FCA action or claim if "substantially the same… |
| 24-6489 |
Dzung Ahn Pham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-intent mens-rea prescription-authorization regulatory-definition statutory-interpretation |
I. Is authorization under the Controlled Substances Act defined in terms of the regulatory definition of an effective prescription or by the plain mea… |
| 24-841 |
David W. Suetholz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-liability deliberate-ignorance mens-rea physician-prosecution prescribing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a deliberate ignorance instruction in a physician prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) that incorporates an objective yet "ambiguous" standard… |
| 24-6477 |
Wilmer Yonathan Doblado-Padilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 24-6482 |
In Re Petera Micale Carlton |
|
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner still a career offender based upon the Decision of the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Simmons, 649 F.3d 247 (4th Cir. 2011?I. |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies (i) to habeas filings made after a prisoner has exhausted appellate review of his first petition, (ii) to all second-in-t… |
| 24-6487 |
Kareem Reaves v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment |
Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6462 |
Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation |
The records of the guilty plea, sentencing and probation revocation all reveal that the
judge and apparently the prosecution incorrectly believed thro… |
| 24-825 |
WC Realty Group, Inc., dba Century 21 WC Realty v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
copyright-infringement fee-motion litigation-strategy meritorious-defense statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a … |
| 24-6448 |
Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. John Ratcliffe, Director, Central Intelligence Agency |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent mandamus standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Shall this Court permit the courts of the fifth circuit to openly defy both this Court's mandates and statutes to establish their own circuit speci… |
| 24-6451 |
Devon Maurice Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
GVR |
IFP |
bruen-test constitutional-law gun-rights rahimi-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), as clarified in Uni… |
| 24-6459 |
Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review |
Due to a lack of guidance from the Supreme Court, lower courts apply a variety of standards of review to the issue of whether an individual's consent … |
| 24-820 |
Daniel Rutherford v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
The compassionate-release statute permits courts
to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that
"extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr… |
| 24-812 |
La Dell Grizzell, on Behalf of Her Minor Children v. San Elijo Elementary School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights federal-court minor-representation ninth-circuit-rule pro-se-litigation statutory-interpretation |
Since the Judiciary Act of 1789, all natural persons suing in federal court have held the right to conduct their cases "personally," i.e., pro se. 28 … |
| 24-813 |
Chevron USA Incorporated, et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Granted |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
causal-nexus civil-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal oil-production statutory-interpretation wartime-contract |
1. Whether a causal-nexus or contractual-direction test survives the 2011 amendment to the federal-officer removal statute.
2. Whether a federal cont… |
| 24-6427 |
Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution gun-rights historical-analysis second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts must conduct a historical analysis to decide a Second Amendment challenge to a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5).
2. Whether … |
| 24-6430 |
Maurice Fleming v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-6405 |
Sidney Joseph v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process federal-enforcement property-seizure restitution separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the phrase "all other available and reasonable means" in 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A)(ii) to m… |
| 24-6408 |
Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 24-6398 |
Filemon Corona-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 24-788 |
Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
defendant-request federal-rule-criminal-procedure government-obligation legal-interpretation plea-bargain sentencing |
1. Does the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B) require that the government either to join in the defendant's sentencing … |
| 24-6375 |
In Re John E. Drummond |
|
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii constitutional-violation habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-habeas-corpus |
If, after carefully weighing all the reasons for accepting a state court's judgment, an Article III habeas court is convinced that a prisoner's custod… |
| 24-779 |
Roger Paul Bradford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment that alleges conduct outside the reach of a criminal statute precludes a district court from exercising jurisdiction to adjudica… |
| 24-783 |
Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit |
Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(1). |
| 24A724 |
Johnny Copper, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-overreach fda-regulation procedural-due-process regulatory-burden statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6344 |
Tamir Abdullah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Section 404 of the First Step Act made retroactive the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010's changes to the cocaine-base drug-quantity thresholds in 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-6345 |
Mark Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-violation criminal-statute guilty-plea immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "in violation of law" in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) is limited to criminal immigration violations (and does not include civil immigration… |
| 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 … |
| 24-6334 |
John Fredenburgh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe… |
| 24-767 |
Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference nlrb-review presidential-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. The National Labor Relations Board's
interpretations of the National Labor Relations Act are
entitled to deference if they are "reasonably defens… |
| 24-770 |
Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether a hostile work environment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) requires proof that harassment was "severe or pervasive" —a standard not foun… |
| 24-6326 |
Mark Allen Hayden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the de… |
| 24-6312 |
Tisheem Rich v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether "Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after" United States v. Taylor , 596 U.S. 845 (… |
| 24-6316 |
Antonio Ulises Barrera-Mackorty v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process immigration-law naturalization statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Is Question No. 15 on the naturalization application (N-400), when considered in conjunction with 18 U.S.C. § 1425, void for vagueness and thus a viol… |
| 24-6292 |
Shannon L. Cotton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act felony-classification first-step-act statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) requires a district court to determine the current classification of a defendant's felony by look… |
| 24-6299 |
Anthony Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction deferred-judgment felon-in-possession firearms-restriction mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in reviewing Mr. Fisher's conviction for possession of ammunition as a convicted felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 (a… |
| 24-6301 |
Deion Shawn Hester v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment |
Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. |
| 24-744 |
Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. |
Iowa |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-quality statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
This case explicitly presents important questions, over which, Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals, state high, and intermediate courts are openl… |
| 24-6270 |
Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, Warden |
Montana |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. The validity of Montana Statute MCA (46-22-101 (1) and MCA (46-22-101) (2) is drawn in question under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) on the ground of its bein… |
| 24-6282 |
Dominique Kevion Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-unconstitutionality hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute of conviction, Title 18, Section 1951 (The Hobbs Act), is facially unconstitutional? |
| 24-735 |
Raymond Liddy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-criminal-law internet-crime interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation |
This case raises a fundamental question that has split the Circuits regarding the intersection between the use of the Internet and federal criminal la… |
| 24-721 |
Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
|
absurdity-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law jackson-v-virginia statutory-interpretation |
Whether Texas courts are applying the "absurdity doctrine" in a manner that violates due process?
Whether Jackson v. Virginia tolerates inferences ba… |
| 24-718 |
Blake Andrew Warner v. Hillsborough County School Board |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-court legal-standing litigation parental-representation pro-se statutory-interpretation |
In federal court, "parties may plead and conduct their
own cases personally or by counsel as, by the rules of such
courts, respectively, are permitt… |
| 24A669 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6233 |
Dearick Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines; and
2. If so, whether a s… |
| 24-6235 |
Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony off ense involving a n … |
| 24-715 |
Thomas Shands v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court whistleblower-award |
I. Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction to review the IRS's denial of a mandatory whistleblower awar… |
| 24-705 |
Bud Conyers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
false-claims-act government-intervention relator-share settlement-agreement statutory-interpretation whistleblower-rights |
After the Government intervenes in a False Claims Act ("FCA") case, is the whistleblower "relator" entitled to 15%-25% of the "proceeds of the action,… |
| 24-706 |
Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Should the Court reexamine its holding in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160 (2009), which exempts factual findings necessary to increase a defendant's punis… |
| 24-6224 |
Armando Mena-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 24-6211 |
Roderick Wayne Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit Courts of Appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) against Second Amen… |
| 24-6213 |
Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the United States Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of Hughes v. United States 263 F.3D 272,… |
| 24A644 |
Shedrick Thornton v. Tina Y. Clinton, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process incarceration judicial-representation plea-proceedings sentencing time-served-credit |
Question not identified. |
| 24-686 |
Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee… |
| 24-688 |
Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a cou… |
| 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… |
| 24-683 |
Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
admiralty-law federal-jurisdiction military-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
The Federal Tort Claims Act waives the immunity of the United States for money-damages claims based on the negligence or wrongdoing of its employees a… |
| 24-6190 |
Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a "substantial interference with the admi… |
| 24-6192 |
Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 24-675 |
Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-innocence federal-damages legal-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unjust-conviction |
Whether a petitioner has satisfied the third element of Section 2513(a) when he did not engage in misconduct or neglect that proximately caused his pr… |
| 24-676 |
Friends of George's, Inc. v. Steven J. Mulroy, in His Official and Individual Capacity as the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing content-based-restriction first-amendment judicial-review statutory-interpretation viewpoint-discrimination |
When evaluating a constitutional challenge to a state statute, may a federal court unilaterally narrow the statute's scope in a manner that contradict… |
| 24-6186 |
Vicente Alejo Andres, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. When a defendant sells drugs from his house at the same time he has a firearm in his house, is that enough to prove that he possessed the firearm "… |
| 24-672 |
Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s… |
| 24A614 |
Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24A605 |
Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24A611 |
Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-658 |
In Re Securus Technologies, et al. |
|
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court federal-communications-commission forum-shopping statutory-interpretation venue-transfer |
Whether the First Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a) by refusing to transfer to the Fifth Circuit consolidated challenges to a Federal Communication… |
| 24-6158 |
Elden Don Brannan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-prosecution destructive-device firearms-regulation military-ordinance statutory-interpretation weapon-design |
Whether the Act's instruction that the term destructive device "shall not include any device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as a wea… |
| 24-6163 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard, et al. v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention-conditions federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2241 statutory-interpretation |
Under Jones v. Hendrix, 599 U.S. 465 (2023), may federal prisoners challenge the manner, location, or conditions of detention through a habeas corpus … |
| 24-6165 |
Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6149 |
Michael Boyer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove … |
| 24-6135 |
Chad Malone v. Frank Vanihel |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-6136 |
Zachary Barker Coughlin v. California |
California |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process lawrence-v-texas sexual-consent |
1. can caliofnria make it illegal for a woman to provide advance
consentto intoxicatswd or inconscious intercoursej sspecielly after SCOTUS's decisio… |
| 24-6140 |
Terrance L. Lavoll v. Jerry Howell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus was denied in violation of the Fifth Amendment when the state denied his right to appeal and his sentenc… |
| 24-6141 |
Martin Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply
categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me… |
| 24A575 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6128 |
Jonathan High v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence |
Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: can a defendant be convicted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-6129 |
In Re Jason Clark |
|
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Can Petitioner be denied Categorical approach relief on his 18 USCS 924, enhanced sentence under United States v. Taylor?
2) Can the US Attorney p… |
| 24-6130 |
Eugene Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation trial-defects |
Whether a district court judge may consider due process violations, defects in the trial, and conflicts of interest from the underlying trial when dec… |
| 24-6121 |
Jason Campion v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof categorical-approach federal-definition overbreadth-doctrine state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
When arguing that a state statute is overbroad under the categorical approach,
and a particular state statute plainly prohibits actions that are broad… |
| 24-6123 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault |
Does a penalty provision of the Texa s sexual assault statute, which
provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time
of the … |
| 24-6126 |
Joel S. Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split discretionary-sentence extraordinary-compelling-reasons federal-criminal-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(¢)(1)(A) ca… |
| 24-6102 |
Cleate Wilson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6103 |
Christopher Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law felony-prohibition firearms-possession second-amendment |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on the possession of firearms by all felons violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied to Go… |
| 24-6107 |
Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S.__, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 18… |
| 24-6109 |
Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization |
What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application? And if a defenda… |
| 24-6092 |
Russell M. Grimes v. Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-6094 |
Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6096 |
David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a Judge give legal advise?
2. Can Title 5 United States Code be a form of habeas for Title 28 United States Code 2241?
3. Can appeals claim N… |
| 24-6089 |
Recardo Cartrell Pierce v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 24-620 |
Jaime H. Pizarro, et al. v. The Home Depot, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Dismissed |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
burden-shifting causation erisa fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation trust-law |
This case raises a long-unresolved question at the heart of ERISA's fiduciary enforcement provisions. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1… |
| 24-6077 |
Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior… |
| 24-6081 |
Christopher Zamarripa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment |
WHETHER ZAMARRIPA WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AS A RESULT OF HIS COUNSEL'S ADVICE THAT HE ACCEPT THE … |
| 24A550 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A540 |
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an… |
| 24-6070 |
David C. Lettieri v. James Quinn Auricchio |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-filing imminent-danger jurisdictional-threshold pro-se-litigation procedural-rules statutory-interpretation |
1. Is title 28 United States Code 19159g) designed for a government suit or any type which'includes private parties?
2. Could a forged signtaure be c… |
| 24-596 |
Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers |
The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not apply to "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in… |
| 24-599 |
United States, ex rel. Gregor Lesnik, et al. v. ISM VUZEM, d.o.o., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure false-claims-act government-obligation immigration-law statutory-interpretation visa-fraud |
Whether knowingly applying impermissibly for the less expensive B1 visas, rather than alternative petition-based visas, was knowingly and improperly "… |
| 24-6053 |
Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issue legal-petition statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
1. How can one argue their position on a matter without being argumentative?
2. How are precedents created?
3. Can evidence be materially relevant a… |
| 24-6063 |
Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6047 |
Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's decision misapplied the established precedent regarding circumstances that could support a… |
| 24-6035 |
Jamel Muldrew v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019),
supports the court of appeals' determination that the Sentencing
Guidelines a… |
| 24-6041 |
Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing?
2. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Proce… |
| 24A515 |
Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-authority federal-lands land-management statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit wilderness-study-areas |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6031 |
Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-determination criminal-procedure due-process insanity-defense-reform-act jackson-v-indiana statutory-interpretation |
Whether, given the structure of § 4241(d)(1) and in light of Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972), the four-month period of 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(1) … |
| 24A509 |
Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24-571 |
Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture honeycutt-precedent property-transfer statutory-interpretation |
Under Honeycutt, can a defendant be ordered to forfeit property that was intended for and ultimately acquired by her co-conspirator, merely because th… |
| 24-6015 |
Tawanna Hilliard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute first-amendment law-enforcement-protection overbreadth-doctrine retaliation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether § 1513(e) is facially overbroad in that, as interpreted by the court of appeals, the statute can be violated by mere speech alone.
2. Whet… |
| 24-5997 |
Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. __, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 1… |
| 24-559 |
Tenneco, Inc., et al. v. Tanika Parker, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-procedure effective-vindication-exception erisa federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation |
1. The court below applied the judge-made "effective vindication" exception to the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") to invalidate an individual arbitra… |
| 24-5992 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Fulton County, Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-procedure ejectment-claim georgia-supreme-court procedural-due-process property-dispute statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Petitioner file an appeal on November 17, 2023, to the Supreme Court of Georgia pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 5-6-35(j)?
2. Should Petitioner have be… |
| 24-5996 |
Todd Norman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-6000 |
Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation |
Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. 2251(a), by … |
| 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… |
| 24-556 |
Joe Fernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-18 |
Granted |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis… |
| 24-550 |
Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation |
Whether the term "offense" in the double jeopardy provision of the United States-India extradition treaty and many other extradition treaties refers t… |
| 24-5986 |
Patrick Bernard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-537 |
Canadian Standards Association v. P.S. Knight Company, Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
copyright-law government-edicts intellectual-property legal-protection merger-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government-edicts and merger doctrines strip concededly copyrighted and copyrightable works of protection under the Copyright Act merely b… |
| 24-536 |
M&T Farms v. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference farming-activity statutory-interpretation whole-farm-revenue-protection |
Auer deference allows courts to defer to an agency's interpretation of ambiguous regulations, but only after exhausting traditional interpretive tools… |
| 24-5951 |
Manuel Moya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Because the restriction contained in 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) implicates the right to bear arms and lacks historical analog, is the lifetime ban of poss… |
| 24-5957 |
Jeramy Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1: The Circuit Courts are split over whether district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence without a showing… |
| 24A471 |
Kayne Russell Donath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary sentencing supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 24A472 |
Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
but-for-cause certificate-of-innocence exoneree federal-prosecution misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-525 |
John L. Stanton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive.
If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … |
| 24-5943 |
Travyrus Jerard Stradford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24-5944 |
Nathan Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24A463 |
East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A470 |
Margaly Philippe v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Trustee |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
foreclosure judicial-review predatory-lending property-rights statutory-interpretation title-transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 24-522 |
Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo… |
| 24-5930 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing |
1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that… |
| 24-5938 |
John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for the forfeiture of the contents of property, such as real property or electronic devices.
2. Whether a… |
| 24-5926 |
Glenn Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing |
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| 24-5909 |
Bay Travon Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 24A452 |
Solar Energy Industries Association, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
import-competition presidential-power safeguard-measures statutory-interpretation trade-act trade-restrictions |
Question not identified. |
| 24-505 |
Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
|
collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a United States Supreme Court case of statutory interpretation, which was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings under circuit prec… |
| 24-5905 |
Huosheng Xian v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing |
Do the findings embodied in a jury's verdict constrain a sentencing judge's ability to find that a defendant has provided full and truthful informatio… |
| 24A442 |
Dale Scott Heineman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5886 |
Richard A. Cantu, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-493 |
Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation |
Is an employer who terminates an employee because it honestly, but mistakenly, believed that the employee's leave was not protected by the FMLA still … |
| 24-5880 |
Eric Schmidt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 24-5882 |
Tyrone Greenfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing |
Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r… |
| 24-5883 |
Charles Victor Flint v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2252A(b)(2)'s recidivism enhancement applies to a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than the corresponding federal… |
| 24A433 |
Panoche Energy Center, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law epa-permit monitoring-well property-rights statutory-interpretation underground-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 24-475 |
Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion health-insurance non-delegation-doctrine preventive-services statutory-interpretation |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(1)–(4) violate the non-delegation doctrine by empowering agencies to unilaterally decree the preventive care that private… |
| 24-483 |
Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-action federal-tort-claims-act health-care-functions medical-immunity public-health-service statutory-interpretation |
Does "related functions" in 42 U.S.C. § 233(a)'s recitation of immunized conduct mean functions related to medical, surgical, or dental functions—as t… |
| 24-5861 |
Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
concurrent-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in not exercising their inherent authority to correct the sentence imposed unlawfully due to the ineffecti… |
| 24A423 |
Sean J. Trahan v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the "categorical approach," the Massachusetts child pornography statute is "overbroad" such that a prior conviction under that statute … |
| 24-5839 |
Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d… |
| 24-5834 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure |
1. COA Standard. The COA inquiry requires courts to, among other things, conduct a general assessment of a defendant's claims. In his COA Brief to the… |
| 24-5836 |
Steven Hadley Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-authority due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1) The U.S. Constitution, through Article One, grants Congress the authority to
make or change federal laws. This includes the creation of criminal st… |
| 24A410 |
Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1446b circuit-split federal-question removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5817 |
Lassissi Afolabi v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
WHETHER § 2244(b)(1), (b)(2)'S BAR, WHICH EXPLICITLY REFERENCES ONLY §& 2254,
ALSO APPLIES TO A CLAIM RY A FEDERAL PRISONER WHO BRINGS A SUCCESSIVE C… |
| 24-5819 |
Oscar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights |
When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe… |
| 24-455 |
Nnabugwu Eze v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-expenses cohen-rule notice-of-deficiency record-keeping statutory-interpretation tax-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Court erred in not dismissing the
case for lack of jurisdiction on the ground that
no notice of deficiency was issued to petitioner
wit… |
| 24-456 |
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Beth Bacher, Representative for Paul Bacher, Deceased, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
|
class-action-fairness-act federal-removal mass-action statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-consolidation |
Whether plaintiffs' intent matters in assessing if plaintiffs have "proposed" a joint trial of the claims of 100 or more persons pursuant to 28 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5812 |
Timothy Robert Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-451 |
Peter K. Navarro v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
documentary-materials executive-office presidential-records-act remedial-action replevin-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States may avail itself of unrelated state replevin statutes to seek the return of Presidential records. |
| 24-5803 |
Sharif A. Eltawil v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A392 |
Rhobashi Holmes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing |
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… |
| 24-5795 |
Carl Langston v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Petitioner's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment where th… |
| 24-437 |
Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
abortion-regulation administrative-law federal-agency funding-condition spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
Title X funds cannot be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning. 42 U.S.C. § 300a6. And the Weldon Amendment prohibits any Fede… |
| 24-5780 |
Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment protections against multiple punishments for the same offense violated by several convictions and sentences for posse… |
| 24-5785 |
Bernard Ross Hansen and Diane Renee Erdmann v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-fraud federal-statute mail-fraud property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-5786 |
Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24A371 |
Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5774 |
Dwayne Barrett v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven ci… |
| 24A363 |
Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-428 |
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is "solely for uses reasonably related" to the federal regulatory process, when the infri… |
| 24-429 |
Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law federal-trade-commission horseracing-regulation nondelegation-doctrine private-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020, 15 U.S.C. 3051 et seq.—which allow the Horseracing Integrity a… |
| 24-5762 |
Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the First Circuit 's refusal to grant a
sentence reduction under the First Step Act,
despite intervening changes in sentencing law,
conf… |
| 24-5763 |
David Earl Boyd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252A exceed Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such a… |
| 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… |
| 24-5767 |
Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation |
"Coyotes" (smugglers) in Mexico duped "pollos" (would-be migrants to the United States) into believing they would be snuck across the border for a neg… |
| 24A357 |
Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-investigation criminal-procedure government-forms obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
1. This case presents an important question about the scope of an obstruction-of-justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1519. Section 1519 criminalizes false sta… |
| 24-417 |
National Association of Realtors v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
|
contract-withdrawal government-rights illusory-promises party-presentation statutory-interpretation unmistakability-doctrine |
Whether the United States enjoys greater rights
than a private party to withdraw from a contract based
solely on its determination that it no longer w… |
| 24-5760 |
James Taylor v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit-precedent debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692a(6), does 15 U.S.C. § 1692 apply to McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, when McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC is attempting t… |
| 24A353 |
Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession |
Question not identified. |
| 24-412 |
George Kralik v. New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development, et al. |
New York |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action due-process statutory-interpretation tenant-rights |
1. Should an administrative agency's refusal to act on a tenant's succession application for many years and its failure to give the tenant a hearing o… |
| 24-5748 |
LaVanzel Kerr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
L. May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim?
II. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(… |
| 24-5751 |
Nicolas Dominique v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing victim-impact-statement |
IS IT EVER DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN A JUDGE USE THE VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AS AN AGGRAVATING FACTOR OR AS FACT FINDING TO INCREASE DEFENDANT'S PU… |
| 24-5752 |
Norman Thurber v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation |
Is there a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251, since "... criminal responsibility may not be imposed without some element of … |
| 24-401 |
Ashok Kumar Cheejati, et al. v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure agency-action immigration-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation withholding-claims |
1. Whether there is clear and convincing evidence that Congress intended 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) to preclude judicial review of unlawful withhold… |
| 24-404 |
Ji Chaoqun v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-statute federal-criminal-law foreign-agent jury-unanimity prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 951 provides that "[w]hoever, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attaché, acts in the United States as an agent of a foreign g… |
| 24-5744 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 24-392 |
Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation |
(1) whether a plan participant can only bring a lawsuit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), as a represen… |
| 24-5719 |
Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation |
The U.S. Supreme Court's holdings in Taylor, Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis have consistently required the application of the categorical-approach, or the… |
| 24A335 |
Adis Kovac, et al. v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law civil-liberties congressional-authorization major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation terrorist-watchlist |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5695 |
Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Reasonable Doubt Find Defandgue Coonsacg Refzetiweness Foe. Cocinte To Argue Pentres Spe Mars Did Not Consrinue Theoms As Befined By Eloms.
O… |
| 24-369 |
Hassell Construction Company, Inc., et al. v. Harris County Improvement District No. 18, et al. |
Texas |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay equitable-tolling state-court-litigation statutory-interpretation |
Whether state courts may retroactively refuse to apply 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) as plainly worded, as well as attendant equitable tolling principles, afte… |
| 24-5688 |
In Re Eric Sutherland |
|
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-regulatory jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation |
THE OSDC POLICY NOT ALLOWING ME TO DOCKET CERTIFICATES OF PUBLIC FAITH AND CREDIT 28 at §1738 TO PROVE ALL LIVING EVIDENCE OF UNDERLYING CASE.
BLANK … |
| 24-5672 |
Mark Leon Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments entitled the petitioner to have a jury decide below his crimes according to AS KCaStons, under the Constitution of … |
| 24-5678 |
Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred as a matter of statutory interpretation in rejecting a "Ruse Exception" to the Speedy Trial A… |
| 24-5679 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 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… |
| 24A310 |
Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-354 |
Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-delegation nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund |
In 47 U.S.C. 254, Congress required the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) to operate universal service subsidy programs using mandatory c… |
| 24-5661 |
Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1), which prohibits kidnapping with the use of any instrumentality of commerce, falls within Congress's power to regula… |
| 24-5650 |
Roberto Yepez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether, as the Second and Seventh Circuits have indicated, the compassionate-release statute in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1) permits reducing supervised re… |
| 24-351 |
United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff's claim that she and her tenants did not receive mail because Postal Service employees intentionally did not deliver it to a desig… |
| 24-345 |
FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (20)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action. |
| 24-5639 |
Isaac Joel Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5623 |
Tahjair Dorsey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-disqualification non-violent-felony second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Tahjair Dorsey pleaded guilty to felon-with-a-firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). His disqualifying prior felony conviction: un… |
| 24-5624 |
Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The circuits are split on whether a request for a lower sentence preserves for review a claim that the district court has not adequately explained a s… |
| 24-5626 |
Julio Reynaldo Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 24A287 |
Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Granted |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law congressional-delegation federal-regulation horseracing-integrity regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-327 |
Pulse8, LLC, et al. v. Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split commercial-advertising fax-transmission statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement |
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") generally prohibits sending an "unsolicited advertisement" to a fax machine. An "unsolicited advertisem… |
| 24-5596 |
Oren Snowden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release district-court-discretion kidney-disease medical-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing |
1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Oren Snowden motion for compassionate release when Oren Snowden suffered from and continues … |
| 24-5599 |
David Martins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-knowledge drug-prosecution federal-sentencing mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) prosecution, the knowingly mens rea contained in section 841(a)(1) also requires the government to prove that the … |
| 24-5574 |
Angel L. Ruiz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5576 |
Jose Antonio Campos-Esqueda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-5581 |
In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. |
|
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law fbi-jurisdiction federal-statute legal-definition statutory-interpretation vawa-interpretation |
1. Whether the term "members" as stated in the language of the indictment is sufficient to allege the essential element of a natural and specific "per… |
| 24-5560 |
Adam Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-5570 |
In Re Joseph R. Dickey |
|
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 24-5557 |
Michael Avenatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a… |
| 24-5558 |
Bryant D. Aron v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fairness-doctrine federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement review-standard sentencing |
1) Plea agreements under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C) bind a district court if the court accepts the agreement. A district court can also reject the a… |
| 24A269 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion indian-lands native-american-rights statutory-interpretation trust-acquisition |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5548 |
Gustavo Lazcano-Neria v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent 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… |
| 24-5550 |
Jarrod Eugene Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) criminal-sentencing juvenile-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation upward-departure |
Where the sentencing court disregarded mitigating evidence and upwardly departed based largely on convictions Petitioner sustained as a teenager, whet… |
| 24-294 |
Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
|
fda-approval generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act injunctive-relief patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(4)(A) requires courts to issue injunctive orders that are broader in scope than the underlying infringement, thereby delayi… |
| 24-275 |
Donte Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
appeal-period district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Ordinarily, litigants must file a notice of appeal within 30 or 60 days of an adverse judgment. 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a)-(b). Under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) and… |
| 24-286 |
Peter Bolos v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
deception federal-criminal-law mail-fraud property-interest statutory-interpretation transaction-scheme |
Does a scheme to induce a transaction through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitute a scheme to defraud under… |
| 24-5525 |
Walter L. Allen v. Civil Rights Coordinator, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5535 |
Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
If a VICAR assault is predicated on an underlying state or federal assault offense that does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s "crime of violence" defi… |
| 24-5514 |
Christopher Jensen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court |
1) When for A Whit of Cerbirar To decide which leecrd es tle altinse attihat al
2) do tu< dide_rihal Kecard 2 atturabe ac Cortect wtep.
3) When ted … |
| 24-5520 |
Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
1)Whether the USCIS misinterpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) is the permissible interpretation of the statute.
2)Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) required t… |
| 24-267 |
John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the "prevailing party" under 17 U.S.C. §§ 505 and 12… |
| 24-5499 |
Donald Alfred Busch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking legislative-intent mechanical-power motor-vehicle off-road-vehicle statutory-interpretation |
The Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforcement Act of 1984 provided a definition for "motor vehicle" to mean "a vehicle driven or drawn by mechanical powers … |
| 24-5506 |
Rustam Yusupov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession |
1. Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment?
2. Whether th… |
| 24-5507 |
Taylor Hildreth v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by impri… |
| 24A250 |
Thomas John Boukamp v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-260 |
Anthony Pandrella v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce loansharking robbery |
Whether the robbery of a loanshark could have an effect on interstate commerce sufficient to establish federal jurisdiction under the Hobbs Act (18 U.… |
| 24-264 |
Jay A. Liestman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) imposes an increased mandatory minimum and maximum sentence on a defendant who "has a prior conviction . . . under the laws of … |
| 24-5488 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-254 |
Gordon Wood v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consumer-protection consumer-rights statutory-interpretation warranty-act warranty-obligations warranty-representative |
1. Does a warrantor remain liable for its warranty obligations when it designates a representative pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 2307 to fulfill those oblig… |
| 24-5480 |
Robert James McCabe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bribery-statute campaign-contributions corrupt-intent nexus-requirement official-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), through its use of the term "in return for" requires some nexus or correlation between the un… |
| 24-5482 |
Travis Adam Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment.
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court … |
| 24-255 |
Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation |
Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar… |
| 24-5465 |
William Orren Dawes v. California |
California |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-process legal-procedure |
1) When is a Superior Court permitted to overrule
2) When is a person not entitled to a speedy trial?
3) If in civil courts a person is not entitled… |
| 24-5470 |
Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5474 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
judicial-discretion mandate-recall post-conviction-relief section-2255 sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
WHEIHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED HUBBARD'S MOTION TO RECALL THE MANDATE, POST -RUAN V. UNITED STATES , 142 S. CT. 2370 (… |
| 24-5446 |
Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2256(2) (A)(v) DEFINES THE TERM "LASCIVIOUS"
AS PART OF 18 U.S.C.
CONDUCT" ELEMENT AND IS A DEFINITION AND NOT.AN
ELEMENT ITSELF. THERE … |
| 24-5447 |
Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a public interest is at stake with Petitioner's Ex Post Facto Clause violation issue of Oklahoma by Repeal law forbid female and male pris… |
| 24-5453 |
Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-firearms-regulation felony-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment.
2. Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause power. |
| 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… |
| 24-5456 |
Robert Paul Durrell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
The supervised-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), lists factors from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for a court to consider when sentencing a person for viola… |
| 24-5437 |
Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
1.) Whether a criminal defendant should be allowed to seek
judicial review of a criminal statute for constitutional
infringement if he seeks only dec… |
| 24-5438 |
Michael Bowe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24-5443 |
Antoine D. Craig v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5425 |
Shyne V. Anderson v. Cynthia Davis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5426 |
Carl Dwayne Stevenson v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-229 |
Sanjay Tripathy v. Jeff McKoy, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
constitutional-law damages-remedy government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et se… |
| 24-5410 |
Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision in Jones v Hendrix, 143 S. Ct. 1857 (2023) can be applied retroactively "rescinding habeas Corpus review of Statutory Interpretat… |
| 24-5417 |
Joshual Lamar Davis v. Ian Maxfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5419 |
Jonathan Fitzpatrick Koen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 exceeds Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such as a cell phon… |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-5406 |
Michael Hoeft v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9), the statutes prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of: (1) crimes punishable by imprisonment … |
| 24-5399 |
Bruce K. Florence, III v. Eric Flowers, Sheriff, Indian River County, Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-provision judicial-review legal-issue statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
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| 24A206 |
Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
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employment-status fair-labor-standards-act inmate-labor minimum-wage statutory-interpretation work-detail |
Question not identified. |
| 24-208 |
Thomas M. Gatz v. Thomas Zupko, et ux. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deed-chain judicial-code land-rights property-transfer quiet-title statutory-interpretation |
a. Is the PA quiet title § 5527.1. Section 5527.1 of
the Judicial Code able to be executed for the
respondent, ignoring an existing deed chain execute… |
| 24-5388 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure separate-offenses statutory-interpretation |
I.IF A PERSON IS HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR AN OFFENSE,
COMMITTED BT ANOTHER, UNDER A "REASONABLE AND FORESEEABLE
ACTS" ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY STATUTE,… |
| 24-5391 |
Zavien Lenoy Canada v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24-5393 |
Taddius Tyrone Woods v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-202 |
J.G. Kern Enterprises, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-review nlrb-precedent non-acquiescence statutory-interpretation |
With this background, the questions presented here, on which the circuits are split, are:
1. Whether the NLRB is precluded from relying on precedent … |
| 24-5375 |
Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation |
0. Is the decision in U.S. v. K 3d 232, 235-3.^ (11th Cir. I retroactively applicable?
2). Does mitigation arguments list be warranted guidelines Vio… |
| 24-5383 |
Samuel James Kent v. Darryl LaCounte, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure contract-law federal-procurement indian-self-determination-act statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protections |
Several provisions of the Indian Self-Determination
and Education Assistance Act 1 ("ISDEAA ") were
amended in 1988 to foreclose the United States B… |
| 24A199 |
America's Power, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-201 |
Daniel S. Fitzgerald v. United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay civil-claims civil-procedure criminal-defendant statutory-interpretation trafficking-victims-protection-act |
Whether the 18 U.S.C. § 1595(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act ("TVPRA") requires a stay of all claims brought by all pa… |
| 24-187 |
Erice Maurice Kency v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-appeal merit-systems-protection-board procedural-deadline statutory-interpretation time-limitation veterans-employment-rights |
1. The question presented is whether Congress intended for VEOA, 5 U.S.C. 3330a(d)(l)(B) "except that in no event, may any such appeal be brought — la… |
| 24-5359 |
Robert Hill v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A180 |
North Dakota, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-19 |
Denied |
|
administrative-overreach agency-power clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A181 |
Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-19 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-168 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
|
due-process federal-removal jurisdictional-transfer remand-order statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether an endorsed remand order on a new subsequent federal removal case with new ground filed under 28 U.S.C. § 1443, without issuance of a certifie… |
| 24-170 |
Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Do the statutory terms "visual depiction" and "lascivious exhibition" refer to the same, or different things? |
| 24-5325 |
Richard Moaney, aka Richard Daniel Moaney, IV v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Under Substantive maritime law, is the only basis for State and Federal concurrent subject matter jurisdiction, pursuant to 28 USC § 1333, admiralty a… |
| 24A178 |
NACCO Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion clean-air-act epa-regulation mercury-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5328 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit felon-in-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-5329 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 24-5330 |
Xavier Daughtry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for federal carjacking, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2119, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under § 924(c)(8)(A) post-Borden. |
| 24-5333 |
Jamal Mohammad Eleidy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver deportation illegal-sentence sentencing-condition statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Where the district court in sentencing a United States citizen imposes
deportation as a supervised release condition, and 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) expressl… |
| 24-5314 |
Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing |
1. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence"
if it "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p… |
| 24-5315 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 24-5316 |
Kifano Jordan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law federal-criminal-code pastore-precedent second-circuit-review sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner's conviction on Count Two depends on whether the attempted violation of New York's second-degree murder statute, N.Y.P.L. § 125.25(1), qual… |
| 24A173 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law education-department income-contingent-repayment major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loans |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's injunction blocking the Department of Education's income-contingent repayment rule should be vacated pending appeal. |
| 24-5305 |
In Re Babubhai Patel |
|
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion district-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus second-in-time-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Mr. Patel's properly filed Second-in-Time 2255 Motion in which relied upon U.S. Suprem… |
| 24-147 |
Levi Quintana v. Jonathan Kraut |
California |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award arbitrator-misconduct judicial-review partnership-dissolution statutory-interpretation tax-regulations |
Whether the California Supreme Court erred in its ruling, given that the arbitrator not only failed to follow applicable federal statutes, codes and r… |
| 24-5286 |
Kenneth Rose v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-amendment criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review precedent-application statutory-interpretation |
In Simpson v. U-S. (435 U..S. 6), the Supreme Court held that a defendant convicted of an aggravated bank robbery under 10 U'-S.C.A., § 2113(d) could … |
| 24-5297 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction equal-protection judicial-conflict legal-claim statutory-interpretation |
1) ES TT RACTAL DTSCRTIMINATTON By THE
STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS, WHEN A WHITE
DEPENDANT RAISES A CLAIM OR ~rssueE AND
THE COURTS TELLS HTM HE 2S CORRE… |
| 24-5298 |
Jose Rosado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Rosado, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-142 |
Brian Benjamin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo |
Where the government charges an elected official with bribery for accepting campaign contributions in exchange for lawful constituent services, McCorm… |
| 24-5271 |
Claude P. Lacombe v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-prejudice |
1. Under Puckett v. United States , 556 U.S. 129 (2009) and Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), a petitioner seeking habeas relief from a sente… |
| 24-5273 |
Nicholas Frank Wilcox v. Tim Garrett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did Petitioner's APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABALLTY demonstrate that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a… |
| 24-5274 |
James Arthur Ross v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-of-complaint civil-procedure judicial-error oregon-revised-statutes statutory-interpretation trial-court-discretion |
Did the trial court error and/or abuse its discretion by not allowing petitioner to amend his complaint for the first time as a matter of right or cou… |
| 24-5282 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing |
WHETHER APPELLANT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR STRONG APPELLATE CLAIM THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA WAS MADE PRIOR TO SENTENCING? |
| 24A154 |
Jeffrey Prosser, et al. v. Gretchen Shappert, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-duties bankruptcy judicial-efficiency official-accountability procedural-compliance statutory-interpretation |
I.
DOES SIEGEL v. FITZGERALD PRECEDENT REQUIRE
TIMELY PERFORMANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
MEANT TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY AND EFFECIENCY OF
THE BANKRU… |
| 24-137 |
Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive.
If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … |
| 24-5255 |
Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5258 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
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| 24-5237 |
Warren Alexander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release |
Should the Court grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether a district court in imposing sentence is required … |
| 24A132 |
Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very
contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This
prohibition cannot be applied literally … |
| 24-125 |
Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affir… |
| 24-127 |
The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor |
Alabama |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Alabama's civil wrongful death statute, codified in 1872, imposes civil liability, including punitive damages, for the "death of a minor child . . … |
| 24-5224 |
Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5229 |
Justin Levar Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-126 |
Benjamin Galecki, and Charles Burton Ritchie v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
chemical-structure continuing-criminal-enterprise controlled-substances criminal-law jury-instruction void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness as applied to the substance XLR-11?
2. Whether a co-defend… |
| 24-5231 |
Dean Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 24-118 |
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Alan McClain, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
340b-drug-pricing-program administrative-enforcement administrative-law contract-pharmacies contract-pharmacy drug-pricing federal-preemption federal-regulation healthcare-policy state-preemption state-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits and this Court—that a State may strip manufacturers of th… |
| 24-119 |
Alan Safahi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in the absence of fraudulent inducement, a party who subsequently breaches the contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud. |
| 24-5215 |
Patrick Wayne Baker v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process executive-power judicial-branch judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation texas-government unconstitutional |
WHETHER TEX. GOV'T CODE 508.283(b)(c) VIOLATES DUE PROCESS
AND SHOULD BE DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
WHETHER THE TEXAS LEGISLATIVE BRANCH IS AUTHORIZE… |
| 24-5219 |
Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation |
1) Whether the DisTReT COusTs dewial For sLaelh of Sues diCNow awd dew er sene of debewdauits Timely fled 2255 (1G) mation OTe SUa spoule Rechoradlarz… |
| 24A123 |
James H. Roane v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense |
Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) (VICAR) offense constitutes the "crime of violence" predicate necessary to support a § 924(c) conviction following this… |
| 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. |
| 24-5202 |
James B. Jordan v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights common-carrier constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure liability passenger-safety statutory-interpretation transportation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5210 |
Jason William Dittmer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5211 |
Jerod Askew v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jury instruction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, requires reference to "mere p… |
| 24A117 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
|
administrative-action clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5184 |
Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability.
Whether this court's ruling in … |
| 24-5190 |
Matthew Aaron Safrit v. Mike Slagle, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5194 |
George Henry Purdy, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sente… |
| 24-5195 |
Maalik Alim Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collective-punishment constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process guilt-by-association organizational-liability sentencing |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner Due Process by
impermissibly relying on the principle of collective punishment, and sentencing the
De… |
| 24-5176 |
Antonio Santonastaso v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
Section 1001(a)(2) of title 18 only criminalizes the making of material false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States gove… |
| 24-98 |
Norman Abood, et al. v. James P. Carroll, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
|
article-iii-courts article-three bankruptcy bankruptcy-court congress-power constitutional-authority judicial-council jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
This case questions the Third Circuit's appropriation of Congress' exclusive power to create courts under Article III, § 1 of the United States Consti… |
| 24A107 |
Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1443 civil-rights remand removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5159 |
Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status |
I. Whether Congress' authority to "define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas," U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the "Felonies Clause"), i… |
| 24-5164 |
Joel Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 24-87 |
Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat… |
| 24A102 |
Valley Health System, LLC, dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-authority chevron-deference judicial-review nlrb-decision statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A104 |
Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split federal-immunity healthcare-litigation medical-center public-health-service statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5152 |
Leland J. Hebert v. Allied Rubber & Gasket Co. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-procedure constitutional-law legal-issues standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the district court's grant of summary judgment without an opinion under Rule 36 is permissible when the de… |
| 24A96 |
National Rural Electric Cooperative v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-overreach agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A98 |
Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-action environmental-law epa-regulation natural-resources statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5156 |
Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 24-5142 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 24-5146 |
Mike Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5128 |
Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled. |
| 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… |
| 24-5131 |
John William Thomas Flechs v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sexual-enticement statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
When proving a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) (attempted sexual enticement of a minor), must the government establish that the defendant either made… |
| 24A85 |
David Vargas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24A71 |
Travis Adam Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5117 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing |
A. Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the general verdict required that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U… |
| 24-63 |
Kalvin Schanz v. City of Otsego, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights degree-of-aid fair-housing-act interference intimidation protected-activity standing statutory-interpretation |
Under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3617, when a plaintiff claims that a defendant has intimidated or interfered with him "on account of his havin… |
| 24-5119 |
Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Mr. Williams's Count 1 conviction and corresponding life sentence violate his right to due process?
II. Whether application of a 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5101 |
Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession
of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the
indefinite past… |
| 24-5103 |
David Thomas Overman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5105 |
Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a
"controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of
conspiring to commit such offenses." The … |
| 24-5109 |
Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe… |
| 24-5110 |
Cristobal Castillo-Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5114 |
Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 24-55 |
Montana v. Robert Murray Gibbons |
Montana |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
|
eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause financial-burden financial-circumstances mandatory-fine mandatory-fines proportionality proportionality-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burd… |
| 24-56 |
Janelle R. Polk v. California Franchise Tax Board |
California |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-income-tax federal-taxation gross-income income-definition labor labor-compensation source-of-income statutory-interpretation taxation united-states |
Whether all gross receipts paid to an individual in exchange for his or her labor or services performed in the United States of America are necessaril… |
| 24-50 |
Marlo Helmstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant who has exhausted his administrative remedies is allowed to file his own motion to reduce his prison sente… |
| 24-5095 |
Moises Gamboa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
DID THE LOWER COURTS IMPROPERLY INTERPRET UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE § 4C1.1 THAT VIOLATED THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE EIGH… |
| 24-5098 |
Gerald Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-5094 |
Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit and Fifth District Court apply all necessary and properly applicable elements to the petitioner's 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim?
… |
| 24-37 |
Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
GVR |
|
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 24-5082 |
Adam Sprenger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-in-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute legal-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
[Brief explanation of question] A defendant who him
or herself alone engages in sexually explicit
conduct without a minor's engagement is indicted
… |
| 24-5087 |
Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment |
1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defenda… |
| 24-5088 |
In Re Gavin B. Davis |
|
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… |
| 24-5089 |
Devonte Antonio Veasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process facial-challenge firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which restricts the Second Amendment rights of all users of controlled substances, facially unconstitutional? |
| 24A48 |
Kristin K. Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona v. Dennis McGrane, County Attorney of Yavapai County, Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2024-07-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abortion-statute criminal-law individual-autonomy medical-procedure reproductive-rights state-constitution |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5091 |
Linda J. Feaser v. George L. Landress |
Connecticut |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5076 |
Chi Meng Yang v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder |
Whether this court should Grant certiorari, vacate and remand, because the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of br… |
| 24A43 |
Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
declaratory-judgment jones-v-hendrix section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-collateral-attack |
Question not identified. |
| 24-34 |
Ricky-Dean Horton v. PG&E Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
9th-circuit bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-discretion procedural-fairness statutory-interpretation substantive-rights |
1. Whether the proceedings in the U. S. Bankruptcy
Court N.D. Cal. failed to follow the rules and procedures for a fair and just determination of Peti… |
| 24-5061 |
Joshua Isaac Martinez v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law evidence public-policy religion statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-5064 |
Rona Johnson Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-arrest judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
12. If an Act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it Notwithstanding its invalidity, blind the Courts and oblige them to gi… |
| 24-5065 |
Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Does Petitioner's, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of
fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual
punishment, in violation of th… |
| 24-5070 |
Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction |
as the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States?
2. Is the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Loui… |
| 24-5071 |
Dennis German v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
(1). Weather the Government violated the
Petitioner's 8th Amendment. Constitutional
Rights (To be free from infliction of Cruel
and Unusual Punishm… |
| 24A36 |
International Business Machines Corporation & Combined Affiliates v. Tax Appeals Tribunal of the State of New York, et al. |
New York |
2024-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-tribunal |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5050 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Following this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2020) does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of … |
| 24-5054 |
Amir Aqeel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias culpability due-process equal-justice fairness Involuntary-Plea-Agreement mandatory-guidelines nationality nationality-bias plea-agreement religion sentencing sentencing-disparity Violation-of-Policy-5H1.10 |
1. **Sentencing Disparity:** Whether a significant disparity in the sentencing of co-defendants violates the principle of equal justice under the law,… |
| 24-5024 |
Timothy John Miers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o… |
| 24-5034 |
Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional |
Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of ,
Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for
sexual offenders fo… |
| 24-5043 |
Cortlin Reese v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen constitutional-law criminal-statutes due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)( 9) and (n) violate the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022)… |
| 24-5045 |
Charles N. Belssner v. Casablanca Homeowners Association, et al. |
Nevada |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-procedure nrs-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation |
1) 6/21/ 2$:
SHOULD ACT(S). OP WILFULL NEGLLIGEENfCE SHOULD BE
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STRICKEN! WHEN THE PRESIDING JUDGE STATED ON RECORD:
"HARMFUL ENFINOMENT TO BELIVING … |
| 24-5048 |
Bernard Celestine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40… |
| 24-17 |
Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Judgment Issued |
|
civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, "[p]ersonal jurisdiction over a foreign state shall exist as to
every claim for relief over which the dist… |
| 24-20 |
Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment. |
| 24-5022 |
Angela J. Wells v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights |
1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A… |
| 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… |
| 24-5027 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states causation-of-harm criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidentiary-hearing federal-statute heroin-distribution jury-instruction jury-instructions overdose sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the trial court err when it refused to instruct the
jury that the heroin distributed by the defendant was the same
heroin that caused the vict… |
| 24-5031 |
Keith White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 |
Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24-5033 |
Jose Domingo Carranza-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A11 |
Alaska, et al. v. Department of Education, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law executive-power heroes-act major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loan-forgiveness |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5013 |
Jonathan Feliz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be
committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-5016 |
Michael Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the
mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug
and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 24-4 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure distinction due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation petitioner standing statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner a distinction without a difference? |
| 24-5006 |
Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-u.s.c-2250 34-u.s.c-20913 change-of-residence chevron-deference criminal-procedure jury-instructions rule-of-lenity sex-offender-registration smart-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury regarding a crucial element of the criminal offense of failure to register as a sex offende… |
| 24-5007 |
David Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5008 |
Glynzo Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass |
I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed
by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic
"burglary" under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A1 |
Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
1. This case presents an important issue concerning the interpretation of the child pornography statutes that has caused a circuit split. At issue is … |
| 23-7843 |
Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7844 |
Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 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… |
| 23-7836 |
Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23-7839 |
Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime |
Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co… |
| 23-7841 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents |
1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi… |
| 23A1170 |
Bryant D. Aron v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1174 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1358 |
George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clearly-established-federal-law federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-28-usc-2254 ineffective-assistance plurality-opinion plurality-opinions state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court-holding unreasonable-application |
1. Does a rule announced in a four-Justice plurality opinion constitute a holding of this Court, and therefore "clearly established Federal law" under… |
| 23A1167 |
Jay A. Liestman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7813 |
John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7814 |
James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7815 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr. v. BronxCare HealthCare System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-action child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7818 |
Mark Jordan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisibility general-intent mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach, a federal offense that incorporates by reference the commission of an underlying offense is divisibl… |
| 23-1352 |
Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
1. Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action.
2. Whether the… |
| 23-7802 |
Festus O. Ohan v. Axos Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-banking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investment property-rights sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7793 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate |
Has the Lower Federal Trial Court known as U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit Court i… |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7796 |
Stewart Bitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction whereas, although the Petitioner actually committed, the acts stipulated in… |
| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-7783 |
Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts |
Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A… |
| 23-7788 |
Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A1129 |
Stephen K. Bannon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
contempt-of-congress criminal-statute knowledge-of-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfully |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1132 |
Thomas Osadzinski v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
|
advocacy first-amendment free-speech material-support statutory-interpretation terrorist-organization |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7776 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York Stat… |
| 23-7762 |
Christopher McPherson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to reverse the
conviction on Count V of the Superseding Indictment - Possession of
a Firearm in Further… |
| 23-7767 |
In Re Jogaak Jogaak |
|
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Is a Wif\ire ~Rcof +Ke c\ 'ocTious bodily injury as defined m c?0i>fh DaKofa (2drft ed Low 2-TrL-7_(^)?
Does 12 0o£)°C' ^>l2>6b Qex^O Ujba-V i<b A Se… |
| 23-7770 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-procedure qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1326 |
Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-appeals administrative-law cms-policies cms-policy federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-review medical-products-manufacturer medicare-act-42-usc-1395ii medicare-administrative-appeals notice-and-comment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 42 U.S.C. 405(h), incorporated into the Medicare Act by 42 U.S.C. 1395ii, prohibits a medical products manufacturer who cannot pursue the Medi… |
| 23-1319 |
B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as- applied when it contradicts … |
| 23-7745 |
Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal due-process michigan-constitution sentencing |
I. DOES MCL 769.34(10) VIOLATE THE DEFENDANTS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED S… |
| 23-7746 |
Robert Brumfield, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence.
I… |
| 23-7747 |
Keith Hager v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rule-60b6 conviction conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process judicial-correction legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Federal Civil Rule 60(b)(6) empower the judiciary to correct a conviction and ensuing sentence for conduct not criminalized by the statute in … |
| 23-7754 |
Alejandro Carrasco v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation |
I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh… |
| 23-7738 |
Terrill Goods v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver |
1. Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim… |
| 23-1306 |
Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. |
Michigan |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty |
1. Whether the Michigan Courts committed
plain legal error construing and applying
§700.7604(l)(b) by declining to apply the
relevant statutory defi… |
| 23-1310 |
Dean Gross v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape. |
| 23-7721 |
Darren M. Reese v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n\n'May a State Court of Last due-process legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity state-court state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Rule of Lenity a Constitutional Due Process guarantee that must be employed when a State Court construes ambiguous statutory language?
2. I… |
| 23-7728 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), prohibiting an unlawful user from possessing a firearm, is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 23-7737 |
Raul Gardea, Jr. v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exhaustion ineffective-counsel jurisdictional-statement prosecution-costs state-habeas statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Petitioner Raised Two Claims Of Ineffectiveness Of Trial Counsel For His Performance In Failing Ask A Pivotal Question And Not Providing Corrected Wit… |
| 23A1111 |
Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari-extension federal-circuit patent-law statutory-interpretation technology-dispute trade-commission |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7705 |
Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sohnson's SenTencé 18 improperly Calculated--and Should be celev[aTe! under The $,4Ty
perseoT (0%) Sentencing law in effecT aT The Time
of im … |
| 23-7715 |
Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation |
Whether Suth Amfra/f &JdwCt Suff&rfe Ahvt dhAJat C&tudi Jyndfiy /XtiadOmaA'U skedA 9M9 y&d Bentff Add Pm/A Afrt A^hah/A/np a/- ?Ae Bmdtr dS&uf-kd AAe … |
| 23-1305 |
Jade Schiewe, et al. v. Cessna Aircraft Company |
Oklahoma |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
aircraft-manufacturer-liability aviation-law general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act maintenance-manual manufacturer-liability negligence product-liability statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a maintenance manual prepared by a
manufacturer of a general aviation aircraft is a part
of an aircraft for the purposes of the General Avi… |
| 23-1296 |
Randstad Inhouse Services, LLC, et al. v. Adan Ortiz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
commerce-clause contract-exemption employment-law exemption federal-arbitration-act foreign-commerce interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Are employees who handle goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport those goods across borders and whose work does not directly… |
| 23-1298 |
United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron chevron-deference civil-procedure inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 312, a petition for inter partes review (IPR) of a patent must "identif[y]" "with particularity" the "srounds on which the challenge… |
| 23-7690 |
Wendell Johnson, aka Lamar Hill v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7691 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924c-offense attempt-offense attempt-offenses crime-of-violence criminal-law predicate-crimes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent taylor-decision taylor-v-united-states |
Illinois' Attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit a specific offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. Neither… |
| 23-7693 |
Jonathan Jamal Bangash v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ev… |
| 23-7696 |
Rit Tran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-7682 |
Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen |
I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att… |
| 23-7683 |
Keon Lamont Lee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit |
Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences? |
| 23-7688 |
Chaves Hodges v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23A1105 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law cms-regulation drug-pricing line-extension medicaid-drug-rebate statutory-interpretation |
1. This case concerns the scope of "line extension" drugs for purposes of the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, which Congress enacted to control the cost… |
| 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… |
| 23-1293 |
United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct |
To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 23-1288 |
Nicholas Newman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with anothe… |
| 23-1289 |
Machele L. Goetz v. Victor Felix Weber, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-348 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 chapter-7 legislative-history legislative-intent post-petition-interests statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the language in 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(1) creates a bifurcation of interests in the assets of a bankruptcy estate into pre-petition (i.e., "as … |
| 23-7675 |
Darren Deon Johnson v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7677 |
Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation |
It is a public record that petitioner is the only taxpayer in New Mexico who was deprived of property but denied due process evidentiary hearing when … |
| 23-7679 |
Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
The circuits uniformly hold that Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence and therefore can support a related conviction under 18 US.C. … |
| 23-7660 |
Michael Steven Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7662 |
Felix Olivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-power felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7668 |
Roylee Richardson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
arthur-andersen-llp-v-united-states criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute foreseeability official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subjective-intent witness-tampering |
This Court has held that the federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, requires proof that the defendant "contemplate [d] a[] particular of… |
| 23-7670 |
James Edward Young v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a f… |
| 23-7650 |
Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC… |
| 23-7653 |
Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that
has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7654 |
Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine where the Government fail… |
| 23-7656 |
Carl Monroe Gordon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-act |
Was defendants Speedy Trial Rights Act Violated? |
| 23-7638 |
In Re Dean C. Boyd |
|
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
barbara-dunnam civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hinds-county-circuit-court judicial-review legal-precedent merit-health-group statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7642 |
John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Is McCarthy V United States, 394 U.S. 459(1969); Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2(1866); Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, 442 U.S. 1 (1979); Oregon… |
| 23-7643 |
Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism |
Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-7646 |
Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1275 |
Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (48)Relisted (9) |
circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right |
More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a pr… |
| 23-7616 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me… |
| 23-7632 |
Cordero Passley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute deliberate-intent deliberation first-degree-murder malicious-conduct mens-rea premeditation second-degree-murder willful-killing |
Whether, for a defendant to commit a "willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing" that constitutes first degree murder (as opposed to se… |
| 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… |
| 23-7622 |
Angel Luis Concepcion-Rosario v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process exclusionary-rule impeachment judgment-of-acquittal miranda-rights motion-for-mistrial physical-evidence sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
1. Did the district court error in not suppressing the physical evidence and the statement?
2. Did the district court error in not granting the petit… |
| 23-1261 |
Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been… |
| 23-1263 |
Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure complaint-screening dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure screening standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the language of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(b)(ii) allow screening or dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints before service of process … |
| 23-7587 |
Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-7599 |
Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7594 |
Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A1067 |
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment free-exercise ministerial-exception religious-exemption statutory-interpretation unemployment-compensation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7583 |
Shawn Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt… |
| 23-7584 |
Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder |
1. Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense?
2. Can a defendnat be convicted of Conspiracy to commit third degree murder … |
| 23-7564 |
Ricky T. Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou… |
| 23-7565 |
Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record |
Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe… |
| 23-7566 |
Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-7568 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-7570 |
Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F… |
| 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. |
| 23-7560 |
David Darnell Whitehead v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. IN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING CASE, WHAT CONSTITUTES
BRINGING TO OR ENTERING THE UNITED STATES "AT A PLACE
OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED PORT OF ENTRY", … |
| 23-7553 |
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2339b criminal-procedure foreign-terrorist-organization material-support sentencing terrorism-enhancement |
When a defendant has entered a plea of guilty to the offense of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S… |
| 23-7554 |
Rawtavious Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7532 |
In Re Keith Hager |
|
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
WHETHER THIS COURT MUST ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS WHERE A FEDERAL COURT LACKED AUTHORITY TO SENTENCE PETITIONER UPON AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH CONGRESS DID … |
| 23-7540 |
Oscar Catalan Ruiz v. California |
California |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
abstract-statutes appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-due-process sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7542 |
Anthony Obute v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights appellate-waiver controlled-substance criminal-procedure pharmacy-operations plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement, which explicitly reserves the right to challenge the constitutionality of a statute… |
| 23-7546 |
Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7547 |
Branden Tyler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION CAN A DEFENDANT BE CHARGED WITH AIDING AND ABETTING UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 2 WHEN THE A… |
| 23-1229 |
Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction |
Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit because the agency's denial actions are "nationally applicable" or, … |
| 23-1230 |
Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (4) |
administrative-law centralized-review environmental-protection-agency epa-action nationwide-scope renewable-fuel-program small-refinery-exemption small-refinery-exemptions statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
Whether an action by the Environmental Protection Agency is "nationally applicable" or "based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect" for pu… |
| 23-1231 |
Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (11) |
equitable-doctrine good-faith-procurement investment-backed-expectations judicial-doctrine obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-invalidation patent-term-adjustment statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether a patent procured in good faith can be invalidated on the ground that statutory Patent Term Adjustment, which requires lengthening a patent's … |
| 23-1226 |
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure district-court fcc fcc-interpretation hobbs-act legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. |
| 23-7520 |
Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7522 |
Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7527 |
Larry Williams v. Warden Kelly, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1037 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7504 |
Sergio Antonio Hood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7512 |
Dallas M. Acoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United Sta… |
| 23-7494 |
Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
1. Is it repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States to convict and incarcerate
a United States citizen, and deprive him of… |
| 23-7501 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922 bruen-standard constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is un constitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol … |
| 23-7505 |
Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23A1026 |
Cynthia Ballenger v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
|
capitol-building disruptive-conduct fourth-amendment january-6 restricted-area statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7477 |
Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 23-7483 |
Edgardo Esteras v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric… |
| 23-1217 |
Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2). |
| 23-7468 |
Joe Ernest Robinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-review scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7471 |
Shauntavus Berklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
1. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BERKLIN'S OBJECTION TO THE… |
| 23-7473 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard |
Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently
encompass the requirement of "subjective intent to threaten," as articu… |
| 23-7478 |
Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging all the elements necessary for conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and punishment up to 120 … |
| 23A1010 |
Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7458 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion
without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes?
Di… |
| 23-7461 |
Shane A. Fox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty |
I. WHETHER THE INCHOATE OFFENSE OF ENGAGING IN A
ILLEGAL DRUG CONSPIRACY CONSTITUTES A SERIOUS
DRUG OFFENSE FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING A
DEFENDANT"… |
| 23-1209 |
M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-13 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) |
actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the… |
| 23-1208 |
David Do v. County of Santa Clara, California |
California |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process fraud judicial-estoppel labor-dispute labor-relations statutory-interpretation |
Does rule of law exist in California, where the U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper, statutes are ignored and MOU/CBA/contract is not contract,… |
| 23-7451 |
Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment on its face or as applied in this case?
2. Does the mere movement of a firearm from one st… |
| 23-7453 |
William Garrido v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
10-20-life-statute criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation trial-court-authority |
What authority does the trial court have to sentence beyond the selected mandatory minimum of 25 years under § 775.087 (2), (the 10-20-life Statute)? |
| 23-7456 |
Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1252b compelling-circumstances deportation deportation-order immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding minority-status noncitizen-status presumption-of-regularity statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether the minority status of a noncitizen at the time an in absentia deportation order is issued falls among the compelling circumstances suffici… |
| 23-7432 |
Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction |
What is the Acceptance and Recordation Date For which the Federal Government Accepted Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction From the STATE OF Georgia ov… |
| 23-7439 |
Basil Loud Hawk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-7440 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
"Balancing Justice and Compassion: A Case for Revisiting Compassionate Release under the First Step Act" |
| 23-7441 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
This court determined many times throughout history, legislative history is not law, and it is wrong to use legislative history as law and as a means … |
| 23-7443 |
Irvin Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process excessive-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-errors provocation sentencing trial-procedure video-evidence |
why_did_qppelate.deteader (Manuela Hetniade2) lnttdlnd Lior pry case.._when Several avguable ments cpply (2
why wae, petiionee (luni Themis pose —gve… |
| 23-1203 |
Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation |
1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, do minors have pro se rights that can be asserted by their parents on their behalf based on a parent's fundamental right to… |
| 23-7411 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7415 |
Carlos Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability |
1. Whether, following this Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019), a jury instruction permitting a finding of guilt on an 18 … |
| 23-7419 |
Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1). |
| 23-7421 |
Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Mr. Staples pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a… |
| 23-7395 |
Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California |
California |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Because His Case resettle. onimpotaal guedtion 03 Lau) andéhe porharak night. og he peonle "summary dismissal ixtheloae.og paliZirnerk., serious gl… |
| 23-7398 |
Jamaal Parker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation |
This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits.
First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23-7402 |
Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7405 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy completed-sentence court-interpretation double-jeopardy legal-precedent lower-court-errors probation recidivism retroactive-punishment sentencing |
1. In the eyes of the Court when is Punishment Retroactive?
2. Is the Legal Definition of Double Jeopardy described here?
3. In considering the reco… |
| 23A993 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 23-1193 |
Favion Lara v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-breach plea-agreement police prosecutor prosecutorial-promise sentencing |
Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor's promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer's recommendation o… |
| 23-7382 |
In Re Arthur Jones |
|
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the appellant court abused its discretion when it failed to issue the writ of mandamus to the district judge directing the district judge to v… |
| 23-7386 |
Jose Caban v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-7374 |
David Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent |
I.
Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause
gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a… |
| 23-7376 |
Rajesh P. Budhabhatti v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1346 collateral-order-doctrine criminal-prosecution honest-services-fraud interlocutory-appeal judicial-resources judicial-review public-official self-dealing statutory-interpretation |
1. Skilling v. United States , 561 U.S. 358 (2010), holds that fraudulent self-dealing by a public official is not honest services fraud under 18 U.S.… |
| 23A985 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Question not identified. |
| 23A982 |
Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services, a South Carolina Corporation v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-services statutory-interpretation tcpa |
Whether the Fourth Circuit properly imposed an "administrative feasibility" requirement for class certification that conflicts with the approach of si… |
| 23-1188 |
Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as "relevant offense conduct" violates the First Amendment a… |
| 23-1187 |
Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation |
Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place … |
| 23-7352 |
Christopher R. Johnson v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7354 |
Warren Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a predicate "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 23-7365 |
Cory Jermaine White v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3142 bail-reform-act flight-risk judicial-finding judicial-hearing pretrial-detention release-conditions serious-flight-risk statutory-interpretation |
Under the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142, must a judicial finding of serious flight risk, §3142(f)(2)(A), precede imposition of release conditions … |
| 23-7366 |
Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7355 |
Demario Barker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-7357 |
Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-7362 |
Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1175 |
Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-iii-court-power brokerage-account clawback-funds customer-net-equity madoff-fraud net-equity net-investment-method securities-law sipa sipc-trustee statutory-interpretation |
1. Does an Article III Court have the power to reject the statutory definition of "net equity" as set forth in 15 U.S.C. Section 78aaa et seq. by empl… |
| 23-1177 |
Eric Fisher v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law |
Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli… |
| 23-1171 |
Terrance Guinn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-review constitutional-law due-process factual-innocence federal-habeas firearm-possession firearms rehaif retroactive-application statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), petitioner can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review,… |
| 23-7338 |
Damon Sean Bellis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
The Court held in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019),
that before a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its
regulation, the court mu… |
| 23-7343 |
Dalevonte D. Hearn v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial mistrial sentencing trial-rights |
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| 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… |
| 23-7327 |
Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the
criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr… |
| 23-7328 |
Leslie Hood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment employment probation-requirements sentencing sentencing-discretion supervision supervision-conditions |
1. Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendme… |
| 23-1164 |
Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof circuit-split civil-forfeiture ownership-interest ownership-standing property-claim standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Where a claimant asserts an ownership interest, does the claimant's standing at summary judgment require only some evidence of ownership, as six circu… |
| 23-7312 |
James Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether consideration of acquitted conduct by the District Court in consideration of Bennett's ultimate sentence violates the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 23-7317 |
Michael A. Maggio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute nunc-pro-tunc plea-bargaining plea-modification post-conviction-relief property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-limitation supreme-court-ruling |
Should Michael A. Maggio benefit from subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court that 18 U.S.C § 666(a)(1)(B) was limited to property right… |
| 23-7280 |
Dontrell Lavell Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
2. Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pend… |
| 23-7303 |
Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing |
WHETHER THE EIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONS I TUT I ON11S PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL/ AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT REQUIRE THE PROTECTION GRANTED U… |
| 23-7304 |
Michael Anthony Granado v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines directs courts to use uncharged
offenses in its calculation of a defendant's guideline range if the uncharged… |
| 23-7305 |
Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession
of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the
indefinite past… |
| 23-7307 |
Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7300 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing |
(1). In accordance with Judicial Discretion ,once the trial Judge accepted and approved the plea bargain agreement for the maximum of the trial court … |
| 23-7293 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State… |
| 23-1149 |
Stephen M. Calk, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
|
bank-bribery commercial-value corrupt-intent criminal-intent due-process felony felony-statute statutory-interpretation thing-of-value |
1. Whether something with no commercial or objective value can constitute a "thing of value" that "exceed[s] $1,000," the receipt of which is punishab… |
| 23-1150 |
Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23A949 |
Capital Cartridge, LLC, et al. v. J. Michael Issa, as Trustee of the HMT Liquidating Trust |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
avoidance-claims bankruptcy-code creditors-committee derivative-standing statutory-interpretation trustee-powers |
1. This "significant" and "important" question (In re Baltimore Emergency Servs. II, Corp., 432 F.3d 557, 560-561 (4th Cir. 2005)), has sharply divide… |
| 23-1143 |
Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Given the judicial unwillingness in other circuits to permit the United States to stand on technicalities and this Court's guidance in Arbaugh v Y&… |
| 23-7283 |
Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-7284 |
Neal Merrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i
when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-7288 |
Jorge Bartolomei v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute prohibiting the possession of a firearm by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a te… |
| 23-7290 |
Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the district court properly "committ[ed] [Appellant] to the custody and care of the Attorney General " pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246, given … |
| 23-7260 |
Mark R. Zana v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces… |
| 23-7265 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment |
1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT
GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN
ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT … |
| 23-7267 |
Vincent Dewayne Gaylord v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7268 |
Pikerson Mentor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural
default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un… |
| 23-7256 |
John Pedelahore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme… |
| 23-7240 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
1. When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanct… |
| 23-7241 |
Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates
The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by … |
| 23-7242 |
Juan Avendano v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
Whether a defendant's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment are violated when the prosecution brings multiple, factually iden… |
| 23-7220 |
Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1153 congressional-amendment federal-jurisdiction felony-assault indian-country major-crimes-act minor statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal government have jurisdiction to prosecute a state felony assault on a minor under the Major Crimes Act (MCA), after Congress amended … |
| 23-7222 |
Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), the Government must–in order to separate wrongful acts from innocent acts–offer direct evidence … |
| 23-7223 |
Daquan Doral Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver arraignment criminal-procedure district-court due-process merits-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
Can the Government invoke an appeal waiver to preclude merits review of an appeal when the district court failed to specifically question the defendan… |
| 23-7229 |
Fredarius D. Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7235 |
Troy Dontae Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7210 |
Marqese Lynn Payne v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-jurisdiction civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-civil-rights-act indian-law reservation-boundaries self-governance statutory-interpretation territorial-law |
1. Old Congress pass the Organic ad-of fflaY 2^1890, for Slate lauJS In OK(ahoim,ortlid Congress pass thelerntorY Certain qeneral loins of ArKansas ' … |
| 23-7211 |
Andrew Burke v. Lieutenant Scott Soland |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure retaliation sexual-assault standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7217 |
Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the "private financial gain" involved is a d… |
| 23-7219 |
Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7199 |
In Re Joseph R. Dickey |
|
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence federal-prisoners habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. 2241(b)(1)'s requirement that "a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under 2254 [28 U.S.C. 2254] that w… |
| 23-7200 |
Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ |
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| 23-7202 |
Craig Alford v. Lea Baylor, Director, Monroe County Correctional Facility, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7204 |
Sean L. Hagins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing |
Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an
illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless
of the passage of time?
Did the lower … |
| 23-7205 |
Luke Joselin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including "Intended Loss," Should Be Given Deference Aft… |
| 23-7207 |
Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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| 23-7193 |
Jared Domei Maloid v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23A908 |
Alejandro Carrasco v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a legal services contract between a private-practice attorney and a municipality automatically transform the private practitioner into a go… |
| 23A909 |
Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bail-conditions criminal-intent criminal-procedure intentional-violation no-contact-order statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7166 |
Charles Edward Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness |
Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable … |
| 23-7173 |
John Lee Barlow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7179 |
Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7181 |
Austin Drake Day v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7182 |
Jonathan Wray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that … |
| 23-7184 |
Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an indeterminate juvenile commitment is properly counted as a period of confinement of at least sixty days under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-1095 |
Patrick D. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits making a "false statement" for the purpose of influencing certain financial institutions and federal agencie… |
| 23-7156 |
Robert Shields v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody chemical-identity constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence evidence-standard |
(1) Does the Constitutional right to due process of law require some evidence that a drug that resulted in death was chemically identical to the drug … |
| 23-7157 |
Roy R. Dixon v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection precedents statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7158 |
Russell Dean Alford v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness |
In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of … |
| 23-7160 |
John Michael Carrasco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7161 |
James E. Homan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process facts judicial-discretion record revocation revocation-proceeding sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated Mr. Homan's right to due process during the sentencing phase of this supervised release revocation proceeding when… |
| 23-7163 |
Kyle Melkonian v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation |
The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government … |
| 23-7165 |
Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-… |
| 23-7146 |
Antonio Ochoa-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7147 |
Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7149 |
Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1086 |
Megan Marie Teter v. United States Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-action equal-access-to-justice-act remedial-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a contested matter initiated by the
United States in a bankruptcy case is a "civil action"
within the ambit of the Equal Access to Justice Act… |
| 23-1081 |
Joseph Stafiniak, et al. v. Marc Kirschner, as Trustee of the NWHI Litigation Trust, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-546e avoidance avoidance-action bankruptcy-code contract-interpretation financial-institution section-546e statutory-interpretation transfer-exemption transfer-interpretation |
Whether Section 101(22)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, which defines a "financial institution," should be interpreted on a contract-by-contract basis or a… |
| 23-7135 |
Antonio Benjamin Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compelled-testimony constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7139 |
Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. |
Texas |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
2. How does the court apply WHO issued Admi… |
| 23-7143 |
Armando Ordonez-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7144 |
Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-7145 |
Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
L. What is the proper standard of review for evaluating supervised release revocation sentences on appeal?
I. May a district court imposing sentence … |
| 23-7120 |
Chaviz Wofford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-statement constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction opinions plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7125 |
Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7129 |
Cedric Jones v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction petition public-health rehearing standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1072 |
Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation |
The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig… |
| 23-1066 |
Continuing Care Risk Retention Group, Inc. v. Jacob Benson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-rights civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-preemption insurance-business insurance-regulation liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act preemption risk-retention-groups statutory-interpretation |
Can Arizona's anti-arbitration garnishment statute A.R.S. § 12-1584, which itself violates the Federal Arbitration Act, reverse preempt the Liability … |
| 23-1069 |
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity |
Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C… |
| 23-7100 |
Robert Merritt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing |
Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted. |
| 23-7106 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis |
Do the United States Sentencing Commission application note 4B1.4 cmt.n,(1) that states: "nor are the time periods for the counting of prior sentences… |
| 23-7107 |
Brock Melancon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission |
(1) Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing… |
| 23-7109 |
Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7093 |
Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts |
When a state court carelessly or negligently enters a cause claim, to enhance a criminal sentence, does it violate a person's due process rights and c… |
| 23-7094 |
Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the … |
| 23-7096 |
Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Fifth Circuit's gas failed to follow this Court's decision in Ruan v. United States , 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) by holding that a registered m… |
| 23-7097 |
Travis C. Crosby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Rule 404 (b) evidence of fraudulen… |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig… |
| 23-7086 |
Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1059 |
Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-petition administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act due-process environmental-protection-agency epa-action petition-for-review standing statutory-interpretation timeliness |
1. Whether Williams could have petitioned for review using non-record rebuttal evidence within 60 days of EPA's initial action.
2. Whether the Act re… |
| 23-7071 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a… |
| 23-7067 |
In Re Timothy Stratton |
|
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing |
1. CAN A MAN BE CHARGED TO FIND GUILTY WHERE ALL OF THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF A CRIME ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE JURY'S CHARGE?
2. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE… |
| 23A861 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7055 |
Jacob Lyon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver |
1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth… |
| 23-7056 |
Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration |
1. Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S… |
| 23-7060 |
Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty |
Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 31, 1890 (25 U.S.C. § 30-31; 26 Stat. 81, 83-84, 87) to establish State laws, or did Congress pa… |
| 23-7061 |
Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation |
1. Proximate causation. This Court has opined that holding possessors of illegal pornography liable for the conduct of many other independent actors m… |
| 23-1050 |
Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation |
When a person is convicted of a drug crime, 21 U.S.C. § 853 calls for bifurcated proceedings to ascertain what property may be forfeited as a result o… |
| 23-7046 |
Pamela Kathryn Conley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft bank-fraud circuit-court concurring-opinion criminal-law criminal-procedure loan-documentation signature-forgery statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's forging of a signature of a bank employee on a lien release, used as supporting documentation for a bank loan in the defendant's… |
| 23-7035 |
Anderson Garcia v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi… |
| 23-7040 |
Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. |
Tennessee |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation |
1. is the petitioner constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States constitution violated when the Tennessee… |
| 23-1041 |
Flying Crown Subdivision Addition No. 1 and Addition No. 2 Property Owners Association v. Alaska Railroad Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
1871-land-grants alaska-railroad alaska-railroad-act easement exclusive-use-easement land-grant property-law property-rights railroad-rights-of-way statutory-interpretation |
When interpreting railroad rights-of-way granted by federal statutes, courts look to the condition of the country when the statutes were enacted, as w… |
| 23-1042 |
Sean Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-law-powers district-court-powers district-of-columbia-court-reorganization-act federal-actors federal-tort-claims-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation westfall-amendment |
1. Whether FTCA's 1988 "Westfall" amendment created immunity that did not previously exist, thus displacing non-FTCA actions that do not rely on the F… |
| 23-1028 |
Shannon Poe v. Idaho Conservation League |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
addition-of-pollutant chevron-deference clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutant navigable-waters ninth-circuit-ruling pollutant-discharge statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a "discharge of a pollutant" under the Clean Water Act when material already within a regulated waterbody is merely moved or resuspen… |
| 23-1037 |
Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Isobel Berry Culp, et vir |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
|
26-usc-6213 internal-revenue-service judicial-review petition-timeliness statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency tax-procedure untimely-petition |
1. Whether 26 U.S.C. 6213(a) grants the Tax Court jurisdiction to review an untimely petition for redetermination of a tax deficiency?
2. Even assumi… |
| 23-7022 |
Elvis Edgardo Molina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burns-v-united-states due-process evidence-disclosure fifth-amendment guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether the district court's failure to disclose gun statistics from unknown sources of questionable validity to justify an unpre cedented 30-month up… |
| 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… |
| 23-7033 |
Donte Taylor v. California |
California |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied?
2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual? |
| 23-7014 |
Stanley Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act mandatory-minimum physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), are categorically crimes of violence under the elements clau… |
| 23-7002 |
Ayoob Wali v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal |
Should the court of appeals below recognize a fundamental-miscarriage of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision of a federal criminal defen… |
| 23-7003 |
Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 23-6988 |
Anthony Shief v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's protections under Miller v. Alabama require certain sentencing procedures for defendants convicted of crimes committed … |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6994 |
Donald M. Reynolds v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
While a federal prisoner's direct appeal is pending for sentencing issues, and retroactive Amendment 821 is enacted which now lowers the appellant's g… |
| 23-1009 |
Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation |
Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S… |
| 23-1007 |
Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci… |
| 23-6969 |
James Paul Antonio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23-6974 |
Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6977 |
Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 23-6978 |
Jose Salome Gallardo Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6979 |
Kyston Ivory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6981 |
Ezekiel Davis v. Shadid Ansari, Individually and in His Official Capacity as GEO/LCF Medical Director, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure legal-issue medical-injury standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23A839 |
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-deference fcc-ruling hobbs-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. |
| 23A835 |
Alif Jan Adil v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-999 |
Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko |
Virginia |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience,
like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be
raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38
U.S.… |
| 23-1000 |
Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference benefit-coverage disability-discrimination enteral-nutrition medical-necessity medicare-act medicare-coverage organ-dysfunction prosthetic-devices secretary statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is the Secretary statutorily authorized, or entitled to deference, to deny benefit coverage for an entire group of benefits (here, enteral nutriti… |
| 23-1002 |
Tony R. Hewitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-6934 |
Calvin C. Freeman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1.) Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of, children "OR®' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative M… |
| 23-6949 |
Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach.
2. Whether conspiracy and attempt are m… |
| 23-6951 |
Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6953 |
Anthony Lamont Mason, II v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-court federal-sentencing indian-major-crimes-act mandatory-minimum mcgirt-v-oklahoma sentencing-guidelines state-court state-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This case presents a legal question under the Indian Major Crimes Act (IMCA), 18 U.S.C. § 1153, that is increasingly important in the wake of McGirt v… |
| 23-6954 |
Charles B. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED… |
| 23-6936 |
Jose Eulalio Aguillen-Servin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6939 |
Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the
court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and
excul… |
| 23-6942 |
Paulino Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi… |
| 23-6926 |
Pidy T. Tiger v. Tommy Williams, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-precedent federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-law jurisdictional-dispute native-american-rights statutory-interpretation treaty-abrogation treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
1. Can the Kansas Act 18 U.S.C. 3243 be read to abrogate the
Creek Nation Treaty of 1856?
2. Does Oklahoma .v. McGirt,2020 represent clearly establi… |
| 23-6902 |
Jeffrey Akard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions |
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| 23-6903 |
Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. |
Florida |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat… |
| 23-6907 |
Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6910 |
Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction |
I. Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject matter jurisdiction?
II. Do bedrock ple… |
| 23-966 |
Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether or not 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges, with apparent intent to issue new cross-designations each year, in pe… |
| 23-6895 |
Bradley Lane Croft v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law fraud identity-theft qualifications statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dubin |
Whether aggravated identity theft convictions must be reversed when the real "crux" of the fraud turns, not on any person's name, but on their qualifi… |
| 23-6896 |
Anthony Rimas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2256 28-usc-994 congressional-authority law-enforcement-undercover minor minor-definition sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-interpretation undercover-law-enforcement |
Has the Sentencing Commission overstepped its congressional authority granted it under 28 U.S.C. § 994 when, with no specific congressional directive … |
| 23-6900 |
Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F… |
| 23-959 |
Colin Montague v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation |
The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23-6873 |
Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty |
loress passiheOraonicac+tbroKlahoma on establish Slate laws, or did Congress eneral lauJS of Arkansas on ITIaY Z,I2% providina fine provis ► entHTea T… |
| 23-6876 |
Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1504(1)(C) (Omnibus Crime Control Act) applied to Bronson's Metaphysical attempt to attempt "Louefl)rco,c|j uayi w" unconstitutionally?… |
| 23-6878 |
Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6881 |
Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6869 |
Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending Un… |
| 23-6870 |
Ariel Perez-Lainez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-948 |
Texas Aromatics, L.P., et al. v. Intercontinental Terminals Company, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absurd-consequences administrative-claim environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction hazardous-substance maritime-law mixed-spill oil-pollution-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., applies to a spill that is 91% oil and 9% a "hazardous substance." |
| 23-6845 |
Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6849 |
Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6850 |
Eric Michael Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-6834 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 |
Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions?
Does supervised release conditions as applied invoke Doub… |
| 23-6837 |
David Carbonaro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
I. Whether the Court erred when it overruled the objections to the enhancements for the use of a computer and the number of images?
II. Whether the C… |
| 23-933 |
Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation |
Congress has determined that individuals should
not be denied access to federal court based on their
economic circumstances. To effectuate that impo… |
| 23-918 |
Ranito Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an offense that can be committed
through omission or inaction can "ha[ve] as an element
the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical
… |
| 23-919 |
Kristin DiCroce v. McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buckman-ruling buckman-v-plaintiffs-legal-committee circuit-court-interpretation federal-food-drug-cosmetic-act federal-preemption implied-preemption medtronic-precedent medtronic-v-lohr state-law-causes-of-action state-law-claims statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits' holdings that state law claims based on violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act are impliedly… |
| 23A777 |
Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\
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| 23-6828 |
Warren J. Levering v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chevron-deference child-support economic-impact-payments federal-statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-refund treasury-offset-program |
Did the Nebraska Supreme Court violate the U.S. Supreme Court's rules of Federal statutory construction by construing 26 U.S.C. §6428A to NOT exempt t… |
| 23A770 |
Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23-905 |
John William Hanson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing |
1. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has already established that the Petitioner did not Resist Arrest on February 3, 2018. "Hanson did not threaten … |
| 23-6803 |
Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523
U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 23-6808 |
Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —… |
| 23-6786 |
Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6793 |
Timothy Burks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6794 |
Isaac Cardona v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the promotional money laundering provision of Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), violates the due proce… |
| 23-6797 |
Mark Steven Domingo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process entrapment inducement predisposition similar-crimes |
1. When a defendant raises an entrapment defense, must the government disprove entrapment by establishing predisposition or a lack of inducement as to… |
| 23-6799 |
Leon King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 23-892 |
Jason Antoine Brock v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equal-employment-opportunity federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2) is fair in allowing 30'days for judicial review in comparison to 60-day rule within 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) and 5 U.S.C… |
| 23-894 |
Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
The petitioner brought a breach of contract action in Nevada state court against the law firm which represented him in a bankruptcy filed by his ex-wi… |
| 23-900 |
Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure corporate-form corporate-separateness lanham-act profits-disgorgement standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether an award of the "defendant's profits" under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distin… |
| 23-6788 |
Terrance Fowler v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions maximum-penalty sentencing uncharged-crime |
Can a State deny a defendant due process of law by convicting and sentencing him to the maximum penalty for a crime that he was not charged with, nor … |
| 23-6790 |
James Hamilton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the … |
| 23-6768 |
Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6769 |
Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm
that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-6770 |
Juan Carlos Burns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)? |
| 23-6771 |
Wild Chang, et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contract-rewriting due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-fraud RICO rico-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
Q1. Whether national insurance companies can continue committing the RICO frauds in concert with other members of the RICO Enterprise with impunity by… |
| 23-6757 |
Bryan Alan Kennert v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss deference economic-offenses guideline-interpretation intended-loss judicial-deference loss-calculation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
This case involves the proper application of this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 1389 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), in interpreting the United States Sent… |
| 23-6759 |
Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment |
Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which requires a defendant to be present at sentencing, permits the sentencing judge… |
| 23-6747 |
Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6745 |
Raymond Wilson, III v. Fairhaven Police Department, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection interstate-crime jurisdictional-issues legal-elements malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Why some cases can be successful and prosecute, whereas others cannot, having the same elements yet to be interpreted, and whereas a bias of a certain… |
| 23-6746 |
Alexander Isaiah Perez v. Sandra Hijar, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion civil-rights due-process judicial-review notice-and-comment procedural-due-process regulatory-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6748 |
Eric Lavell Minter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial role s… |
| 23-6750 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable b… |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur… |
| 23-6754 |
Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a "miscarr… |
| 23-876 |
KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-14 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron-deference circuit-split federal-mine-safety-and-health-act federal-regulation mine-safety mining statutory-interpretation transportation |
1. Whether a truck or a truck repair shop that is not located at nor is adjacent to an extraction or processing site or an appurtenant road is a "coal… |
| 23-870 |
Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
When an aggrieved party petitions for judicial review of the Department of Transportation's final action under the Hazardous Materials Transportation … |
| 23-6732 |
Seth Conner Wells v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration pursuant to Section 960.293 Florida Statutes is an unconstitutionally excessive fine as app… |
| 23-6733 |
Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision on equitable
tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based … |
| 23-6724 |
Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
In Blackledge v. Perry, 417 U.S. 21 (1974), and Menna v. New York, 423 U.S. 61 (1975), this Court held that a defendant who pleads guilty can still ra… |
| 23-6725 |
Deonte Marques Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process electronic-filing forfeiture notice restitution sentencing sentencing-error |
1. In Dolan v. United States, 560 U.S. 605 (2010), the Court held that compliance with the statutory deadline for determining restitution was unnecess… |
| 23-861 |
Nick Feliciano v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
active-duty armed-services-reserve differential-pay due-process federal-civilian-employee federal-civilian-employees national-emergency reserve-component statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential … |
| 23-866 |
Evan H. Nordby v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
active-duty civil-rights differential-pay due-process federal-employee federal-employment military-reserve military-reserves national-emergency pay-differential statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential … |
| 23-868 |
Charles Flynn v. Department of State |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
active-duty civil-service civilian-employee differential-pay federal-employment national-emergency statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential … |
| 23-859 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en… |
| 23-6709 |
Martin Akerman v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard, appointed under 44 U.S.C. § 3520, with standing under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1) and (c)(2), and det… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6714 |
Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6699 |
In Re Derlon Crain |
|
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6702 |
Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses |
1. Does § 1961(1)(A) of RICO incorporate—and thereby require the
Government to plead and prove beyond a reasonable doubt—the elements of
specific stat… |
| 23-6707 |
Sean Robert Wathen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne… |
| 23-6686 |
Clarence Lee Davis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2255(f)(3) armed-career-criminal attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-violence davis-v-united-states federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
In a proceeding timely filed under 28 U.S.C. 2255(f)(3) does Attempted Armed Bank Robbery qualify as a crime of violence under 924(c)'s residual claus… |
| 23-6687 |
Darius James Francis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6690 |
Lamark Armond Combs, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process record-expansion remand sentencing |
I. May a district court expand the record on remand to allow the government to present additional evidence even though the government's burden was cle… |
| 23-6692 |
Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement |
I. Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may b… |
| 23-852 |
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Jennifer VanDerStok, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (28)Relisted (2) |
5th-circuit-decision administrative-law atf-regulation atf-regulations firearm-definition gun-control-act regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation weapon-parts-kit |
In the Gun Control Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. 921 et seq., Congress imposed licensing, background-check, recordkeeping, and serialization requirements on … |
| 23-845 |
Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation |
Does quid pro quo bribery, in the context of an honest services fraud prosecution, permit conviction on the basis that a public official received a be… |
| 23A720 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6665 |
Ole Hougen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
badges-of-slavery bodily-injury civil-rights congressional-power criminal-law federal-criminal-law federalism hate-crimes race-discrimination thirteenth-amendment |
Whether Congress's power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude authorizes Congress to criminalize ass… |
| 23-6668 |
Roosevelt L. Lincoln, aka Roosevelt L. Linicomn v. Harris County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness legal-procedure section-242 statutory-interpretation |
1) DOES THE 14th AMENDMENT ; [AND SECTION 242 OF TITLE 18]
CONSTITUTE A MAN JUSTICE?
2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HAVE ANY RULES TO GO BY UNDER … |
| 23-6652 |
Don Meeker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us |
1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 23-6656 |
Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-6659 |
Edward Logan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Wow con a Gioke enack and use an Ack, that by 45 oon Vagu ness, Com tae Werpretated te deny . Any. Criminal defendant the vight te.a spealy triol unde… |
| 23-6661 |
Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias.
2. Whether the Un… |
| 23-6662 |
Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law digital-files due-process statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the portion of the Illinois child pornography statute allowing for the termination of possession, 720 ILLS 5/11-20.1(b)(5) (2016), is unconsti… |
| 23-6663 |
Emmanuel Gil v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-831 |
Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense th… |
| 23-832 |
Moshe Porat v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i… |
| 23-829 |
City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Deer Creek Water Corporation |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1926(b) 82-o.s.-1324.35 civil-procedure federal-obligations oklahoma-law private-corporation standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a private corporation may waive State sovereignty without the permission of the State.
2. Whether Oklahoma has authorized private corporat… |
| 23-6642 |
David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6643 |
Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel |
When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal… |
| 23-6645 |
Arthur Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6647 |
Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6627 |
In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton |
|
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional |
QUESTION No. 1.
WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS UNDER THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITU… |
| 23-6630 |
Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony |
Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi… |
| 23-6632 |
Jasen Randhawa v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deterrence due-process general-deterrence sentencing sentencing-discretion social-science social-science-evidence |
I. Does a court violate a defendant's right to due process when a lengthy sentence is based upon mistaken information that a severe sentence will dete… |
| 23-6635 |
Leslie Fulwiler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-6637 |
Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
3. If the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the defendants with the right to assistance of counsel, it is fair to not include i… |
| 23-825 |
Salvatore Delligatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-819 |
Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law article-i commerce-clause constitutional-limits delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power major-questions-doctrine osha statutory-interpretation workplace-safety |
Whether Congress's delegation of authority to write "reasonably necessary or appropriate" workplace-safety standards violates Article I of the U.S. Co… |
| 23-6612 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso… |
| 23-6615 |
Jason James Veal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
After this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022) which held that attempted Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence und… |
| 23-6621 |
Adrian Ayala-Garcia, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-communications collateral-attack guilty-plea pre-plea-claims prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing tollett-preclusion tollett-v-henderson |
I. Does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the government and
a defendant from conditioning a guilty plea on the defendant's right to… |
| 23-6624 |
In Re Johnny Jones |
|
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process florida-statutes jurisdiction legislative-process legislative-validity statutory-interpretation statutory-revision subject-matter-jurisdiction |
DOES THE LAW AS ENACTED BY THE 1974, LEGISLATURE IN CHAPTER 74-121 APPEAR IN THE 1974 SUPPLEMENT TO FLORIDA STATES 1973?
Does Statute 794.011(2) exis… |
| 23-6590 |
Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence |
1) Was Petitioner Deprived of His Due Process Clause of His Fourteenth Amendment fights and Equal Protection of the Law in Violation of His Rights Pro… |
| 23-6602 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie… |
| 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. |
| 23-6606 |
In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL
SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS
-ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE
FOR ADII.WHE… |
| 23-813 |
Brutus Trading, LLC v. Standard Chartered Bank, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure deferred-prosecution-agreement due-process evidentiary-hearing false-claims-act government-dismissal procedural-rights qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Due Process Clause and 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(2)(A) and (B) require an evidentiary hearing when the evidence for and against dismissal is sha… |
| 23A699 |
Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
|
administrative-enforcement due-process federal-trade-commission ftc-act monetary-penalties statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6584 |
David E. Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech nlrb-sanctions standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IS INCONSISTENT WITH NLRB v. BECK CONSTRUCTION CO., 536 U.S. 516 (2002) AND CEMETERY v. MARBURY, 536 U.S. 903 (2… |
| 23-6588 |
Aaron Ramirez Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence government-informant sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-testimony |
Whether a government informant and co-conspirators testimony of another's involvement in the conspiracy is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction… |
| 23-6589 |
Reginald L. McCoy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold |
Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior … |
| 23-6592 |
Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence |
May a sentencing judge disregard the jury's verdict acquitting the defendant of causing the decedent's death and use facts the jury rejected to justif… |
| 23-6594 |
Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6596 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6577 |
Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23-6578 |
Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-post-conviction due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure precedential-effect statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A689 |
Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction federal-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60(b) statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A682 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A687 |
Danilo Arturo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal federal-sentencing ninth-circuit rico-conspiracy sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6552 |
In Re Vincent Pisciotta |
|
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation |
Can a conviction for "using fire to commit a federal felony", under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a "con… |
| 23-6555 |
Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 23-6560 |
Cole A. Wolak v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing |
WHEIHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONVICTING PETITIONER FOR BOTH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND FOR RECEIPT AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAP… |
| 23-6531 |
Terrance Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
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| 23-6541 |
In Re Ronald Freeman |
|
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense |
1. Whether being in federal "detention, " "custody " is a substantial denial of
Ronald Freeman 's constitutional right of liberty, without "sufficient… |
| 23-6542 |
Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment 6th-amendment-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6546 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23-6520 |
Gary Von Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power federal-authority federal-criminal-law firearm-regulation firearms-regulation interstate-commerce scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) should be construed to require a more substantial connection to interstate commerce than the mere passage of a firearm acros… |
| 23-6526 |
Larry Coates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa… |
| 23-788 |
Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the… |
| 23-779 |
David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
To ensure that veterans' claims are presented to agency decisionmakers with all available support, Congress has directed the Department of Veterans Af… |
| 23A661 |
Andrew Tablack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
|
controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-indictment federal-crime scheduling statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6512 |
Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6514 |
Tiffany Janis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law federal-murder-statute force-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-6484 |
Miguel Angel Sanchez-Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6485 |
Keaton Lamar Shaw v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie policy-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6488 |
Juan Garcia-Bertadillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6489 |
Robert E. Harrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen… |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 23-6493 |
Shannon Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6495 |
Peter Burno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing |
Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6498 |
Kevin Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District … |
| 23-6501 |
Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-the-writ aedpa brady-claim brady-rule federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation |
Are Brady claims "second or successive" under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) when the suppressed evidence comes to light only after the dismissal of an initia… |
| 23A658 |
Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aggregate-sentence constitutional-proportionality federal-intervention habeas-review sentencing state-court-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-760 |
John Baker, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining disciplinary-process due-process employment employment-rights family-medical-leave-act fmla-compliance labor-law medical-certification statutory-interpretation statutory-protections |
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) sets forth a medical certification process, including the ability to obtain a second and third opinion, if an … |
| 23-6477 |
Jamaile L. Huey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime |
Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6481 |
Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation |
Did this impermissible expansion of the scope of the federal child pornography statutes, in direct contravention of both the holdings of this Court an… |
| 23-6458 |
Mario Astudillo-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6461 |
Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-6470 |
Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional |
(1) US 38 U.S.C. Section 2255 Whether petitioner has subjected to any substantial or procedural defects that ended his life, thereby violating section… |
| 23-6452 |
Shannon R. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6453 |
James David Welton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review |
Whether the court should grant the writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted with a 10 year max… |
| 23-6440 |
Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the U.S.S.G Commentary being issued on a High in § 2L1.1 is unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to notice and comment to the … |
| 23-737 |
Roman Melikov v. Ghilotti Bros., Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automobile-accident federal-aid-highway-act federal-funds highway-construction highway-renovation private-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, 23 U.S.C. § 101-179, grant an express or implied private cause of action for an automobile accident at an… |
| 23-743 |
Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law constitutional-law federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund |
(1) Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine by imposing no limit on the FCC's power to raise revenue for the USF.
(2) Whether the… |
| 23-734 |
Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation |
Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea… |
| 23-736 |
Bernard Gadson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG § 2B1.1, cmt. n.3(A), expanding the meaning of "loss" to include "intended loss," vio… |
| 23-6425 |
Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits courts to find a plea agreement waiver that is silent as to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1… |
| 23-6426 |
Leonard Nyamusevya v. CitiMortgage, Inc., et al. |
Ohio |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-violation discharged-debt due-process judicial-report mortgage-foreclosure property-taking public-interest statutory-interpretation takings |
i) In violation of § 524(a) and § 1326(c) and Rule 9011 and O.R.C. § 2329, whether a Supplemental Final Judicial Report violates the Ohio and U.S. Con… |
| 23-6432 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6433 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6415 |
Christian Cruz v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder pulley-v-harris relative-culpability sentencing supreme-court-review |
WHETHER THE AFFIRMANCE BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA OF DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCE OF DEATH WAS CLEARL… |
| 23-6417 |
Ralph Hall v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech prosecutorial-discretion sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6419 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
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| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente… |
| 23-6422 |
Raymond J. Kraynak v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process fair-and-just-reason guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion withdrawal-of-plea |
I. Whether Petitioner has sufficiently shown a fair and just reason for requesting withdrawal of his guilty plea such that the trial court shall grant… |
| 23-6424 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h… |
| 23-6409 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6410 |
Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6411 |
Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6412 |
Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-720 |
Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
Plea agreements often include a general waiver of the right to appeal. Circuits are divided over whether the inclusion of such a term bars a defendant… |
| 23-721 |
Gayle Killilea v. Richard M. Coan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
avoidance-action bankruptcy-law civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence jury property-transfer rules-of-evidence statutory-interpretation trust |
This case arises out of a fraudulent conveyance action. It concerns whether certain real estate located in Ireland was held in trust—a question of fac… |
| 23-711 |
James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits |
1. Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets … |
| 23-713 |
Joshua E. Bufkin v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
38-usc-7261 benefit-of-doubt benefit-of-the-doubt-rule claims-process federal-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits veterans-benefits-act-of-2002 veterans-court |
Must the Veterans Court ensure that the benefit-of-the-doubt rule was properly applied during the claims process in order to satisfy 38 U.S.C. § 7261(… |
| 23-715 |
Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
agency-deference agency-interpretation benefits-eligibility disproportionate-share-hospital hospital-payments low-income-patients medicare-part-a medicare-reimbursement ssi-benefits statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase "entitled … to benefits," used twice in the same sentence of the Medicare Act, mean the same thing for Medicare part A and SSI, such t… |
| 23-716 |
Shawn Mark Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent federal-benefits federal-healthcare-benefits healthcare-fraud interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation travel-act |
I. Does the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(1), require the government to prove that the defendant received remuneration for referring p… |
| 23-6402 |
Vidal Orellana-Sibrian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6403 |
Tony L. Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty |
Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-6405 |
Brian K. Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure |
1. Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals'
application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent
sentencing proceedings,… |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive. |
| 23-6408 |
Jade LaRoche v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a
defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments. |
| 23-6400 |
Michael Hewitt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy drug-distribution evidence jury-instructions |
Should the trial court have acquitted Petitioner of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine where (1) the evidence at best showed a conspiracy to dis… |
| 23A601 |
Shannon Donoho v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether surreptitiously recorded videos and images of minors in a bathroom depict those minors engaging in "sexually explicit conduct"—namely, the "la… |
| 23A606 |
Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-deference medical-food medicare-coverage metabolic-disorder prosthetic-device statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6396 |
Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 23-6397 |
Jaime Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime of physical inaction ever "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert… |
| 23-6399 |
Michael Salinas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6377 |
Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Florida |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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| 23-6382 |
Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6384 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-justice-system due-process extraordinary-reasons prosecutorial-misconduct sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ca… |
| 23-6385 |
Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6390 |
Jose Guadalupe Ramirez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-brain-development due-process expert-assistance indigent-defendant mandatory-life-sentence right-to-present-defense sentencing |
Does a trial court deprive an indigent defendant of due process and the right to present a defense by failing to appoint an adolescent brain developme… |
| 23-6394 |
Andrew Tablack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation |
Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. §811(2)(G) that requires the "drug named" in the indictment to be listed as the controlled substance analogues?
… |
| 23-6357 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-for-relief sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the denial of the Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) Motion is contrary to this Court's ruling in CONCEPCION? see infra. |
| 23-6359 |
Davin Chaz Nevins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6361 |
Victor Grant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t… |
| 23-6364 |
Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-687 |
MRP Properties Company, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cercla cercla-liability corporate-disclosure environmental-regulation environmental-regulations facility-operator operator-liability pollution-producing-activities statutory-interpretation waste-disposal waste-disposal-activities |
Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), an "owner"
or "operator" of a "facility" at the time hazardo… |
| 23-693 |
Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations |
The question presented is whether district courts may, under Skidmore, give deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations w… |
| 23-685 |
Devaughn Dorsey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-use firearms sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation witness-tampering |
A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tamperi… |
| 23-6346 |
Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-petition sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6347 |
Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019). |
| 23-6351 |
Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when the district court failed to give notice of its intent to depart upwards 147 months and … |
| 23-6331 |
Hannibal Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense burden-of-proof criminal-conduct criminal-law disqualifying-element imminent-threat justification-defense legal-alternative proximate-cause |
The question presented is whether the courts should also take a narrow view in considering the disqualifying element of the justification defense, and… |
| 23-6332 |
Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error? |
| 23-679 |
Gene Rechtzigel v. Green Valley Development, LLP, et al. |
Minnesota |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
|
boundary-determination constitutional-rights due-process full-and-fair-trial judicial-procedure land-boundary property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
I. Did the State Courts of Minnesota deprive Petitioner of Liberty, Due Process of Law, United States Constitutional Rights, Minnesota Constitutional … |
| 23-681 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure corporate-liability individual-liability knowing-violation lanham-act mark-misuse statutory-interpretation threshold-of-significance trademark-infringement |
The Lanham Act sets up a two-tiered penalty regime for cases involving counterfeit marks depending on whether the use of those marks was knowing. Whil… |
| 23-6320 |
Santiago Salazar-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6323 |
Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence mandatory-minimum parole photo-array plea-bargaining sentencing witness-testimony |
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| 23-6325 |
James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONS (4) (0), (¢ )e 14 AMENDMENTS) CAN THE CLNEMS BEING PRESENTED HEREIN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT MANIFEST WSUSTSECCE… |
| 23-670 |
Marc S. Kirschner, Solely in His Capacity as Trustee of the Millennium Lender Claim Trust v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
financial-regulation investment-instrument junk-bonds reves-standard reves-v-ernst-young secondary-markets securities-law statutory-interpretation syndicated-loans |
1. Whether notes issued as part of a syndicated loan are "securities" under the securities laws.
2. Whether the Court should revisit the Reves standa… |
| 23-6312 |
Andre Reese v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a
violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-666 |
James T. Cunningham v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
|
court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement |
I.
Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was
entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial
when the Government convicted him of murder—a
se… |
| 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… |
| 23-6301 |
Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing |
(1). Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res judicata to "Petition In Error" because Petitioner raised Constitutional error… |
| 23-6282 |
Clay Chastain v. Bedford Regional Water Authority |
Virginia |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure public-utility rate-regulation statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Can a Locality practice uniformly and selectively charge K Lucho mecs J: Lhe ant fove © Marian he susan all the Custome zc use ¢
2. Does sudan av … |
| 23-6285 |
Kenneth Paiva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 23-6297 |
Kevin Hewlett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea |
1) Whether the use of an internationally-manufactured cellphone in criminal conduct is, by itself, a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce to satisf… |
| 23-6275 |
Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6278 |
Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6279 |
Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6241 |
Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Proposed Recusal - Adv. Ookten cack; ercscad 6 Cen mre inn Giece. of erence hel of Uahtdn S0kFii ne. prSena face ar Ment tabPon Ceqwire ne… |
| 23-6259 |
Bryan Lee Ogle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction most-innocent-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tennessee-statute violent-felony |
Whether the district court erred in applying an enhanced sentence, pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to Mr. Ogle at sente… |
| 23-6263 |
Freddy Abad v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis |
1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based
on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that
they were; un… |
| 23-6242 |
Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6244 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,… |
| 23-6245 |
Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6250 |
Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-confidentiality collateral-attack plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment tollett-precedent |
I. Does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the government and a defendant from conditioning a guilty plea on the defendant's right to… |
| 23-6251 |
Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion |
I. Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights?
II. Whe… |
| 23-6252 |
Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6253 |
Larry D. Ford v. American Homes 4 Rent, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent due-process fair-housing-act housing housing-providers statutory-interpretation tenant-discrimination tenant-liability third-party-liability |
1. By making it unlawful to discriminate because of a protected trait, did Congress require an FHA plaintiff to plead and prove discriminatory intent … |
| 23-6240 |
Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a … |
| 23A529 |
Ranito Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari professional-obligations statutory-interpretation supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A531 |
Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A534 |
Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of Interior |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-litigation court-fees filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. This case presents a significant question of law—namely, whether, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1), district courts may impose a partial filing f… |
| 23A536 |
Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6218 |
Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 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… |
| 23-6220 |
Daniel Thomason Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violations corporate-liability discriminatory-practices due-process federal-prosecution fraud medical-billing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 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… |
| 23-6223 |
Christopher Louis Sindone v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-habeas-corpus harassment legal-standing retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-625 |
Tel James Boam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct,… |
| 23-6199 |
Trayvon Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6206 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
DOES THE DORMANT COMMERCE CLAUSE IN SECTION 12(C) ALLOW THE COURT JURISDICTION OVER A PERSON'S GOODS, PATENT, CUSTOM AUTHORITY, SINCE 22 U.S.C. SECTIO… |
| 23-621 |
Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a party must obtain a ruling
that conclusively decides the merits
in its favor, as opposed to merely
predicting a likelihood of later
succe… |
| 23-6182 |
Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial |
(1) Whether the trial Court erred in amending Judgment and hate Sentencing to not* dual in violation of fllx, ft-Crim. P, Rule ti&lH,i (h)
(d) Whethe… |
| 23-6187 |
Jamar Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Rehearing |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when
the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of
… |
| 23-6189 |
Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions bankruptcy-procedure collateral-estoppel creditor-rights due-process judicial-immunity res-judicata stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the intent of Congress in enacting 11 U.S.C. §522(1)
and Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4003(b) as interpreted by this Court 's
precedential and controll… |
| 23-6191 |
In Re Colby Jerome Hale |
|
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation |
8) What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an Appeal from the U.S. District Court. If you do exactly what the rule… |
| 23-6197 |
Daniel Joseph Teed v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Low |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-aggregation due-process equal-protection first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation time-credits |
Is the ineligibility provision of 18 USC §3632(d)(4)(D) First Step Act Time Credits constitutional?
II. Can the Federal Bureau of Prisons determine F… |
| 23-605 |
Erich M. Martin v. Raina L. Martin |
Nevada |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
collateral-estoppel due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-convenience preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.… |
| 23-6169 |
Juan Carlos Soto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. Selective Remand
Petitioner asks: Why does the 4th Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Almost Cases Where Not all of the appellant's Non-Frivolous Pa… |
| 23-6170 |
Edell Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 23-6176 |
Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6164 |
Albert Carrasco, v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release |
For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin… |
| 23-6167 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6157 |
Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
1. The circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the decisio… |
| 23-6161 |
Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release |
1. Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137
S. Ct. 1730 (2017)—which recognized a First Amendment right to access the I… |
| 23-6148 |
Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue |
I. Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge after the case was reassigned to another Distri… |
| 23-6150 |
Quindell Tyree Maloid v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-6152 |
In Re Michael Alonza Rufus |
|
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review preemption statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-578 |
Christopher Kinzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-6129 |
Jarmaine Carter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of "extortion" under United States Sentencin… |
| 23-6131 |
Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement |
I. Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the "Use of a Minor" sentencing enhan… |
| 23-6134 |
Rajon Jamison v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-offender base-level base-level-calculation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-conviction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND ADDRESS TWO SENTENCING ERROR OF SIGNIFICANCE WHEN THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WH… |
| 23-6135 |
Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6136 |
Shawn C. Leftwich v. State Farm Insurance Company, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process pleadings pro-se procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-570 |
Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance |
Under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1133, employee benefit plans must, in accordance with th… |
| 23-571 |
Madeleine Pickens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
6324(a)(2) decedent-property estate-tax estate-taxes higley-v-commissioner iRS-authority personal-liability statutory-interpretation tax-lien trust-beneficiaries |
When an individual passes away, the executor of his estate must pay estate taxes. If the executor fails to pay, the Internal Revenue Service may enfor… |
| 23-6111 |
Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Jennifer Shaffer, et al. |
California |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-principles criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legislative-intent sentencing sentencing-law |
Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law … |
| 23-6118 |
T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review |
In the absence of an explicit definition, is the definition of "controlled substance" in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or st… |
| 23-6119 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague |
1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th… |
| 23-6121 |
Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA… |
| 23A478 |
Rufus E. Dennis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor |
Question not identified. |
| 23-554 |
Michael O'Bannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution permits a criminal defendant to be sentenced based on conduct for which he or she was acquitted. |
| 23-551 |
GMS Mine Repair v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law auer-deference chevron-deference chevron-doctrine circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure judicial-review regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
In Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) ("Kisor"), this Court sought to limit Auer deference and provided specific guidance for courts to interpret… |
| 23-553 |
William Clark Turner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction flight-attendant free-speech intimidation jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the inclusion of multiple alternative definitions of "intimidate" within the jury instructions for the charged violation of 49 U.S.C. section 4… |
| 23-556 |
Ramey & Schwaller, L.L.P. v. Zions Bancorporation NA, dba Amegy Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest criminal-law due-process formal-charge indictment united-states-v-marion |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit misconstrues Texas criminal law by equating an arrest without indictment as a formal charge for a felony regardless that … |
| 23-558 |
United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc. and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure definite-term federal-office federal-officer nlrb-procedure removal removal-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether statutes that prescribe a definite
term for a federal office, without providing for removal
of the officer during the prescribed term, impl… |
| 23-6074 |
Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession |
Is a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy violated when a conviction and sentence is entered and imposed for unlawful use of a we… |
| 23-6076 |
Timothy Ricardo Pedraza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility statutory-interpretation texas |
1. The question is whether a .State or US Court of Appeals abused
its discretion and/or committed plain error for a misapplication
of state law (stat… |
| 23-6091 |
Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th… |
| 23-6092 |
Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder |
Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of "maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6097 |
Montrez Duncan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional |
Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and mandatory-consecutive sentence on a count… |
| 23-6098 |
Ricardo Dinnall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the parties in … |
| 23-6100 |
Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation |
(1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess ... affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.C.… |
| 23-6103 |
Alvin Celius Andre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government
substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18
U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv… |
| 23-6104 |
Michael Venetez McRae v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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of Appeals Pinds hetodisteick cock 'incorrect, " determine d
thot to of the thee required pr… |
| 23-6069 |
Jeremie Saintvil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
bank-fraud constitutional-law constitutional-permissibility criminal-charging criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-constitutional-rights statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether the two bank fraud
subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 are
separate and distinct offenses that
require charging in separate counts?
2. Whether… |
| 23-6070 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core. |
| 23-6081 |
Jacobo Fuentes-Salgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6085 |
Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance |
A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO?
B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E… |
| 23-6087 |
Ronell Whitehead v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled
substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 23-543 |
Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims |
When the VA fails to adjudicate the disposition of a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, wi… |
| 23-548 |
Jenny Schieber, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion dispute-resolution executive-agreement international-executive-agreements judicial-review statutory-interpretation substantive-statute |
1. Whether agency adjudication rendered pursuant to an international executive agreement is subject to judicial review under the APA where: (a) Congre… |
| 23A462 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6057 |
Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S… |
| 23-6061 |
George Oscar Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause of "or otherwise " of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process cl… |
| 23-6062 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Womack's conviction in light of
Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6065 |
Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § … |
| 23-6039 |
Selbourne Waite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force, see 18 U.… |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6042 |
Joel Flores v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm "in furtherance of" a drug offense as opposed to possession… |
| 23-6047 |
Ralph Reed v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure state-court state-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6048 |
Elvis Redzepagic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-525 |
Murphy Company, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
antiquities-act federal-land-management federal-lands land-use-restrictions national-monument national-monuments oregon-and-california-railroad-and-coos-bay-wagon- presidential-authority presidential-power statutory-interpretation sustained-yield-timber-production |
The question presented is whether the Antiquities Act authorizes the President to declare federal lands part of a national monument where a separate f… |
| 23-527 |
Raji Rab v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. |
California |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-integrity election-law judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vote-counting |
1. Whether the lower courts failed to address the important question of law to prevent the violation of constitutional rights and the greatest miscarr… |
| 23-531 |
Timothy I. Carpenter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-firearm-offense first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Do the sentencing reforms in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply when a district court sentences an individual whose offense was committed before … |
| 23-6019 |
Luis Olivares v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion exceptional-circumstances fair-sentencing-act sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FAIR SENTENCING ACT, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), PERMITS A DISTRICT COURT TO MODIFY MR. OLIVARES UNUSUALLY LONG SENTENCE IN THIS EXCEPTIONA… |
| 23-6029 |
Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 23A442 |
Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ada-retaliation disability-accommodations employment-discrimination jury-trial monetary-damages statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A432 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-court federal-jurisdiction final-judgment statutory-interpretation unpublished-opinion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6000 |
Tyler Catlin Borg v. California |
California |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder intent jury-instructions lying-in-wait murder-intent |
1. Can a person be guilty of 1st degree murder without intent to kill or injure?
2. Does CALCRIM 521 unconstitutionally omit the intent element of fi… |
| 23-6003 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-history reconstruction-era removal-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Should an important federal law from the Reconstruction Era—
the removal act for criminal cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1)—be given
its original public m… |
| 23-6011 |
Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
To the exception to the rule termed in 28 U.S.C. §2255(e), the "escape hatch" or "saving clause" - does it permit a federal prisoner to "file a habeas… |
| 23-6012 |
Rafael Espinal-Mieses v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960(b) criminal-sentencing federal-statute maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The First Circuit affirmed the denial of Mr. Espinal-Mieses's motion for safety-valve relief under the former version of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), which di… |
| 23-6013 |
Calvin Cogdill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment indictment jury reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-6014 |
Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing |
1. Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan la… |
| 23-6018 |
Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23-512 |
Steven M. Greenbaum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-freezing asset-seizure blocked-assets federal-law federal-sovereign-immunity judgment-enforcement sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation terrorism-based-judgments terrorism-risk-insurance-act |
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1610 (note), provides that "blocked assets"—assets that have been "seized or frozen by the United States… |
| 23-6002 |
Justin Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation |
This appeal concerns a challenge to the enforceability of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014. Petitioner, JUSTIN DEL RIO, submits the Fifth Circuit … |
| 23-6004 |
Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder, a greater and lesser included offense under Pennsylvania law, constitute the "same offense" under the Double… |
| 23-5992 |
In Re John Bailey |
|
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5995 |
Jake Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
L
Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressiona… |
| 23-5977 |
Sean Overstreet v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver |
May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are … |
| 23-5980 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment |
The Court Should Grant A Review To Settle The Weather The California Courts Were Correct.
Question: In Stating That The Petitioner's Case Was Finally… |
| 23-495 |
Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Does the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ("TCPA") definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") at 47 U.S.C. … |
| 23-489 |
Office of the United States Trustee v. USA Sales, Inc., dba Statewide Distributors, a California Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustees constitutional-uniformity judicial-remedy retrospective-refunds statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel, supra, is to require the United States Trust… |
| 23A415 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-discretion family-law legal-interpretation legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-479 |
Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers |
Does the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but … |
| 23-483 |
Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion.
Whether the E… |
| 23-5968 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc… |
| 23-5954 |
Arthur Picklo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-5960 |
Brandon Keith Wright v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-5962 |
Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation |
Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate … |
| 23A406 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5951 |
Rodney L. Love v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 23-5939 |
Brett Northington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation |
Should the definition of "aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?" be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea… |
| 23-5941 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the… |
| 23-5942 |
Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-469 |
Andrew P. Witt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
The prosecutor repeatedly exhorted the panel members to consider how their sentence would reflect on them personally and professional and suggested th… |
| 23-459 |
Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder… |
| 23-460 |
C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers |
The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not "apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged i… |
| 23-461 |
Maria Navarro Carrillo, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights cooperative-federalism disability-rights due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court should intervene to reverse the policy, ratified by the Second Circuit, of blatantly violating binding State statutes and regula… |
| 23-5929 |
Anthony Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(¢)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional in light of This Court's opinions in Dimaya and Johnson?
2. Whether Florida's… |
| 23-5934 |
Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5936 |
Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23A398 |
Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter |
Question not identified. |
| 23A390 |
Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, to prevail "on the merits" under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as oppo… |
| 23-5917 |
Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5919 |
Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review |
Petitioner, WILKINSON OLOYEDE THOMAS, submits the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Fifth Circuit") failed to use the standard of review for pill mill … |
| 23-455 |
United States v. Litsson Antonio Perez-Gallan |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge domestic-violence due-process firearms firearms-possession protective-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence protective orders, violates the Second… |
| 23-456 |
Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law constitutional-law fcc-authority federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund |
(1) Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine by imposing no limit on the FCC's power to raise revenue for the USF.
(2) Whether the… |
| 23-5907 |
Brian Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-law federal-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation force-and-violence intent intent-requirement serious-harm-or-kill taking-a-vehicle vehicle-theft |
Does a conviction for carjacking by "force and violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 2119 require that the force and violence be employed, with the requisite in… |
| 23-5908 |
Michael James Choulat v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23A385 |
Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-rights court-access judicial-review pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5896 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
§2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction |
Did both the District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to Vacate, Set aside, … |
| 23-5904 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 23-5876 |
Christian Lamar Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5882 |
Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County |
Illinois |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court |
Whether The State Trial Court's October 29, 1990 Order Was Issued Without Authority And Is Void For Want Of Jurisdiction? |
| 23-5887 |
Arthur Vasquez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 23-432 |
Oman Fasteners, LLC v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
chevron-deference delegation-of-power judicial-deference national-security presidential-tariffs procedural-requirements statutory-interpretation tariffs trade-expansion-act |
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 delegates Congress's constitutional power to set duties on foreign imports into the United States (or t… |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. In a Federal criminal case, whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is a petition in the Mitigation in the Residual can challenge the subj… |
| 23-5880 |
Jose Fernando Martinez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5859 |
Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-5860 |
John Carl Ferrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing supreme-court voluntary-plea |
Does a decision by the Supreme Court, after a plea is entered but before sentencing, present sufficient cause to consider if the plea was entered know… |
| 23-424 |
Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f… |
| 23-427 |
Domino’s Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-procedure commerce-clause delivery-drivers federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery standing statutory-interpretation transportation-law workers |
Whether local delivery drivers—i.e., workers who make in-state deliveries of goods in response to instate orders, and play no role in transporting tho… |
| 23-421 |
Alfonso Cioffi, et al. v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-251 embodiment-standard federal-circuit original-patent patent patent-disclosure patent-law patent-reissue reissue statutory-interpretation u.s.-industrial-chemicals |
1. Should the Antares Pharma, Inc. v. Medac Pharma Inc., 771 F.3d 1354, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2014) "exact embodiment" standard for "original patent" disclo… |
| 23-422 |
Shirley T. Sherrod, et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-defenses amendment civil-procedure erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duties rule-15 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the underlying rulings contradict the plain text of the applicable ERISA provisions in finding a breach of Petitioners' fiduciary duties and d… |
| 23-5841 |
James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation |
1. Qcl«\ Vdoko txac. ,5oo udh S OV\d TerwkwfiJpg. OOr "Wbkfcs \ckjA l ^OrcJrveA do ^iep l n md^-S trav'O cfakg kjd A^A TideiL cWvy' SeWias, tVdjfmws m… |
| 23-5845 |
In Re Kennedy Wright |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5847 |
Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review right-to-vote standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5852 |
Kareem Davis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation |
Is murder in aid of racketeering ("VICAR murder'), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis bas… |
| 23A359 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5839 |
Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-413 |
Michael Lissack v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-19 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-action administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference discretion internal-revenue-service statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 7623 of Title 26 governs the Internal Revenue Service's (hereinafter the "IRS") ability to pay awards to whistleblowers. Prior to 2006, awards… |
| 23-5806 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5834 |
Herbert Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-waiver categorical-analysis criminal-procedure illegal-conviction illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
For convictions and sentences to stand, they must not violate the Constitution. Challenges to illegal 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions necessarily encom… |
| 23A349 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-overreach clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A350 |
Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A351 |
American Forest & Paper Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act emissions-standards epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A343 |
David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure agency-regulation notice-requirement statutory-interpretation veterans-claims veterans-disability-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5796 |
Jose Folch-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime |
If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-5815 |
Emily Claire Hari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic |
Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5817 |
Cordarius Lawrence v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-proof |
Question not identified. |
| 23-401 |
Michael Carey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
|
circuit-conflict federal-courts judge-made-exceptions judicial-exceptions legal-remedy state-courts statutory-interpretation suppression-provisions wiretap-act |
Whether courts lack power to fashion judge-made exceptions to the exceptionless suppression provisions of the Wiretap Act. |
| 23-5790 |
Brock Brian Beeman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5795 |
Benjamin D. Morrow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1746 civil-procedure declaration declaration-requirements fourth-amendment oath-clause oath-or-affirmation perjury perjury-standard statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-section-1746 |
I.
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires, in writing, an affirmative statement
that the declaration's contents are "true" to support, establish, or prove… |
| 23-5782 |
Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the meaning of the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-5786 |
Mark Andre Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines in light of this Court's… |
| 23-390 |
Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements |
Whether, to establish a "direct effect in the United States" under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), a plaintiff must make an extratextual showing that either the… |
| 23-5777 |
Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5779 |
Donovan Romo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-5780 |
Denis Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense |
1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under
which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and
incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5781 |
Troy George Skinner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
One of the statutes addressing the sexual exploitation of children, 18 U.S.C. § 2251, prohibits (a) the employment, enticement, or coercion of a minor… |
| 23-5749 |
Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE
ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT
ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D… |
| 23-5753 |
Ben J. Latham v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp,
2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te
2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin… |
| 23-5756 |
David Davalos, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property |
Whether Honeycutt v. United States, 581 U.S. 443 (2017) and its progeny require the Fifth Circuit to limit forfeiture to tainted property the defendan… |
| 23-5758 |
Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
WHETHER OR NOT/WHEN ONE HAS EXCERSIZED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL AND
RF. FOUND GUILTY OF A COUNT IN HIS INDICTMENT THAT WOULD LATER
RF. FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONA… |
| 23-5764 |
Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver |
1. Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for
state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed "related" charges
crea… |
| 23-5733 |
Donald D. Higgs v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review legal-issue standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was the district court's dismissal with prejudice of defendant's lack of standing improper?
2. Did the United States Court of Appeals fail to have… |
| 23-5735 |
Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction |
(1) What ; "Definitive Actions Committed" , [Constitutes] the violent felony of the first degree ;
("Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury") -… |
| 23-5739 |
Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5742 |
Joseph Michael Easton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that
has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-374 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process felons felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by … |
| 23-376 |
United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substanc… |
| 23A311 |
Madeleine Pickens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
estate-tax-liability last-antecedent-canon personal-liability section-6324 statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary |
Whether Section 6324(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code imposes personal liability for unpaid estate taxes on individuals who received estate property… |
| 23-371 |
D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon |
I. 28 U.S.C. § 1259(3) states that this Court may review "[c]ases in which the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces granted a petition for review." D… |
| 23-5730 |
Blaise Caroleo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 23-5722 |
Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-364 |
Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender reg… |
| 23-365 |
Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to "business or property by reason of" the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 23-5713 |
Delvarez Long v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states |
In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act bars federal courts from imposing or lengthening a pris… |
| 23-5699 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes "extra ordinary and compelling reasons " warranting compassionate release or ar… |
| 23-5704 |
Gregory D. Jones v. Dustin Bayler |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-354 |
Wolfgang Von Vader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 changes-in-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider changes in the law in assessing whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under section … |
| 23-341 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-345 |
In Re Jeffry Thul |
|
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-employee federal-employee-rights mandamus regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation takings |
I am a partially recovered federal employee classified under 5 C.F.R. § 353.301(d); yet, I remain unre- -
stored. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Si… |
| 23-5678 |
Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. … |
| 23-5680 |
Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any … |
| 23-5684 |
William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5691 |
Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5692 |
Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-5693 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5671 |
Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the defendant was denied effective assistance of cou… |
| 23-5672 |
Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants |
Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 23-5673 |
Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
8-usc-1226 discretionary-determination due-process habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review mixed-question-of-law-and-fact statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether an agency's determination that undisputed or established facts
demonstrate an immigration detainee is a "danger to the community" is a
dis… |
| 23-334 |
Department of State, et al. v. Sandra Muñoz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights consular-nonreviewability consular-officer due-process immigration-law immigration-nationality-act standing statutory-interpretation visa-application visa-denial |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., the decision to grant or deny a visa application rests with a consular officer… |
| 23-5666 |
Jeremy Aswegan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
I.WHETHER PLAIN ERROR REVIEW APPLIES WHEN A
DEFENDANT OPPOSES A GOVERNMENT' OBJECTION
TO A SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT?
II.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIEN… |
| 23-311 |
Keith Michael Connole v. David W. Garbarino, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
arizona-revised-statutes codis-database criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-access reliability-of-conviction reliability-of-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial court must interpret Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13, Section 4240, to maximize a defendant's due process rights to access evidence … |
| 23-313 |
Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida, Board of Trustees, et al. |
Florida |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process ex-post-facto injunction-order small-claims standing standing-to-appeal statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant |
(1) Whether an Injunction Order rendered under Florida
Vexatious Litigant Law, Florida Statute § 68.093(2)(a),
requires reversal where it is:
(a) ap… |
| 23-299 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-300 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-301 |
James E. Workman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud |
1. The criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of
government funds, and social security fraud each
required proof that Workman engaged in fraudulent
act… |
| 23-312 |
Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and re sentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convi… |
| 23-5645 |
Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18
U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int… |
| 23-5649 |
Jonathan Monson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction |
Section 22 51(a) of Title 18 criminalizes the use o f a minor to engage in any sexually
explicit conduc t "for the pu rpose o f producing an y visual … |
| 23-5652 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter… |
| 23-5655 |
Christopher T. Mallett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause. |
| 23A265 |
Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether rideshare drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any o… |
| 23-5640 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether attempted bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and
attempted armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), are "crimes of
violence" as defined in 18 … |
| 23-5641 |
Marvin Joe Randall v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-prosecution internet-activity interstate-conduct personal-jurisdiction prostitution-regulation state-jurisdiction state-regulation website-communication |
No evidence indicated that the petitioner was in Oregon at the times relevant to this case. Can the State of Oregon regulate the conduct of an individ… |
| 23-278 |
United States Trustee Region 21 v. Bast Amron LLP |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
bankruptcy-administration bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees constitutional-law constitutional-uniformity judicial-districts remedial-relief statutory-interpretation uniform-laws |
Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel, supra, is to require the United States Trust… |
| 23-275 |
Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as th… |
| 23-5631 |
Jason M. Moriarty v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t… |
| 23-5632 |
Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5619 |
Jordan Winczuk v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-5621 |
Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5626 |
Arun Dhavamani v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has … |
| 23-5627 |
Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error? |
| 23-5629 |
Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n). |
| 23-268 |
Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation |
Whether an FHAA reasonable-accommodation disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reas… |
| 23-271 |
Ryan Lynch v. Condominiums of Buena Vista, Inc. |
Minnesota |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review arbitrability-clause arbitration-clause arbitration-standards contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review procedural-rights state-courts statutory-interpretation |
(1) When state courts misconstrue or ignore a written agreement controlling an arbitrability clause governed by the FAA, if the provisions under §2 an… |
| 23-5612 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law copyright due-process judicial-review legal-precedent patent property-rights statutory-interpretation trademark |
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| 23-5599 |
Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 23-5604 |
Ernesto Ordunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 23-258 |
Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power |
When determining whether a state insurance statute preempts a federal law of general application under the McCarran Ferguson Act, are the three statut… |
| 23-249 |
Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
|
anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as Ti… |
| 23-250 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. San Carlos Apache Tribe |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
contract-support-costs federal-funding federal-health-care indian-health-service indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-contracts tribal-sovereignty |
Whether IHS must pay "contract support costs" not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect… |
| 23-253 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Northern Arapaho Tribe |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
contract-support-costs federal-funding health-care-services indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-sovereignty |
Whether IHS must pay "contract support costs" not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect… |
| 23-5591 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage |
For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-5593 |
Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under
which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and
incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5601 |
In Re Michael Kenny Carter |
|
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5602 |
Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an "attempted transfer" of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an "attempted distribution" of drugs… |
| 23-5569 |
Francisco Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing |
Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record? |
| 23-5578 |
April Paw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5581 |
Matthew R. Osuba v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 23-5583 |
Fernando Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence double-counting felon-in-possession fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
L. Whether alleged possession of a different gun 17 months after Mr. Lopez's charged felon-in-possession offense constituted relevant conduct?
I. Whe… |
| 23-5587 |
Daniel Carrington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. BURRAGE, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), CREATED A BRIGHT LINE RULE ESTABLISHING A RIGHT OF THE DEFENDANT TO PR… |
| 23-5588 |
Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule |
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| 23-5589 |
Sara Elyas v. Edward Johnston, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1257 certiorari civil-procedure federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction judicial-review judiciary-act-1789 jurisdiction standing state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Petition for writ certiorari to United State Court of Appeals. Motion for certiorari to US COURT OF KCLERK
I am Petition to US SUPREM Court to review… |
| 23-5566 |
Scott A. Anthony v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter… |
| 23-5572 |
Joseph W. Fischer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i… |
| 23-5553 |
Randy Haight v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-retardation statutory-interpretation |
1. Where a state trial court resolves disputed issues of material fact without an evidentiary hearing and ignores relevant expert opinion, is the stat… |
| 23-5555 |
Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5556 |
William L. Gladney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23-226 |
Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
covered-offense criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act recalculation sentence-reduction sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must recalculate a movant's sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the … |
| 23-237 |
Winfred Wairimu Wamai, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Adam Titus Wamai, et al. v. Industrial Bank of Korea |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure embassy-bombing foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-litigation judgment-enforcement separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation u.s.-resident-plaintiffs |
1. Whether the choice of a U.S. forum by U.S.-resident
plaintiffs is entitled to "less deference" under the doctrine
of forum non conveniens , rathe… |
| 23-238 |
Roger Dale Anderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
|
comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), of the Controlled Sub… |
| 23-5551 |
Kristian G. Little, nka Kristian G. Childers v. Jamie A. Little |
Kentucky |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
This case presents issues of first impression for this Court arising under UCCJEA.
Did the Madison County Family Court ever have jurisdiction to make… |
| 23-5546 |
Richard Sansbury v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement |
The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec… |
| 23-5547 |
Timothy James Hahn v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen… |
| 23-5550 |
Joseph Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing |
Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was… |
| 23-219 |
Sherman Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… |
| 23-5540 |
Michael Rinaldi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. ) Whether the fifth and sixth amendments prohitbit a ferderal court from basing a criminal
defendants sentence on conduct for which a jury has acq… |
| 23-5542 |
Stephen James Hood v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation |
In Virginia, anyone who was convicted of a felony has the right to demonstrate their innocence with new evidence through a petition for a writ of actu… |
| 23-5519 |
Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether attributing drugs , post-conviction , in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in… |
| 23-5531 |
Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision |
Oregon |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing |
1. Is the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article 6 of the United States Constitution violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date impo… |
| 23-5532 |
Basil Warren Lewis, Jr. v. Phil Knight, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5535 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether The Circuit Courts Have Decided An Important Question Of Federal Law That Should Be Definitively Settled By This Court?
II. Whether 28 U.S… |
| 23-208 |
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. v. Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process facial-plausibility foreign-policy foreign-terrorist-organizations jurisdiction pro-palestinian-organizations standing statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-liability |
1. Whether "facial plausibility" of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard… |
| 23-5514 |
Rodger William Dillard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal court-rules criminal-procedure due-process judicial-abuse judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentence-correction sentencing |
1. Did the District in and for Natrona County 7th Judicial Abuse its power when it accepted the Petitioner alford plea because the the statue reads as… |
| 23-5516 |
Angela Jane Johnson, et al. v. Victoria Fire and Casualty Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-review petition public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5517 |
Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 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… |
| 23-5506 |
Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce, such as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)'s requirement that a prohibit… |
| 23-5511 |
Jay F. Elhage v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution |
Whether, despite years of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, the Court should now hold that Congress has no authority to criminally punish under the Comme… |
| 23-5512 |
Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction… |
| 23-5496 |
Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5498 |
Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5504 |
Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the District Court commit "error" that substantively
—violated Lakes' right when it failed to enclude the disputes
of the objection to the PRS w… |
| 23-5482 |
Timothy Allan Dunlap v. Idaho Maximum Security Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5483 |
Dontavious Blake v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing |
ISSUE 1: The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for
IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a
life sentence after either a guilty… |
| 23-5484 |
Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5487 |
Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5462 |
Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package |
1. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing following vacat… |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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Qc,S);AIK Tte ow* jr* *O… |
| 23-5469 |
Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
1) Whether this court's wae fo as - a rele? be ion fir Concdusron that fe: t made _-+he eat showin of dea na, tot het Hae eli Tia —_———i prsceducal cu… |
| 23-190 |
Probir K. Bondyopadhyay v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment government-liability jurisdictional-conflict patent patent-claim perjury sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings |
A serious legal conflict has developed between the
USCFC and U.S. District Court involving Title 28
U.S.C. Section 1338(a) and Title 28 U.S.C. Section… |
| 23-191 |
Nancy Williams, et al. v. Greg Reed, Secretary, Alabama Department of Workforce |
Alabama |
2023-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedies section-1983 standing state-court state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court. |
| 23-5457 |
Deangelus Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty |
May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-5458 |
Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Jason Wells, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5449 |
Antonio Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5450 |
Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5451 |
Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-178 |
Peter Van Dermark v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
emergency-medical-treatment federal-circuit-review geographic-limitation presumption-against-implied-repeals reimbursement reimbursement-rights statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Whether eligible veterans are entitled to reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs incurred while receiving emergency treatment abroad based on the specif… |
| 23-5426 |
Christopher Robertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A 4(c) OFFENSE IF DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED HOBBS ACT ROBBERY?
2) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A OFF… |
| 23-5429 |
Tywan Sykes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity as held by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States… |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5438 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction |
ONE
Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants on the date that the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Apprendi (June 26, 2000), or on the date that… |
| 23-5413 |
Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse |
1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t… |
| 23-5419 |
Seth Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification |
Does the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania have the authority and jurisdiction to change a sentence after 12 years that was ORALL… |
| 23-5403 |
Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5397 |
Emanuel Beach v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23-5387 |
James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5388 |
Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application |
DOES McHAM V. STATE /404 S.C. 465/746 S.E.2d 41(2013), REQUIRE
THAT PETITIONER BE ALLOWED TO FILE A SUBSEQUENT PCR APPLICATION? |
| 23-5389 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument |
Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-5390 |
Neeraj Chopra v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-interpretation |
A jury instruction constructively amends the indictment if it modifies the essential elements of the offense charged in the indictment. Chopra's indic… |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5395 |
In Re Justin Lewis |
|
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-160 |
Francisco Dario Mora v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2461 criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process government-seizure property-rights statutory-interpretation substitute-property temporary-possession |
Whether the Government may require criminal defendants under 28 U.S.C. § 2461 to forfeit their own property as a substitute for objects they temporari… |
| 23-5376 |
Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION VIOLATES PRINCIPLES OF FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS BY HAVING GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE BASED UPON A PRO SE PLEADING … |
| 23-5377 |
Anthony Seides Gaines v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 23-5369 |
Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation |
In the Eleventh Circuit, in a prosecution for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922… |
| 23-5372 |
Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5358 |
Devin Jerrod Long v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 23-5360 |
Gregory Lynn McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition individual-rights lifetime-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the felon-in-possession of a firearm statute, which did not exist in 1791, and which applies to all felonies and provides for a life-time ban,… |
| 23-132 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation |
Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju… |
| 23-133 |
Arlen Foster v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-review agriculture chevron-deference environmental-law statutory-interpretation swampbuster-provision wetlands wetlands-certification |
1. Whether a statute that provides that a wetlands certification "remain[s] valid and in effect ... until such time as the person affected by the cert… |
| 23-135 |
Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), which bars judicial review of "[t]he determination ... whether to institute an inter partes review," applies even when no … |
| 23-137 |
Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits |
When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant was its intent clear that a substituted appellant cou… |
| 23-139 |
United States, ex rel. Shannon Martin, M.D., et al. v. Darren Hathaway, M.D., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute false-claims-act federal-health-care-program government-claims healthcare-fraud liability remuneration statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the term "remuneration" under the Anti-Kickback Statute encompass solicitation or receipt of any kind of reward or compensation, or is it limi… |
| 23A135 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of acquitted conduct, standing alone, violates a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Four… |
| 23-5349 |
Elbert Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony |
When a circuit court judge is called upon, to be a witness against a defendant in a case, and then later on, sentence the defendant in the same case r… |
| 23-5356 |
Trequan Devonte James v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection identification judicial-review police-procedures statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5338 |
Keith A. Penn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5339 |
Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an unprecedented legal theory of receipt that relies on file name of unauthenticated screen shots as relevant unit of prosecution under Sec… |
| 23-5340 |
Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MAY PROHIBIT
CONSIDERATION OF SENTENCING ERRORS UNDER 18 USC §3582 (c)(1)(A). |
| 23-5341 |
Regina Nachael Howell Foster v. Areya Holder Aurzada, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process removal removal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Does the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' memorandum opinion directly conflict with an opinion by other Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court… |
| 23-5345 |
Henry Robledo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation |
Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim? |
| 23-5324 |
Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3006a court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process forced-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation waiver |
This case presents an important issue concerning what constitutes "the right to have the assistance of counsel" under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. … |
| 23-5327 |
In Re Titus Lee Radcliff |
|
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5331 |
Al Douglas Wordly v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 23-130 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
agency-regulation authorization controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction drug-dealer drug-dealing jury-instruction physician physician-prescription statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement |
The question presented here is whether, in a jury instruction under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., language taken from an age… |
| 23-125 |
Seaview Trading, LLC, AGK Investments, LLC, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure delinquent-returns filing-requirements legal-definition statutory-interpretation tax-code treasury-regulations |
Whether the word "file" in 26 U.S.C. § 6229 (2000) and as used throughout the Tax Code carries its ordinary meaning for delinquent tax returns when no… |
| 23-5304 |
Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
The Safety Valve provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), instructs district courts to sentence under the guidelines without regard to any statutory mandatory … |
| 23-5309 |
Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.… |
| 23-5314 |
Joe Crawford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states |
WHETHER IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN… |
| 23-5322 |
Tommie Doward Weathers, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fault-determination pretrial-confinement pretrial-detention release-from-confinement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns the meaning of the word "fault" in 18 U.S.C. § 3164(c), which says that if a defendant is not brought to trial within 90 days follo… |
| 23-5298 |
Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California |
California |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a
jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing
the mandato… |
| 23-5301 |
Mack A. West, Jr. v. F. Ulloa, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-122 |
Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation |
The question presented in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), prohibits individual arbitra… |
| 23-5293 |
Alonzo G. Davison v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure judgments motions sentences statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's Appeal Of The Denial Of The Motion To Alter Or Amend Judgment And Sentences Properly Fell As Required By Section |
| 23A106 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5290 |
Littleton William Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(c) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-112 |
Ian A. McElroy v. City of Corvallis, Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review municipal-law municipal-ordinance statutory-interpretation |
Ian McElroy was secretly, unconstitutionally convicted July 26, 1999 on three separate criminal citations by a City of Corvallis Municipal Judge who l… |
| 23-113 |
Michael G. Pohl v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act |
Is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record 10 U.S.C. § 1552 as stated in both the statute and Respondents DD Form 149… |
| 23-107 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Federal courts "shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court … |
| 23-108 |
James E. Snyder v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation |
Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any… |
| 23-5273 |
Cory Joe Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights? |
| 23-5274 |
Wicahpe George Milk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression |
I. Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment.
II. Whether 18 U.… |
| 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… |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-5266 |
Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is
only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities
instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-5253 |
Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5258 |
Octavius McLendon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 grants convicted federal inmates the right, in lieu of
common law habeas corpus, to "move the court which imposed the sentence"… |
| 23-5261 |
Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5263 |
Steven Dewayne Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process felon-in-possession felons gun-rights individual-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 Unites States Code section 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on
its face because it infringes on a felon's individual right to keep and bear
ar… |
| 23-5264 |
Julio Cesar De La Rosa-De La Cerda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5265 |
Mark Alan Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to
produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-93 |
Kevion Rogers v. Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights codification common-law-immunity congressional-intent due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 statutory-interpretation traditional-common-law |
This Court's qualified-immunity precedent derives from the premise that there is "no evidence that Congress intended to abrogate the traditional commo… |
| 23-94 |
Garret Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-08-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether the obstruction-of-justice offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether t… |
| 23-5245 |
Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5232 |
In Re Marcus Antone Peterson |
|
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing |
1. The lower court acted outside its jurisdiction.
2. A quite bee ath lower court record jurisdiction
3. Peterson is illegally in-prison.
(An amets… |
| 23-5235 |
Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5237 |
Jordan Cole Laws v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30… |
| 23-5240 |
Alden Brent Cooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Section 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) can be violated by either knowingly receiving or distributing child pornography. A defendant accused of a violation of… |
| 23-5242 |
Rebecca Wu v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. |
California |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-classification constitutional-challenge constitutional-law employee-classification employee-misclassification equal-protection labor-law statutory-interpretation |
Is it unconstitutional to have an interpretation of a statute that creates an Arbitrary classification in violation of the constitution of the 14th Am… |
| 23-5220 |
Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5221 |
Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5222 |
Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition?
2. Whether the Trial C… |
| 23-5223 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review legal-remedy limitations-period procedural-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT MR. RIOS WAS NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING |
| 23-5226 |
Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states |
I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause… |
| 23-5229 |
Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-80 |
Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to decide if a claim involves a domestic application of a statute, courts may consider factors other than whether the conduct relevant to the… |
| 23-5208 |
Jason Boudreau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime
suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all vio… |
| 23-5210 |
Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5214 |
Cody J. Key v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
codification constitutional-provisions due-process federal-judicial-canon judicial-canon legislative-power notice rule-of-law rule-of-strict-construction state-legislature statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS/NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF A FEDERAL
JUDICIAL CANON (RULE OF STRICT CONSTRUCTION) CAN BE
ABROGATED BY A STATE LEGISLATURE BY CODIF… |
| 23-5218 |
In Re Jerome Curry |
|
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment material-facts non-response sentencing standing summary-judgment waiver |
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0 H Doei nof Ike. /d/vU reqtfint AUeA dot 4o Hoe fLetyoniew+Y na>vre£ pcn.se … |
| 23-5219 |
Jerry Wilson, aka Steve Vic Parker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a United States Citizen Wrongfully Imprisoned "LIFE INDANGER" ?
2. What is Permission Granted by a United States Distrist Judge?
3. Can (1) On… |
| 23-5198 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
First Question
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the
statutory penalty for petitioner's offense,
so that petitioner is eligible for a sentenc… |
| 23-5202 |
Aaron Abadi, et al. v. Transportation Security Administration |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority air-carrier-access-act congressional-intent covid-19 health-regulations major-questions-doctrine pandemic-response statutory-interpretation transportation-security tsa-authority |
The Transportation Security Administration "TSA " was created by 1)
Congress after the terrorist attacks on September 11 to protect the
American peopl… |
| 23-5205 |
Steven Lesane v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it
denied appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea
where 1) there was an insufficient… |
| 23-5207 |
Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness
has, "as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened
use of physical force against the… |
| 23-5188 |
Mark Anthony Roy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct, nor any offense more s… |
| 23-5189 |
Tyree Steele v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts imprisonment judicial-discretion rehabilitation rehabilitative-purpose sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court violates the Sentencing Reform Act's ban on imprisonment as a rehabilitative measure when, as here, the court explains it is … |
| 23-5194 |
Andra Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Mr. Green is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of using a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). H… |
| 23-5196 |
James Calvin Massey v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff |
1. Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act —even one that is petty , predictable , and uncharged —is alwa… |
| 23-5201 |
Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions |
On November 6, 2009, nineteen-year-old Andrew Valenzuela—along with David Padilla and Jessica Garcia—got in a car with a 32-year-old serial killer who… |
| 23-5177 |
Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of
supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5178 |
Bobby Dean Robey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes evidence sentencing |
I.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MR. ROBEY WAS INVOLVED IN THE "IMPORTATION" OF METHAMPHETAMINE?
II.WHETHER MR. ROBEY'S CRIMINAL HISTOR… |
| 23-5179 |
Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5181 |
Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-64 |
Bennie Charles Phillips, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-robbery criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act mens-rea mere-preparation substantial-step uniform-test |
1. What particularized standard should be adopted to create a uniform test for when conduct surpasses "mere preparation" and constitutes a "substantia… |
| 23-66 |
Norbert A. King, II v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation |
1. The lower court endorsed the Government's
supplementation of the "record" with new documents
mid-appeal. Does the lower Court's decision, which
dem… |
| 23A62 |
Michael Carey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plain-text statutory-interpretation suppression-provision wiretap-act |
Question not identified. |
| 23-62 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Scott A. Hardin |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law atf-rule automatic-weapon bump-stock due-process firearms-regulation machinegun-definition mass-shootings second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a… |
| 23-5161 |
Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Are Oklahoma statute(s) 21 O.S. § 1040.12(a), 21 O.S. 1040.8 (a), and 21 O.S. § 1024.1 in conformity with the United States Constitution, Amendment(s)… |
| 23-5166 |
Antwoyn Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of "serious drug offense," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules in… |
| 23-5168 |
Isaac Silversmith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 8-usc-1 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that Second-degree Murder,… |
| 23-5169 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s… |
| 23-5170 |
Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23-5172 |
Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights |
Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t… |
| 23-51 |
Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14) |
circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry |
To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a com… |
| 23-5149 |
Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5150 |
Augustus Quintrell Light v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure government-misconduct illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER ON ONE'S, DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT ERROR IN FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETI… |
| 23-5154 |
Justin Christopher Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense |
1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence?
2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting … |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-5137 |
Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year
prison sentence. |
| 23-5138 |
Martin Ramos-Urias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure claim-processing immigration-removal in-absentia-removal judicial-review notice-to-appear separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place |
If the government serves an initial notice document that does not include the "time and place" of proceedings, followed by an additional document cont… |
| 23-5139 |
Jacinto Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Does the "attempted use of force" clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an "intent" to use force against another? |
| 23-5141 |
Alejandro Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5143 |
Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California |
California |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process gun-control high-seas international-treaties prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the State of California lacked territorial subject matter jurisdiction over an alleged homicide on a foreign-flagged ship on the high seas, bo… |
| 23-5121 |
Kyle Ross Rivers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a defendant, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can waive the right to appeal his sentence knowingly when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 23-5127 |
Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure |
(1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P… |
| 23-46 |
United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 23-48 |
Indiana Municipal Power Agency, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law contract contractual-intent government-contract government-obligations money-mandating money-mandating-statute payment-obligation sequestration statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a payment obligation imposed by
Congress on the federal government under a moneymandating statute and specifically exempted from
later redu… |
| 23-5113 |
Charleton Maxwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule |
Issue 1.
In the case at bar the sentencing judge refused to a apply a higher
standard than a mere preponderance when the issue was, based
on a drug… |
| 23-5116 |
Jeremy David Adams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(I). Is the Sixth Circuit's new rule, in opposition to 7 other Courts of Appeals - that the protections of Speedy Trial Act 18 USC § 3161(h)(l)(H)'s 3… |
| 23-42 |
Lawrence Pascal v. Concentra, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
|
autodialer automatic-telephone-dialing-system borden database-applications facebook-v-duguid random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act |
47 U.S.C. § 227(a)(1) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") defines an automatic telephone dialing system ("autodialer") as equipment whic… |
| 23-5102 |
Taiwo K. Onamuti v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a 18-usc-287 aggravated-identity-theft counsel-advice criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plenary-resentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Can an original guilty plea be completely knowing and voluntary, when
the government, and the district court wrongly advised defendant about couns… |
| 23-5107 |
Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
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| 23-5079 |
Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5088 |
Quinton Troy Hall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process jury jury-finding methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
WAS IT A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SIXTH AMENDMENT WHEN THE TRIAL COURT SENTENCED THE PETITIONER TO A TERM OF 360 MONTHS. THE JURY … |
| 23-5095 |
Marland Maynor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. First subsidiary question: Whether the plain-error standard … |
| 23-5097 |
Allen Auten v. California |
California |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing |
1. Has the California Supreme* Court (CSCC) prejudicially abused its dis
cretion by repudiating United States Supreme Court (USSC) controlling
author… |
| 23-5099 |
Dustin Jolly v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. … |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine
pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate… |
| 23-5072 |
Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-5085 |
Andre Rene Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial |
Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp… |
| 23-30 |
Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation |
The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel… |
| 23-31 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
|
aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction
of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)—under which a state prisoner is ineligible for federal habeas relief even … |
| 23-32 |
Edward Jacob Lang v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-11 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence-tampering official-proceedings police-violence public-demonstrations riot-context statutory-interpretation van-buren-v-united-states |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that application of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c)(2), a statute crafted to prevent tampering with evidenc… |
| 23-5070 |
Samuel Tobin McKaig v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-issue precedent prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5075 |
Derek J. Petty v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error |
Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error. |
| 23-5076 |
David Linehan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force |
Whether "attempted use" in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f… |
| 23-27 |
Michael Harper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
|
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… |
| 23-5062 |
Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5064 |
Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5066 |
Juan Reyes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines incorporation judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-23 |
Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity public-health-service removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tort-immunity |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 233()(2) permits a deemed
Public Health Service employee to remove a civil action or proceeding against him to federal district
co… |
| 23-5058 |
Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5060 |
Donald Edward McCord v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-21 |
Stuart R. Harrow v. Department of Defense |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law federal-circuit federal-employee filing-deadline judicial-review jurisdictional jurisdictional-deadline merit-systems-protection-board nonjurisdictional statutory-interpretation |
When a federal employee petitions the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, … |
| 23-22 |
Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation |
1. Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien i… |
| 23-5054 |
Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison |
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| 23-16 |
Axel Rietschin v. Dominika Rietschin |
Washington |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-court civil-procedure due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-status marriage-proceedings non-immigrant-aliens state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Can a State civil Court assert jurisdiction in private matters over non-immigrant aliens admitted temporarily under 8 U.S.C. § 1184? |
| 23-17 |
Wisam R. Rizk v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness |
1. This court has ruled that "conflict of interest " and
"undisclosed self-dealing " by a private individual
is not in the preview of §1346 (Percoco… |
| 23-5031 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law?
If yes, are the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other circuits applying Apprendi incorrectly which viola… |
| 23-5034 |
Omar Francisco Orduno-Ramirez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege confidential-communications due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-phase sixth-amendment structural-error |
When prosecutors intentionally and without any legitimate law-enforcement
justification access confidential attorney-client communications before sent… |
| 23-5035 |
Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5036 |
Brandon Mason v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 23-5046 |
Kashard O. Brown v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5017 |
Jerry A. Smith v. Indiana Parole Board, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process government-misconduct parole public-importance sentencing |
Withholding of a Parole decision lasting in Several years sFunlewful Tacarce rab ©.
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| 23-5025 |
Kelly Sundberg v. California |
California |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5027 |
Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding
there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's
verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 23-4 |
John Thomas Minemyer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-code irs-penalties legislative-history legislative-intent penalty-assessment statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-code tax-court |
Does the legislative history and intent combined with the Tax Court Judicial history, the internal revenue manual instructions, and the Supreme Courts… |
| 23-5001 |
Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech individual-rights judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 22-7890 |
Christopher Ochoa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in th … |
| 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 |
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| 22-7894 |
Frankie Shearry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc… |
| 22-7896 |
Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7899 |
Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7900 |
David Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7906 |
Lamar McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness |
1)Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw?
Are the Lower Courts (Appeals Courts included)
misapplying Apprendi and Mr. McDonald Fifth and Sixth … |
| 22-7852 |
Juan Victor Quezada-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7875 |
J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7882 |
Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-1246 |
Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-28 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron-deference energy-regulation federal-energy-regulatory-commission megawatts power-generation power-production-capacity qualifying-facility solar-energy-project statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "power production capacity" refers to a facility's maximum net output to the grid at any one time, or whether that term instead refers to t… |
| 22-1240 |
Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts |
42 U.S.C. § 1981 guarantees that "[a]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to… |
| 22-7871 |
In Re Michael Bowe |
|
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (6)IFP |
28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court-procedure federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-or-successive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7878 |
Kenny Eugene Smart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g) criminal-procedure evidence-standard evidentiary-rulings federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions rule-404b rule-of-inclusion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. WHAT IS THE PROPER STANDARD OF REVIEW OF EVIDENTIARY RULINGS UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) AND IS RULE 404(b) A RULE OF INCLUSION WHICH ALW… |
| 22-7863 |
Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7868 |
Lawrence Broviak v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection expungement judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-remedy sentence-commutation sentencing vindictive-sentencing |
CAN A VINDICTIVE SENTENCE BE EXPUNGED DUE TO PERSONAL BIAS BEING COMMUTED BT A JUDGE? |
| 22-7869 |
Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Refusing To Reverse Wysinger's
Conviction On Count One For Conspiracy To Violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
(Lawy… |
| 22-7870 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1239 |
Michael Jerome Files v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Does § 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses that are … |
| 22-1234 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit defy this Court's remand instruction and circumvent 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court authority by findi… |
| 22-7851 |
George Poulo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7854 |
Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7855 |
Edgar Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7856 |
Annice Hale v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
1. Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's assertion of violations as are asserted herein against the Defendant-Appellee(s) are waivers of sovereign immunity pu… |
| 22-7858 |
Wayne Anthony Aviles v. Captain Jason Kowalski |
Montana |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process guardian-ad-litem ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sentencing |
1. Is the Montana, Tenth Judicial District court, Fergus Connty, at fault for Double Jeopardy by giving Mr. Aviles 4 seperate Sentences?
2. Is the ju… |
| 22-7841 |
Bruce A. Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. After reviewing the 6 written objections filed as Bills of Proscription in the 49 page Brief For Petitioner filed with the Habeas Corpus, would a j… |
| 22-7843 |
George John Maslovar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact |
Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte… |
| 22-7847 |
Colum Patrick Moran v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on point, … |
| 22-7832 |
David Troy, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-7822 |
Darwin Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just… |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 22-7836 |
Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation |
1. Can the passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction?
2. Does the legal maxi… |
| 22-7814 |
Joshua E. Preece v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-7817 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process internal-revenue-service jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation takings takings-clause tax tax-refund |
1. Whether claimed pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (a) (1) United States Constitutional Article III, Section 2, Amendment 5, due process of law Takings, wit… |
| 22-7818 |
Marshall M. Cohen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2256 child-pornography circuit-split creator's-intent federal-criminal-law four-corners-of-image intent-context lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation |
Whether lasciviousness under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) may be found by examining the context in which the image was produced or the creator's intent, … |
| 22-7820 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing |
I. Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality when the court's remarks at sent… |
| 22-7802 |
James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which… |
| 22-7804 |
Ricky Simmonds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the United States of America breaches a negotiated plea agreement when it fails to affirmatively state at the Sentencing hearing that the stip… |
| 22-7806 |
Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains… |
| 22-7807 |
Chayna Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 22-1216 |
Dwayne Ferguson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 22-1218 |
Wendy Smith, et al. v. Keith Spizzirri, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
arbitration-agreement circuit-conflict circuit-split dismiss district-court-procedure federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion section-3 statutory-interpretation stay |
Whether Section 3 of the FAA requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss whe… |
| 22-1219 |
Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-power chevron chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management magnuson-stevens-act marine-fisheries regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
The Magnus on-Stevens Act ("MSA") governs fishery management in federal waters. It states that, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, the Na… |
| 22-7783 |
Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at… |
| 22-7768 |
Nidal Ayyad v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7772 |
Stanley Jackson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-factfinding jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find a defendant's prior convictions were "comm… |
| 22-7775 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did yo… |
| 22-1203 |
Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent |
1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… |
| 22-1206 |
Kyung Chang Industry USA, Inc., dba KCI USA v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine commerce-clause component-part firearm-components firearms-law gun-regulation interlocutory-review legislative-intent protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a magazine is a "component part of a firearm" under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. |
| 22-7754 |
Maurice Hunt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power |
I. Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under the Commerce Clause (1505 U.S.C.) To Enact Statutes With the Intent That A Ton Page In Convic… |
| 22-7756 |
Andre Zeno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7757 |
Samuel Lee Morrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen bruen-standard constitutional-law federal-criminal-statutes federal-statute gun-rights historical-tradition jurisdiction second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). |
| 22-7760 |
Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force |
I. Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor , is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be c… |
| 22-7763 |
Michael Aaron Stuker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force witness-tampering |
Whether witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(2)(A) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where no eleme… |
| 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… |
| 22-7742 |
Kent Taylor v. California |
California |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
HOW CAN tHE dIRECT APPAL bE hEId INTO JUBMISAON FOR APPROXIIMATELY (3) MHRE YEARS, PRaM SEPTEMbA 27, ZO17, UNITIL JANUMRY 17, ZOZO, WHEN tHhE PITONER … |
| 22-7750 |
Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7751 |
David Paul Bickford v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
1. If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for "all legislation in [the] sensit… |
| 22-1195 |
Phillip Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-1189 |
Patricia A. Bogan v. Denton County District Attorney Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) In 2019, the issue arose whether a court could dismiss for want of prosecution at a time after the statute of limitations had run. The state's argu… |
| 22-7731 |
Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof |
In addressing Roy Lee Jones, Jr.'s claim that the evidence in this methampethamine prosecution supported only a conviction for conspiracy to possess w… |
| 22-7734 |
Christopher Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Reduction of Sentence, Pursuant to Section 404 of the
First Step Act of 2018, requires a Plenary Resentencing to provide
procedural and substantial Du… |
| 22-7735 |
Vivian R. Woodstock v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection resentencing restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a court may impose a harsher sentence upon resentencing after it was determined the initial sentence violated equal protection and due process… |
| 22-7736 |
Brandon Ross Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing |
Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for
determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7738 |
Michael Alexander Rivera v. California |
California |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-1182 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER … |
| 22-1183 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER … |
| 22-7716 |
Minnela Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that … |
| 22-7717 |
Christopher A. Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
This Court in Holguin-Hernandez held that a defendant's argument in the district court for
a lower sentence preserves appella te review to the substan… |
| 22-7723 |
Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7701 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7702 |
Antonio Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A defendant is entitled to the safety-valve sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) unless he violates all three subsections of the statute: (1) m… |
| 22-7707 |
Kelvun Montrail Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). |
| 22-7709 |
Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-7714 |
George M. Lecco v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-step-act individual-rights state-sovereignty |
1. for fedeval priseners, did thi First step Act of 2o1 open the door to Challenge the jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the sntercing Court and… |
| 22-1172 |
Dejuan Andre Worthen v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting attempted-hobbs-act-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause. |
| 22-1175 |
Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) (App., infra, 19a-54a), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)… |
| 22-7682 |
Tyrin Gayle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity |
I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief?
II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-7690 |
Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
§4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7697 |
Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Constitution and/or the … |
| 22-7698 |
Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance |
Did the Court exceed its authority in not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the Statutory Maximum?
Is the United State… |
| 22-7680 |
Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec… |
| 22-7683 |
Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation |
When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails… |
| 22-7684 |
Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to
produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 22-7685 |
Satish Kartan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-testimony-withdrawal court-precedent due-process forced-labor griffin-v-california prosecutor-comments right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. whether the district court violated Kartan's Might to testify and the subsequent prosecitor's comments, "These defendants don't like answering ques… |
| 22-7686 |
Daniel Dorado v. California |
California |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment |
For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases:
1. That th… |
| 22-7687 |
James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7670 |
Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
In Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960) and Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), this Court held that it is a violation of due process to … |
| 22-7659 |
Darrien D. Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months?
2. Di… |
| 22-7664 |
Forest Mitchell Kirst v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-investigation congressional-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
The question presented here addresses the extent to which 18 U.S.C § 1505 applies to accident investigations by the National Transportation and Safety… |
| 22-1158 |
Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process |
Does agency rulemaking itself, like the STA Redress Process, constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110, therefore stripping the district court … |
| 22-7647 |
Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7650 |
Nolan Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the
mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d … |
| 22-7653 |
Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7655 |
Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
1. Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time §2255 motion was "second [or] successive?" |
| 22-7631 |
Terrell McGee v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities |
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| 22-7635 |
Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 22-7636 |
Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7638 |
Jesus Mendez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-enhancement hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" capable of sustaining a conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7644 |
Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7645 |
Bryan O'Brien v. Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arbitrability civil-procedure court-jurisdiction exemption-doctrine federal-arbitration-act mandatory-language statutory-interpretation threshold-question wholly-grounded-exemption |
1. Whether federal courts resolving the threshold question of arbitrability under some type of "wholly grounded" exemption is consistent with the Fede… |
| 22-7626 |
Tynan Anthony Checchi v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sentencing unsworn-allocution |
1) Was Mr. Checchi's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination violated when a district court cross-examined him during his unsworn allocution … |
| 22-7630 |
Daniel Nathaniel McCall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense mandatory-minimum prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense |
1. This Court has granted certiorari in Jackson v. United States, No. 22-6640, and Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389, and consolidated the cases. Th… |
| 22-7616 |
Milton Mendoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-proceedings separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place ultra-vires |
Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr… |
| 22-7622 |
Anthony Bogarin v. Luis Martinez, Acting Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7605 |
Sealed Appellant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bad-faith cooperation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion section-3553e sentencing sentencing-relief |
Did the government act in bad faith by denying 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) relief to Petitioner when, after securing his guilty plea with the promise that it … |
| 22-7606 |
Yvette Crystal Wade v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 22-1136 |
In Re Robert Steven Mawhinney |
|
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process employment-contract federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judicial-review labor-law nondiscretionary-duty statutory-interpretation |
"Does 49 U.S.C. § 42121 provide
the United States Department of Labor,
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit, or
the United… |
| 22-7601 |
Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Was recusal mandatory under § 455(b)(1) where the trial judge's administrative activities had involved her in "disputed evidentiary facts?
Was recusa… |
| 22-7588 |
Eric Lee Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7590 |
Jesse Shane Owens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law domestic-violence due-process federal-courts firearm-restrictions second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether courts must assess the elements 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) and, if so, whether federal courts must consider a state's own… |
| 22-7591 |
In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. |
|
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1361 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge violate Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4(c)(3), and 28 U.S.C. §1915(d)?
2. Did the U.S… |
| 22-7580 |
Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice |
Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 22-7582 |
Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
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| 22-7585 |
Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-1121 |
Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power |
1. Whether Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has jurisdiction to enforce Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act?
2. Whether Food and Drug Administrat… |
| 22-1118 |
Cody Adams, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process federal-employees federal-employment hazardous-duty-pay proximity-exposure regulatory-interpretation statutory-entitlement statutory-interpretation virulent-biologicals |
Under the regulation requiring hazardous duty pay for federal employees who work "with or in close proximity to" virulent biologicals, are federal emp… |
| 22-7561 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority |
Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr… |
| 22-7567 |
Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness
is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an
extraordinary and compelling reason… |
| 22-7574 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment mental-illness notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion separate-document-rule separate-judgment statutory-interpretation timely-appeal |
The entire erroneous reliance of the court of appeal in Ahmed v. Shoop, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 31469 (6th Cir., Nov. 14, 2022), is upon 28 U.S.C. § 2101… |
| 22-7576 |
Crystal Maye v. Ocean Tax Deed Investment, LLC |
Florida |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law beneficiary-rights civil-rights due-process jurisdiction legislative-authority property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-regulation trust-income |
1) whether tax appraiser has the authority to create a tax regulate private property not sanction by legislature or congress ~
2) whether agency proc… |
| 22-1111 |
Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the implied certification theory of
liability under the False Claims Act is viable,
and if so, whether it requires that the
Defendant(s)… |
| 22-1110 |
Justin Paul Dreiling v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitution court-of-federal-claims equitable-jurisdiction equitable-relief executive-department executive-regulation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction monetary-claims statutory-interpretation united-states |
1. Shall the Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded upon any regulation of an e… |
| 22-7537 |
Jacqueline Anderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-115 criminal-liability federal-activities federal-officials ninth-circuit-interpretation private-contractors protective-security-officer statutory-interpretation |
Are private contractors federal "official[s]" for purposes of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 115? |
| 22-7541 |
Luis Nunez-Romero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 administrative-law due-process immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr… |
| 22-7524 |
Larry Carl Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7527 |
Adam Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-7532 |
In Re Rex Gard |
|
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred?
2. Is the South Dakota Supreme Court's overturning of their own precede… |
| 22-7533 |
Terence Crawley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling |
Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments in exercising its discretion to grant relief in a motion for… |
| 22-1102 |
Acquisition 362, LLC, dba Strategic Import Supply v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure court-of-international-trade customs-law federal-circuit import-protests jurisdictional-remedies standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that Petitioner's protests concerning rate and refund determinations were untimely and the Cour… |
| 22-7516 |
Adam Dean Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7519 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from.
II. When the Circuit Cou… |
| 22-7520 |
Levaughn Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping |
Whether the District Court erred in its two decisions, on August 16, 2018, R. 546 and Hrg. Tr. I; and January 22, 2019, R. 625 and Hrg. Tr. II, denyin… |
| 22-7488 |
Alex Adams v. Lorie Davis, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 22-7494 |
Floyd Ellis Wyche v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver conviction conviction-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
Rule 11(b)(1)(N) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that a
district court conducting a plea colloquy inquire into the defendant's kno… |
| 22-7500 |
Safara Echo Shortman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permit the Government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance base… |
| 22-7479 |
Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7485 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 22-1077 |
Sheryl Pereira v. Terrial O'Neal |
Georgia |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion precedent property-rights stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers |
Whether Supreme Court of Georgia and Court of Appeals of Georgia erred by violating their own longstanding precedent setting Case decisions and well-e… |
| 22-1071 |
Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
8-usc-1101 administrative-law department-of-homeland-security due-process employment-authorization immigration immigration-law immigration-procedure nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation |
1. Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien i… |
| 22-7455 |
Vernon Lee Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim divisibility federal-appeals-court federal-court-of-appeals juror-unanimity means-versus-elements state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. When deciding whether "state law" provides
"clear answers" about divisibility and juror unanimity,
Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500, 517-18 (2… |
| 22-7458 |
Roger Wayne Battle v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death,
"has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7459 |
Joseph Church v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing |
I. Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law when a judgment of conviction is entered without pro… |
| 22-7462 |
Ronnie Bowman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7464 |
Montez Hall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7465 |
Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden |
South Dakota |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony |
Is a Section 1983 action involved in SDC 22-1-2(WA)? Serious, why does the Eighth Amendment protect the right to life with what is SDC 22-1-2(B)? Does… |
| 22-7439 |
Julio Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in
on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals
important question of … |
| 22-7449 |
Robert Richard Spurling, III v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law jury-instructions retroactive-application sexual-abuse state-courts statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does a state court's decision that a state statute prevents the state courts from conducting analysis pursuant to the United States Supreme Court prec… |
| 22-7451 |
Bennie C. Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP … |
| 22-7452 |
Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code |
In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) —bank robbery and entry i… |
| 22-7454 |
In Re Reginald Swinton |
|
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Is the Circuit Court's order in deciding sua sponte to issue its Mandate denying relief without first having afforded petitioner prior notification an… |
| 22-1066 |
CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 medical-diagnostics method-patent natural-phenomenon patent-eligibility patent-infringement prior-art scientific-innovation section-101 statutory-interpretation |
Congress has provided that any "new and useful process" is eligible for patent protection, and that "any new and useful improvement thereof" is also e… |
| 22-7422 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OR LEGISLATURE DID NOT EXPRESSLY SWEEP WITHIN NEW
UNLAWFULLY YORK PENAL LAW § 125.27 ALL KILLINGS IN WHICH THE MURDERER
ENTERED THE … |
| 22-7436 |
Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7417 |
Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection where the district court in a motion for compassi… |
| 22-7420 |
Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7423 |
Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7396 |
Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause |
Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1… |
| 22-7398 |
Michael A. Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 appellate-jurisdiction ayestas-v-davis clemency-case collateral-order-doctrine eighth-circuit harbison-v-bell mcfarland medical-testing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether extending the narrowly construed collateral order doctrine of Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp. 337 U.S. 541 (1949), to all district co… |
| 22-7404 |
Tomas Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights attorney-client-communication attorney-consultation consultation-duty criminal-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure flores-ortega-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal sentencing |
Whether, when a criminal defendant expresses interest in an appeal and concern over the length of his sentence, an attorney who fails to hold a follow… |
| 22-7408 |
Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction |
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Should Not Have EX PARTE discriminatively continued with the 2018-ongoing DENIALS OF the UNHEARD PETITIONS FILED FOR JUDIC… |
| 22-7413 |
Nathan G. Flemming v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defendant-rights delay due-process judicial-process presence-of-defendant pronouncement-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-delay |
1. DOES A THIRTEEN MONTH DELAY BETWEEN SENTENCING HEARING AND THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE VIOLATE DUE PROCESS?
2. DOES THE ABSENCE OF A DEFENDANT F… |
| 22-7385 |
Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors |
Whether United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022) was wrongly decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, when it stated that App… |
| 22-7386 |
Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)IFP |
appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.?
2. Is the theft… |
| 22-7392 |
Moses Clark v. Glen E. Pratt |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law jurisdiction justiciability standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7383 |
Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution |
Can the Court Oua front Substitute the Underlying under the Pertinent §§ of the Contract & Discrimination Regarding State of Employment?
Can the Cour… |
| 22-7373 |
Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California |
California |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-7377 |
Jose Isabel Mora-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7359 |
Devin Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 22-7367 |
Christopher J. Bailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT ARBITRARILY IGNORED PRECEDENT FROM ITS OWN
CIRCUIT, AND THE SUPREME COURT, IN DENYING PETIT… |
| 22-7354 |
Rafael L. Beier v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,… |
| 22-1027 |
The Dutra Group, Inc., et al. v. Kelly Zaradnik, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-review appellate-jurisdiction benefits-review-board judicial-review longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
1. Whether appellate courts can restrict the limited jurisdiction of the Benefits Review Board under 33 U.S.C. § 921(b)(3), in accord with its impleme… |
| 22-1020 |
H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s "knowledge" element requires "actual knowledge," as this Court held, or "intent to defraud," as the Ninth Circuit held on rem… |
| 22-1021 |
John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a federal inmate can collaterally attack his sentence on any ground cognizable on collateral review, and in a "second or succe… |
| 22-1022 |
Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation |
"When confronted with two Acts of Congress allegedly touching on the same topic, this Court is not at 'liberty to pick and choose among congressional … |
| 22-7326 |
Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing |
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT THE U S
UNREASONABLY DENIED PETITIONER, DUE PROCESS OF
DUE PROCESS CLAUSE RIGHTS OF THE U.S.
AMENDS V AND XIV… |
| 22-7330 |
Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing |
guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial… |
| 22-7336 |
Shawn Kaleb Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons credit criminal-procedure duty-to-determine federal-sentence federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presentence-detention sentencing |
1. If a defendant requests that he be given credit towards his federal sentence for presentence detention time, is a district court – knowing that the… |
| 22-7338 |
Robert Lemke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autonomy criminal-autonomy criminal-defendant defendant-rights due-process legal-representation liberty liberty-interests mental-health mental-health-considerations sentencing sentencing-procedure |
1. Whether a criminal defendant's right to autonomy with respect to his defense applies to his sentencing?
2. Whether questions of a criminal defenda… |
| 22-7316 |
Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-7319 |
Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7320 |
Mary Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm or ammunition solely because they crossed state lines at some point before they… |
| 22-7307 |
Darek Lathan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure sentencing standing |
Did the appeadl court abuse its discretion by failing to comply
withthe consttution which guarartee me due process of law
which compel the rebuttal of… |
| 22-1006 |
Prime Insurance Company v. Darnell Wright |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split federal-preemption financial-responsibility interstate-transportation intrastate-journey motor-carriers statutory-interpretation transportation |
Whether a trip of an empty truck between two locations in the same state qualifies as "transportation of property … between a place in a State and … a… |
| 22-1009 |
Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation |
Ohio has a public employee statutory scheme for collective bargaining. In this statutory scheme, the Ohio Legislature took care to create an individua… |
| 22-7284 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Should this Court grant the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C.
§2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative … |
| 22-7288 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7289 |
Terrick Bishoff v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone … |
| 22-7296 |
Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition |
Did the government breach the plea agreement by giving Petitioner a substantive sentence that was inconsistent with the plea agreement?
Double Jeopar… |
| 22-7297 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Allred Unit |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-998 |
Alt’s Dairy Farm, LLC v. Nau Country Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-dispute contract-terms crop-insurance federal-arbitration-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-period |
Is the timeliness of petitioners' district court actions governed by the one-year period provided in the Common Crop Insurance Policy or by §12 of the… |
| 22-7266 |
Levar Lee Spence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-rights appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus self-representation statutory-authorization statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision provide the necessary warrant of authority to Subsume the Constitutional Writ of Habeas Corpus ad sobti… |
| 22-7268 |
Derek Sloane v. Robert L. Langley, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules imminent-danger imminent-danger-exception in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation pro-se-appeal standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule |
THAT THIS ACTION SHOULDN'T HAD BEEN DISMISS BECAUSE APPELLANT HAS THREE STRIKES AND IF SO, WHETHER HE IS ENTITLED TO IN-VOKE THE IMMINENT DANGER EXCEP… |
| 22-7276 |
Antonio Demond Baker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits felon-in-possession police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act?
I. Whet… |
| 22-7279 |
Robert J. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure compassionate-release compassionate-relief concepcion-v-united-states due-process first-step-act in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
In forma pauperis status and review his request for compassionate relief under the First Step Act based on its decision in Concepcion v. United States… |
| 22-7280 |
Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's allegations of violation, abridgment and denial of his constitutional rights by the named defendants' ignoring and violating t… |
| 22-7257 |
Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment |
Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and-when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r… |
| 22-7258 |
Brian Marc Fraser v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-robbery amendment commission-amendment criminal-classification due-process enumerated-offense robbery robbery-definition sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result if
the court of appeals were permitted to consider the Commission's
Proposed Amendm… |
| 22-7259 |
Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7260 |
Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7261 |
Susan Elise Prophet v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio… |
| 22-7263 |
Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-991 |
George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-adjudication circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review jurisdiction securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under special review statute 15 U.S.C. § 78y, circuit courts on a petition for review of a Securities and Exchange Commission final order res… |
| 22-985 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography double-jeopardy fifth-amendment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run cons… |
| 22-7245 |
Paul DiBiase v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony waiver-of-rights |
Petitioner was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACC) over his protests that he did not have three prior violent felony convictions as required f… |
| 22-7247 |
Claudia Castillo Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentence-manipulation sentencing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a sentencing court refuses to consider, as a mitigating factor, whether the government has engaged in … |
| 22-7251 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue |
#1. When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in erro… |
| 22-7237 |
Eric Grzywinski v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether a statutory rape offense that criminalizes sexual activity solely on the basis
of the ages of the parties requires a 16-year-old age of consen… |
| 22-7240 |
Cole Lusby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge |
1) Whether this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551
(2015) and its progeny enable defendants to raise facial vagueness chal… |
| 22-7241 |
Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-7242 |
In Re Henry Jones |
|
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-violations constructive-amendment denial-of-counsel due-process extraordinary-writ fraud jurisdiction sentencing trial-record-falsification |
WHETHER BY REASON OF THE NUMEROUS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, SUCH AS FALSIFYING THE RECORD OF JONES' TRIAL PROCEEDINGS… |
| 22-971 |
Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. |
North Carolina |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat |
Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked?
Does it make a difference if the persons warned committed several or many felonie… |
| 22-974 |
Charles J. Weiss v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals certiorari collection-due-process due-process internal-revenue-code levy-actions limitations-period statutory-interpretation tax-law writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") provision providing for the suspension of levy actions and the running of any period of limitations "for the… |
| 22-976 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Michael Cargill |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Relisted (4) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law atf atf-rule bump-stock firearms firearms-regulation machinegun-definition national-firearms-act statutory-interpretation trigger-mechanism |
Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a… |
| 22-969 |
City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights |
1. Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's "and other purposes" clause to inv… |
| 22-7227 |
Jared B. Goudy v. Jennifer E. Caluori |
Florida |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-action civil-immunity constitutional-rights criminal-activity driving-under-the-influence due-process immunity self-defense stand-your-ground statutory-interpretation |
Florida's Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the Twelfth Judicial Circuit's dismissal of Petitioner's case. Following an evidentiary hearing, th… |
| 22-7229 |
Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand this case, as it did with six similarly situated petitioners in Burns v. … |
| 22-7231 |
James Sonny Alaniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure |
Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa… |
| 22-7235 |
Adam Chism v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court |
WHETHER CHISM WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN PLAIN ERROR WAS COMMITTED BY THE TRIAL COURT IN IMPOSING AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AS A MATTER OF LAW AND/O… |
| 22-7218 |
Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7220 |
Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7223 |
Raymond Charles Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
142-s-ct-2389-2022 case-compliance civil-procedure concepcion-v-united-states due-process judicial-review legal-remand remand standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THIS CASE SHOULD BE REMANDED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CONCEPCION V UNITED STATES, 142 S.T. 2389 (2022) |
| 22-7224 |
Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7205 |
Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7207 |
Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7209 |
Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-962 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1443 anti-injunction-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal finality jurisdictional-challenge remand removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review when finality is
not reached in the District case as there is no formal written remand order i… |
| 22-963 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award |
In denying a whistleblower award to Petitioner, the SEC interpreted key provisions of the statutory whistleblower program created by Congress in the D… |
| 22-961 |
Dean Allen Steeves v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
church-status church-tax-exemption federal-excise-tax federal-income-tax integrated-auxiliary labor-as-commodity peonage peonage-prohibition statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
1. Whether Congresses ' Mandatory Exceptions,
found in Public Law 91-172 at 508(c)(1)(A), 83 Stat 494-
495 & 6033(a)(2)A)(i), 83 Stat 519-520 for "c… |
| 22-7172 |
Henry A. Harmon v. Kayla Noel-Emsweller, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment en-banc-review equal-protection good-time judicial-review sentencing time-served |
Did petitioner have a complete fair denovo review of his legal findings that Kayla Noel- Emsweller, et.al., and defendants deny him his constitutional… |
| 22-7178 |
David Frazier v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts |
Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence.
Whether Criminal Appeals Court for Tennessee also… |
| 22-7179 |
Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7180 |
Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing |
The defendant in this case was sixteen when the alleged crime was committed. He was initially charged in Juvenile Court. He was transferred from Juven… |
| 22-7182 |
Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing |
1. Whether the unresolved conflict between the Second Circuit panels in this case, and the conflict among the circuits on whether 28 U.S.C. §46 can an… |
| 22-7183 |
Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7167 |
Quentin Truley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing |
(1) Under categorical approach, is 18 USC § 924(c)'s residual clause held as unconstitutionally vague, and predicated by Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Ac… |
| 22-956 |
Paul Johnson v. Bastrop Central Appraisal District |
Texas |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-justice civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus-writ pro-se public-information standard-of-proof standing statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Should the State of Texas create a separate standard of proof in statutory Writ of Mandamus cases that denies the poor and pro se requesters access to… |
| 22-957 |
Laurie A. Dermody v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1396p annuity annuity-rules asset-transfer medicaid-eligibility medical-assistance remainder-beneficiary spousal-impoverishment statutory-interpretation transfer-penalty |
Whether an annuity that satisfies the condition in Section 1396p(c)(2)(B)(i) must name the State as the first remainder beneficiary in order to avoid … |
| 22-953 |
Pablo Calderon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law |
Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated … |
| 22-955 |
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Is the court-created "futility" doctrine, which
allows a United States court to decide a case removed
from state court even though it lacks jurisdi… |
| 22-7142 |
William Matthew Plump v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud |
The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am… |
| 22-7155 |
Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt |
I.
Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Ocean-Avent possessed a firearm.
II.
right to a fair trial. |
| 22-7157 |
Andreqio Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 922(g) criminalizes three different offenses relating to a firearm for "prohibited persons": transporting a firearm, possessing a firearm,… |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi… |
| 22-7138 |
Muzammil Ali v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act |
1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THAT ALI'S FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED UNDER THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT.
2. WHETH… |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether the decision of the first District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clausd claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-7148 |
Karteu Omar Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure drug-weight-calculation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NOT APPOINTING NEW
COUNSEL AFTER THE SECOND HEARING ON THIS MATTER?
II. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NO… |
| 22-945 |
Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud |
1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were… |
| 22-7123 |
Kenneth Chambers v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
The issue before this Court is whether the Seventh Circuit of the Southern District of Indiana had subject matter jurisdiction over the case. The Plai… |
| 22-7129 |
Thomas P. Thayer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation |
This Court has held that, where Congress makes the application of federal law turn on a prior "conviction" that, "by its nature," "involves" certain "… |
| 22-7130 |
Timothy Fletcher v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. … |
| 22-7114 |
Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-7117 |
Noel Macapagal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation |
The government convicted petitioner-defendant Noel Macapagal of violating 18 U.S.C. §2422(b). As the government invoked it to convict Macapagal, this … |
| 22-7121 |
Christopher Barret v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur |
1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc… |
| 22-7088 |
James Duane Grzeslo v. Raythel Fisher, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7095 |
Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende… |
| 22-7096 |
Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-7100 |
Felipe Nevarez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver |
Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p… |
| 22-7101 |
Charles Eugene Nolden v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing federal-statute sentence-reduction sentencing third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abused its discretion in denying Nolden's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reduction … |
| 22-7106 |
Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted?
Whether this honor… |
| 22-7109 |
In Re Freddie A. Land |
|
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law asylum due-process equal-protection immigration statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-929 |
BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con… |
| 22-7066 |
Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DEFENDANT CAN BE FOUND GUILTY FOR A PAROLE VIOLATION AND A CRIMINAL VIOLATION FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IF IT IS ILLEGAL TO TRAN… |
| 22-7076 |
Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted since Servando-Pineda 's title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations du… |
| 22-7079 |
Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-7084 |
Christopher Daniel Lutker v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea involuntary-confession knowingly-voluntarily mental-competency plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion |
x, £>lP C-HHT^TOpHEM DAHTTT ZHTHE& KNOWTMZZYj I NTT/LLX&TNTIy AND YOIUNTARILYMADE WHEN
H E WAS 5J3aK AND SOJU-TN&HIMEJTLF ANDPZMZEP
A fiESrACOM uMTL… |
| 22-7061 |
Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t… |
| 22-7065 |
Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
i.
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially?
ii.
Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a criminal defendant's senten… |
| 22-7070 |
Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure |
1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition… |
| 22-7045 |
John Leendert Oskam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent |
Under the Court's recent decisions in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), does the e… |
| 22-7051 |
William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law |
Oklahoma has jury sentencing in all felony cases, and those proceedings may be bifurcated. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (the "OCCA") has the… |
| 22-7052 |
Colby Todd Dubose v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability generic-burglary non-permanent-structures oregon-first-degree-burglary overnight-accommodation reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation stitt-decision stitt-v-united-states |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether, after Stitt, Oregon first-degree burglary remains categorically broader than generic burglary because the sta… |
| 22-7053 |
Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is … |
| 22-7059 |
Aaron M. Haynes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-915 |
United States v. Zackey Rahimi |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (69)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders, violates the Secon… |
| 22-916 |
Priscilla McManus v. NBS Default Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation time-limits |
1. When Did the Importance of Deadlines Cease to Exist? |
| 22-919 |
Stephen Thaler v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
artificial-intelligence innovation-rights invention inventor inventor-definition patent patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term "inventor" to human beings alone? |
| 22-912 |
James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-… |
| 22-7040 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. Doe, Designation Sentence Computation Center Official, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-review bias civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure recusal standing statutory-interpretation witness |
I) whether the district court erred in denying Appellant's motion for the judge recusal based upon the Judge being called upon in the instant case as … |
| 22-7041 |
Deandre Markee King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity |
The vast majority of federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. And in many of those pleas, the defendant promises not to file a future 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 22-7035 |
Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Applying a "Plainly Unreasonable" Standard of Review for Mr. Person's Supervised Release Violation Sentence ins… |
| 22-7024 |
In Re Kevin Ogden |
|
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process insufficient-evidence jury-instructions legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
There was insufficient evidence to convict. The N.M. Embezzlement Statute clearly says the owner's name must be used in the Criminal Complaint and Inf… |
| 22-7027 |
Lester Barnett v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED… |
| 22-7030 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7015 |
Timothy Reaves v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7016 |
Guadalupe Onate-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-888 |
James R. Rudisill v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure education-benefits montgomery-gi-bill post-9/11-gi-bill qualifying-service statutory-interpretation veterans veterans-benefits |
Whether a veteran who has served two separate
and distinct periods of qualifying service under the
Montgomery GI Bill, 38 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., and
u… |
| 22-878 |
Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 |
First Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. §1930(a)(6)(A) applies to a case
under Chapter 11 of Title 11, United States Code, upon
reopening, where the chapter 11 case was … |
| 22-884 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Varinder Singh |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law due-process immigration-law in-absentia-order notice-requirement notice-requirements removal-proceeding removal-proceedings rescission statutory-interpretation |
Under 8 U.S.C. 1229a(b)(5), a noncitizen may be ordered removed in absentia when he "does not attend a [removal] proceeding" "after written notice req… |
| 22-7006 |
Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7010 |
Jeffrey Jay York v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enticement criminal-law enticement entrapment evidence government-agents interstate-facilities interstate-transmission jury-evidence minor minor-solicitation |
WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICENT EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YORK/
I. OF ENTICEMENT OF A MINOR
A. WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICIENT EVIDENC… |
| 22-7011 |
Charles Matthew Waters v. Anita Marie Waters |
Minnesota |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-offspring civil-procedure consent consent-withdrawal due-process family-law order-for-protection order-of-protection standing statutory-interpretation withdrawal |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process when the trial court would not allow Petitioner's withdrawal of consent to an Order for Protection, pri… |
| 22-6998 |
David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6999 |
Allen Maki v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law |
Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a).(1)
(2) Whether it fair to regard Maki 's gentle… |
| 22-7002 |
J. T. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness |
1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard
when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir… |
| 22-873 |
Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
america-invents-act estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-law statutory-interpretation |
This case is the sister case to the inter partes review ("IPR") considered by this Court in Thryv, Inc v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, 140 S. Ct. 1… |
| 22-6983 |
Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6986 |
Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6992 |
Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time |
IS IT LEGAL TO START A PRISON SENTENCE, THEN STOP IT AND THEN RE START IT BY ADDING MORE YEARS?
IS IT LEGAL TO REVOKE STREET TIME ON PAROLE WHEN IT C… |
| 22-6977 |
Sharif Talib v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence sentencing |
Did the lower court violate Appellant Constitutional Rights for never reviewing the conviction prohibition he received because the operation lied on s… |
| 22-6965 |
Seth Grant Huntington v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law-battery eighth-circuit-interpretation johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states state-assault-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether treating a state assault statute as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act when that statute requires no more than the intent … |
| 22-6968 |
Thomas Marmolejos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing |
Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio… |
| 22-6969 |
Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment |
Question I: Whether the Sixth Amendment ' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth
Amendments ' right to due process require that the … |
| 22-6971 |
Joseph Dingler v. Terry Garrett, Sheriff, Rockwall County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-evidence preservation-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings tax |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6972 |
Deandre Earp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing |
Whether a General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act.
Whether the peti… |
| 22-849 |
Rickie Foy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement |
Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-851 |
United States v. Julian Garcon |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 22-853 |
Donald V. Watkins, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accredited-investors conspiracy corporate-governance intent-to-defraud ongoing-business risk-disclosure statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred, as a matter of law, in sustaining a conviction for wire fraud conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. §1349 (in Count One of… |
| 22-845 |
Robert Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process duty-to-assist judicial-notice judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
In the veterans-benefits system, Congress has
provided that an otherwise-final agency decision is sub
ject to one review on appeal to the Secretary. … |
| 22-846 |
Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i… |
| 22-6953 |
Curtis Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6956 |
Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT CORRECTLY DETERMINED
THAT THE ORDERS APPEALED WERE NEITHER FINAL NOR
WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION UNDER
THE ALL-WRITS ACT
18 USC … |
| 22-6933 |
John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
SHOUD THE=SIXTH CIRCUTT BE to COVERUP JWDGE CRENSHALLS VIOLATIONS OP SICTH CRCUIT $ SUPREME COURT STANDINPRECIDENTS OF EXLEPTIONS TO THE YOUNFER & MID… |
| 22-6936 |
Edson Gelin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-6947 |
Alexander Samuel Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 due-process entrapment false-statements fbi-investigation government-fabrication materiality statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statement made to FBI agents can be material and knowingly false under 18 U.S.C. §1001(a) when the criminal enterprise underlying the statem… |
| 22-6918 |
Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND SENTENCE REVIEW OF PRO-SE PLEADINGS WERE SELECTIVE RATHER THAN THE REQUIR… |
| 22-6929 |
Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration |
Whether a sex offender registry statute, when applied to predators convicted of rape without any sexual motivation to the offense, bears a reasonable … |
| 22-6902 |
Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6903 |
William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation |
"The Petitioner respectfully ask '* When the [Fjramers of the Oklahoma State Constitution, created and enacted Article I. £ 3. [Unappropriatedpublic l… |
| 22-6905 |
Francisco Nunez Carrillo v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6907 |
Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion |
I. WAS MR. CUMBIE DENIED DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW WHEN THE COURT CONSIDERED EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE RECORD IN ASSESSING THE SENTENCE?
II. DID THE TRIAL CO… |
| 22-6908 |
Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 22-6914 |
David B. Morgan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-6915 |
Leon H. McCormick v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6895 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process evidence prison-behavior sentencing skipper-precedent skipper-v-south-carolina |
When a capital defendant's death sentence is vacated and the case is remanded for a new sentencing at which the death penalty is an available sentence… |
| 22-6897 |
Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-821 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Hoboken, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights climate-change federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-injury |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused… |
| 22-828 |
Roger E. Pace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Courts interpret statutes by applying Congress's plain language. In the First Step Act, Congress modified the federal sentencing statute to say that a… |
| 22-812 |
Isaac D. Koch v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal protection-order standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the government's interpretation of an order against all contact and communication and presence?
If the Court agrees that the power of the peo… |
| 22-814 |
William R. Tinnerman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction flora-rule internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite standing statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
1. Under the language of 28 U.S.C. §1346(a)(1), is full payment of tax alleged to be owed for an entire taxable period a jurisdictional prerequisite f… |
| 22-819 |
Franz Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard magistrate-judge markman-test patent patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
35 U.S.C. § 282(a) provides that "[a] patent shall be presumed valid." This Court has ruled that when a court reviews validity of a patent, the presum… |
| 22-6880 |
Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing |
Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice. |
| 22-6881 |
James Clark, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6879 |
Bobby O. Williams v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District |
Illinois |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-factors due-process fair-warning judicial-expansion jury-determination jury-findings retroactivity sentencing-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
On Petitioner's second direct appeal, in resolving Petitioner's sufficiency of evidence claim regarding the existence of a single statutory aggravatin… |
| 22-6869 |
Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability |
Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 22-6871 |
Ahmed Khalil v. New York |
New York |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing speedy-trial |
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| 22-6873 |
Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-808 |
Joe Alfred Izen, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charitable-deduction deadlines equitable-tolling hardship-exemption I.R.C.-170(f)(12) internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantiation-deadline substantiation-evidence summary-judgment tax-law |
1. Whether equitable tolling may extend substantiation evidence gathering deadlines under I.R.C. § 170(f)(12).
2. Whether Congress lacks the power to… |
| 22-806 |
John Doe v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin… |
| 22-6866 |
Antonio Rosello v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-6844 |
Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6846 |
Christopher L. Corn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-6847 |
Philip M. Close v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct |
The question presented is whether Mr. Close's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), for producing child pornography, and 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), … |
| 22-6853 |
Joshua Seekins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the d… |
| 22-6854 |
Xavier Sims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 5… |
| 22-6829 |
Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6834 |
Michael Laury v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 |
21 U.S.C. § 856 (A)(2) makes it unlawful to manage or control any place, whether permanently or temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employ… |
| 22-6836 |
Robert Speed v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether RICO is a § 924(c)(3)(A) "crime of violence," is the statutory definition of "racketeering activity" divisible, such that a court… |
| 22-6843 |
Edgar Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to … |
| 22-790 |
Vanessa Wereko v. Lori Rosen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-1292 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure congressional-intent discretionary-appeal district-court interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion status-quo statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress ' intent for an interlocutory appeal as of
right, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), can be unilaterally
converted into a discretionary ap… |
| 22-797 |
Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-6816 |
Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-6823 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6824 |
Daniel Dietz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release |
The Ninth Circuit failed to apply this Court's decisions delineating the purpose of supervised release as set forth in Johnson v. United States, 529 U… |
| 22-6825 |
Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6826 |
Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6813 |
Joshua Glowacki v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights |
After Petitioner pled guilty to a child pornography offense the district court awarded restitution of $10,000 to one victim, over Petitioner's objecti… |
| 22-6814 |
Juan M. Vazquez-Pedrosa v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-indian-law federal-land-policy indian-land jurisdictional-dispute land-rights native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood property-transfer statutory-interpretation treaty tribal-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6815 |
David E. Merry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha… |
| 22-6817 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial jury-trial-denial retaliation statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
1. Why wasn't plaintiff Curry given an opportunity to become a plant Operator?
2. Defendants submitted a bad faith affidavit under Perjury, Fraud, an… |
| 22-779 |
Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation |
Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discrim
inatory intent other than racial bias be actionable un
der 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), the possibility o… |
| 22-783 |
Victor J. Orena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
In Concepcion v. United States, — U.S. -, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (June 27, 2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows dis… |
| 22-772 |
Ultra Petroleum Corporation, et al. v. Ad Hoc Committee of OpCo Unsecured Creditors, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy-code creditor-recovery judicial-exception lower-court-confusion post-petition-interest solvent-debtor-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-text unmatured-interest |
Whether an unwritten "solvent-debtor exception" overrides the Bankruptcy Code's statutory text and allows creditors in solvent-debtor cases to recover… |
| 22-773 |
Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a "prevailing party" elig… |
| 22-6803 |
Mario C. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini… |
| 22-6804 |
Joseph Mark Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-procedure appellate-procedure civil-procedure criminal-statute due-process legal-timeline minor-protection motion-to-withdraw standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Whether the 90 days under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 and Supreme Court
Rule 13 applies to an order granting a motion to withdraw an
appeal .
2. Whether the… |
| 22-6805 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection precedent-analysis statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant Certiorari to determine whether the Appellate Court's construction of a statute pursuant to People v. Rineland, 2015 Ill App (… |
| 22-6807 |
Antonio McGhee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6808 |
Erich Deolax Riker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. |
| 22-6784 |
Jerry Don South v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18
U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence
imposed?
… |
| 22-6789 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
compensation criminal-procedure due-process illegal-confinement judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) On A April 9,2012 after all parties approved and signed
the plea bargain agreement documents ,and Hon.Judge Teresa
Hawthorne approved and. accep… |
| 22-6790 |
Alexis Jaimez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a "foot soldier" in a gang and therefore … |
| 22-6793 |
Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and C… |
| 22-6794 |
Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
WHY IS MR. OBEGS BEEN DENIES RELIEF ENENMIOUGH THE CONVICTIONS FOR KIESARRIN® BE NOT HAVE HE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO SO?PORE 17 ¢ FIND ATERSON GOUTY BEF… |
| 22-6780 |
Anthony LeMarcus Larkins v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6762 |
Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing |
Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-6764 |
Michael Ray Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether United States v. Granados , 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Co… |
| 22-759 |
Michael Gramins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms |
Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter… |
| 22-762 |
Robert Kreb v. Department of Labor |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious employee-protection employee-protection-rights evidentiary-burden standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. What is the appropriate standard of review when an agency administrative law judge abuses their discretion, is arbitrary and capricious or otherwis… |
| 22-6747 |
Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching |
The jury, whern he has never had charges of that nature and
was charged with drug offerses. violate petotioner's uis.c.lothand 14th
Amendment rights t… |
| 22-6750 |
Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6755 |
Lecedric Prentice Harris v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-specific-justification constitutional-law constitutional-requirement courtroom-closure criminal-procedure judicial-discretion public-trial-clause split-of-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state court correctly held — in conflict with
holdings of this Court, the supreme courts of other states, and
federal courts of appeal — t… |
| 22-6756 |
Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 145 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s "crime of violence" d… |
| 22-6758 |
In Re Mark Marvin |
|
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
I, WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO ADJUDICATE LAYMAN'S PETITION FOR HAB… |
| 22-6761 |
Joshua David Lambert v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel |
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| 22-6736 |
Justin D. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (8)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-6737 |
John Edward Butler v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-746 |
Damion Kentrell White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 22-6727 |
Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is one who 's being illegally detained pursuant to October 15, 2012 resentencing which authorize custody on new judgment … |
| 22-6730 |
Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres U. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6732 |
David Alvarado-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness of… |
| 22-6706 |
Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a … |
| 22-6715 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6716 |
Conrado Olivo-Duron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a
defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either
… |
| 22-6717 |
Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without
this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6720 |
Angela Bakos v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits-suit civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa limitation-period notice notice-requirement procedural-requirement statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether Respondent UNUM was required under the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et. seq., to provide Petitioner BAKOS with
a… |
| 22-6724 |
In Re Christopher Cobb |
|
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
1) Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review., 142 S.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should |
| 22-736 |
Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-733 |
Pacific Gas & Electric Company v. Ad Hoc Committee of Holders of Trade Claims |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-practice equitable-considerations federal-rate post-petition-interest solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a clear statement is required for the Bankruptcy Code to depart from past bankruptcy practice.
2. Whether an uncodified "solvent debtor" e… |
| 22-6704 |
Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6708 |
Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6710 |
David Wekesa v. United States Attorney, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8-usc-1226c civil-rights due-process immigration-detention judicial-review mandatory-detention procedural-protections reasonableness-of-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether due process mandates procedural protections during lengthy periods of mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c).
2. How long does deten… |
| 22-6712 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6697 |
Ervin Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aggravated-assault borden-precedent borden-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process forcible-assault sentencing-review supreme-court |
Whether Petitioner is actually innocent of his aggravated and forcible assault offense, in light of Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)? |
| 22-6698 |
Robert Hadley Gross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-impression frivolity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-merit non-frivolous-appeal rational-defendant roe-v-flores-ortega totality-of-circumstances |
This is a criminal case, which involves issues
regarding ineffective assistance of counsel,
frivolity, and first impression.
1. Is the Roe v. Flore… |
| 22-6699 |
Marquita Leigh Meredith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing policy-statement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented here is whether 2007 statement is an "applicable" policy Statement that binds a district court when deciding whether to grant … |
| 22-727 |
Izzac Christopher Weister v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency psychiatric-custody statutory-interpretation vagueness violence violence-definition west-virginia |
1. Izzac Weister was criminally charged with sexual offenses as a result of electronic messages that he sent to his half sister. The trial court found… |
| 22-714 |
Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80 (1943)
and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the
case to the agency after determining that… |
| 22-715 |
Chevron USA, Inc., et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure federal-officer-removal federal-preemption national-emergency oil-production statutory-interpretation war-powers wwii |
1. Whether a private entity is "acting under" a federal officer for purposes of removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 when federal officials, through orders … |
| 22-717 |
Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees to Plaintiffs-Respondents pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b), where Plaintiffs' Petition sol… |
| 22-718 |
Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee |
Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold in sanity acquittees … |
| 22-720 |
Dakota Finance LLC, dba Arabella Farm, et al. v. Naturaland Trust, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-penalty circuit-split citizen-suits clean-water-act diligent-prosecution-bar enforcement-regime statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper test for determining whether the "diligent prosecution bar" under 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(6)(A)(i) precludes citizen suits brought unde… |
| 22-6673 |
Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED
IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
AFTER THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO MAKE
AN INQUIRY INTO A TITLE 18 U… |
| 22-6682 |
Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to conclude that a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different fro… |
| 22-6685 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
A defendant sued in a State Court can timely remove the action to the local federal District Court where the party alleges federal question jurisdicti… |
| 22-6666 |
Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution |
The Victim and Witness Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663 ("VWPA"), permits a district court to order restitution to victims of an offense under Title 1… |
| 22-6658 |
Wade Bonk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi… |
| 22-6651 |
Michael Vanous v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings?
Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th… |
| 22-6653 |
Jayson Montgomery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent |
To convict a defendant of violating the anti-kickback statute, is the government required to establish that the accused intended to engage in unlawful… |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6637 |
Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6638 |
James Ralph Dawson, Jr. v. Jeff Archambeau, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure remedies standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6640 |
Eugene Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-695 |
Jane Does No. 1–6, et al. v. Reddit, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-pornography civil-action civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-immunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation third-party-liability |
Whether the exception to CDA immunity contained in 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5)(A)—which states "Nothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) sh… |
| 22-6614 |
Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a |
1) Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of… |
| 22-6615 |
Robert Jim v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Whether The Court Violated Jim's Constitutional Rights To Due Process & A Fair Trial By Allowing Improper Evidence & Preventing Him From Presenting… |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6617 |
Winsloe Duhaney v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
After a defendant on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence under the subsection of the criminal statute under which he was convicted, and,… |
| 22-6618 |
Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding |
Did the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One Err by affirming the Termination of Paternal Parental rights over his two biological Children in a Maric… |
| 22-6619 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6620 |
Alex Adams v. Sergeant Beusch, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law costs due-process fees judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6592 |
James Stacey Harber v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing |
1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial?
2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. … |
| 22-6597 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 22-6599 |
Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. When the State of Ohio Legislatures/The Ohio General Assembly had failed to drafted with reasonably clarity the precise number of years that equals… |
| 22-6600 |
Eric Banks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Several federal criminal statutes only apply within the United States's "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction," including the assault statute… |
| 22-6602 |
Matthew C. Eisenmann v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6603 |
Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6604 |
In Re Daniel Sheehan |
|
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation |
The Third Circuit has reduced the 2241 Gateway to qualify via 2255(e) to an impassable size through abuses of discretion in the creation of Dicta, tha… |
| 22-6586 |
Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A… |
| 22-6587 |
Vernon White v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of "special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t… |
| 22-6590 |
In Re Harry Sharod James |
|
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 22-671 |
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
28-usc-46 appellate-procedure case-law judicial-administration judicial-review panel-composition patent-law statutory-interpretation written-description |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 46 and principles of sound judicial administration preclude a court of appeals from adding a new judge to form a new panel and … |
| 22-6568 |
Duraid Hussein v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
1. In Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court clarified that the word knowingly under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) applies to both defendan… |
| 22-6569 |
Charles Heard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a VICAR murder conviction, which is in turn based upon a
second-degree murder under California law, constitute a categorical
crime of violence… |
| 22-6572 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
The notion of miscarriage of justice prohibits a court from disregarding the fact that its opinion rest solely on criminal offenses that a defendant n… |
| 22-6573 |
Delamon A. Marshall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Does a prior conviction for domestic violence under Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2919.25(A) qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 22-6578 |
Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
WAS THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MR. HILL GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE? DOES THE LIFE SE… |
| 22-6560 |
Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In light of its nuanced, holistic approach to federal sentencing, whether a district court may, consistent with § 3553(a)'s plain text, treat the dura… |
| 22-6566 |
Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court —rather than the jury —finds that the defendant commit… |
| 22-663 |
Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-regulation consumer-financial-protection consumer-protection due-process financial-regulation removal-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Rule should be vacated because it was promulgated by Director Cordray while shielded from removal by President Trump under a statutory … |
| 22-6545 |
Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation |
THE DISTRICT COURT WAS WITHOUT JURISDICTION TO IMPOSE A "TERM OF YEARS" SENTENCE WHEN THE STATUTE CONTAINED ONLY TWO SENTENCING OPTIONS, DEATH, OR LIF… |
| 22-6548 |
United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation |
A CASE OF FIRST IMPRESSION
LINCOLN LAW PRO SE FILING REQUIREMENT
QUESTION: WHETHER A PRO SE IS ALLOWED TO INITIALLY FILE A FALSE
CLAIMS ACT (FCA) C… |
| 22-656 |
Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 22-652 |
Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property |
Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted.
Whether untaint… |
| 22-6536 |
Antoine D. Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-6540 |
Brandon Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6541 |
Garrett Statler v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because… |
| 22-6527 |
William Langley, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a… |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
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OF
APPEALS
FOR
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ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING
ITS
PROCEDURAL BAR
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INCONSISTENT
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CONSTIT… |
| 22-6503 |
Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment |
1.) Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (6-27-22) which was decided after briefing in Pet… |
| 22-6508 |
Joseph M. Evans v. Amy Helene Zubrensky |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law court-precedent due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6511 |
William Maskevich v. Illinois Department of Employment Security, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation notice-of-remedies precedent-analysis state-statute statutory-interpretation West-Covina-v-Perkins |
West Covina v. Perkins, 525 U.S. 234 (1999) addressed circumstances in which "not one State or the Federal Government has seen fit to require" a notic… |
| 22-6515 |
Christopher Raiche v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 22-6481 |
Courtney J. v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. |
North Carolina |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
child-welfare civil-death-penalty due-process equal-protection payment-obligation statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina's interpretation of a termination of parental rights statute, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-1111(a)(3), deprives pa… |
| 22-6485 |
Annamarie Riethmiller v. Unnamed Defendants |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation presidential-actions standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6487 |
Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h… |
| 22-6493 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Section 3583(g) of United States Code Title 18 requires a district court to revoke a defendant's term of supervised release and impose a term of impri… |
| 22-6497 |
Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1) Does the struckdown 18 USc. g924 (e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to "ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSGj4B1.2(a) … |
| 22-629 |
David Holbrook v. Tennessee Valley Authority, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion congressional-intent government-corporation judicial-review public-utilities rate-setting statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have authority to review TVA's fidelity to its enabling statute, or is TVA's rate-setting excepted from all judicial review even whe… |
| 22-631 |
Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases |
Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code states that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the … |
| 22-633 |
Stacey A. Kincaid, Sheriff, Fairfax County, Virginia v. Kesha T. Williams |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
42-usc-12211 ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition disability-rights dsm-5 fourth-circuit gender-dysphoria statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, found in the DSM-5, is excluded from the ADA's definition of disability under 42 U.S.C. § 12211(b). |
| 22-6466 |
Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the
application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-6468 |
Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6471 |
Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether Mr. PARKS improperly WAS DENIED A REVIEW IN EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE of COUNSEL AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT 24p District Court UNDER. J 28 U.… |
| 22-6479 |
Felix Agustin Dominguez-Bido, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Felix Dominguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a "notice to appear" that does not specify the date, time, and pl… |
| 22-6459 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct government-review procedural-motion section-2255 section-3504 statutory-interpretation wiretapping |
I. Whether the Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 procedure qualifies proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 3504(a)(1) to merit an affirmance or denial by the Government prior to… |
| 22-614 |
Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights |
1. Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal consti… |
| 22-609 |
Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
In the context of electronic communications, a series of statutes give companies permission to access their users' private correspondence, remove impe… |
| 22-6443 |
Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF… |
| 22-6444 |
Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a conviction for federal "second degree murder" under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 22-6450 |
Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings i… |
| 22-6452 |
Michael L. Ziliak v. James Key, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-evaluation court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-timeliness mental-health procedural-standards sentencing standing |
Why was my case denied due to being submitted after the timebar date when another court ruled that it was submitted in a timely manner?
why was I sen… |
| 22-6453 |
Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing |
reneged on the plea bargain.
Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced.
Whether a restitution h… |
| 22-6460 |
Davonte DeJean v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible?
Was… |
| 22-607 |
Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue… |
| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Whether it was procedurally and substantively reasonable for the
sentencing court to a) recite statutory sentencing rationale by rote
recitation wi… |
| 22-6431 |
Philip Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion |
(1) Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandated … |
| 22-6436 |
Timothy D. Robertson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-petition prior-conviction reversal sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
1). Did Petitioner Robertson Establish and Show "Cause" for filing a Successive Post Conviction Petition by Advancing an Overwhelmingly Substantial "M… |
| 22-6418 |
Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree
Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose… |
| 22-6420 |
Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6421 |
Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence |
Whether, in cases where a party seeks appellate relief on the ground that a district court has considered unreliable information, the district court m… |
| 22-6422 |
Richard Bernard Nichols v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6423 |
Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms police-power |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-598 |
Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness |
Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an… |
| 22-6408 |
Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority |
Is the state of Michigan in the Absence of Statutory Authority.
See 18 U.S.C. 9 3584 (a)
Petitioner was Already subject to the state sentences.
Petiti… |
| 22-6395 |
Bryan Wolfe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure |
Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 22-6400 |
José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether my claim is propperly presented under 28 USC § 1331 which is jurisdiction on all civil actions.
2. Whether 42 U S. Code § 2000dd is still … |
| 22-593 |
United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (5) |
civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-6389 |
Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-6391 |
Nonami Palomares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 22-6392 |
Adam Tello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard |
Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United … |
| 22-583 |
Evan Greebel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as "earnings" subject to the CCPA's… |
| 22-578 |
Richard Behar v. Department of Homeland Security |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-records appellate-procedure confidentiality foia-exemption-7c freedom-of-information-act party-presentation-principle presidential-administration privacy-interests statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether documents obtained and used by a federal agency in the legitimate conduct of its official duties are not "agency records" and thus never su… |
| 22-582 |
United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) an… |
| 22-6377 |
Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits |
①Dd Court hae tunisdieton to Amend are-charge
then
re- sentence again years Later to an expired sentence?
martin recieved (45) duy time serve April 29… |
| 22-6379 |
Leetavious Gaines v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 22-6380 |
Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1.) Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the
rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
(a) The C… |
| 22-6386 |
Frank Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a
defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments. |
| 22-6388 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether a defendant's fundamental right to equal protection of the laws was infringed where the appellate courts' construction of a statute contravene… |
| 22-6359 |
Leonid Gershman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity |
Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6364 |
Fairly W. Earls v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-sentence |
I. Whether Earls should have to serve the same Federal Sentence a Second Time. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated Ear… |
| 22-6372 |
Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-572 |
Robert M. Glen v. Trip Advisor LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims |
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, 22 U.S.C. § 6081 et seq., is a broad remedial statute that authorizes U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated… |
| 22-6334 |
Joey Faught v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit |
Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk, while he was a State of Tennessee prisoner, asking to be transferred to federal custody to a… |
| 22-6345 |
Jeffrey Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit |
I. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a "controlled substan… |
| 22-6347 |
Manuel Alejandro Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 bastide-hernandez-v-united-states due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law nix-chaves-v-barr notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of… |
| 22-6329 |
Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
In United States v. Jones, 574 U.S. 948 (2014), three justices urged the Court to grant certiorari to answer the question left open in Rita v. United … |
| 22-6337 |
Lonnie Charles Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-558 |
Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?
2. Is a law t… |
| 22-559 |
Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's "intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]" of CMI… |
| 22-6317 |
Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6318 |
Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6323 |
Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of … |
| 22-6324 |
Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion and misconstrue the law in determining that the Bureau of Prisons' failure to manage Mr. Hernandez's sever… |
| 22-6307 |
John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I.
W… |
| 22-6308 |
Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6309 |
Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6314 |
Ramiro Leal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6315 |
Iklas Richard Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent |
1. In United States v. Rehaif, _ U.S. ___, 189 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court
acknowledged the presumption in favor of scienter — that criminal statute… |
| 22-6300 |
Edman Castro-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure due-process indictment recidivism recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
L. Whether the government's failure to allege a prior conviction necessary to support a statutory recidivism enhancement violated Mr. Castro's right "… |
| 22-6302 |
Selvin Omar Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 22-6303 |
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed a… |
| 22-542 |
Tavaris Betts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act. |
| 22-538 |
William F. Nored, et ux., as Conservators, Parents, and Next Friends of William F. Nored, Jr. v. Tennessee Department of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights developmental-disabilities government-liability intellectual-disabilities medicaid-act nondelegable-duty statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities has a nondelegable duty to enforce The Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.C. §1396, … |
| 22-6288 |
Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max |
Whether in a RICO conspiracy case the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the sta… |
| 22-6281 |
Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of th… |
| 22-6262 |
Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
by Summarily Affirmance of Petitioner Patel's 2241 Writ of Hab… |
| 22-6264 |
Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1998), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now Auer deference, applies to interpretive or explanat… |
| 22-6266 |
Earl Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6256 |
Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in
2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing
law and also created a new cri… |
| 22-6261 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
This Court has made clear that any fact, other than prior conviction, that increases the statutory range of punishment, must be found by a jury to hav… |
| 22-6267 |
Mack Doak v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c), which criminalizes "cross[ing]a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who… |
| 22-6234 |
Rex Gainey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-law covid-19 covid-19-impact district-court-discretion habeas-corpus prison-law-library pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Should district courts adopt an approach that allows for the holistic consideration of all the circumstances accompanying a petitioner's late filing w… |
| 22-6237 |
Orlando Dean Hobbs v. Clinton Bryant |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearm-rights habeas-corpus restoration-of-rights statutory-interpretation |
Was the Habeas Corpus in this case Effectively Suspended in this case? when the officers of the courts knew the petitioner's civil rights were restore… |
| 22-6247 |
Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6253 |
Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review |
1. Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an
appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of
a single q… |
| 22-6225 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 18USC 10), apply to 18USC 722(c)(G)?
(2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Con… |
| 22-6226 |
James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court |
Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion petitioner habeas corpus petition on "Presumption Of Correctness" an mandate… |
| 22-6228 |
Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 22-6231 |
William Dustin Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-523 |
Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
circuit-conflict climate-change climate-change-litigation federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal federal-preemption greenhouse-gas-emissions jurisdictional-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation transboundary-pollution |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442 precludes removal by federal officers and persons acting under them unless the … |
| 22-6216 |
Jonny Shineflew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a… |
| 22-6217 |
Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing |
This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,… |
| 22-6218 |
Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6220 |
Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6209 |
Mayeli Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony |
1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness… |
| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-6211 |
In Re Patricia Ann Solomon |
|
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs |
As per Honorable Justice Breyer's opinion in the new United States Supreme Court ruling XIULU RUAN v. UNITED STATES No. 20-1410. Argued March 1, 2022 … |
| 22-512 |
Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p… |
| 22-6188 |
Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. Bo Thorpe, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6194 |
Jordan Huff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
1. Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is a double-barreled crime that, at least in the
context of aiding and abetting, requires proof both of a defendant's acti… |
| 22-6201 |
In Re Arthur James Lomax |
|
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws |
Is it true that the Colorado Constitution specifies that the General Assembly of the State of Colorado? Colo. Const. art.V.8 18.
Is the Colorado Cour… |
| 22-6179 |
Brandon J. Office v. Marcus Myers |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
charging-document constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence motion-to-correct sentencing |
1. Was the Petitioner entitled to Habeas Corpus Relief, where the Petitioner properly raised a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence ?
2. Was the Pet… |
| 22-6182 |
Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion liberty-interest procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) An important Question in the Administration of Justice, which has the potential to effect a large number of american citizens, is: "Does the U.S. … |
| 22-508 |
John O. Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-371 conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud criminal-law criminal-prosecution defraud-the-united-states federal-agency internal-revenue-service jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
In a series of decisions from this Court, the reach and scope of conspiracies to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 were define… |
| 22-6164 |
Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judgment restitution sentencing |
1. Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar a restitution order entered ninety-nine days after Petitioner's sentence began and after entr… |
| 22-6166 |
Raymond Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on … |
| 22-6168 |
Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6157 |
Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review |
WHy Have All other Courts ignored the Plea bargain
(1
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And Procedures Afforded to me, As my
Faulf 1is Mot
raiseing the issue earlier?
2.
Why wa… |
| 22-495 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change climate-injury federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-impact |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused… |
| 22-497 |
Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-28 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?
2. Is a l… |
| 22-6148 |
Larry James Bradley v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
(1) WHETHER PETITIONER IS PROPERLY DETAILED AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO?
(2) WHETHER FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION §775.0… |
| 22-6149 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
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| 22-6151 |
Demon Reese v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6130 |
Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-6132 |
Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-6137 |
Bryan Thornton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1.) The question presented here is the same as that presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court granted certiorari on S… |
| 22-6138 |
Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
bh pid the Gort of pepeals fp the Eight Cikwuit, South cn Piswier oF Towa, abuse its diduetin by vhlizing the Cer wero Feendeg guidelines, whi dh phim… |
| 22-6141 |
Eric Lamont Wade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act section-404(c) sentence-reduction sentencing |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to comply
with Section 404 (c) of the First Step Act of 2018, ensurin… |
| 22-484 |
Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law administrative-review board-determination civil-rights due-process federalism fiscal-plan legislative-oversight promesa puerto-rico-sovereignty statutory-interpretation territorial-self-rule |
1. What standard of review governs a district court's evaluation of the Board's determination that Puerto Rican legislation "would impair or defeat th… |
| 22-485 |
Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v… |
| 22-6115 |
Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in… |
| 22-6117 |
Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are … |
| 22-6125 |
Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6095 |
Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction |
Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset… |
| 22-6104 |
Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Af… |
| 22-6109 |
Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit… |
| 22-6110 |
Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration… |
| 22-6111 |
In Re Katrese Nickelson |
|
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-sealing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard motion-to-quash service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandate |
1. Whether Assembly Bill No.2819 's mandatory automatic and permanent case
sealing requirements in limited unlawful detainer cases extends to sealing… |
| 22-471 |
Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards |
Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws "relating to" the "subject matters" expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state… |
| 22-463 |
Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in suits against foreign sovereign defendants under the FSIA, courts may dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds when a statutory exception t… |
| 22-466 |
Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde… |
| 22-6062 |
Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of "organize" within the context of … |
| 22-6066 |
Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority |
QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant
the verdict of the jury on punishment?
QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court … |
| 22-6072 |
Randy Belcher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-6076 |
Joseph Rauber v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation |
The federal sentencing statute contains a "safety valve" that protects defendants from mandatory minimum sentences if they meet certain criteria. 18 U… |
| 22-6082 |
In Re George W. Buford, III |
|
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
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| 22-447 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California |
California |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law |
1. Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq., and False Advertising… |
| 22-451 |
Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (83)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law agency-power chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management maritime-regulation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-silence |
1. Whether, under a proper application of Chevron, the MSA implicitly grants NMFS the power to force domestic vessels to pay the salaries of the monit… |
| 22-453 |
Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation |
Article 6 of the United States -South Korea
Extradition Trea ty ("Treaty") provides that
"[e]xtradition may be denied under this Treaty when
the pr… |
| 22-448 |
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (30)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-funding constitutional-law consumer-financial-protection-bureau judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-funding statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 12 U.S.C. 5497, v… |
| 22-6047 |
Juan Teran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6048 |
Martin Robinson v. Tom Schweitzer, Warden |
Ohio |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-decision property-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6038 |
Gabriel Mangum v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-751 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy escape-from-custody fifth-amendment residential-reentry-center statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether Petitioner's 5" Amendment Double Jeopardy rights were violated when he was punished twice for the same conduct, to wit: Escape from Custody… |
| 22-6039 |
Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations |
Two FBI agents, posing as two parents and their unrealistically precocious 11-year-old child, convinced Kimbrell that the child was desperately wantin… |
| 22-6042 |
Ryan Hayes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing |
I. Whether considerations of equal protection and due process required
the First Circuit to entertain Mr. Hayes' appeal where Mr. Hayes had
not challe… |
| 22-6043 |
Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-439 |
Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th… |
| 22-434 |
Slade Alan Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of "harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, … |
| 22-430 |
Charles Barton v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern |
In Snyder v. Phelps, this Court held that speech on matters of public concern cannot be punished "simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt,"… |
| 22-6013 |
Damian Robert Guthary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error arising from his guilty plea under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) where the… |
| 22-6017 |
Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing |
(1) DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A
C… |
| 22-6020 |
John M. Esposito v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federalism legal-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
IS THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PROSECUTING AND CONVICTING U.S. CITIZENS UNDER § 794.011, FLORIDA STATUTES, A VOID… |
| 22-6022 |
Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 22-6028 |
John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In 1992, the elderly parents created a Trust. Controversy arose when the
petitioner had a child which extended the life of the trust to the year 2036.… |
| 22-5998 |
Jeffrey Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors |
1) Whether due process is violated when, in the event a defendant
submits mitigating evidence in a rule 35 (b) resentencing that has a
connection to… |
| 22-6002 |
Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are "grievously" ambiguous.
2. Whether the full C… |
| 22-6004 |
Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clemency clemency-services court-order due-process habeas habeas-petition indigent-capital-defendants mental-health mental-health-crisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts are required by McFarland v. Scott, 512 U.S. 848 (1994), to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of… |
| 22-6006 |
Justin Richard Testani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity |
1. Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences when Mr. Testani never had physical contact w… |
| 22-425 |
Robin Carnahan, Administrator of the General Services Administration v. Carolyn Maloney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (7) |
5-usc-2954 article-iii-standing civil-procedure congress-members congressional-oversight disclosure-request executive-agency information-disclosure separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether individual Members of Congress have Article III standing to sue an executive agency to compel it to disclose information that the Members have… |
| 22-5990 |
Leroy Brooks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons judicial-review sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's motion for compassionate release/reduction in sentence. |
| 22-5993 |
Malik Ross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona… |
| 22-5981 |
Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5982 |
Richard Allen Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), which includes
felony murder, a crime of violence within the meaning of the force
clause of 18 U.… |
| 22-5987 |
Anessa R. Fierro and Willie T. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-arson-statute lopez-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Is the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), unconstitutional? |
| 22-5970 |
David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a … |
| 22-5977 |
Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5979 |
Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness |
1. Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all … |
| 22-413 |
Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law |
1. Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22-415 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
(1) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment?
(2) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is unconstitutiona… |
| 22-5958 |
Raul Tovar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5962 |
Marquis Donte Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review post-booker-hearing safety-valve sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRIC T COURT ERRED BY IMPOSING AN
UNLAW FUL SEN TENCE CONTRARY TO THE MANDATES OF § 3553(a)
AND §3553(f)(5) WHICH PRECLUDE USE OF IN… |
| 22-5936 |
Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
1. Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal c… |
| 22-5948 |
Brett W. Cormier v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution |
DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE ART. I, SECT. 10 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN IT IMPAIRED THE OBLIGATION OF PETITIONER'S CONTRACTS BY CHARG… |
| 22-5949 |
Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5950 |
Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5951 |
Cavon C. Clark v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal concurrent-sentence consecutive-sentence criminal-appeal due-process recidivism recidivist-enhancement resentencing sentencing vindictiveness |
1. Must a "more severe" sentence of incarceration be numerically longer than the sentences of incarceration previously imposed; and if not
2. Ata thi… |
| 22-401 |
Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management |
Does ANILCA, which sought to preserve the
State's traditional police powers over wildlife, grant
federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state
l… |
| 22-402 |
James Vorley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "… |
| 22-398 |
Marcos F. Santiago v. J. C. Streeval |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-status knowledge-requirement post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-relief |
Whether a felon who has spent less than a year in custody is entitled to a presumption that he lacked knowledge of his felon status and therefore, abs… |
| 22-5934 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-due-process covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act health-conditions judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-modification sentencing-reform sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5940 |
Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing |
WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO DENY SOLIS' MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE? |
| 22-5942 |
David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As reasonable jurors would have disagreed that the Felony Murder Statute as applied to this Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying this Petitioner hi… |
| 22-5929 |
Juan Salvador Cordova-Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing immigration minor standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unaccompanied-minor |
I. Did the district court abuse its discretion in applying the 4-level enhancement
for transporting an unaccompanied minor under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(4… |
| 22-5930 |
Davon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni… |
| 22-5911 |
Clark Wesley Betts, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review merits merits-review procedural-order statutory-interpretation |
Is a certificate of appealability needed to appeal an order unrelated to the merits of a habeas proceeding if that order is part of an order on the me… |
| 22-5912 |
William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5914 |
Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5918 |
Tommy Allen Dickenson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute
(18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5920 |
Jesse Brewer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5902 |
Monica Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5889 |
Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5891 |
Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's
failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a c… |
| 22-5894 |
Terrence Gibbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing-law federal-statute judicial-discretion retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-law |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal sentencing law, which dramatically altered sentencing exposure for those later sentenced, comprise "extraor… |
| 22-5895 |
Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits |
Where a state structured-sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the structured-sentencing ra… |
| 22-5875 |
Bryan Protho v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3509 child-victim closed-circuit-testimony criminal-procedure district-court district-court-procedure statutory-interpretation testimony two-way-closed-circuit-television witness-testimony |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3509 requires a district court to question a child victim
on the record before to introducing the child victim 's testimony at tri… |
| 22-5881 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether Trencie Oliver's sentence imposed as to his offenses is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of th… |
| 22-5882 |
Allen Calligan v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informal-plea-offer plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing sixth-amendment |
Mr. Calligan alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to inform him of an informal plea offer made by the prosecutor, which would ha… |
| 22-5886 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-chapter-5 article-iii balzac-v-porto-rico court-jurisdiction district-court judicial-power mookini-v-united-states statutory-interpretation territorial-court |
United States Supreme Court in two cases: Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1921) and Mookini v. United States, 303 U.S. 201 (1938) made it clear th… |
| 22-5887 |
Joseph Michael DeGraw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-construction section-2254 section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Courts should, sua sponte, construe a state prisoner's pro se filed pleadings, in 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 proceedings, citing the w… |
| 22-374 |
Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (5) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard |
Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to
have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law
can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 22-5876 |
Surprise Emmanuel Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-authority felon-in-possession felon-possession national-federation-v-sebelius police-power statutory-interpretation substantial-effect |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5878 |
William D. King v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
When, whether deciding if a defendant has presented an "extraordinary and
compelling" reason for a sentence modification under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(… |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 22-5869 |
Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5870 |
Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double je… |
| 22-5868 |
Chad Alan Cappiello v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5847 |
Lindsey Orr v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
WHEN ARE THE SECTION 3553 (d) FACTORS SATISFIED?
THE 3553 OPINION JUSTIFIED BASED UPON?
THE COMPLETION OF THE TERM OF IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFIED FROM … |
| 22-5854 |
Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing |
1. Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. G… |
| 22-5859 |
Marcal Fraction v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 22-5865 |
Charles Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Smith's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is… |
| 22-360 |
Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
1. Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permi… |
| 22-361 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate gre… |
| 22-5825 |
Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, … |
| 22-5826 |
Alonzo Peters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony |
L. Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking
conspiracy must be vacated where the defendant had no commercial
association … |
| 22-5828 |
DeShaun Bullock v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitt… |
| 22-5836 |
Laquan Kyle Duane Shakespeare v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583k consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy due-process mandatory-minimum marks-doctrine marks-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
1. Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment imposed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) is valid in light of … |
| 22-5832 |
Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-sentencing cumulation due-process legislative-intent sentence-cumulation statutory-interpretation texas-law texas-legislature trial-court |
Was respondent denied due process of law when the trial court cumulated
respondent 's two twenty year sentences when the law in effect enacted by the
… |
| 22-5835 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-confession plea-bargaining sentencing |
should the Cincuit Rehaif r U.s that allows split held in stipolatiow waiving all the elements 9922(1) 2 be held coutnolling a credible clain of despi… |
| 22-348 |
Floyd Tayler v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity |
Must the jury, in deciding whether a defendant has committed the domestic violence pattern aggravator, RCW 9.94A.535 (3) (h) (i), be instructed that t… |
| 22-339 |
Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the AKS is violated only if the person offering the "remuneration * * * to induce" the purchase of federally reimbursed healthcare intends to … |
| 22-340 |
Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-5810 |
Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5811 |
Matthew Poulin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve (12) months considering the circumstances of the case?
II. Whether the special… |
| 22-333 |
U.S. Well Services, Inc. v. Scott Easom, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causal-connection covid-19 employment-law mass-layoff natural-disaster plant-closing statutory-interpretation warn-act |
(1) Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception, 29 U.S.C. § 2102(b)(2)(B)?
(2) What causal connectio… |
| 22-331 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion |
Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice," 8 U.S.C. 1101… |
| 22-5793 |
Thomas A. Forrest, et ux. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code judicial-precedent military-benefits military-retirees statutory-interpretation tax tax-recovery |
1. Whether the Supreme Court erred in their interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code in United States v. Brockamp, 519 U.S. 347 (1997) by disallowi… |
| 22-5780 |
James F. Snyder v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5782 |
Matthew Tassin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may … |
| 22-327 |
Confederación Hípica de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. v. Confederación de Jinetes Puertorriqueños, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law concerted-action employer-employee-relationship employment employment-relationship independent-contractors labor-dispute labor-exemption statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory labor exemption from the operation of the antitrust laws, which exempts "labor dispute[s]" that "concern[] terms or conditions o… |
| 22-319 |
Saloojas, Inc. v. Aetna Health of California, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cares-act congressional-intent diagnostic-testing healthcare-reimbursement private-remedy private-right-of-action reimbursement statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress have an implicit intent to create a private remedy in favor of diagnostic testing providers for full reimbursement under the CARES Act? |
| 22-320 |
Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-666 circuit-court-interpretation federal-program-fraud intentional-misapplication kelly-v-united-states property-deprivation prosecutorial-scope regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the elements of the offense of federal program fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A) differ under a theory of intentional misapplication and st… |
| 22-5765 |
Ryanne Parker, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, N. P. v. West Carroll Special School District |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights damages disabilities-education-act exhaustion-of-remedies rehabilitation-act remedies statutory-interpretation |
In the Handicapped Children 's Protection Act of 1986 (HCPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1415(1), it requires the exhaustion of state administrative remedies under t… |
| 22-5768 |
Issa Battle v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
1) What is the Supreme Court's interpretation of the "knowingly" element required under 18 U.S.C. §924(a)(2) in felon in possession of a firearm cases… |
| 22-5769 |
Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5771 |
Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5751 |
Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE KNOWINGLY ELEMENT APPLY TO U.S.C. $921 (a)(20)?
DOES A STIPULATION AT THE TIME OF TRIAL THAT A DEFENDANT HAD AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST CQMIT… |
| 22-5758 |
Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5762 |
Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved
from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T? |
| 22-5720 |
Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco… |
| 22-5730 |
Quincy Campbell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to one twenty (120) months in light of the circumstances of the case ?
II. Whether th… |
| 22-5734 |
Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from … |
| 22-5740 |
Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5743 |
Timothy Love v. California |
California |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
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| 22-5712 |
Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appeal to the Petitioner [Edmond Morgan]?
2. Should … |
| 22-5695 |
Christopher Eric Poore v. California |
California |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-6th-14th-amendments aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 22-5704 |
Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-sentencing judicial-misconduct procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-modification |
Is Buzzard's judgment and Sentence void and invalid on the face due to the handwritten "fraudulent interlineations" on the face by the sentencing Judg… |
| 22-5692 |
Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof |
Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o… |
| 22-5693 |
Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a
controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced
punishment o… |
| 22-5701 |
Terry Wayne Cope v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing |
A. Does the precedent that "a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine does not pr… |
| 22-286 |
Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. May the court of appeals override the parties' factual
stipulation crucial to petitioners' right to recover,
contrary to this Court's precedents as… |
| 22-281 |
Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation |
1. Under Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law
("SDNL"), a parent-child relationship can be
permanently severed (1) with less notice than is
requir… |
| 22-5673 |
Juan Amaya Lozano v. Fredrick Entzel, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights limited-english-proficiency sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
1) Whether the District Court abused it's discretion after ruling that Juan Lozano, (a limited English Proficiency defendant), required a Spanish Inte… |
| 22-5677 |
Michael Louis McCarron v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen… |
| 22-5664 |
Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-modification medical-records mental-health statutory-interpretation |
DID THE ALTERATION OF THE RECEIVING HOSPTIAL REPORT BY JUDGE BURKE AS MANDATED BY MINN. STAT. § 253B.12 (1990) VIOLATE SUBSTANTIVE LAW? |
| 22-5669 |
Robert Carrasco Gamez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5650 |
In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey |
|
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
should this court isr s lowik toGrant alrit of Haks Corpus Jo a Moorish AMKican SovErig Man wHo has No wvaila forum to raiss his Comlilling clam of Di… |
| 22-5659 |
Donovan Moenell Williams v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-process case-jurisdiction civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-filing scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5660 |
Jon Anthony Terry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
1. May a District Court at sentencing, find a defendant "non-indigent" for the purposes of 18 USC 3014(e), based upon past income and a hypothetical "… |
| 22-5665 |
Geoffrie Dill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does "controlled substance offense", as that term is used in U.S.S.G. §4B1.1 and defined by U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(b), refer only to those controlled substan… |
| 22-272 |
Livingston County Road Commission v. Gould Electronics, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
|
cercla cercla-liability due-care environmental-law groundwater-contamination innocent-landowner property-liability reasonable-steps statutory-defense statutory-interpretation third-party-defense |
The questions for this Court are:
1. How is the term "due care" defined for purposes of the 42 U.S.C. §9607(b)(3) "third-party defense" in relation t… |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word "established," as used in FACA, be construed in accord with its "plain" meaning (as the Eleventh Circuit held) or should be it constru… |
| 22-5637 |
Dwayne Stone v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether crimes of physical inaction have "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of … |
| 22-5638 |
Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5639 |
Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-5641 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
charging-instrument constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-reasonableness sixth-amendment |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution by allowing an i… |
| 22-5643 |
Derek Lee Casey, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5612 |
Luis F. Gomez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility |
Does improper vouching by a prosecutor to the jury rise to a level of reversal in accordance with the 5th Amendment and unduly prejudice the defendant… |
| 22-5614 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision retroactive-application standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5621 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat |
Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by
the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker
subjectively k… |
| 22-5625 |
Orville Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary … |
| 22-5626 |
James Earl Jones v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
1: (A) WHETHER THE TERM "ON ANOTHER" AS UTILIZED IN N.J.S.A.
2C:14-2(a)(3) APPLY or (B) WHETHER N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(6)
CONTROL IN PETITIONER 'S CASE… |
| 22-5628 |
In Re Tony Walker |
|
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether The April 24, 2004 Standings Order of The Court of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. § 1503(b) and 28 U.S.C. § 1658?
2. W… |
| 22-5634 |
Nelson Jean Dion v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262, which c… |
| 22-262 |
Berkley V. Walker v. BOKF, National Association, dba Bank of Albuquerque, N.A. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12-cfr-7.4001 administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review national-bank-act overdraft-fees regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
When an account holder at Respondent BOKF, N.A. ("the Bank") overdraws their account and the Bank covers the shortfall by extending its own money, the… |
| 22-265 |
Christopher N. Caputo v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitral-awards arbitration-law contractual-forfeiture contractual-provisions federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-violations |
1. Whether this Court's public policy exception is inapplicable to an arbitral award enforcing contractual provisions that are expressly illegal, void… |
| 22-5603 |
Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5606 |
Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5607 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. Mr. Hansen, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine federal-rules-civil-procedure filing houston-v-lack notice notice-of-judgment pro-se pro-se-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Houston v. Lack — was based on equity or the interpretation of the word filed?
2. Whether district courts may pres… |
| 22-5610 |
Andre Thompson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5597 |
Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5598 |
Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-5599 |
Denzell Russell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
2. Have the courts … |
| 22-5601 |
Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-claims-act free-speech healthcare-liability medicaid-reimbursement ninth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5585 |
Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE STATE AGENCY CAN REQUIRE THAT FUTURE SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS PREMATURELY APPLY FOR REDUCED… |
| 22-5586 |
Lori Ann Robles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-review mandatory-guidelines rita-v-united-states sentencing velson-v-united-states |
1. Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming Petitioner's sentence of 360 months, based on an importa… |
| 22-5589 |
Carrie Helen Fine v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-challenge appeals constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment drug-statutes due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal state-law |
I. Whether the affirmation of the Appellant Court (that it was proper for trial court to deny Fine's
Motions for judgment of Acquittal) was correct.
… |
| 22-5591 |
Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law |
When is an individual regarded as having or percieved to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). 42 U.S.C.… |
| 22-5575 |
Ronald Mickel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 22-5557 |
David Laurence Hodges v. William Bolin, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 22-5566 |
Randly Irvin Begay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force |
As this Court held in Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), an offense must necessarily entail the targeted use of force against another to… |
| 22-5567 |
Lamar Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the
Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to… |
| 22-5568 |
Douglas Gordon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct |
Whether the First Circuit correctly determined that the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully for t… |
| 22-5576 |
Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-5577 |
Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
(2) WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-5522 |
Fernando Cazares v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict pinkerton-conspiracy section-241 section-245 sentencing violent-crime |
Did the court of appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability where the application presented three debatable questions: First, the … |
| 22-5551 |
Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5553 |
Rafael Villagomez-Troche v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 administrative-law court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction |
Whether service of a "notice to appear" that complies with
8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1) is required to vest jurisdiction in an
immigration court over removal… |
| 22-5558 |
Vince Edward LaSane v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that Jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a minor w… |
| 22-5562 |
Christopher Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-step-act government-response judicial-discretion misinformation reply section-404 sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether Petitioner was denied his due process rights when the district court granted his Section 404 of the First Step Act motion, but imposed upward … |
| 22-225 |
Leopoldo Mendoza-Gomez v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Individually and Successor-in-Interest to Southern Pacific Transportation Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Dismissed |
|
asbestos-exposure cancer disease-claims existing-controversy federal-employers-liability-act fela future-liability railroad-liability release statutory-interpretation |
Whether a release of an "existing controversy" that also purports to exempt a railroad from future liability for legally distinct claims for diseases … |
| 22-227 |
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin |
First Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 22-220 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives |
The Railway Labor Act ("RLA") prohibits carriers from interfering with their employees' "choice of representatives." 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third. Union Paci… |
| 22-5540 |
David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights |
Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 22-5521 |
Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law |
Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able… |
| 22-5532 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether "generic robbery" is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition? |
| 22-5533 |
Dario Pinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY CONSIDER THE APPROPRIATE FACTORS PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) BEFORE DENYING MR. PINSON'S MOTION F… |
| 22-5534 |
Glenn A. Chin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 |
1. Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a… |
| 22-5538 |
Kepa Maumau v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation |
Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" … |
| 22-208 |
Benoit Brookens v. LaRhonda Gamble, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-regulation labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act labor-union-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the DC Circuit is bound by the Federal Regulation 29 CFR 458.1 General Subpart A-Substantive Requirements interpreting 29 U.S.C. Sec. 411 Conc… |
| 22-209 |
Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
|
cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase "an event or occurrence" in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—"a single happening"—as the Ninth Circuit holds,… |
| 22-214 |
Allana Baroni v. David Seror, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-property-title chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 conversion debtor-rights estate-property ninth-circuit-interpretation property statutory-interpretation title |
Because Congress stated in clear language that a confirmed Chapter 11 debtor retains title to property after her plan is confirmed, did the Ninth Circ… |
| 22-203 |
Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended
IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) to all grounds
that reasonably could have been raised in the… |
| 22-5515 |
Jose Agapito Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
At The Federal Level After The District Court Receives An Ordered Response From The Government To A Federal Prisoner's Petition For Habeas Corpus Reli… |
| 22-5507 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
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| 22-5511 |
Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5514 |
Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Supreme Cort overturn it's own precedent
in Rehaf v. United States 139 S. Ct 2191, 20t L. Ed 594
2o1g), where this Cort decided … |
| 22-5503 |
Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons… |
| 22-5483 |
In Re Frank Michael Monte |
|
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration sentencing |
1. Constitutionality of Petitioner's incarceration. |
| 22-5489 |
Under Seal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven… |
| 22-5491 |
John Michael Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-5492 |
William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony |
(1) Is it abuse of false evidence to convict a petitioner for a crime, where there has never been any proof of deception that does use / in this case?… |
| 22-5496 |
Vance L. White v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Can H)t Tudyz modipy the. essentiac elements set Qonth In the /'ndittment cn~ the. Plea CoUoquy?
Coin -the. Court Armnd M indictment- (oithout dAt te… |
| 22-195 |
Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation |
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers may be subject to civil liability if they interfere with their employees' exercise of the ri… |
| 22-193 |
Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer … |
| 22-5469 |
Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-5474 |
Romney Christopher Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communication-offense criminal-sentencing harassment intent-to-carry-out overt-acts sentencing sentencing-guidelines threat-enhancement threatening-communications u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2a6.1(b)(1) |
Whether, in sentencing in cases involving threatening or harassing communications, the six-level offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2A6.1(b)(1… |
| 22-5477 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this … |
| 22-5480 |
Manuel Ralios-Chajal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 22-5466 |
Leonard Andrew v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
significant intellectual deficit and reduced ment criminal-sentencing downward-departure intellectual-deficit judicial-discretion mental-capacity reduced-mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines USSG-5H1.3 USSG-5K2.13 |
Whether a sentencing court must meaningfully address a defendant's request for a downward departure pursuant to USSG §§ 5H1.3 and 5K2.13 when he has a… |
| 22-5468 |
Benjamin Lawrence Petty v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5470 |
Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5472 |
Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation |
In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which provided for a mandatory life without parole sentence for drug offenders who distributed very … |
| 22-185 |
Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award |
1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro… |
| 22-179 |
United States v. Helaman Hansen |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against
encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v… |
| 22-5454 |
Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 22-5456 |
Min Jeong Kim v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5459 |
Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5445 |
Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5446 |
Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the
right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in his … |
| 22-5449 |
Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5430 |
Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION ERRED.
PEPPER V. UNITED STATES,
IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT
PRECEDENT OF UNITED S
1108-111S(6T… |
| 22-5437 |
Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5440 |
Joseph Griego v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor |
Petitioners Griego and Romero ask this Court to address whether Hobbs Act robbery is a qualifying crime of violence under § 924(c). The statutory elem… |
| 22-5441 |
Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 22-5443 |
Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation |
Reason For Question #1
There exist a ConFliat Among United States Circuit Counts
On Whether the Immenent Danger oF 28 U.S.C. 3 1915(g) aPPly
to at the… |
| 22-5427 |
Jade Christian Nichols v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-163 |
Lenair Moses v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 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… |
| 22-5417 |
Charles E. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer |
Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-5418 |
Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad… |
| 22-5419 |
Erika Jacobs v. Geisinger Wyoming Medical Center |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5421 |
Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5422 |
Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE SENTENCING JUDGE VIOLATED COOPER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY DETERMINE ANY FACT THAT INCREASED THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN HIS CAS… |
| 22-5394 |
Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as
relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is
imperm… |
| 22-5396 |
Timothy J. Hill v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law mcgirt-case native-american-rights oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-ruling |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling. |
| 22-5399 |
John Afriyie v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation |
Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act ("MVRA") requires a criminal defendant convicted of a wide variety of offenses to:
reimburse … |
| 22-5400 |
Maurice D. Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 22-5401 |
Ivan R. Begay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Did U.S. District Court of Arizona, Judge Rosemblath have authority to impose a 302 month Sentence, under 5K2.3 without evidence and 5K2.8. to support… |
| 22-5402 |
Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5404 |
Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5405 |
Perry Sawano v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits
the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing
court… |
| 22-5406 |
Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California |
California |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 makes possessing certain drugs while armed a felony. Because mere misdemeanor drug possession is a n… |
| 22-5354 |
Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion |
The facts, issues, and eudeace relates to Lace A Juvenile Lifec*s DecertiFitarion(Jrunstec) deescrou ace celévaatto Said Juvenile Likees re sentencing… |
| 22-5383 |
Lynn M. Giovanni v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense diminished-capacity guilty-plea ineffective-assistance insanity-defense psychiatric-evaluation sentencing sentencing-mitigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington withdrawal |
DOES THE ACTION/INACTION OF DEFENSE COUNSEL, IN FAILING TO UTILIZE OR UNDER-UTILIZING THE FAVORABLE PSYCHATRIC REPORTS COMPILED FOR THE DEFENSE IN ASS… |
| 22-5387 |
Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5389 |
Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5391 |
Lin Ouyang v. Mark A. Borenstein, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process final-judgment mandamus procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
District Court dismissed petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claim finding no violations of judgment debtors' procedural Due Process right under the Fourteen… |
| 22-5365 |
David Steve Elias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing |
I. After Mr. Elias's plea but before his sentencing, the First Step Act amended § 924(c)(1) to clarify that the consecutive mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 22-5378 |
Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering
mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5361 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory Construction case.
Whether a Plea of Jurisdiction extends to Respondents ' f… |
| 22-5347 |
In Re Charles Edward Jones, Sr. |
|
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5348 |
Clarence Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing |
1) Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge.
2) Whether the district court erred b… |
| 22-5349 |
Leopoldo Pacheco-Apodaca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5353 |
Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5355 |
Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age |
I. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422(b) or 1591(a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim giv… |
| 22-139 |
Sari Alqsous v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 22-5336 |
Brian Scott Berryman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-decisions criminal-law due-process federalism judicial-law legislative-intent public-interests standing statutory-construction |
1. A STATE COURT hAS dECidEd aN ImportANt fEDeRAl quEstiON iN AWAY
that Conflicts with relEvANt decisions of this CouRt AND THE
UNITED STATES COURT OF… |
| 22-5337 |
Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5338 |
Chikosi Legins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001.
II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 22-5341 |
Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1) Did the State Violate Supreme Court precedent of Apprendi v. New Jersey and Alleyne v. United States by having a sentencing judge not the jury make… |
| 22-5342 |
Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5326 |
Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 22-5328 |
Justin Michael Tyson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5318 |
Samuel Francis White Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
1) Does a conviction for Tampering with Evidence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(1) require a jury to find that the natural and probable effect of… |
| 22-5321 |
William S. Divine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19
safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of
§2… |
| 22-5325 |
Malcolm Bernard Benson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-registry due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5305 |
Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion |
The Defendant, Aileen Kogera Njoroge, hereinafter "Kogera " appeals her conviction following a jury trial held on October 13th through October 16, 202… |
| 22-5312 |
Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment |
(1) When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, according to state and clearly
established federal law as determined by this co… |
| 22-5316 |
Antwan Criswell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 18-usc-3262 court-congestion dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-delay speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Since the presimption of prejudice exists in a Speedy Trial Violation under 18 U.S.C. §3262, and the Sanction is Dismissal with Prejudice for said vio… |
| 22-5261 |
Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5303 |
George Daniel McGavitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A). |
| 22-118 |
Marquis Shaw v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (12) |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts |
(1) Do either the Jury Clauses of Article III and
the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of
the Fifth Amendment bar a court from imposing a
mor… |
| 22-111 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-5281 |
Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus as the issue was one of law instead it applied R… |
| 22-5292 |
Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5294 |
Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
1 [QUESTION ONE]: DOES THIS COURT HAVE [JURISDICTION & POWER]-
TO GRANT CERTIORARI-EXCUSED LIMITION BAR AN CORRECT FUNDAMETAL
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE… |
| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
State sentencing law determines the statutory maximum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a) for a RICO conviction based on a racketeering activity that i… |
| 22-5270 |
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
What is "inadequate or ineffective" to file a Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s Savings Clause? |
| 22-5278 |
Jordan Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of an-other person by force or by intimidat… |
| 22-110 |
Julian D. Schmidt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the ambiguous phrase "in the presence of a child" require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of phy… |
| 22-5264 |
Cody Gober v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence |
Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated by the failure of the trial court to address, first at sentencing and then in a post-se… |
| 22-5265 |
Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level |
Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5269 |
Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing |
Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G… |
| 22-99 |
Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
In 2012, the Government expropriated the net worth of private companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by arrogating for itself the Companies' earnings … |
| 22-96 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea… |
| 22-5192 |
Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5234 |
Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5235 |
Louis McIntosh v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
§924(c) criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction forfeiture hobbs-act interstate-commerce rule-32.2 sentencing |
1. Whether petitioner's §924(c) conviction based on an attempted Hobbs Act robbery should be vacated in light of United States v. Taylor?
2. Whether … |
| 22-5237 |
Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of "controlled substance offe… |
| 22-5239 |
Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two seperate roffenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-5241 |
Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5242 |
Tavaras Etone Warren v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-indictment due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exclusion statutory-interpretation |
In an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), where the underlying conviction is for possession, use or carrying a firearm during and in… |
| 22-5226 |
Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted … |
| 22-5231 |
Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad due to the statute's use of the phrase "any sexual activity for which any person can be… |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-86 |
Charles Chavez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
|
atm bank-robbery criminal-law custody customer federal-statute force-and-coercion property property-theft statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person violates this provision by forcing a bank customer to withdraw the customer's money from an ATM in order to take the money from the c… |
| 22-88 |
Kenneth Hawkins, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-discretion due-process housing housing-assistance judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-relief tenant-rights |
This case concerns the right to judicial review of agency discretion to grant or deny relief that is:
specifically set out in a federal statute,
for w… |
| 22-90 |
NGL Supply Wholesale, L.L.C. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference chevron-deference federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review precedent-analysis regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in deferring to FERC's "interpretation of its own precedent" in the absence of a reasoned explanation for departing from the … |
| 22-84 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
GVR |
|
controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) where the jury was… |
| 22-85 |
Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris |
Oregon |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegatio… |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 22-5214 |
Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-5196 |
Malik Holloway v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession |
Isn't 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) which criminalizes the mere possession in a federal courthouse of practically any item unconstitutionally vague? |
| 22-5206 |
Shain Duka v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction. |
| 22-5185 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
#1 When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Feder… |
| 22-76 |
Keith L. Carnes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user |
Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences. |
| 22-5176 |
John Thomas Vine, II v. Martin Frink, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Why is the Petitioner's charge of Ineffective Counsel against Attorney Newton Holiday not being addressed by any of the (lower) courts?
When will com… |
| 22-5156 |
Wilbert McKreith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A), as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, based on a c… |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity. |
| 22-5159 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-5161 |
Antonio M. Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider nonretroactive changes in sentencing law in determining whether a defendant has shown "extraordinary and compell… |
| 22-5167 |
Regis Storm Ervin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5143 |
Malia Arciero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-statute judicial-review motion-reconsideration reconsideration sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Arciero's Motion for Compassionate Release Under 18 … |
| 22-49 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth… |
| 22-5127 |
Edward Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
1. Since the petitioner has been continuously in custody since October 4, 2007, he completely served the sentences of imprisonment imposed by the dist… |
| 22-5130 |
Timothy J. Mazique v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrears child-support civil-procedure due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-review obligor-rights statutory-interpretation |
1. The district court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Louisiana Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner responsible for paying arrears in t… |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 22-5135 |
Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing |
Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to … |
| 22-5137 |
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review |
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5138 |
Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing |
In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als… |
| 22-5139 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5116 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance |
After this Court struck down the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual cause in 2015, the Fifth Circuit granted Mr. Vickers permission to file a "secon… |
| 22-5119 |
Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as… |
| 22-5111 |
Robert Doyle Harper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 22-5112 |
Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one … |
| 22-38 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Federal Circuit, a court with limited jurisdiction that includes cases "arising under" patent law, also has subject matter jurisdiction ov… |
| 22-5083 |
William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing |
1. Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
2. Did the District Court… |
| 22-5084 |
Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5090 |
Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 22-5092 |
James Eric Moore v. Jason Koenigsfeld, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure discrimination-claims dismissal due-process expedited-funds-availability federal-rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation sua-sponte-dismissal |
(1) Did the district court sua sponte dismissal of complaint prior to service of complaint and summons on defendants violate Federal Rules of Civil Pr… |
| 22-5094 |
Garfield D. Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-5098 |
Arthur Torlucci v. California |
California |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5102 |
Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an… |
| 22-5103 |
Chico Jermell Carraway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-11-procedure sentencing sentencing-hearing |
When a defendant alleges with supporting evidence that he pleaded guilty based on an unkept promise of counsel concerning sentencing, is he entitled t… |
| 22-33 |
Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a pandemic related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
… |
| 22-5075 |
Courtney Newman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
21 U.S.C. §856(a)(1), the "crack house statute", requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant, "except as authorized by… |
| 22-5076 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Because this Court's recent pronouncement in Ruan v. United States, 20-1410
applies to 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) prosecutions involving health care profes… |
| 22-30 |
David Ritter v. Linda Migliori, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
Amici (9) |
civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process election election-law mail-in-voting materiality-provision mootness mootness-doctrine standing statutory-interpretation third-circuit-decision |
Should this Court vacate the Third Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)? |
| 22-5059 |
Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5061 |
Dewayne Joseph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether this case should be reversed and remanded in light of Concepcion? |
| 22-5062 |
Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a … |
| 22-5049 |
Percy Love, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation |
Whether an extension to file a 2255 petition is "properly filed" under Artuz v. Bennet?
Where petitioner was pursuing his rights diligently during th… |
| 22-5053 |
Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5057 |
Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus |
I. In a prosecution for possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), the government must prove that the possession was in or affected interstate … |
| 22-23 |
Jean Francois Pugin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
aggravated-felony board-of-immigration-appeals chevron-deference immigration-law immigration-nationality-act obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a noncitizen who is convicted of an "aggravated felony" is subject to mandatory removal and faces enh… |
| 22-5047 |
Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy |
1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner
Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel
when trial counsel misadv… |
| 22-17 |
Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners Vaxima, Inc. and GenPhar, Inc. (collectively "Petitioners") under 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), i… |
| 22-5042 |
Phillip Shiel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), following this Court's d… |
| 22-5043 |
Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920) was broadened in 2006 to include crimes of "indecent acts." Article 120 was ream… |
| 22-5026 |
Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-enforcement air-carrier-access-act circuit-courts civil-rights judicial-review private-action private-right-of-action standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Is there a right to a private action on violations of the Air Carrier Access Act, considering that the Department of Transportation refuses to enfo… |
| 22-5033 |
Curtis Chewning v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-information court-fraud due-process fraud jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing unlawful-seizure |
Question (1)
WHETHER DUE PROCESS OF LAW IS VIOLATED WHERE A SENTENCE IS
INCREASED BASED UPON FACTS NOT INHERENT IN THE CHARGING
INFORMATION OR PROVE… |
| 22-10 |
David Fox Dubin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 22-11 |
SawStop Holding LLC v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 judicial-authority non-statutory-double-patenting patent patent-eligibility patent-law statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
The Patent Act adopted by Congress provides that a person shall be entitled to a patent if an invention meets three conditions: the eligibility condit… |
| 22-9 |
Whirlpool Financial Corporation, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code regulations sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-law treasury-regulations |
Whether the divided Sixth Circuit properly held—in conflict with precedent of this Court and settled administrative-law principles—that a statute that… |
| 22-1 |
Lynn Brown, as Appointed Successor and Representative of Now Deceased Howard M. Berry v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-review civil-procedure deference government-procedure judicial-review military military-deference standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") incorporates a presumption of "unusual deference" in all cases involving the military. |
| 22-3 |
Save Coral Bay, Inc. v. Albert Bryan, Jr., Governor of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Virgin Islands |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coastal-zone-management environmental-protection federal-duty federal-territorial-power judicial-review public-review statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-law trust-obligation |
When a territory enacts a law that contravenes a duty imposed by federal law, must the territory's judiciary look beyond whether the law was properly … |
| 22-5 |
Peter Cooks v. Contra Costa County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute rehabilitation-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C § 1658 supplying a 4 uniform year statute of limitations apply to claims made under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended? |
| 22-5002 |
Richard Winn v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-925 armed-career-criminal constructive-possession criminal-firearms sentencing-enhancement shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
The first question presented is whether or not the Petitioner, RICHARD WINN,
should have been sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACCA) requiring t… |
| 22-5003 |
Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5004 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5005 |
Gerardo Olvera-Vitela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 22-5012 |
Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability |
(1) Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when a district c… |
| 21-8261 |
Elgin Z. Haynie v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal conviction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sentencing |
own faulty pro se representation. |
| 21-8265 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8268 |
Roger Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error |
Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 21-8269 |
James Paris Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8271 |
Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8272 |
Robert Edward Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8276 |
Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8278 |
Glen Hunsberger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the other, strict liability, 21 U.S.C. § 860, requires a … |
| 21-8281 |
Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8285 |
Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty |
1.) Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule?
2.) Should McGirt be applied retroactively? |
| 21-8286 |
Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
[ Illegal/Void 1984 Sentence And Judgment ]
The questions presented here for the Court ,respectfully ,are possi
bly of first impression upon judicial… |
| 21-8287 |
Michael D. Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder?
Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al… |
| 21-1608 |
McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities |
Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 21-1600 |
Jian-Yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2461c asset-seizure breach-of-contract contract-breach criminal-forfeiture federal-criminal-law honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states ownership-interest personal-gain statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioner Jian-Yun Dong ("Petitioner") under 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), is permitted under this Court's d… |
| 21-8247 |
Johnathan Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The four-level abduction enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2B 1.3(b)(4)(A) was applied
to Appellant's bank robbery conviction based on moving victims… |
| 21-8249 |
Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the principle of party presentation by adjudicating a habeas corpus petition under § 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-8253 |
Silas Lee Sneed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) appellate-review attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence hobbs-act statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states-v-taylor |
An attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because no element of the offense requires pro… |
| 21-8256 |
Ortaz Sharp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by permi… |
| 21-8257 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(l) when the government by locking down the defend… |
| 21-8234 |
Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency-restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) once the director of a Bur… |
| 21-8238 |
James Seeley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1592 |
Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers |
1. Whether Congress, in crafting 42 U.S.C. § 1230a7b(b) and related provisions, violated Article I, § 1
of the United States Constitution by improperl… |
| 21-8227 |
Jose Fernando Ochoa-Fabian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8229 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-8230 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. In Texas, a thief is guilty of robbery if he "intentionally or knowingly
threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death." T… |
| 21-8231 |
Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment. |
| 21-8206 |
Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD?
II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO… |
| 21-8214 |
Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8216 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's abuse of its discretion in admitting evidence of weapons found in Mr. Dykes' residence… |
| 21-8217 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language |
Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s "any sexual activity for… |
| 21-8221 |
Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson |
WHETHER OR NOT THE NORTH CAROLINA CRIME OF BREAKING AND ENTERING (N.C. GEN STAT. §14-54), AS DEFINED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA SUPRME COURT, CAN BE UTILIZ… |
| 21-8225 |
Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8195 |
Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
The Armed Career Criminal Act provides an enhanced penalty for felons in possession of a firearm with three prior qualifying convictions, including fo… |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 21-8198 |
Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis |
Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a
conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S.
Ct. 2319 (2019), a… |
| 21-8199 |
Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur |
Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-8201 |
Judel Espinoza-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-procedure district-court-authority due-process jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence sentencing unconstitutional-conviction |
L. A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). Th… |
| 21-1577 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit |
1) When a person requests records from a federal agency
under the Freedom of Information Act, may the
agency redact the requester 's own name from t… |
| 21-8189 |
Serge Francois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law ex-post-facto fraud managed-care network-application pharmacist-fraud pharmacy utilization-review |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power over the Courts of the United States where the Eleventh Circuit reversibly erred in affirming… |
| 21-8190 |
Thomas Luczak v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether this Court should overturn its decision in United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (S.Ct. 1997), which holds that sentencing judges can consider … |
| 21-8191 |
Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten… |
| 21-8170 |
Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure |
1. It's A WillFul disrerpect oF vuited states Dirtrict Court Chiet Jude I. Rndal Hall's order,"For Not Considering the herits of hay crJE.
2. It'5 A … |
| 21-8171 |
Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's imposing an unreasonable sentence under the totality of the circumstances, and w… |
| 21-8182 |
Reuben Conway v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
After Petitioner Reuben Conway was charged, convicted, and sentenced for prohibited person in possession of a firearm, this Court overturned near-unan… |
| 21-1572 |
Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
class-of-workers commerce-clause federal-arbitration-act goods-transportation in-state-delivery interstate-commerce intrastate-deliveries preemption statutory-interpretation workers-classification |
Whether drivers making solely in-state deliveries of goods ordered by in-state customers from an in-state warehouse are nevertheless a "class of worke… |
| 21-1570 |
Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-review exclusive-liability federal-employees-compensation-act labor-secretary-decision statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction work-related-injuries |
Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to address what injuries fall within the scope of FECA's statutory scheme. |
| 21-8149 |
Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8152 |
Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-8153 |
Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of
appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti… |
| 21-8158 |
Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8159 |
Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8161 |
Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation |
1. Does berg derled equol civl Rights on the basis
fOR REMOU pRSANt tO 28 USC & 1443(1)?
2. CaN A CRimIrAl stote cASE be RemovEd puRsJANt tO
28 USC &… |
| 21-8162 |
Darnell Pearson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation |
Whether a charge of drug distribution resulting in "death or serious bodily injury" under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(4)(c) requires the government… |
| 21-8163 |
Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8165 |
Darryl Keith Rolle v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection rule-of-lenity sentencing |
Whether this Honorable Court should grant Certiorari where Florida Statute section 775.021(1) concerning the rule of lenity is being unconstitutionall… |
| 21-8142 |
Major Mike Webb, aka Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, et al. |
Virginia |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law due-process first-amendment necessity-defense prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unrepresented-litigant writ-of-mandamus |
"Globally, as of 6:09pm CEST, 10 June 2022, there have been 532,201,219 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,305,358 deaths, reported to WHO ", St… |
| 21-8143 |
Marcus Branch v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers |
WAS THE "DOUBLE JEOPARDY ' CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN I WAS SENTENCED THREE TIMES FOR THE EXACT SAME OFFENSE I'M HERE FOR NOW PURSUANT TO USCS CONSTITUTION,… |
| 21-8146 |
Gregory Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by… |
| 21-8148 |
Frank H. Bynes Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law due-process medical-practice prescription-drugs professional-ethics |
May a Physician Alledged to have Prescribed controlled substances outside the Usual Course of Professional Practice be convicted of Unlawful distribut… |
| 21-1564 |
Chancellor Senior Management, Ltd. v. Louise McGraw, By and Through Her Daughter, Nancy Reuschel as Power of Attorney, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement contract-enforcement court-appointment federal-arbitration-act forum-unavailability judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether the West Virginia Court's determination
that the parties' arbitration agreement is invalid and
unenforceable because "it fails to 'comply … |
| 21-1565 |
State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al. |
North Carolina |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim… |
| 21-1566 |
Juno Therapeutics, Inc., et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (6) |
35-usc-112(a) enablement federal-circuit invention-scope inventor-possession patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Section 112(a) of Title 35, United States Code, requires that a patent include a "specification," which "shall contain a written description of the in… |
| 21-1567 |
Biogen International GmbH, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-112 effective-dose efficacy-requirement federal-circuit multiple-sclerosis patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Is 35 U.S.C. § 112's requirement that a patent specification "contain a written description of the invention" met when the specification describes the… |
| 21-1555 |
Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation |
The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 makes it "unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or disclose personal information, from a motor vehic… |
| 21-1556 |
Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Zhang Jingrong, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause congress-authority congressional-power federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act intimidation lopez-morrison-test places-of-worship religious-worship statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2), the section of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that prohibits intimidation and other wrongful acts agains… |
| 21-1557 |
Dayonta McClinton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 21-8129 |
Radu Miclaus v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 21-8130 |
Monica Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud |
IS THE INTERSTATE NEXUS REQUIRED IN § 1343 A SUBSTANTIVE
ELEMENT OF THE CRIME OF WIRE FRAUD ?
WAS THE FACTUAL BASIS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT MS. RUIZ'S
… |
| 21-8131 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does a silent Plea foreclose a defendant
From filing a Motion for Newls Discovered
Evidence. Pursuant to Rule
33.
Where:
a)
the statute is ambigous. A… |
| 21-8116 |
Demarco Tempo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition
to but-for causation for the "death results" enhancement in 21 U.S.C.
§ 841?… |
| 21-8117 |
Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Due to defense counsel's deficiency, petitioner was sentenced based on an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range (57 months, using a range of 46-57 mon… |
| 21-8121 |
Leila Varetta Hector, aka Leila Varretta Hector, aka Leila Varetta Hector-Dykes, aka Rita Hector v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 circuit-court-decision constitutional-law criminal-forfeiture forfeiture forfeiture-award honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the imposition of joint and several liability on a forfeiture award under 21 U.S.C. § 853(a) violates the Court's holding in Honeycutt v. Unit… |
| 21-8124 |
Kywon A. Datham v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar |
Whether District of Colombia Court of Appeals errd when it denid petitioner's Request For summary reversal?
Did the Lower Courts abuse their discreti… |
| 21-1551 |
Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
|
ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor. |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ANALYSIS CONFLICTS WITH THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S COA ANALYSIS.
WHETHER THE DIFFERING PENALT… |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8100 |
Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8101 |
Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8103 |
Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation |
Federal law defines a firearm silencer as "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm."
Does the word "for" … |
| 21-8106 |
Jay Jurdi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi… |
| 21-8108 |
Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8109 |
Eric Ray Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether … |
| 21-8110 |
In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury |
|
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap |
1. Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a rig… |
| 21-8087 |
Zachary S. Keeter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction criminal-defense criminal-law due-process expert-testimony improperly-prescribed-medication involuntary-intoxication judicial-discretion medication-addiction mental-health psychosis-claim |
1. Should a person whose addiction is the result of improperly prescribed
medication be allowed an involuntary intoxication defense?
2. Petitioner d… |
| 21-8093 |
Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to adequately explain its dec… |
| 21-1537 |
Donnie T. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1447 appellate-review civil-rights civil-rights-removal federal-officer-statute jurisdictional-review pari-materia removal removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 1447(d) of Title 28 of the United States Code expressly provides that an order remanding a case that was removed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §144… |
| 21-1538 |
Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
agency-interpretation fair-labor-standards-act minimum-wage overtime-pay skidmore-deference skidmore-v-swift statutory-interpretation straight-time-wages |
1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act
allows an employee, who has been paid at least the
required minimum wage and overtime pay at a rate
that is at… |
| 21-1539 |
Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine |
First Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation |
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 generally prohibits states from "regulat[ing] the rates for the provision of cable service" by cable compa… |
| 21-8072 |
Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8074 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8075 |
Ricky Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) |
Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8082 |
Arthur Houze v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8059 |
Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8060 |
Darrell Cordell Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits federal-power felon-in-possession firearms-regulation police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 21-8062 |
Bryant Love v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a states statutory definition df it's elements… |
| 21-1527 |
CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark |
1. Whether the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) violated the statutory text and legislative intent of the America Invents Act (AIA) by delegating the… |
| 21-1521 |
New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arm's-length-transaction circuit-split erisa erisa-compliance fair-market-value multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation successor-liability withdrawal-liability |
"Congress enacted the [Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980] MPPAA to protect the financial solvency of multiemployer pension plans." Bay… |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-8051 |
Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule in Villavicencio-Burruel, which requires that a prior conviction under California Penal Code § 245(a)(1) constitute a… |
| 21-8052 |
Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8034 |
Robert Lawrence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United… |
| 21-8035 |
Charlie John Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis. 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-1513 |
Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection |
1. Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an appli
cable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an
exemption under said statute?
2. May a … |
| 21-1517 |
Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.… |
| 21-8009 |
Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey |
At a sporting goods store Petitioner was considering the purchase of a firearm. The store clerk asked Petitioner to identify himself and fill out the … |
| 21-8013 |
In Re Mark Stinson |
|
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361. |
| 21-8014 |
Reginald Woods v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-8015 |
Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether, under § 2254(d), a federal court may "look through" to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoni… |
| 21-8019 |
Levelt Dewarren Musgraves v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law-application juvenile-lifers parole sentencing sentencing-modification state-court-review |
1. The Wisconsin state courts did not conduct a complete round of the Public
Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue presented before the… |
| 21-8021 |
Frank W. Coon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court-discretion first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. Coon's Motion for Compassionate Release? |
| 21-8025 |
Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela |
1.) Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0). which allows a sentencing court to consider motions to "adjust" a restitution order without anv time limits. perm… |
| 21-8026 |
William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law constitutional-vagueness due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings vagueness |
Is the statute 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8) void for vagueness therefore unconstitutional? |
| 21-8030 |
Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing |
WHETHER MR. BUCHANAN'S SENTENCE IS UNREASONABLE BECAUSE
IT IS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
WHETHER PLAIN … |
| 21-7988 |
Donald Tarnawa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
1. Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description. The Panel Opinion re… |
| 21-7992 |
Reginald Andre Molette v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7994 |
Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Does Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t… |
| 21-1491 |
City of Kent, Washington v. Adrian Jacobo-Hernandez |
Washington |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process excessive-fines felony felony-instrumentality forfeiture livelihood-preservation property-forfeiture |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause provides a livelihood preservation protection which can prevent the forfeiture of the instrumentality of a felony? |
| 21-7967 |
Jairo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan… |
| 21-7971 |
Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7974 |
Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7949 |
John D. Horton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the courts below improperly construe the "notice " to the debtor
requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.1 1(e)(1)
when th… |
| 21-7957 |
Samuel Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt |
Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev… |
| 21-7958 |
Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing |
Whether a mens rea applies to the drug-type-and-quantity elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increa… |
| 21-7959 |
Salito Marques Good v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release |
(1) Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction when a sentence for violating … |
| 21-7960 |
Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1476 |
Stephen Loftis White v. Nicholas B. Cox, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
|
birth-certificate-trust civil-rights commercial-law corporate-fiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-authority redemption secured-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
The Lower State Judicial Circuit Court proceeding
against this Petitioner lacks subject matter and
personal jurisdiction for the reasons below:
1. … |
| 21-7940 |
Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
I. Whether the District Court, without holding an evidentiary hearing erred in disposing of Petitioner 's trial icounsel 's ineffectiveness surroundin… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-7931 |
John Bailey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prolonged-detention sentencing standing trial-rights |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that petitioner's constitutional claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and whether petitione… |
| 21-7933 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-determination civil-rights criminal-adjudication criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation recidivism-calculation sentencing sentencing-containment statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-offense |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7915 |
Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7921 |
Jesus Eduardo Wirichaga-Landavazo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process property-rights public-health statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-1462 |
Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions under terms entitling plaintiffs attorneys to reasonable fees and costs as… |
| 21-7897 |
Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
interpretation and application of an ex post facto violation within the context of parole eligibility statutes, such as in initial parole eligibility,… |
| 21-7910 |
Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 21-7895 |
Antoine Mayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA… |
| 21-1446 |
Simin Nouritajer, et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action immigrant-petition immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether considering the strong presumption of
jurisdiction to review agency action repeatedly recognized
by this Court, 8 U.S.C. §1155 and 8 U.S.C. §1… |
| 21-1450 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie… |
| 21-1453 |
Joe A. Lynch v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
administrative-law legislative-history pro-claimant pro-veteran-canon standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation va-claims veterans-benefits |
Are the many millions of disabled veterans, their survivors and dependents entitled to have the VA meet a higher threshold of proof to deny their clai… |
| 21-1447 |
Estate of Gabriel Miranda, Jr., et al. v. Navistar, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-exit federal-preemption legislative-history legislative-intent motor-vehicle-safety school-bus-safety state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 217 ("FMVSS 217") prohibit a greater level of safety by statutorily making it physically impossible for… |
| 21-7880 |
Robert Andrew Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction |
1. Because child pornography is not one of the federal crimes enumerated by the constitution, the trial court erred by failing to declare unconstituti… |
| 21-7859 |
Brandis Nicole Fish v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-review first-time-offender medical-records non-violent-offender sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation ussg-guidelines |
1. ) DID DISTRICT COURT THOROUGHLY REVIEW PETITIONER FISH'S REQUEST FOR " COMPASSIONATE
RELEASE',' PURSUANT TO POLICY USSG 1B1.13?
2. ) DID THE DISTR… |
| 21-7862 |
Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K… |
| 21-7863 |
Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7867 |
Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance |
I. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory minimum… |
| 21-1438 |
Tamia Banks, et al. v. Cotter Corporation, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction atomic-energy-act claim-severance federal-jurisdiction final-decision nuclear-incident price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is whether there has
been a "nuclear incident" such that the Price Anderson Act is applicable and provides original juris… |
| 21-1434 |
VSP Labs, Incorporated v. Hillair Capital Investments L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1334(b) anticipated-outcome-test bankruptcy-jurisdiction celotex-corp-v-edwards conceivable-effect-test court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-test related-to-jurisdiction significant-connection-test statutory-interpretation |
What test determines whether a bankruptcy court has "related to" jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(b)? |
| 21-1436 |
Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited.
… |
| 21-7851 |
Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions |
Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 21-7857 |
Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling. |
| 21-7835 |
Michael Perryman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mere possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to "use" of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7841 |
Danny Jewell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-1431 |
Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Spending Clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983, and if so, what is the proper framework for deciding … |
| 21-1429 |
Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory text and First Amendment
permit FACEA's protections from violence at a "place
of religious worship" to apply only to places reli… |
| 21-7821 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7822 |
Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 |
Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 21-7824 |
Jerome Scott King v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno… |
| 21-7831 |
Gerry Ranson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7832 |
Daniel Casamayor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), if Casamayor 's indictment charg… |
| 21-7801 |
Richard E. Shreves v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-authority document-access due-process e-filing e-filing-program inmate-rights prison-litigation pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the District Court exceed its authority when it determined Pro-Se Inmate Litigants, forced to participate in the Montana State Prison E-Filing … |
| 21-7804 |
Charles Austin Alger, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deprivation deprivation-of-liberty financial-conditions liberty policy-statements sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) when it imposed special financial conditions of supervised release that do not reasonably rela… |
| 21-7813 |
Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7816 |
John Ragin v. Timothy Fisher, Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Newport News |
Virginia |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7791 |
Aaron Ramirez-Almader v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7797 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1426 |
Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Dismissed |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability |
Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., as three courts of appeals … |
| 21-7781 |
Jorge Palacios v. Kevin Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-assistance legal-procedure medical-care standing statutory-interpretation takings |
to support my argument? why he th rost lout dened to methe ettorney ssistene?
was legal my ssstive devise contisration by respondent despite my comple… |
| 21-7784 |
Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18… |
| 21-7786 |
Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7787 |
Faith M. Hibbard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure claim-filing due-process procedural-law service-connected-disability standing statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
QUESTION: 1. Whether the court erred in denying benefits based on a theory, called "hypothetical entitlement theory " that has no section or definitio… |
| 21-7792 |
John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness |
whetheR the Application of M.C.A. 97-3-2 IAs Applred] eRentes A" Slgnificant Risk of prolonging The petitioneR's StAYin pRison.
whetheR the RetroActi… |
| 21-7776 |
Kelvin Wrenn v. Deborah Toney, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-1414 |
Barton Ray Crandall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(A) 18-usc-924(c) criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018
amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has
shown … |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-1418 |
Medardo Queg Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. If a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or ou… |
| 21-7759 |
Mikkel McKinnie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance |
I.
Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in
Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), to Upward Variances When a
D… |
| 21-7758 |
Donald W. Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process false-testimony guilty-plea napue-rule napue-v-illinois narcotics-influence plea-bargaining right-to-testify sentencing witness-testimony |
Should this court apply the Napue Due Process for a defendant whom pleads guilty, in addition, apply the Napue Due Process to the Rule requirement?
W… |
| 21-7748 |
Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) (2018) triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendant… |
| 21-1392 |
Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court |
Whether this court should grant certiorari because the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of … |
| 21-1389 |
Jeremy Bates v. Donald J. Trump, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing attorney-general citizen-taxpayer-suit civil-rights derivative-standing due-process executive-power presidential-misconduct separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States.
2. Whether, in light of 28 U.S.C. § 516, thi… |
| 21-7709 |
David C. Morris v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization |
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THAT DOES
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IS
NOT
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BY
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STATUTE,
WHICH
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNI SHMENT
CONSTITUTES
BECAUSE
WAS
ASSIGN… |
| 21-7733 |
Rashod Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) conviction-validity crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-offense united-states-v-davis vagueness-doctrine |
1) Can a conviction and punishment stand on a non-existent stat utory offense, based on it being dismissed?
2) Was Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (1)(… |
| 21-7738 |
Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7743 |
Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction |
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S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue … |
| 21-7715 |
Lacy E. Lewis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Framework as Explained in Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 120 S.Ct. 1495, 146 L.Ed 2d 389 (2000), For Review For 28 USC 2254, applicable to t… |
| 21-7721 |
Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7731 |
Alonzo Bell v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial.
Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a… |
| 21-7691 |
Larry Eugene Fuller v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower courts err denying Fuller an Evidentiary Hearing to hear and rule on the merits of his claims, violating his Due Process Constitution… |
| 21-7700 |
Ronald Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court may "reduce [a] term of imprisonment" upon "motion of the defendant" if it finds that "extraordin… |
| 21-7701 |
Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand
21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti |
When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7704 |
Kerry Vanderpool v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
1. Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested th… |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. ARIAS'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN A… |
| 21-7714 |
Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to "look through" the … |
| 21-1380 |
Seun Banjo Ojedokun v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-cases congressional-intent criminal-statute extraterritorial-application presumption-against-extraterritoriality statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
The question presented is: Whether, as in civil cases, a clear indication of congressional intent is required to rebut the presumption against extrate… |
| 21-1384 |
Florida v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii |
Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which grants any "person alleging discrimination" certain "remedies, procedures, and rights,"… |
| 21-7666 |
Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding … |
| 21-7671 |
Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness |
How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,… |
| 21-7673 |
Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets |
Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed?
21 U.S.C. § 853(p) authorizes f… |
| 21-7674 |
Jamie Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO… |
| 21-7676 |
Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge |
(1) Whether a pre- Miller guilty plea bars a post- Miller sentencing challenge
under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandat… |
| 21-7661 |
Antron Adon Tucker v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment barker-v-wingo constitutional-right due-process prosecutorial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation statutory-right virginia-constitution |
1. Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right toa speedy trial
has been violated,also his statutory right to a speedy trial .
Pursuant to U.S. Constitu… |
| 21-7638 |
Carlos Jimenez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7639 |
Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the
1) Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues, AND
2) Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues
Herein were correctly interpr… |
| 21-7643 |
Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Treso was convicted in large Part vPON evidence made up bu the victim mother and manipulated by her Mr. Treso respectfully petitions this court Fo… |
| 21-7645 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing |
Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I… |
| 21-1356 |
M. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
best-interest-analysis best-interests child-welfare due-process due-process-clause foster-care foster-child-bill-of-rights grandparents statutory-interpretation west-virginia-law |
Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Foster Child Bill of Rights under West Virginia statutory law to the detriment of the child in… |
| 21-7630 |
Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation |
I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the courts of appeal as to whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degre… |
| 21-7632 |
Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal history points for his … |
| 21-7619 |
Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release |
The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit… |
| 21-7621 |
Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7622 |
Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7623 |
Mary Ann Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7624 |
Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted
enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any
person can be charged … |
| 21-7609 |
Desmond Deleon Carviel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender-guideline district-court-discretion guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) May a district court defer to the Sentencing Guideline commentary without first determining if the guideline is genuinely ambiguous. Kisor v. Wilk… |
| 21-7612 |
Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7614 |
Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-rights gender gender-discrimination legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Does 'all persons' as stated in 42 U.S.C. 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law also include the female gender? All person's does not specifically state gen… |
| 21-7616 |
Andrew Ussery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guidelines methamphetamine sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-1348 |
Claudia A. Barber v. District of Columbia Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges |
District of Columbia |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process government-employment judicial-review presumption-of-review statutory-interpretation tenure |
Whether only an expressed prohibition against judicial review can clearly and conclusively overcome the presumption in favor of judicial review of an … |
| 21-1349 |
Ignis Development, Inc., et al. v. Long Island College Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion new-york-law statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
1. Did the Second Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York (the "Second Department") so far depart from the accepted and … |
| 21-1345 |
Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
1)
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 grant lawyers the statutory right to appeal a final order of a district
court suspending a lawyer from the practice
of law?
… |
| 21-7593 |
David T. Young v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty judicial-review state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
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| 21-7599 |
Neil Timothy Aho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment |
Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code ("Section 2252"
or the "Statute") forming the gravamen of the charges in the Indictment
l… |
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 21-7586 |
Jaako Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-7591 |
Donald Morris Lee v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy judicial-review resentencing sentencing sentencing-error state-action |
Can the court void the illegally obtained J&S?
Can the court reverse and dismiss the conviction?
Can the court order Lee released?
Can the court di… |
| 21-1342 |
Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-law circuit-split drug-exclusivity fda fda-regulation lambert-eaton-myasthenic-syndrome orphan-drug-act rare-disease statutory-interpretation |
Does the ODA unambiguously foreclose FDA's decades-long, consistent interpretation that the scope of orphan-drug exclusivity is tied to a drug's appro… |
| 21-7575 |
Keith Morris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process knowing-waiver plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sentencing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 21-7569 |
Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution |
What is the allowable unit of prosecution for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)?
2. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by not remanding to th… |
| 21-7570 |
Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing |
In every jurisdiction of the United States - both federal and State - there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a Crim… |
| 21-7557 |
Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance |
Does the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, require federal district courts to make specific findings of fact from those factors enumerated in § 3161… |
| 21-7560 |
Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7562 |
Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
1. whether, the fifth Circuit Court appling Moore,534 f3d 4les Conflict with the decisian of this Court Hancock. 139 sct2714
2. whether the fifth Cir… |
| 21-7535 |
Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Oregon Department of Corrections, the U.S. District Court of Oregon, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, be allowed to collect 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-7536 |
Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT SENTENCING IS NOT CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW?
2. WHETHER THE DIS… |
| 21-7538 |
Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
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| 21-7545 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-7547 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro… |
| 21-7549 |
Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 21-7554 |
William Burke v. Rosa Childs, et al. |
Georgia |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge court-access due-process incarcerated-litigants necessary-state-interest procedural-fairness statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Preface : The first eight questions were presented to the Georgia Supreme Court in an
application for writ of certiorari, which was denied without co… |
| 21-1326 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-7529 |
Jesse Dean Mince v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7530 |
Paul M. Weadick v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering |
The federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, permits conviction of any individual who "prevent[s] the communication by any person to a [Fe… |
| 21-7531 |
Michael G. Peters v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights court-review due-process federal-tax-code free-speech legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings tax-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7519 |
Nathan Lee Tamez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretionary-review due-process firearms guidelines sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-7520 |
Isaiah Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the court exercise it's Power to resolve a
split amongst the sister Circuits regarding New Jersey
Third degree burglary designation as a cri… |
| 21-7521 |
Paul E. Pieczynski v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
arbitration arbitration-award civil-action civil-procedure confirmation federal-arbitration-act miscellaneous-filing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
The Federal Arbitration Act Title 9 section 12 bars vacating or modifying award after three months. Is the petition or motion, when seeking confirmati… |
| 21-1313 |
Martin Gottesfeld v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding an important statutory question under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et se… |
| 21-1314 |
United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A) when neither the common law nor the text of the statute support such a… |
| 21-7510 |
Ramon Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Criminal Defendants may use the "recently amended"
Compassionate Release Statute [18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A)]'to
reduce or correct an exce… |
| 21-7503 |
Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7509 |
Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness |
Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau… |
| 21-7514 |
Sidney J. Clark, Jr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus sentencing |
(1) THE SENTENCING OF S.J.C.JR., TO THE H.C.A. PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 21-4504 ,WITHOUT ANY
LEGAL PROOF OF THE ONE PRIOR JUDICIAL COURT PROCEEDING OF THE S… |
| 21-7516 |
Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
1. Did the Georgia Supreme court Have Jurisdiction to Review Petitioner's appeal From the Denial of the Georgia Superior Court Denying Petitioners Mot… |
| 21-7495 |
Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court |
I. Does the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qua… |
| 21-7482 |
Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception |
Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi… |
| 21-7488 |
Maria Andrea Gonzalez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241(a) aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-proceedings detention-facility federal-inmates federal-jurisdiction judicial-custody judicial-officer non-federal-detention-facility statutory-interpretation |
Is federal jurisdiction established under the first jurisdictional prong in § 2241(a) when an aggravated sexual abuse offense is allegedly committed i… |
| 21-1305 |
Melchor Munoz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the revocation of a criminal defendant's citizenship is mandatory as a result of a plea to a criminal conviction but (2)… |
| 21-7477 |
Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code |
Conflict
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding, citing 338 U.S. 338 (1950), that the Due Process requirement of United States v. Vasquez is no… |
| 21-7463 |
James Edward Sandford, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7471 |
Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
In the course of a "New Judgment " under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA2018) new imposed sentence, what truly excess the reset clock for habeas corpu… |
| 21-7472 |
Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Correction of Serterce And As the same the Habear Corpur
to be corstrned as the same to Correct an Illegal senterce
After senterced hos beer served; w… |
| 21-1296 |
City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
|
federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation |
When trains block traffic at road intersections, they impose numerous safety risks. Oklahoma enacted a statute prohibiting trains from stopping where … |
| 21-7445 |
Juniel B. Rios v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
1. Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008) that limited the Notice requirement in Fed.R.Crim.P… |
| 21-7446 |
Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
1. The plain reading of the statute indicates that counsel must be appointed to learn if biological evidence exists, yet Texas courts have specificall… |
| 21-7451 |
Michael Shawn Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 21-7459 |
Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). |
| 21-7460 |
Eric Dean Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process sentencing |
1. Did thE CouRts AbUsE it's DiscletiOw AftR Derying Me. SMith COMPASSIONATE RELEASEUNDER IBL. 13 AFER COUR CoNCudEd DEENdANt sAtisfiEd thE ExteoRdiNA… |
| 21-7432 |
Magdaly Suleydy Perez-Velasquez and Jenifer Miladis Alvarado-Diaz v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-security criminal-law due-process immigration statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Whether entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) requires freedom from official restraint; and
Whether continuous surveillance by means of visual observation c… |
| 21-7433 |
Donnell Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that
has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7440 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7444 |
Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition |
When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins… |
| 21-7448 |
Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-7450 |
Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-1283 |
Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case… |
| 21-1287 |
In Re W. A. Griffin |
|
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty georgia-law health-benefits healthcare-provider mandamus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"), a Georgia provider, who obtained a writte… |
| 21-1275 |
Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal without having considered the exist… |
| 21-1279 |
Klavdia Thomas, et al. v. Valentin Belevich |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process fair-justice judicial-intent jurisdiction legal-misalignment legal-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a serious misalignment of courts on statute intent, interpretation and jurisdiction.
Whether the fair justice was served. |
| 21-7428 |
Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.… |
| 21-7438 |
Tramone Horne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion judicial-review preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court require proof by more than a preponderance of the evidence of facts that significantly increase the defendant's sentence range under … |
| 21-7418 |
James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Under Mabry v. Johnson, the prosecution may not breach a term of a plea agreement that can be said to have induced a plea, although jurisdictions are … |
| 21-7423 |
Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1270 |
MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed "integral" to a sale order, such … |
| 21-1274 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-1267 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-procedure damages egregious-conduct federal-circuit halo-electronics judicial-discretion patent patent-damages statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
(1) Whether enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 may be awarded absent a finding of egregious infringement behavior; and
(2) Whether the court of a… |
| 21-7414 |
Gregory M. Hawes v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether this Court's decision in Patterson v. New York (1977), which permitted placing the burden on a criminal defendant to establish mitigating f… |
| 21-7403 |
James Calvin Breeden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion |
Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-… |
| 21-7404 |
Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7405 |
Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I, Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Would a person of ordinary intelligence have had fair notice that he was subject to the aggravated penalties for mandated reporters? |
| 21-7386 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "Applicable" policy statement that binds a district court when considering "ex… |
| 21-7391 |
Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-7393 |
Travis Ryan Skaggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802 21-usc-841 concurrent-sentences first-step-act sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by holding that Mr. Skaggs' conviction in Wise County, Virginia on July 27, 2… |
| 21-7398 |
Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the public-welfare/regulatory exception to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve "dan… |
| 21-1256 |
Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t… |
| 21-1245 |
O'Donnell & Sons, Inc. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. |
New York |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
|
exemption federal-credit-union federal-credit-union-act federal-preemption mortgage-recording mortgage-recording-tax preemption state-tax statutory-interpretation taxation |
Whether the Federal Credit Union Act—which
exempts federal credit unions "from all taxation" other
than taxes on credit unions' real property and tang… |
| 21-7365 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the … |
| 21-7368 |
Antwan Boyd v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence"
on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a
district court … |
| 21-7369 |
Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
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| 21-7353 |
Alejandro Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing |
1. Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's … |
| 21-7354 |
Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying
a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U… |
| 21-7356 |
Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug trafficking and firearm possession.
2. Whether the jury i… |
| 21-7357 |
Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7359 |
Kaleb Gattis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the in definite past, … |
| 21-7340 |
Joseph Louis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT CAN RELY SOLELY ON A DEFENDANT'S ORIGINAL SENTENCING FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C.3553(A) AND WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S POST-… |
| 21-7345 |
David Wayne Aring v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
QUESTION ONE
Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States
Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 21-7346 |
Avian Brule v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release |
(1) What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release?
(2) Is a district court's er… |
| 21-7347 |
Anthony Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1.) WHerAer rde peiwciples of egutaBle rouing spply 40 G8USC 22S(), DUEN MAE gLOBAL CORONAVRUS THT A HA BEN pURSiNg RAgNS DIgE OND SOME EXTROORDINARY … |
| 21-7352 |
Pedro Intzin-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-1239 |
Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati… |
| 21-1235 |
Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator |
1. Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statue, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards?
Is it subject to abuse … |
| 21-7330 |
Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an
imaginary, non-existent victim.
Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-7331 |
Darregus T. Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION?
5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS!
CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE… |
| 21-7332 |
Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7322 |
James Earl Harper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained the… |
| 21-7325 |
Michael T. Braxton v. Tonya James, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review parole statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
1). dtinat AFT and in CoN to a lafl state Court of Appets ORDER?
2. Can an state agency parsue ony other Laciful Apptlte Proces, on "UNFAVORABE " oR … |
| 21-7327 |
Tina Carol Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers |
1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog… |
| 21-7284 |
Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to … |
| 21-7301 |
Bogdan Nicolescu v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-devices congressional-intent criminal-enhancement criminal-sentencing guideline-commentary identity-theft sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access-device wireless-telephone-protection-act |
1. Whether Application Note 2 of the Commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2B1.6 bars the
application of the U.S.S.G. § 2Bl.l(b)(ll)(B)(i) 2-level enhancement for … |
| 21-7318 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements |
SENTENCING IN FEDERAL COURT IS GUIDED BY STATUTE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTORS IN 18 … |
| 21-7321 |
Eric Labreece Mack v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review |
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| 21-1215 |
Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the definition of "machinegun" found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition?
2. Whet… |
| 21-1217 |
Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. v. Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
architectural-works copyright copyright-law infringement marketing marketing-materials pictorial-representation pictorial-representations real-estate real-estate-industry statutory-interpretation |
Whether floor plans constitute "pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations" of an architectural work within the meaning of 1… |
| 21-1219 |
Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is … |
| 21-1214 |
Oklahoma v. Emmitt G. Sam |
Oklahoma |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
18-usc-1153 criminal-defendant federal-jurisdiction indian indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-law |
What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an "Indian" under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-7291 |
Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7292 |
James E. Walker v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16
Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco… |
| 21-7293 |
Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7295 |
Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7270 |
Karo Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-7283 |
Earnest J. Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1208 |
Eric Andrews v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018
amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has
shown … |
| 21-7268 |
Ross Anthony Farca v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in "damage to or loss or d… |
| 21-7230 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7245 |
Julia Ann Poff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7252 |
Terrance Stinson, aka T-Rock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-guarantee jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether sentencing based on acquitted conduct violates the Sixth Amendment jury guarantee and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. |
| 21-7256 |
Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7258 |
Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7259 |
Keith Prescott Gace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation |
As a matter of statutory interpretation, should a jury or court consider the so-called Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a m… |
| 21-1193 |
Oklahoma v. Robert Eric Wadkins |
Oklahoma |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-membership |
What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an "Indian" under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-7238 |
Holli Wrice v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 3553(a)-factors compassionate-release congressional-intent criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) allows district courts to reduce a defendant's sentence, based on a finding of extraordinary and compelling reasons, afte… |
| 21-7219 |
Lorenzo Suttles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a pre-FSA (First Step Act) defendant's circumstances, changed
by Congress's clarification of §924(c), and the resultant disparity
thereof… |
| 21-7221 |
Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was " greater than necessary " considering his troubled childhood. |
| 21-7222 |
Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the term "involved" under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through t… |
| 21-7223 |
Angel DeLara v. California |
California |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no… |
| 21-7226 |
Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
() Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7227 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 21-7229 |
Steven A. Taliani v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing involuntary-intoxication prescription-medication state-prisoner statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1) Does the Illinois Supreme Court's opinion and analysis constitute an
unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Illinois Supreme
Cour… |
| 21-1185 |
Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
This case turns on whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies—for the Government to then rebut with new evidence—when a second … |
| 21-1189 |
Arthur Dale Lothringer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alter-ego circuit-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-law due-process legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Whether Texas statutory law supersedes Fifth Circuit precedent regarding alter-ego determinations. |
| 21-1191 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires |
Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal "counts as a 'strike' within… |
| 21-7204 |
Corey Louis Hines v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 21-7207 |
Robert Brewer v. New York |
New York |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
This Court should grant certiorari to decide whether or how Schad v Arizona, 501 U.S. 624 (1991), continues to apply following the decisions in Ramos … |
| 21-7211 |
Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Petitioner's (Plaintiff's) Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to Due Process of the Law by permitting such egregi… |
| 21-7216 |
Cory Mendrell Welch v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the state courts rely solely on a procedural bar? Also, the basis of this petition challenges the Wisconsin court of appeals jurisprudence pursuan… |
| 21-7191 |
Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-7195 |
James Leon Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7196 |
Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7197 |
Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su… |
| 21-1169 |
Alain Kaloyeros v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Is the deprivation of accurate information
regarding a transaction, without more, "property"
under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as
the S… |
| 21-1161 |
Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U… |
| 21-1162 |
Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation |
Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec… |
| 21-7176 |
Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness |
I. Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United… |
| 21-7169 |
Latwon James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal … |
| 21-7170 |
Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not
pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial… |
| 21-7174 |
Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1158 |
Joseph Percoco v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process fiduciary-duty government-decisionmaking honest-services-fraud political-influence public-corruption |
Does a private citizen who holds no elected office or government employment, but has informal political or other influence over governmental decisionm… |
| 21-7156 |
Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 21-7157 |
Richard Lucas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of
"cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta… |
| 21-7158 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach?
II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
| 21-7159 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold merit-injury money-mandating standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund |
1. Whether merit injury claims suffice in the undecided proceedings; titled open thereunder; "Williams v. U.S.," 1:21-CV01632-EMR; thereof United Stat… |
| 21-7163 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
II. When def… |
| 21-7147 |
Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7149 |
Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7151 |
Quentin Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force |
QUESTION ONE:
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained
even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7134 |
Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors |
In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors… |
| 21-7136 |
Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISCONSTRUED 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) TO FIND THAT AN ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY IMPOSED "BY VIRTUE OF . . . CONVICTION" INCLUDES PLACEM… |
| 21-1134 |
Bryan Adams v. Department of Homeland Security |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
active-duty cross-reference differential-pay federal-employees military-reserves national-guard statutory-interpretation |
Whether 10 U.S.C. § 12301(d) is "a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10." |
| 21-1135 |
Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
| 21-1140 |
UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
actuarial-equivalence administrative-law cms cms-rule healthcare-insurance medicare medicare-advantage overpayment-rule same-methodology statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Overpayment Rule violates the statute's "actuarial equivalence" and "same methodology" mandates.
2. Whether the Overpayment Rule is ot… |
| 21-7115 |
Robert Stahlnecker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech, as it was in this case? |
| 21-7116 |
Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen "standard" supervised-release conditions… |
| 21-7119 |
Victor Carlos Castano v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
A. Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy when the court instructed the jury that an… |
| 21-7121 |
Joseph Lamont Wilson v. Phoenix Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7122 |
Thomas Warner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility |
Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for Aggravated Battery with Discharge of a Firearm should be reversed where they were not supported by credible te… |
| 21-7129 |
Erik Quiroz Razo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-law inchoate-crimes incomplete-crimes mens-rea |
1. Whether a defendant can be convicted of conspiring to aid and abet a crime when the underlying crime is never completed?
2. Whether, to conspire t… |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1122 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal |
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss a ballot challenge for failure to state a claim without ever having construed it in the light most favorabl… |
| 21-1117 |
Reginald Watkins, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process mortgage-foreclosure quiet-title sheriff-sale standing statutory-interpretation statutory-redemption takings |
A. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN RULING THAT THE PETITIONERS DO NOT HAVE STANDING SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH STANDING.
i. Petitioners answer: "Yes… |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-1119 |
Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee |
First Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B… |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7094 |
Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7097 |
Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases |
In Gall v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 586 (2007), this Court held that appellate courts must review the substantive reasonableness of all sentences und… |
| 21-7079 |
Reginald Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated
clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have
elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7086 |
William L. Whitefield v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c compassionate-release criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7087 |
In Re Wesley Thompson |
|
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
PRIOR COURTS DISPITE THE CONSTTTUTIONAL VIOLATIONS?
2) CAN MR. THOMPSON'S CONVICTIONS STAND WITHOOT VINDICATION OF THE VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION… |
| 21-7093 |
Jameson LaForest, Robert Wesley Johnson, and Keith Marvel Walton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law due-process hobbs-act pinkerton-liability reconsider-pinkerton |
1. May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspirac… |
| 21-7077 |
Catherine Kurkjian v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-obligations bad-faith-doctrine civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law contract-reprisal government-contracts lost-profits statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Question 1: Whether a Court can neglect the legal and statutory obligations of an agency to adhere to a signed contract and the referenced clauses; by… |
| 21-7069 |
Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
May Bank robbery apply as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) when Bank robbery does not match the elements of section 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-7061 |
John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel |
Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for … |
| 21-7062 |
Michael Devell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 … |
| 21-7063 |
Salahudin Shaheed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing |
Has thousands of people been wrongfully convicted by Courts of law, facts (drug introduction into correctional institutions) and "illicit sex acts)" i… |
| 21-7047 |
In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden |
|
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority |
Whether or not the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction by punishing petitioner to a (23) twent… |
| 21-7052 |
Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether, given the rarity of the grant of parole in Florida and Florida's failure to take a juvenile offender's maturity and rehabilitation adequately… |
| 21-7053 |
Iramm Wright v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-7055 |
Eugene Willis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
I.
In compliance with Holloway V. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1991),
is an attorney ineffective for failing to argue before the
jury the Government f… |
| 21-7041 |
Anthony Andrews v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7021 |
John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7022 |
Patrick Nilo Gil v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction public-defender sentencing suppression-hearing video-evidence |
Vehicle seized EASTERN Shore of VA comack CouNty Sheriff's chris Hargis offic IN the couNty of NOrthamPtON VA EASTERN Store him authority in having NO… |
| 21-7023 |
Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
DOES THE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MRS. RAMBO CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with … |
| 21-7035 |
Seville Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7037 |
Robert Breest v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal dna-testing expert-testimony favorable-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus new-hampshire retrial statutory-interpretation |
1. Issue One: Whether the DNA tests were favorable under New Hampshire RSA 651-D-2, VI (b) and warrant dismissal of the charge because a different res… |
| 21-1058 |
Oklahoma v. Marquise Petey White |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process equal-protection indian-country non-indian-defendants public-safety state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. |
| 21-1063 |
Elaine Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy criminal-acquittal due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud presumption-of-innocence statutory-interpretation unjust-compensation unjust-conviction-and-imprisonment |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2513's requirement that a defendant acquitted because of insufficient evidence must affirmatively disprove the factual allegati… |
| 21-1052 |
United States, ex rel. Jesse Polansky, M.D., M.P.H. v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure false-claims-act federal-procedure government-dismissal judicial-conflict qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and what standard applies if the gov… |
| 21-1059 |
Citibank, N.A., et al. v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
11-usc-550 avoided-transfer bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee burden-of-proof good-faith statutory-interpretation subsequent-transferee |
Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover an
avoided transfer from a subsequent transferee under 11
U.S.C. 550 bears the burden of pleading and … |
| 21-7013 |
Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity |
The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh… |
| 21-6989 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Testinny y Exprt winses My lawer ad
1. Rule 702.
Police OFFicer. (14thAmendment)
2. Luminol testing.
DNA was never found on me or victim.
3. Rule 1… |
| 21-7000 |
Dominic Dean Adams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-7006 |
Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 21-6993 |
Damon Willis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions prohibited-status rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen |
Does Rehaif v. United States preclude a jury instruction that the federal government must prove a defendant knew his prohibited status made it illegal… |
| 21-6974 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing |
Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process, in that it allows for an incr… |
| 21-6987 |
Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing |
Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-… |
| 21-6992 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance |
I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Lane's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-6966 |
Juan Sampel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing |
Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence, which questions a district court's drug quantity fi… |
| 21-6968 |
Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state |
1. Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016), afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U… |
| 21-6969 |
Alton Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines booker circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing guideline-enhancement lapsed-statute legal-interpretation mandatory-guidelines sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's enhancement of Defendant's sentence under a provision of U.S.S.G. § 2K… |
| 21-6972 |
Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-6973 |
Larry Lee Jacks v. Warden Lynch |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland case-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
| 21-1037 |
Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, by disregarding properly established U.S. authorities (Corpus Juris Secundum, C.J.S.), to surreptitiously create its own copyright law sys… |
| 21-6948 |
Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment |
1. Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing without resubmission t… |
| 21-6949 |
Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6950 |
Stephen Rosa v. New York |
New York |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process sentencing standing statutory-rights |
WAS THE COURTS IN VIOLATIONS FOR NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN CASE LAWS ?
WAS PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED AND HIS RIGHTS UNDER D.L. § § 720.10 &… |
| 21-6956 |
Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), the district court is limited to the "extraordinary and compelling reasons" given in application note 1 of the com… |
| 21-6946 |
Gregory Lozado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing |
Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6934 |
Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an instruction on the Dost factors authorizes a conviction for production of child pornography on broader grounds th… |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within - or below guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale … |
| 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… |
| 21-6941 |
Tracy Vaughn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act sentencing-factors sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act, a district court mus… |
| 21-6942 |
Alison Gu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether making false statements on a passport application form as to which the mandatory oath was never administered, the statements were never sworn … |
| 21-6944 |
Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6915 |
Maxwell Gaffney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing |
Kyle Rodriguez died after voluntarily using heroin. The government proved to a
jury he bought it from Petitioner Maxwell Gaffney. The Government also … |
| 21-6920 |
Perry Cousins, aka Pzo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6921 |
Sedale Pervis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The touchstone statu te for criminal sentencing, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), provides that a sentence must promote respect for the law. However, "respect for… |
| 21-6925 |
Chong Su Yi v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-deference judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-fit statutory-interpretation |
Could the court apply rules that do not fit the person? |
| 21-6926 |
Willie Wilcher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
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| 21-6929 |
Rozelle Summerise v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Can reasonable jurists debate whether Hobbs Act robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) … |
| 21-6930 |
Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right |
1. Whether Juan Rivera-George ("Juan") was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury when the District Court failed t… |
| 21-1025 |
Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach, such as re… |
| 21-6903 |
Michel Thomas v. Grundfos, CBS, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, and/o… |
| 21-6905 |
Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6882 |
Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6884 |
Hermin Rodriguez-Monserrate, aka Cano, aka Canito v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coronavirus-act coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act criminal-procedure defendant-absence due-process educational-condition learning-disability sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
1. Should certiorari be granted because the district court
conducted Petitioner's sentence and revocation hearing in his physical
absence, even though… |
| 21-6887 |
Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6894 |
Arnoldo Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-924c borden-v-united-states constitutional-review criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111 (a) AND (b) QUALIFIE… |
| 21-6898 |
Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration |
Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i… |
| 21-6900 |
Patrice E. Brown v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Arizona |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Does a court render no judgment which violates the law of its veld when it renders its judgment 2 Compliance with the mandatory provisions of an uncon… |
| 21-6901 |
Wilbert Mathes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud… |
| 21-1009 |
Oklahoma v. Robert Taylor Bragg |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-18 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 21-1001 |
Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt |
Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon… |
| 21-6875 |
Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court |
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PROCESS.AND.PUNISHMENT.
PERTICIPATING IN MIS OWN DEFFENCSE, DID VIOIATE THE SIXTH… |
| 21-6829 |
Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process litigation-reform neitzke-v-williams non-prisoner-complaints prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights screening-standard section-1915 standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the language of 28 U.S.C. § 1915 allow screening or dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints and claims for failure to state a claim… |
| 21-6838 |
Bernard Steven Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guideline-sentence guideline-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Did the Trial Court provide insufficient information or explanation to an upward variance in the Petitioner's Guideline Sentence, from a range of 51 t… |
| 21-6844 |
Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr… |
| 21-994 |
John Kapoor v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional pract… |
| 21-998 |
Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee… |
| 21-6825 |
Diana Bustamante v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6826 |
Todd Stands Alone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is common-law simple assault an essential element of § 111(b)? |
| 21-6814 |
Eleazar Flores-Mora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-jurisdiction niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear (NTA) that… |
| 21-6816 |
N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability |
I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w… |
| 21-985 |
Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6785 |
Jarvis Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b |
Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr… |
| 21-6786 |
Semaji Warren v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6787 |
Rondale Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but… |
| 21-6790 |
Timothy Ryan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
1. DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT AND/OR DISTRICT OF INDIANA—SOUTH BEND DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING RYAN'S § 2255 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WI… |
| 21-6803 |
Javier Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse o… |
| 21-6807 |
Davis Salary v. California |
California |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing |
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| 21-6781 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing |
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| 21-6767 |
Bryce Clair Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the court in applying point eroe enhanciment for having 3 altered with an numbers re chary read? |
| 21-6768 |
Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
(1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess . . . affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.… |
| 21-6769 |
Luke Joseph Burning Breast v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921(a)(20) 18-usc-922(g) civil-rights-restoration criminal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm firearm-components interstate-commerce rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution by showing that a single interchangeable part of a firearm trav… |
| 21-972 |
Thomas H. Buffington v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (12) |
administrative-law chevron-deference chevron-doctrine deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Chevron doctrine permits courts to defer to VA's construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the … |
| 21-6753 |
Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
"Whether, when deciding if it should 'impose a reduced sentence' on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 . . . a district … |
| 21-6758 |
Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law |
does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-6748 |
Jose Luis Wong v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court… |
| 21-961 |
Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-954 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (24) |
administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy due-process homeland-security immigration-law immigration-policy judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP.
2. Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the Secretary's new deci… |
| 21-6739 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli… |
| 21-6743 |
Juan Carlos Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intentional-force statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation, under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), is a crime of violence under the elements… |
| 21-6746 |
Adan Ramirez-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6736 |
Steven R. Henson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness |
1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie… |
| 21-6737 |
James P. Donoghue, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
First Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
general-intent judicial-oath judicial-regulation judicial-remand judicial-review objective-review perjury specific-intent statutory-interpretation tax-court |
1. Pursuant to 26 C.F.R. § 1.183, whether the lower courts' errored when framing decision under the doctrine of general-intent; using subjective deduc… |
| 21-6718 |
Gregory Chester and William Ford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-doctrine conspiracy-sentencing criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment presentment-clause sentencing statutory-sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether, where Apprendi and its progeny requires the petit jury to return special findings as to individual conspiracy defendants to justify an increa… |
| 21-6723 |
Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018) where the Supreme Co… |
| 21-6730 |
Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was petitioner's appellate waiver enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea? |
| 21-6696 |
L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure |
1. Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401
2. Did an agreed Recess of trial to allow Respondent to conti… |
| 21-6697 |
Melvin Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-terrorism-and-death-penalty-act civil-procedure court-jurisdiction district-court-authority docket-modification due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Concerning procedures of the District and Courts of Appeals regarding due process in federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motions as well as a … |
| 21-6706 |
Billy Dean Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof due-process fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-discretion sentencing uncharged-felony |
Did the district court violate Mr. Smith's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by relying on unreliable, unsupported hearsay to, first, find that Mr. S… |
| 21-6710 |
Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing |
Under the Mandatory Victim s Restitution Act, when an offense does
not involve as an element a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of criminal
activity, … |
| 21-920 |
Kalab D. Willman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete… |
| 21-924 |
Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping |
Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |
| 21-925 |
Adolfo Sandor Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-limitations due-process fraud government-fraud government-overreach standing statutory-interpretation tax-regulations |
1. Whether the US government can circumvent constitutional limitations 1 and defraud ~320 million American citizens through hidden legal provisos, spe… |
| 21-908 |
Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation |
May an individual be subject to liability for the fraud of another that is barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. (the "Bankruptcy Code")… |
| 21-917 |
Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT… |
| 21-6685 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The prosecutor, defense counsel, and the district court all informed Mr. Dominguez that if he went to trial he would face a mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 21-6687 |
Rory Lee Zirkelbach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-error sentencing-guideline statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed an extratextual limitation on its statutory authority to determine what amounts to an "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-6692 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6693 |
Joey Rogers v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competence plea-bargaining plea-coercion sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Were the Due Process rights of Joey Rogers ignored by the Louisiana Courts when they maintained a plea made by the vulnerable, illiterate, hearing … |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-903 |
Robert M. Glen v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims |
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, 22 U.S.C. § 6081 et seq., is a broad remedial statute that authorizes U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated… |
| 21-905 |
Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-906 |
Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
boundary-dispute congressional-act congressional-authority indian-reservation land-disposition ninth-circuit-error statutory-interpretation treaty-interpretation |
1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may override an Act of Congress adopting a boundary for an Indian reservation, and set its own boundary.… |
| 21-6657 |
Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
| 21-6658 |
Donald Ray Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary? |
| 21-6663 |
Asher Abid Khan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand? |
| 21-6629 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta… |
| 21-6640 |
Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m… |
| 21-6642 |
Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the application note defining "dangerous weapon" overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) by defining "possession" of a "dangerou… |
| 21-6644 |
Ashot Minasyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing voluntary-plea |
Whether Minasyan's waiver of appeal is unenforceable for the following reasons: because it was not knowing, intelligent and voluntary, and because Min… |
| 21-6646 |
Pedro Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111(a) AND (b) QUALIF… |
| 21-895 |
John Rodrigues, Jr. v. County of Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process federal-preemption firearms firearms-law law-enforcement leosa preemption qualified-retired-officer statutory-interpretation |
Does LEOSA (18 U.S.C. Sec. 966C) preempt
State firearms laws that prohibit the transport,
carrying and possession of firearms by a Qualified
Retired L… |
| 21-884 |
Blake Fields v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 21-887 |
Miguel Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
administrative-proceedings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights exhaustion-requirement futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act money-damages statutory-interpretation |
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) preserves the rights of children with disabilities to bring claims under the Constitution and o… |
| 21-6594 |
James A. Hald, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process extraordinary-reasons federal-prisoner-rights federal-prisons sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court must first determine whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduct… |
| 21-6614 |
Mario Martell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering |
1. For intrastate robberies that do not otherwise affect "commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction," 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(3), does the Hob… |
| 21-6622 |
Rufus Lawson, Jr. v. Officer West, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines statutory-interpretation tax-evasion |
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| 21-6625 |
Derrick Harrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-6631 |
Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6634 |
Roy Cornell Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage |
1. Was the Petitioner afforded his Constitutional Right to accurate assistance of Counsel in his sentencing stage.
2. Did Petitioner fail to prosecut… |
| 21-6579 |
Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 21-6589 |
Lamont Guinyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes a defendant's possession of a firearm or ammunition, is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's … |
| 21-6592 |
Donald Stanley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6601 |
Austin Woods v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c co-conspirator conspiracy crime-of-violence pinkerton-liability statutory-interpretation substantive-offense |
In 1946, this Court enunciated the Pinkerton theory of liability, which permits a defendant to be held liable for a substantive offense committed by a… |
| 21-6602 |
Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
In petitioner §2254 petition, Petitioner raises this question of error?
The plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court fa… |
| 21-6605 |
Jermaine Jackson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 21-6609 |
Christopher Coffer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-health due-process health-issues judicial-discretion medical-disadvantage mitigation-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
What is the extent of medical disadvantage that a
defendant must present in order to secure a variance
based on ill health? |
| 21-6610 |
Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction |
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| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-872 |
Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law |
1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence?
… |
| 21-6570 |
Bo Jack Kelley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6572 |
Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6573 |
Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury |
When Congress created the novel system of supervised release for federal criminal defendants, it authorized district judges to act as factfinders and … |
| 21-6581 |
Derek Jerome Moore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-power firearms interstate-commerce |
1. Whether Congress exceed its Commerce Clause power when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)?
2. Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), evidence that a … |
| 21-6582 |
Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6583 |
Roger Edward Picard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure |
i. Did the First Circuit err in denying a jurisdictionally sound motion filed pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(a), where the district court simply ignored… |
| 21-6584 |
Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re… |
| 21-6575 |
Nathaniel Fields v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-861 |
First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity fr… |
| 21-864 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Garland "Andy" Barr |
Kentucky |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
|
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process judicial-review kentucky-law kentucky-revised-statutes motion-to-dismiss motion-to-set-aside standing statutory-interpretation |
On June 22, 2020, 1 filed a ballot challenge
against U.S. Representative Andy Barr pursuant to
KRS (Kentucky Revised Statutes) 118.176. It was
never d… |
| 21-866 |
Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v… |
| 21-867 |
Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. v. Jessica T. Badilla, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights combatant-activities due-process federal-preemption federal-tort-claims-act military military-operations preemption statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
Whether state-law tort claims that arise out of the
uniquely federal sphere of the military's combat operations are preempted by the interests embodie… |
| 21-868 |
Oklahoma v. Kevin Tyler Foster |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-857 |
Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at… |
| 21-6566 |
Steven Craig Bethea v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING THE APPELLANT STEVEN BETHEA TO A GREATER SENTENCE THAN NECESSARY AS THE COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 21-6568 |
Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —
that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be
pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 21-6569 |
Jonathan Hilliam McDougal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-treatment criminal-sentencing delegation-of-authority drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion probation-terms sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. McDougal to undergo alcohol and drug treatment as a special condition of supervised release. |
| 21-6508 |
Daniel Jones v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-for-counsel pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT. OF APPEALS
DECISION ERR AS A MATTER OF LAWIN DISMISSAL
OF APPEAL PURSUANT TO 25 U.S.C.§ 1915(e),
BASED SOLELY ON DEN… |
| 21-6560 |
Carlo Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-6534 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a conviction obtained in reliance on an unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained based on a revie… |
| 21-6540 |
Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 |
When Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98 473, Tit. II, ch. II, 98 Sta. 1987; 18 U.S.C. §3551, et seq.) , it provided a … |
| 21-6541 |
Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
1. Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive
prosecution, trigging a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he
succe… |
| 21-6542 |
Juan Trujillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-838 |
Penobscot Nation v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
alaska-pacific-fisheries indian-canons indian-canons-of-construction indian-settlement-acts maine-indian-settlement-acts penobscot-nation reservation reservation-boundaries statutory-interpretation tribal-rights |
Whether the Maine Indian Settlement Acts—
consistent with this Court's precedents on statutory
interpretation and the Indian canons of construction—
… |
| 21-840 |
United States v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
indian-reservation land-claims maine-indian-claims-settlement-act native-american-rights natural-resources penobscot-nation settlement-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction tribal-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Penobscot Indian Reservation includes only the uplands of the islands in the main stem of the Penobscot River or also includes the surroun… |
| 21-831 |
Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case?
2. Must a District Court find f… |
| 21-834 |
Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party |
Whether a government during the election process, without violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can threaten criminal prosecution against vot… |
| 21-6512 |
Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict |
Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6514 |
Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
WHETHER AN INFORMATION IS DEFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO STATE THE PROPER ELEMENTS FOR THE CRIME OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
WHETHER THE ACCA BAN B… |
| 21-6518 |
Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory |
Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject? |
| 21-6524 |
Joshua James Mjoness v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-6525 |
George Patrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release is governed by the class of felony determined at the time of the original sentence. 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-6527 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mandatory-minimums sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6530 |
Tyreese Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason… |
| 21-6532 |
Mary Noel Kruppe v. California |
California |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law |
An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n… |
| 21-6501 |
Luke D. Patterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6503 |
Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6507 |
Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether or not Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 no retroactivity decision conflicts with the holding in Sharp v. Murphy, U.S. 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020… |
| 21-823 |
Abdulla Nagi Naser Daifullah v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship-revocation civil-procedure congressional-power denaturalization due-process good-cause-affidavit jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement naturalization naturalization-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a)'s requirement that the United States Attorney for the respective district institute proceedings is a jurisdictional require… |
| 21-826 |
K. John Corrigan, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference bureau-of-land-management chevron-doctrine federal-land-policy-and-management-act grazing-preference judicial-review statutory-interpretation taylor-grazing-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held that statutory silence on the issue before the court can be unambiguous for purposes of the Chevron doctrine … |
| 21-829 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 21-818 |
EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. In 12 U.S.C. § 1735f-15( e), Congress authorized
federal Courts of Appeals to take direct review of the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development'… |
| 21-819 |
Baxter Corporation Englewood v. Becton, Dickinson and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act expert-testimony inter-partes-review ordinary-remand-rule patent patent-challenge prior-art remand-rule statutory-interpretation |
A petitioner may challenge an issued patent in an inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an agency tribunal, but "only on… |
| 21-6474 |
Kristie Leanne Sluder v. R. Patrick Bentancourt, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adoption-and-safe-families-act civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-statute ku-klux-klan-act liberty-interest notice-and-hearing standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Macon County Department of Social Services Violate Conducted two weeks prior to my Foster daughter's placement in a group home?
2. Do foster P… |
| 21-6489 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed?
2. Should an exception to th… |
| 21-6482 |
Calvin Wayne Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6485 |
R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code |
Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(o) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it is unconstit… |
| 21-6486 |
Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation |
1. In Deck v. Missouri , 544 U.S. 622 (2005), this Court held that shackling a defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates d… |
| 21-6453 |
Duane Nishiie, aka Suh Jae Hon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
fraud-offenses legal-interpretation precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation war-nexus wartime-suspension-act wartime-suspension-of-limitations-act |
I. Whether the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act suspends the statute of limitations for fraud offenses that have no nexus to the war or armed con… |
| 21-6466 |
Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence |
In Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476 (2011), this Court held that a district court, in resentencing a defendant, may consider evidence of post-sen… |
| 21-6467 |
John D. Glenn, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud bank-fraud-statute circuit-court-split common-fraud definitional-term fraud-enforcement fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act mortgage-lending-business statutory-interpretation third-circuit-ruling venture-capitalist-firms |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's overbroad interpretation of what is a "mortgage lending business," a definitional term added by the Fraud Enforcement a… |
| 21-6471 |
Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner is eligible for a Title 18 U.S.C. Section 358a(c)(1)(A)(i), bd on the modiiction of Secon 35 C)A), through the First Step Act of J0… |
| 21-816 |
Melvyn Gear v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
This case presents two questions for review.
1. In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-806 |
Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries |
1. Whether, in light of compelling historical evidence to the contrary, the Court should reexamine its holding that Spending Clause legislation gives … |
| 21-813 |
Michael Peck v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congressional-intent energy-reorganization-act nrc-employment nuclear-regulatory-commission sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
In 2005, Congress amended the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ("ERA") to expressly include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") as an employer … |
| 21-796 |
Marchand & Rossi, L.L.P., nka Marchand Law, L.L.P. v. Bryan K. White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
false-claims-act first-to-file-rule fraud fraud-prosecution jurisdictional-bar parallel-state-laws qui-tam statutory-interpretation whistleblower |
The federal False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C.
§ 3730, includes an interrelated series of provisions
intended to incentivize, through monetary awards… |
| 21-798 |
Oklahoma v. Stephen Tanner Vineyard |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-799 |
Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
protects employees from retaliation occurring
after the provi… |
| 21-6438 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing |
IS A CLASS OF CONVICTED HABITUAL FELONS, THAT HAVE COMPLETED THEIR LAWFUL MAXIMUM SENTENCES, ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASES IN ORDER TO … |
| 21-6439 |
John Joseph Rushinsky, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-standard |
1. May the state, consistent with Due Process, sweepingly criminalize a broad range of conduct embracing both innocent and culpable behavior and assig… |
| 21-6448 |
Joseph D. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis |
1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "… |
| 21-6450 |
Steven Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. … |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6460 |
Truman Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy Trial Act violation and to consider the government's district wid… |
| 21-6461 |
Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose |
The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6445 |
Ruben Vazquez-Ovalle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Vazquez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 21-6402 |
Nyambui Joe Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6404 |
Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-6406 |
Damoni Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6418 |
Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-6419 |
Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6426 |
Lee Dale White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6427 |
Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Should this Court resolve a division among the circuit courts regarding whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the… |
| 21-772 |
Oklahoma v. Stewart Wayne Coffman |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-24 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 21-773 |
Oklahoma v. Harold Denton McCurtain |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-763 |
John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing |
Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin… |
| 21-767 |
Clinton Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-768 |
Lil’ Man in the Boat, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 commerce-clause fees-and-obligations navigable-waters rivers-and-harbors-act statutory-interpretation tonnage-clause |
Pursuant to the Rivers and Harbors Act, Congress provided that "No taxes, tolls, operating charges, fees, or any other impositions whatever shall be l… |
| 21-769 |
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
allotment congressional-intent federal-reservation indian-land-rights indian-law sixth-circuit-ruling statutory-interpretation superintendence treaty-interpretation treaty-of-detroit treaty-rights |
Whether the 1855 Treaty of Detroit established a federal reservation for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians? |
| 21-6357 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing |
When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a… |
| 21-6376 |
Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6378 |
Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing |
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eJ/UGlfJM' ^^<Sl'PCt^C~ f/vom*-S f-J {$- <J,-S.C.i5S3C^ luJtfoi Oe«n<-*AtuhJCr … |
| 21-6379 |
Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6383 |
Harinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation |
Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to "conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6384 |
Kimani I. Sterling v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine |
Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura… |
| 21-6389 |
Thamud Eldridge v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery categorical-crime-of-violence crime-of-violence hobbs-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-right statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a categorical crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A). This Cour… |
| 21-6391 |
Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6347 |
Justin Dwight Sholley-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process intimate-partner-violence plain-error rehaif-error restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a new trial based on plain error is required where the defendant maintained at all times during his pre-Rehaif prosecution that the state cour… |
| 21-6366 |
Juan Alberto Ceron-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing |
The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Consider Whether to Overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 21-757 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (33)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-scope enablement enablement-requirement invention-disclosure judicial-review patent patent-law statutory-interpretation undue-experimentation written-description |
1. Whether enablement is "a question of fact to be determined by the jury," Wood v. Underhill, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 1, 4 (1846), as this Court has held, o… |
| 21-6327 |
Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Should this matter been allowed to progress to a civil commitment trial since the Respondent incarcerated the Petitioner for exercising his Constit… |
| 21-6349 |
Victor Hurns v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN THE MISSISSIPPI TRIAL COURT BY THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT WAS CLEARLY ERRONEOUS AND CO… |
| 21-6350 |
Michael J. Greene v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6355 |
Everett Earl Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Whether, under the Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 shou… |
| 21-6361 |
Marcus Crawley, aka Holyfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
If a defendant pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) charge and a predicate crime of violence that is no longer valid after Davis, may a reviewing court search… |
| 21-750 |
Jasper Knabb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl… |
| 21-751 |
Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System |
Louisiana |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay |
Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State
Employees' Retirement System ("LASERS") violate
the Equal Protection Clause by defining earned compen… |
| 21-6321 |
Fernando Rodriguez-Macedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6328 |
Scottie D. Allen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof |
I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in th… |
| 21-6335 |
Chi Mak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its direction and acted unreasonably in denying Mak's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c), by … |
| 21-6286 |
Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum … |
| 21-6318 |
Michael Aaron Aldridge v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court exceeded the statutory maximum sentence of 24 months imprisonment when it imposed five separate sentences of imprisonmen… |
| 21-6319 |
Eric Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law |
When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als… |
| 21-6322 |
Gustavo Trejo-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6323 |
D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra… |
| 21-729 |
Shirene Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
The Court avoided a "vagueness shoal" in Skilling by holding that 18 U.S.C. § 1346's prohibition on schemes targeting "the intangible right of honest … |
| 21-734 |
Oklahoma v. Justin Dale Little |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-721 |
Transpacific Steel LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
delegation-of-legislative-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng national-security presidential-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-regulation |
1. Whether the President acted outside of the scope of the statutory authority Congress granted under section 232 by doubling the tariff on steel impo… |
| 21-728 |
Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality |
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7… |
| 21-6289 |
Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights by engaging in judicial fact-finding that two alleged assault con… |
| 21-6294 |
Robert Michael Junkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search |
1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af… |
| 21-6295 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 21-6297 |
Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As to both petitioners,
1. Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be … |
| 21-6298 |
Ronald David McCalister, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
I. Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6300 |
Ricky Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report? |
| 21-6265 |
Jonathan Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions |
Is a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense violated when the district court wrongfully declines to give … |
| 21-6278 |
Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attempted-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach clean-vehicle crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether an attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which may be completed even if it is abandoned before anyone knows… |
| 21-6279 |
Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the possibility-of-release after thirty years, the functional equival… |
| 21-6280 |
Johnny Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-704 |
Oklahoma v. Samantha Ann Perales |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-710 |
Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s… |
| 21-711 |
Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. v. Hasbro, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1909-act 1976-act copyright copyright-law copyright-ownership employer-employee independent-contractor statutory-interpretation work-for-hire |
Whether a party that commissions a work from an independent contractor qualifies as the creator's "employer" within the meaning of the Copyright Act o… |
| 21-6232 |
Jason Stallcup v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does completed Hobbs Act robbery qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 21-6233 |
Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine |
1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence
to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
| 21-6234 |
Edward Stain v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
| 21-6249 |
Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl… |
| 21-6253 |
Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory |
When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th… |
| 21-6255 |
Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6256 |
Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6224 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-6228 |
Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Urena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
When a notice to appear fails to include information required by statute and/or regulation, does the immigration court lack jurisdiction over the matt… |
| 21-6231 |
Christopher Lee Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this case should be remanded for the Fourth Circuit to decide the issue presented below, which is whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-… |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 21-6247 |
Andrew Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Does an inordinate delay of almost six years -- as a matter of law -- render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the … |
| 21-6248 |
Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
1/Whether federal court U.S. judge bias abuse discretion. Or error over look 28 USC 1441
2/Whether IV-D agency may deprive a parent, daughter of fit … |
| 21-6200 |
Jesus Ruiz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless.
2. Wheth… |
| 21-6201 |
Reginald Kindle v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi… |
| 21-6215 |
Lawrence Oakie, aka LBJ v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. |
| 21-683 |
John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation |
Under the Class Action Fairness Act's "local controversy" exception, a federal district court must decline jurisdiction over a class action in which, … |
| 21-6178 |
Henry Baird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-6210 |
Tony Bowen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum |
1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has
three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act
("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6212 |
Anthony De La Torriente v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation |
The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i… |
| 21-6217 |
Alberto Grajales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the
unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B)
may be sustained b… |
| 21-6218 |
Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation |
In this case of first impression, Colorado Supreme Court denied certiorari affirmed a conviction upheld by the Court of Appeals stating that an employ… |
| 21-6197 |
Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 21-672 |
Steven B. Barger v. First Data Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
cost-savings employee-rights employer-obligations employment-rights fmla fmla-restoration leave-of-absence restoration-entitlement statutory-interpretation termination |
The statutory language of the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. ("FMLA") provides that employees are "entitled to be restored" to… |
| 21-673 |
Robert Allen Austin v. James McCann, Judge, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
What Statute grants Federal and State Judges the use of Defamation 18 U.S.C. § 4101(1) in part or as a whole to deprive a United States Citizen of a P… |
| 21-674 |
North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment civil-rights discrimination-waiver eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Section 1003 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 provides that a State "shall not be immune under the Eleventh Amendment . . . from suit in F… |
| 21-675 |
Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Sons, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-support congressional-intent director-standing federal-review-jurisdiction jurisdictional-review labor-director longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act private-fund statutory-interpretation wage-loss-claims workers-compensation |
If the First Circuit had jurisdiction to review Petitioners' wage-loss claims, did its finding that a US Labor Director could oppose their claims to p… |
| 21-664 |
Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or… |
| 21-6174 |
Antonio Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6176 |
Dwaine Collymore, aka Twin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery crime-of-violence exceptional-importance federal-criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), falls outside the definition o… |
| 21-6179 |
Leoncio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6182 |
Erick Argueta Larios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten… |
| 21-6190 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6192 |
Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson |
Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his "three strikes" mandatory life sentence, pursuant to United States v. John… |
| 21-6160 |
Dennis Dean Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes |
1) Has the Eleventh Amendment barred the federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over this case where the state has been sued in federal court to … |
| 21-6161 |
Adam Rene Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION IS IN VIOLATION OF THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, AND THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEE… |
| 21-6166 |
Ángel De la Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 21-658 |
Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite … |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
For at least a decade, the petitioner has been using the registered and now-incontestable trademark "Freelancer" in commerce with various goods and se… |
| 21-6135 |
Jesus Ramirez-Barrera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail community-danger criminal-procedure detention district-court-review due-process extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion public-safety relief-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DECIDING THAT PETITIONER HAS NOT SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS; AND THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO THE CO… |
| 21-6136 |
Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation |
Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute, as three … |
| 21-6144 |
Johnnie Sims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-6145 |
Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6146 |
Keenan Rollerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o… |
| 21-6155 |
Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-644 |
Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-state-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) , should be over ruled. |
| 21-645 |
Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-646 |
Oklahoma v. Dameon Lamar Leathers |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-jurisdiction precedent-challenge stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6113 |
Clinton Rayshawn Grayson v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6123 |
Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 21-6127 |
In Re Howard Griffith |
|
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-rules habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
What was the reason for not making application for writ of habeas corpus to the district court of the district in which I am being held? (Rule 20.4[a]… |
| 21-6137 |
Vassily Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment sentencing |
1. Does it offend the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for a court to ignore legally relevant elements of an offense charged by a grand jury in a… |
| 21-6139 |
Yency Nuñez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Yency Nuñez and the government agree that, although the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act makes proof of jurisdictional facts indispensable… |
| 21-6111 |
Jonas Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S CONCLUSION THAT MR. ROSS DISTRIBUTED THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF K.P. IS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS… |
| 21-6112 |
Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California |
California |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. The California criminal street gang laws contained in section 186.22 of the California Penal Code are unconstitutional for being vague, indefinite … |
| 21-6124 |
Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6130 |
Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR. |
| 21-6131 |
Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-627 |
Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation |
The Airline Deregulation Act ("ADA") expressly preempts any state law "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(… |
| 21-631 |
Emily S. Wilson, as Executrix of the Estate of Joseph A. Wilson, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law chevron-deference foreign-trust irs-policy irs-reporting statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-penalty |
Beginning in 1997, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") required the owners of foreign trusts to file an annual Form 3520, disclosing the trust's fina… |
| 21-633 |
Gustavo Placancia-Rosendo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing standard-of-proof |
A defendant who pleads guilty will face a presentence investigation report, the results of which will guide the District Court in affixing sentence. A… |
| 21-6109 |
Jackie Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-authority probable-cause reasons-for-granting search-warrant statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. When a lower Court removes a waiver and assigns counsel for appeal, then
by asserting the waiver, they had removed, covers under its scope the deni… |
| 21-6115 |
Jaime Mayorga v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack … |
| 21-6118 |
Kevin Folse v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime |
New Mexico courts have held that the state's aggravated battery statute can be violated by unlawful touching alone. Unlawful touch that results in bod… |
| 21-6119 |
Roger Edward Picard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release |
I. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), with respect to the presumption in favor o… |
| 21-6121 |
Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an
unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes … |
| 21-6122 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF LASSITER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL ON THE RICO CONSPIRACY CHAR… |
| 21-6076 |
Lukeen Gerald v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C § 1951 (a) remains a predicate crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C § 924(c) under the elements clause after… |
| 21-6099 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing |
Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-6102 |
Anthony B. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial require both distribution of Pcp and accompanying 924.lis count be vacated
Does a convi… |
| 21-6107 |
Thomas Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6064 |
Robert William Knopping v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. |
Under what circumstances can the district court at sentencing deny the government's motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibilit… |
| 21-6071 |
Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-6077 |
Torri McCray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
| 21-6078 |
Melvin Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-608 |
Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6087 |
Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima… |
| 21-6044 |
Kenneth Jay Still v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense |
Several circuits have held that justification is a cognizable affirmative defense to the charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firear… |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes… |
| 21-6068 |
Ronald Tingle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First
Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6054 |
Benjamin Koziol v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
A. The Ninth Circuit has placed itself in conflict with several other circuits by criminalizing any baseless threat to sue as Hobbs Act extortion. Thi… |
| 21-6056 |
Terrance V. Frelix v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6060 |
Ance Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Payton's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 21-6062 |
Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED… |
| 21-6046 |
Jacques Lisbey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face and as-applied because Congress lacks the power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize… |
| 21-6049 |
Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-584 |
Agendia, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure delegation-of-authority local-coverage-determination medicare-act medicare-administrative-contractor medicare-coverage-policy medicare-policy rulemaking-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rulemaking requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 1395hh(a)(2) apply to a Medicare policy deeming all molecular diagnostic laboratory tests "investig… |
| 21-6010 |
Robert D. Sutton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres… |
| 21-6020 |
Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.… |
| 21-6027 |
Fidel Anguiano Gallardo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6028 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-6029 |
Daronnie Thompkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkin… |
| 21-5998 |
In Re Anthony Terry |
|
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… |
| 21-6002 |
Mario Bachiller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
"It has long been settled that when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories the unconstitutionality of any of the theories requires th… |
| 21-6005 |
Terrell Hunter v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-statute drug-proceeds drug-robbery federal-jurisdiction federal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Did the decisions of the district court and the court of appeals, that the commerce element of the Hobbs Act is satisfied by the robbery of moneys int… |
| 21-6007 |
Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6009 |
Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing
factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to
"impose a reduced sent… |
| 21-6014 |
Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity |
This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-568 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-5982 |
Marcus Matthews v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a conviction under Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA") § 1613-30 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of enhancing a … |
| 21-5993 |
Michael Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce |
1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm and ammunition on the sole basis that the firearm and ammunition once moved, be… |
| 21-5984 |
Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force |
(1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of t… |
| 21-552 |
Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., et al. v. Edward Anderson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
chadbourne-v-troice circuit-split covered-securities in-connection-with merrill-lynch-v-dabit securities-exchange-act securities-litigation slusa statutory-interpretation uniform-standards-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with other Courts of Appeals, erred in concluding that Troice narrowed Dabit's interpretation of SLUSA's "in co… |
| 21-551 |
John J. Watford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018
amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has
shown … |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5975 |
Modesto Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-5958 |
Aaron Christopher Pleasant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-regulation federal-power firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5960 |
Alexander Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus attempt attempt-offense criminal-law criminal-statute entrapment overt-act predisposition substantial-step |
1. Whether the requirement of a "substantial step" can be satisfied by conduct occurring after the alleged attempt has ended.
2. Whether a defendant'… |
| 21-538 |
Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
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aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic |
While Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984), requires an ineffective-assistance claimant to prove both deficient performance and prejudic… |
| 21-546 |
Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-548 |
David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict… |
| 21-5933 |
Kevin Deon Loggins, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection sentencing speedy-trial |
WHETHER THE KANSAS STATE COURT FINDING THAT PETITIONER SENT
ENCE IS NOT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE, A ABUSE OF DISCRETION REPUGNANT TO
THE DUE PROCESS CLAU… |
| 21-5940 |
Jovani Jacobo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-courts federal-prisoners judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
The federal compassionate-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits sentencing courts to release federal prisoners for "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-5944 |
Casey Ray Culp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing |
1. Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the c… |
| 21-531 |
Jerome D. Lee, Stephen E. Brown-Bennett, and Taylor Lee & Associates LLC v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
available-funds civil-procedure cja-vouchers contempt contract-authority due-process fee-inquiry judicial-discretion reimbursement standing statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
I. DID THE LOWER COURT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO, SUA SPONTE, SET ASIDE THE PETITIONERS' CONTRACTS, AND CONDUCT AN FEE INQUIRY INTO WHETHER OR NOT FUNDS W… |
| 21-528 |
Willie H. Goffney, Jr., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review medicare medicare-claims regulatory-deference regulatory-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the regulatory deference test set forth in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Kisor v. Wilkie, --- U.S. ---, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019), s… |
| 21-5930 |
Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa |
1) Is the VWPA the controlling law regarding payment of the
Order of Restitution in the underlying criminal action and is the
Ex Post Facto Clause of … |
| 21-5922 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice that occurred when lower Court unc… |
| 21-5927 |
In Re Lindsey Orr |
|
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-authorization detention-authority due-process federal-law first-time-offender legislative-intent patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
I. TVa Following &uUtUnIs Based UP5n THt Fait [ Hat Fxuptional
ti U'umshrun Vlarrant TKt txmiH Of The tourU Biuret unary Powers
Baud Upon ThU*Extrcw… |
| 21-516 |
Justin Haggerty v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
I. Whether the "interracial" nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense, and th… |
| 21-518 |
AlixPartners, LLP, et al. v. The Fund for Protection of Investors' Rights in Foreign States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1782 arbitration-proceeding commercial-dispute discovery discovery-authorization foreign-tribunal international-tribunal investor-state-arbitration investor-state-dispute section-1782 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a n ad hoc arbitration to resolve a commercial dispute between two parties is a "foreign or international tribunal" under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) … |
| 21-519 |
Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit |
Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends… |
| 21-511 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation |
1. 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) allows federal courts to issue a writ of habeas corpus ordering the transportation of a state prisoner only when necessary to br… |
| 21-5908 |
Miguel Martinez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process evidence public-trial right-to-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5915 |
Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued on the question of whether a Defendant can be imprisoned pursuant to an orally pronounced ve… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-5886 |
Sasha Trieste McGarity v. Birmingham Public Schools, dba West Maple Elementary - Bloomfield Hills |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1652 28-usc-8004 civil-procedure court-rules due-process electronic-filing federal-procedure legal-service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Does filing an answer with the court via electronic means but failing to serve the plaintiff satisfy service of process in accordance with 28 U.S. Cod… |
| 21-5891 |
Archie Ned Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation |
1. Must the "use of physical force" required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant co… |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant i… |
| 21-502 |
Oklahoma v. Terrance Lucas Cottingham |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-495 |
Dennis Black, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process erisa judicial-oversight pbgc pension-plan pension-termination statutory-interpretation |
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") carefully spells out the process to terminate a distressed pension plan insured by the Pension B… |
| 21-496 |
Martez L. Smith v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a… |
| 21-5872 |
Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 21-5874 |
Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "as if" language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti… |
| 21-5875 |
Kenneth J. Jackson, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-sentencing de-novo-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the sentencing amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) enacted by the First Step Act of 2018 (the "First Step Act", "FSA", or "Act"), Pub. L. No. … |
| 21-5879 |
Dheadry Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU… |
| 21-5881 |
In Re Marjorie Creamer |
|
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statutory-interpretation workplace-policies writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 21-484 |
Oklahoma v. Sonny Raye McCombs |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty standing statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-486 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-487 |
Oklahoma v. David Deval Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-488 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5843 |
Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
1. The federal sex trafficking statute requires that the government prove the defendant knew his/her own actions would cause the victim to engage in a… |
| 21-5845 |
Danny Collins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5846 |
Luke W. Cain v. California |
California |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-permissibility criminal-punishment double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent multiple-offenses multiple-punishments penal-code sentencing |
GENERALLY, A FEDERAL COURT MAY NOT REVIEW A STATE COURT SENTENCE THAT IS WITHIN THE STATUTORY LIMITS. IT MAY VACATE A SENTENCE, HOWEVER IF IT WAS IMPO… |
| 21-5849 |
Jason August Eisenach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing plea-bargaining sentencing |
Why did may public defender help the prosecution by delaging the trial so the prosrcution could d
3.why Did my attorney at the last sicond ask me to … |
| 21-5827 |
Jerry Ray Craine v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5829 |
Amar Taylor v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United … |
| 21-482 |
Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis |
Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o… |
| 21-5808 |
In Re Tommy Rutledge |
|
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur |
When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins… |
| 21-5810 |
Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing |
1). Was petitioner written a Califia hcale Appralablly
Lo Meni Mthethsr Lhe EE ee don
REFUSED fo Conatrue 02 anabyge Led of une 11, 1185,
Li" Lag, RS,… |
| 21-5812 |
Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review |
"WHETHER THE U.S. FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT APPELLANT CARLOS VELAZQUEZ-FONTANEZ IS "ACTUALLY INNOCENT" OF VIOLATING… |
| 21-5815 |
Jose Antonio Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5822 |
Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-5797 |
George Verkler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct plea-agreement presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing |
Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read what a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court, or if t… |
| 21-5804 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states |
Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the
knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191
(201… |
| 21-465 |
James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the term "relevant official service department records" in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s "reconsideration" provision encompasses all records that … |
| 21-470 |
Eric Lee Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er… |
| 21-462 |
Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal… |
| 21-5789 |
KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation |
It is a federal offense for a person who is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to knowing… |
| 21-5775 |
Peter George Noe, aka Ghost v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5782 |
Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order because the court based its analysis on two clearly erroneous facts—the a… |
| 21-5783 |
Brian D. Smith v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a "critical Stage" requiring the assistance of counsel for a person "too poor" to hire one at the follo… |
| 21-5787 |
In Re Randall Thomas McArty |
|
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion
enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio
of nelease or paude.
2). Whether 28 usc 246 … |
| 21-5769 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
1. In light of the fact that actual innocence supported by newly discovered evidence acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus by applying 2244(b… |
| 21-5772 |
Charles Eason v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation |
I.
When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of
A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as
a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ?
II.
If… |
| 21-5731 |
Sheridan Sisk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-5743 |
Rafael Fernandez Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is it appropriate for a court to apply old policy statements, specifically reserved for agencies to follow, to new statutory constructions that eli… |
| 21-5745 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage trial-counsel |
(1) .Was reversible error, committed pursuant to; STRICKLAND
vs.WASHINGTON; MAPLE vsTHOMAS; UNITED STATE vs.HILLSMAN : ,
when trial counsel abandoned … |
| 21-5746 |
In Re Conghau Huu To |
|
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5755 |
Kevin L. Frost v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Petitioner contends that the sentencing court
did not follow the proper statutory procedure with
the improper weighing of mitigating and aggravating… |
| 21-5758 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause invalidated in Unit… |
| 21-443 |
William Beaumont Hospital v. United States, ex rel. David Felten |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure employee employment-status false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) protects an "employee" against retaliation for trying to stop a violation of the False Claims Act. The question presented is wh… |
| 21-445 |
Floyd Calhoun Dent, III v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute federal-healthcare-programs healthcare-fraud independent-contractor independent-contractors marketing medical-referral referral remuneration sales-commission statutory-interpretation |
Whether the AKS prohibits the payment of sales commissions to independent contractors who make marketing presentations to physicians but who are not m… |
| 21-427 |
William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. |
| 21-429 |
Oklahoma v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (22)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-jurisdiction |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
1.
THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION
OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS
RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS
A RESULT OF GIV… |
| 21-5735 |
Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of
production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's
Due Process … |
| 21-5738 |
Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5712 |
George Ferrer Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion right-to-appeal sentencing |
Across all federal circuits, the courts of appeals have held that, as part of a plea agreement with the government, a criminal defendant can waive his… |
| 21-5717 |
Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5723 |
Juan Manuel Pardo-Oseguera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error presentence-report safety-valve sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-minimum weapons-enhancement |
A defendant in a federal criminal case, under the appropriate circumstances, is eligible for a reduction of 2 offense levels and to be sentenced witho… |
| 21-5724 |
Devin Lee Rintye v. California |
California |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation |
Does a State Court Violate a defendant's due process rights, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court … |
| 21-5725 |
Sergio Amaya-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-u.s.c.s.-991(b) 5th-circuit circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing role-adjustment sentencing-fairness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court has qualified the minor and minimal role adjustment commentary under U.S.S.G. §3 B1.2 such that the sentences in cons… |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5699 |
Al-Kareem Rasool-Rachmaan Collier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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| 21-5710 |
Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
A Criminal Defendant's initial Habeas Corpus action, filed for the purpose determining the validty of the statutes convicted and sentence under, as be… |
| 21-5693 |
Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5694 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights elements-of-offense federal-sentencing maximum-sentence minimum-sentence sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be treated as elements of the defendant's offense for constitutio… |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 21-5673 |
Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 18 USC 2251(a) is overbroad in that it provides punishment
for constitutionally protected activity in the inducement of consensual
pro… |
| 21-5675 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing |
WAS PETITIONER NOT OWED THE MIMISTERIOL DUTY BU THE JS. DIBTRICT COURT OF A FOL AND FOIR HEARING OF TUE FIIED S ZZSY LOBEAS CRPUS?
ACCORDING TO US. C… |
| 21-5661 |
Raymond Moya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss |
PROPOSITION ONE: Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 in that there was insufficient evidence that the heroin … |
| 21-5664 |
Maurice L. Ross v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 24(c), since the elements of Hobbs Act robbery, especially atte… |
| 21-5671 |
Vicente Corona v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons sentencing-disparities sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether "Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons" to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-400 |
Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether it violates the separation of powers for executive branch officials to keep a person in civil detention on the basis of factual findings th… |
| 21-401 |
ZF Automotive US, Inc., et al. v. Luxshare, Ltd. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8) |
arbitration-law civil-procedure evidence-gathering federal-jurisdiction foreign-tribunal international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a), which permits litigants to invoke the authority of United States courts to render assistance in gathering evidence for us… |
| 21-404 |
United States v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation |
Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers who perform services at a specified federal facility is… |
| 21-5647 |
Adolphus Symonette v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-proceeding certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-discretion habeas-corpus post-offense-rehabilitation reasonable-jurists resentencing sentencing |
Whether reasonable jurists would find the district court's decision to vacate Count 3 of the second superseding indictment while simultaneously denyin… |
| 21-5650 |
Carl Richard Samson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-5657 |
Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This petition presents a straightforward case for certiorari review. The question presented is whether, under the categorical approach of the elements… |
| 21-5659 |
Willie Powell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms united-states-v-lopez |
WHETHER THE "MINIM AL NEXUS" TEST EMPLOYED BY THE ELEVENTH
CIRCUIT TO AFFIRM MR. POWELL'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C.
§922(G) AS A FELON IN POSSESSION … |
| 21-5633 |
Roland J. McLain v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5610 |
Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51, malicious wounding, is a a crime of violence.
2. Whether acquitted conduct is a proper sentencing factor.
3. Wheth… |
| 21-5625 |
Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United … |
| 21-5627 |
William Brinson Ball v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States. |
| 21-5631 |
Elton Vallare v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5636 |
Peter Hurley v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-preservation government-misconduct plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to
28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-386 |
Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 21-369 |
Oklahoma v. Bea Ann Epperson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-370 |
Oklahoma v. Travis Dray Stewart |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-371 |
Oklahoma v. Jeffery Arch Jones |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-372 |
Oklahoma v. Charles Michael Cooper |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-373 |
Oklahoma v. Joses Ric-E Beck |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5589 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing |
1. whether the United States District Court or not has jurisdiction to grant Habeas Corpus relief for WNH pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241
2. whether or no… |
| 21-5595 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND
(B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE
OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 21-5601 |
Abdullah Hamidullah v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colloquy constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
1. DID. THE DISTRICT'COURT VIOLATE THE DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL DUE
PROCESS RIGHTS DURING THE MANDATORY RULE 11 COLLOGUY?
2. DID THE COURT ERR WHEN TH… |
| 21-5603 |
Alphonse Gainer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of … |
| 21-5604 |
Daniel Chase Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military install… |
| 21-5584 |
Guerly Alexis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5586 |
Tyrone Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act motion-to-vacate sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery meets the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-5574 |
Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-348 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. In Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, this Court held that courts should "not invoke any presumption against pre-emption" when a "s… |
| 21-339 |
Ali Hamza Suliman Al Bahlul v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion agency-head appointments-clause binding-upon-all executive-power final-and-conclusive judicial-review principal-officer sole-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Is an agency head, who is statutorily given the
"sole discretion and prerogative" to make "final and
conclusive" decisions in adjudications that ar… |
| 21-5560 |
Gary Lamar Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes |
1. Whether Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) liability, which only requires that a conspirator reasonably foresee the substantive crimes… |
| 21-5563 |
William Ferguson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-242 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense section-924c statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether a defendant's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) should be vacated, where each § 924(c) charge had, as an underlying predicate, a vi… |
| 21-5565 |
Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing |
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Whether delendant was the ^ deried the Oppurtunity to hry CRoss - examine the key Goveenment witness.
II. Whether remand is requrees to deteemines… |
| 21-5572 |
Kamau Alan Israel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for… |
| 21-5551 |
Floyd Flugence v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-evidence louisiana second-degree-murder specific-intent sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support, the finding of guilt, in accordance with La. R.S. 14:30.1 (Second Degree Murder) where there was no… |
| 21-5555 |
Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court Sanction vs. Washington delete US 068 (4284) lower Courts to present defense atheists to Violate co defendants Cig to a fair an… |
| 21-319 |
Oklahoma v. Nacole Ryan Bain |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-320 |
Oklahoma v. Robert William Perry, II |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-321 |
Oklahoma v. Ryan Cortlan Johnson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-322 |
Oklahoma v. Joseph Harjo |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-323 |
Oklahoma v. Michael Eugene Spears |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-324 |
Oklahoma v. Kadetrix Devon Grayson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-325 |
Oklahoma v. Matthew Steven Janson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-law due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-326 |
Oklahoma v. Devin Warren Sizemore |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-327 |
Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-332 |
William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, is relief available under 28 USC §2241 and 28 USC. §2255 (e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existant… |
| 21-334 |
In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer |
|
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
|
article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing |
Federal marijuana laws are constitutional because marijuana is not a
fundamental right. Judicial review of these criminal laws has been rational
basis… |
| 21-309 |
Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are … |
| 21-316 |
Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
This Petition seeks to resolve a circuit conflict.
Persons convicted of a federal offense can file a petition to challenge their convictions pursuant … |
| 21-5520 |
Brunson Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-liberty judicial-review legal-precedent patent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question 1:
What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where
Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos… |
| 21-5523 |
Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt |
I. Does the jurisdictional element "in or affecting interstate commerce" in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce … |
| 21-296 |
AMN Services, LLC v. Verna Clarke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
employee-reimbursement fair-labor-standards-act overtime overtime-compensation per-diem-allowance per-diem-allowances regular-rate statutory-interpretation traveling-expenses |
Whether, under the FLSA, per-diem allowances for traveling expenses, which are reduced when the employee fails to work a contractually required shift,… |
| 21-297 |
Travis Croft v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding
that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking, S.C.
Code § 16-3-1075, is categorically a crime of … |
| 21-299 |
Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a "prevailing party" entitled to attorney's fees. |
| 21-5508 |
Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Upon 8/04/15 (9) Court's Denial of Petitioner's Constitutional Violation of Petitioner's USC Fourteenth Amendment due process Clause, equal protection… |
| 21-5494 |
In Re Eric W. Poirier |
|
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing |
Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Court … |
| 21-5503 |
Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5504 |
Eric Worley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 21-5477 |
Clifford Senter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-5478 |
Ulises Alvarado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conditions-of-release COVID-19 covid-19-test criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-procedure revocation supervised-release |
Is it a violation of due process for a defendant to have his supervised release revoked for declining to take a COVID-19 test that was not clearly a c… |
| 21-5479 |
Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the plain meaning of "properly filed" in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j… |
| 21-5480 |
Charles Bryant v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man… |
| 21-5481 |
James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Watts Sentence OF Petitioner Withut The Possibit OF Parores Life AI ETE, Loot Committed IAC1 the RAU ERROR Durins Gentecing When Phaud have Kn… |
| 21-5484 |
Sylvia Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase |
Petitioner plead guilty to one count of conspiring to commit straw purchases of firearms (as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6)) in violation of 18 U… |
| 21-271 |
Raymond Benitez v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-immunity civil-procedure fourth-circuit governmental-unit hospital-authority local-government private-hospitals statutory-interpretation |
Can a multibillion-dollar "hospital authority"
that operates in multiple States in a manner
indistinguishable from private hospitals be a
"local go… |
| 21-273 |
Buck Gene Brune v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing |
Under the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, upon a defendant's plea of guilty, does jeopardy attach:
a. when the district court accepts the d… |
| 21-274 |
Oklahoma v. Johnny Edward Mize, II |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-25 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
criminal-law due-process federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-v-oklahoma |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-269 |
Anthony Carter v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements |
In a sufficiency analysis under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), may a reviewing court uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by te… |
| 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… |
| 21-5455 |
Emmanuel Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power firearms firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a fire arm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5457 |
Brian Fierro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 21-5460 |
Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi… |
| 21-5461 |
Tyrone Felder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) cell-site-evidence crime-of-violence hobbs-act intangible-asset new-york-robbery physical-force property statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Hobbs Act violence a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? Under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), an offense quali… |
| 21-5462 |
James Michael Kerns v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Question I. If Count 3 charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 is without legal, constitutional foundation as it alleges a crime of violence in Count … |
| 21-5463 |
Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the "interests of justice" and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 143, 129 S. Ct. 1423… |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Ceetificate of Appealalontith Sterting: AppEllant has Not Made A "SubstantiAl Shawing
PEtition andl HIS Habeas CoRAs PEtitin that His SixthAmendment C… |
| 21-5446 |
Robert Carter v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maximum-penalty plea-bargaining sentencing third-degree-murder trial-counsel |
WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL ADEQUATELY AND EFFECTIVELY ASSISTED PETITIONER IN DECIDING WHETHER TO ACCEPT A PLEA OFFER OF 15 TO 30 YEARS WHERE COUNSEL FAILED… |
| 21-256 |
Bilal Hamid Love v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance
of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline
sentenc… |
| 21-257 |
Oklahoma v. Jimmie Dewayne Starr |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-258 |
Oklahoma v. Donta Keith Davis |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-procedure due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-259 |
Oklahoma v. Arnold Dean Howell |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-251 |
Oklahoma v. William Clayton Brown |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law indian-law judicial-review mcgirt-precedent oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-252 |
Oklahoma v. Shannon James Kepler |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-case criminal-law federal-indian-law legal-precedent mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-253 |
Oklahoma v. Christopher Jason Hathcoat |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-procedure federal-indian-law judicial-review jurisdiction McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-254 |
Oklahoma v. Jordan Batice Mitchell |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-procedure federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-255 |
Oklahoma v. Grant N. Jackson, IV |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
I.
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds
attributable to Mr. Bucio.
II.
Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5423 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk, aka James Cabbagestalk v. William Berley, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5425 |
Jay J. Sawatzky v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession first-amendment judicial-discretion racist-paraphernalia racist-views sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
May a sentencing judge impose an upward variance on a defendant convicted of possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, based on that defendant's … |
| 21-5431 |
Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR… |
| 21-5432 |
Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to support Rehaif's knowledge-of-status element in a prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a misdemeanor … |
| 21-5436 |
William D. Dickerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-5387 |
Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment |
1. Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h), where Petitioner was not charged with nor engaged in "f… |
| 21-5409 |
Antonyo Reece v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure |
Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho… |
| 21-5413 |
Antoine L. Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict… |
| 21-5414 |
Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN IT VIEWED THE EVIDENCE AT SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THE LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO PETITIONER AND DENIED H… |
| 21-5382 |
Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing |
Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report. |
| 21-5391 |
Jermontae Moss v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole? |
| 21-5397 |
Jesse Carey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery |
Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi… |
| 21-5400 |
Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 21-5401 |
Shawn R. Wilson v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5402 |
Ronald E. West v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5404 |
Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
Whether the appellate court erred when it enforced the waiver keeping the Defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights… |
| 21-5407 |
Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO… |
| 21-234 |
Kevin R. George v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error disability-claim plain-meaning pro-veteran-system statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denies a veteran's claim for benefits in reliance on an agency interpretation that is later deemed invali… |
| 21-222 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing |
1. Whether, on plain error review, the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the … |
| 21-5386 |
Michael Kenneth Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5353 |
Michael Napper v. Artis Singleton, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5365 |
Mark Lee Wilkinson v. Siobhan Burtlow, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction conviction-challenge habeas-corpus new-judgment petition-filing sentence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation successive-petitions time-limitation |
Whether, consistent with this Court's holdings in Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147 (2007), an intervening new judgment between two habeas petitions res… |
| 21-5373 |
Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 21-206 |
Mourice Neal v. City of Detroit, Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-compliance constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-oath judicial-power legal-jurisdiction standing state-law-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. United States constitution is the supreme law governing this land correct?
2. All judges in every state is bound by oath or affirmation federal an… |
| 21-202 |
Mylan Laboratories Ltd. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction inter-partes-review judicial-review nhk-fintiv-rule patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) categorically preclude appeal of all decisions not to institute inter partes review?
2. Is the NHK-Fintiv Rule substantive… |
| 21-203 |
John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the "savings clause" of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e).
2… |
| 21-5348 |
James H. Bates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation section-404 sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-5350 |
Bobby Earl Keys v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED THE WRONGED APPELLATE
STANDARD OF REVIEW TO CLAIM THAT DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STATUTORY ERROR
UNDER 1… |
| 21-5358 |
Leonel Rodriguez-Caraveo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-5345 |
Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Leonard Thurman filed suit against Respondent Medical Transportation Management, Inc. for failure to provide transportation, which is guara… |
| 21-5346 |
Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5332 |
Efrain Hidalgo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitute… |
| 21-5340 |
Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing |
Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the… |
| 21-194 |
California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (3) |
federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law |
The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act ("FA") expressly preempts state laws "related to a price, route, or service, of any motor carrie… |
| 21-5392 |
Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5322 |
André J. Twitty v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness |
Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut… |
| 21-5324 |
Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
At sentencing, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(3)(B) gives a district court two options for addressing any "controverted matter": "rule on th… |
| 21-5335 |
Omar Israel-Griffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-provisions contract-law cooperation criminal-procedure due-process federal-procurement government-contract government-discretion plea-agreement statutory-interpretation withdrawal |
When a defendant enters a plea agreement (guilty/nolo contendere), providing that the government is allowed to withdraw if the government believes the… |
| 21-5336 |
Theodore Howard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Theodore Howard/ was denied his United States Constitutional fourteenth/ and Sixth amendment due-process rights/ to fair notice of the … |
| 21-5314 |
Thomas Brantley Jenkins, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing district-court-review judicial-discretion motion-analysis primary-contentions sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation written-findings |
WHEN RULING ON A MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), DOES A DISTRICT COURT FULLY CONSIDER THE FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.… |
| 21-5326 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 attempted-crime attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a). |
| 21-183 |
Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause, which in relevant part prohibits conspiracies "to defraud the United States," reaches any conspiracy whos… |
| 21-5310 |
Marcus Daniel Silver v. Bertram Siegel, et al. |
California |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
30-day-rule civil-procedure federal-court-procedure filing-deadlines jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-removal receipt-of-complaint service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
I. NOTICE OF REMOVAL:
According to the plain language meaning of 28 U.S. Code §1446, the notice of
removal of a civil action or proceeding shall be fi… |
| 21-5311 |
Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5319 |
John Louis Devencenzi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation |
By its plain language, federal carjacking can be committed by "intimidation." 18 U.S.C. § 2119. This Court recognizes carjacking by intimidation is sa… |
| 21-5308 |
Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony |
1. Is PETITIDNER ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREM COURTS CLARIFYING
INTERPRETATION OF THE WITNESS INTIMIDATION
STATUTE, PA.C.S.A.S49… |
| 21-169 |
James Gatto, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-1843 criminal-law federal-statute incidental-harms jury-instructions property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-text united-states-v-kelly wire-fraud |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1343—the federal wire fraud statute—requires the Government to prove, consistent with section 1343's statutory text, that the "… |
| 21-170 |
Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness only if, under 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 2 (now subsection 112(b)) as construed by Nautilus,… |
| 21-171 |
Joel Zupnik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (21) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Since this Court's 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), federal courts have deferred… |
| 21-165 |
In Re Gracie E. McBroom |
|
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision in their agreem… |
| 21-5296 |
Patrick C. Lynn v. Debra Lundry |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-144 administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection physical-injury recusal reverse-error statutory-duty statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5299 |
John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing… |
| 21-5279 |
Ernest Francis v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5284 |
Albert Lamont Hector v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process federal-appeals-courts fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment state-high-courts |
Whether sentences based on acquitted conduct violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or Sixth Amendment's jury-trial guarantee, a question th… |
| 21-143 |
Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a
"controlled substance offense" as one that includes
"the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi… |
| 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? |
| 21-133 |
Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit, in a sharply divided en banc decision, erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that "intra-agency memorandum… |
| 21-134 |
Jesus Vasquez, Jr., et ux. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Trust F |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-code debtor-rights dewsnup-v-timm judicial-precedent lien lien-valuation secured-claim secured-claims statutory-interpretation unsecured-claim |
Section 506(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code states that "[a]n allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien * * * is a secured claim to the extent of the… |
| 21-126 |
Lucio A. Barroga v. Board of Administration of California Public Employees' Retirement System |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation |
A) DID the refusal or denial of the MEMORANDUM of Feb. 23, 2021 and the
ORDER of May 26, 2021 to interpret the issues of questions of laws, ISSUES I, … |
| 21-5266 |
Alla V. Stepanets v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1) Whether a defendant "dispenses" drugs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(l)(B) when they are shipped to a medical facility where a physician will write… |
| 21-5231 |
Shaun J. Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of… |
| 21-5248 |
Davion L. Jefferson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the
Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 21-5250 |
Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller |
Whether this Court should grant Certiorari because the Eighth Circuit opinion overlooked the binding precedent set forth in U.S. v. Miller when determ… |
| 21-5253 |
John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR… |
| 21-5264 |
In Re Melvin Dinkins |
|
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
What are the "usages and principles" of law, in this case 28 USC 3730 (b)(1) - when legislature proclaims "A person may bring a civil action for the p… |
| 21-124 |
Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation |
Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation. |
| 21-115 |
Ivan Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas… |
| 21-5233 |
Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 21-5234 |
Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5235 |
Vincent Holton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Whether t he District Court Wrongly Denied Petitioner's Request for a Jury Instruction on Entrapment ?
2. Whether t he Court Erred by Allowing the… |
| 21-5240 |
Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-5241 |
Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5198 |
Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing |
1. When a judge openly admits bias against an appellant in which he was not only the trial judge but also the sentencing, shouldn't the remedy afforde… |
| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5221 |
Andre M. Adams v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding petition standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5210 |
Trojan Hart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-restrictions jury-instructions right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-review shackling |
(1) Whether the district court erred when it shackled Hart and co-defendant Sharpe?
(2) Whether the district court interfered with the right to couns… |
| 21-5211 |
Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing |
1. Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense?
2. Where multiple additional errors affected petitioner's convicti… |
| 21-102 |
Marcus Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-104 |
Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can there be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the protection… |
| 21-5193 |
Vernon Collins v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing |
DID THE NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ERR IN CONCLUDING CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES IMPOSED OUTSIDE PETITIONER'S PRESENCE IN OPEN COURT SOME … |
| 21-94 |
Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation |
The definition of "child" in Section 1101(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act includes "a child legitimated under the law of the child's [or … |
| 21-95 |
David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii |
Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui… |
| 21-91 |
Wesley Perkins v. Whitney Brewster, Executive Director, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelled-arbitration constitutional-challenge criminal-sanctions due-process pleading-standard standing statutory-challenge statutory-interpretation transportation-code vehicle-definition |
Statutory Challenge
1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional," as applied?
2. Are sanctions abusive?
Pleading standard
3. Was it abusive to orde… |
| 21-5172 |
Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5173 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit Split and decide if a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U. S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper ex… |
| 21-5174 |
Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5175 |
Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5177 |
Skyler Chiras v. Jill Marshall, Superintendent, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-orders due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5179 |
Stanford R. Coleman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-avoidance court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-state-conflict judicial-review legal-interpretation standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court is required to consider the doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance in any case involving either validity or extension of Almendarez-T… |
| 21-5185 |
Lexton Pellew v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction-count criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-review sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-error |
The petitioner was not charged with aiding and abetting in counts 11-14 but the court allowed the jury verdict on those counts based upon an admittedl… |
| 21-5186 |
Mihran Melkonyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1.)
Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in
conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 21-5145 |
Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED.ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING AND/OR DECLINING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY UPON THE CONTENTION … |
| 21-5154 |
Dakota Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction |
In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-5157 |
Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is the appeals court correct? Does 28 U.S.C. § 2106 or any federal statute authorize "a lesser included offense" of an unconstitutional statute, taken… |
| 21-5158 |
Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5160 |
Rodney Ledell Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-5164 |
Larry G. Coker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration |
(A) That Judge Hili re-sentenced Coker to 25 years on uct. 2008/ which was 5 tiroes the amount aiioweo dv iaw/ cruei and unusual punishment/ violated … |
| 21-82 |
Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department |
In enacting and amending the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Congress vested the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to administer, interpret, and en… |
| 21-83 |
William H. Sorkpor v. The Harlo Fenway |
First Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination minority-rights section-1982 spending-power statutory-interpretation title-viii |
Whether Congress intended the Fair Housing Act to be construed — technically and broadly —to ensure that the Title VIII protection of a minority home-… |
| 21-5142 |
Michael Angelo Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ… |
| 21-5144 |
Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015… |
| 21-5146 |
Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district
court's us… |
| 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 … |
| 21-5132 |
Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 21-5136 |
Ledaniel Vernell Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10-1-provision civil-rights drug-laws due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation markup-provision metric-calculation mixture-metric opportunity-gain sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5138 |
In Re Willie S. Smith |
|
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acquittal aedpa-review exceptional-circumstances finality-of-verdict habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review jury-verdict non-capital-case statutory-interpretation |
Whether transfer to the District Court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional non-capita… |
| 21-69 |
John Allison Huckabay v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felonies felony-prosecution public-welfare-offenses scienter scienter-requirement |
Without any requirement or proof of scienter, Petitioner was convicted of unlawful possession of a moose carcass out of season, a felony under Idaho l… |
| 21-5114 |
Mario Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights |
Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da… |
| 21-5128 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud |
Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 21-5097 |
Johann Brito v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation |
A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-5110 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The district court, on remand for resentencing after failing or iginally to permit
allocution by petitioner, reimposed the original sentence witho ut … |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5112 |
David Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-5122 |
Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines where Mr. Velasquez-Can… |
| 21-5125 |
Reginald Lamont Thomas v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-consideration civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-council judicial-suspension retroactive-application sentencing-limits statutory-interpretation suspension time-limits |
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si/epeiisioii of +iwe… |
| 21-54 |
In Re Chad Anthony Ray |
|
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure |
Whether "liberty" in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power?
Whether the operation and effects… |
| 21-56 |
Timothy Muir v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury |
The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 21-58 |
Sassine Razzouk v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA? |
| 21-5100 |
Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First Step Act § 404 relief from his mandatory life sentence under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), where the distr… |
| 21-5101 |
Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release |
1) Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement, where conc… |
| 21-5104 |
John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether "Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons" to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5105 |
Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999) that during a carjacking, a person's intent to seriously harm or ki… |
| 21-5107 |
Willie C. Walker v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
berkovitz-test civil-rights discretionary-function-exception due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judicial-review policy-considerations statutory-interpretation |
Exceptions pursuant to which the government is not subject to suit, even if a private employer could be liable under the same circumstances. These exc… |
| 21-5109 |
Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals was required to answer or resolve the legal questions presented to it, or if it may instead "overlook " or "evade " the … |
| 21-5077 |
Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5086 |
Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard |
Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the "lawful course of professional practice" is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f… |
| 21-5089 |
Martin Thomas Lawrence v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1. Whether, in light of trial counsel's express admission that he underestimated Petitioner's sentencing exposure if he went to trial, this Court shou… |
| 21-5096 |
Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5072 |
Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5057 |
Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Should this Court mend the circuit split about whether a Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent as the Ninth and eight other circuits have held, or … |
| 21-5060 |
Kevin Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr… |
| 21-5063 |
Sammy Cano v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
1. Whether or not the State failed to prove Sammy Cano guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only witness to the crime directly contradicted her … |
| 21-5064 |
Brandi Channon and Matthew Channon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-981 criminal-forfeiture forfeiture in-personam in-personam-order joint-and-several-liability joint-liability money-judgment rewards-fraud statutory-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
1) Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit the entry of an in personam money judgment in lieu of tainted property?
2) Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit joint and several… |
| 21-5065 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry… |
| 21-5068 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion family-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions motion-for-relief race sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Griffin's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 21-5069 |
William Paul Burch v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process judicial-overreach jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
Is a Circuit court allowed to establish new precedence by disregarding and/or overruling twenty-four statutes written by the Congress of the United St… |
| 21-5043 |
Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5045 |
Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release |
I. Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to a… |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh… |
| 21-5047 |
Michael Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-5026 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure procedural-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5028 |
David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 21-5029 |
Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5030 |
Jonathan Mark Brinda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence sentencing sentencing-considerations statutory-considerations statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A. AFTER DETERMINING MR. BRINDA HAD VIOLATED THE TERMS OF HIS SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY SENTENCING MR. BRINDA EXCESSIVELY BASED … |
| 21-5011 |
Anthony Farmer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing among de… |
| 21-5012 |
Brian David Johnsen v. California |
California |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process jury reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 21-5013 |
Arnold Council v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law direct-liability elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as to either direct or accomplice l… |
| 21-5014 |
John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5017 |
Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-5021 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 21-7 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Leymis Carolina Velasquez, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
adjustment-of-status administrative-law admission-criteria immigration immigration-law lawful-permanent-resident permanent-residency statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether, under 8 U.S.C. 1254a(f)(4), a grant of temporary protected status must be treated as an admission into the United States for purposes of a fo… |
| 21-5001 |
Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in Section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) amended by Public Act 91-404 that was declared unc… |
| 21-5002 |
Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations |
An undercover officer created a fake social media profile for a fictitious 18-year-old woman on a website where a user must expressly represent her ag… |
| 21-5008 |
Brittany Crownhart v. Anne Magill Collins |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-review property-rights search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 21-2 |
K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference chevron-deference erisa fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-benefits plan-termination statutory-interpretation |
Has the D.C. Circuit improperly extended Chevron deference to PBGC's construction of ambiguous statutory provisions in informal, non-binding adjudicat… |
| 20-8465 |
Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not… |
| 20-8466 |
Paul Anthony Ashby v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator-liability constitutional-limitations criminal-law dc-charter district-of-columbia inherent-power judicial-power legislative-authority pinkerton-doctrine separation-of-powers |
As both the United States and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals recognized in this case, the Pinkerton doctrine of co-conspirator liability is… |
| 20-8469 |
Lamont Benedict Nelson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8475 |
Plutarco Angulo-Aguirre v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure conspiracy criminal-law due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8477 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release |
1. WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S PETITION AS MOOT BEFORE ALLOWING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY APPEAL TO SHOW THAT HIS APPEAL MEETS… |
| 20-8452 |
Keith Lamar Lott, aka Kevin Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8460 |
Marcus Snipes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC… |
| 20-8448 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, … |
| 20-8453 |
Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal… |
| 20-1809 |
VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two-st… |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-8417 |
David Sutton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-assault crime-of-violence due-process possession-of-firearm second-amendment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied?
2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the
district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from
the Fourth Circu… |
| 20-1801 |
Darrel Mendez v. NRZ REO X LLC |
Arizona |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consumer-protection deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-waiver takings trustee-sale |
Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability? |
| 20-1803 |
Evelyn Sineneng-Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alien-status constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process first-amendment immigration-law standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Do the terms "encouraging" and "inducing" an alien to reside in the
United States, within the meaning of 8 U. S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), extend to t… |
| 20-8398 |
Jonathan Jerome Hills v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-justice criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion procedural-opportunity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether differences in procedural opportunity arising from the fact that a defendant is statutorily eligible for relief under the First Step Act, such… |
| 20-8399 |
Clarence O. Hopkins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-criminal mandatory-supervised-release pre-trial-detention sentencing speedy-trial |
Wsappellate Coseieffective o ing incue
a ha hi iioe pentfo
speedy trial violation? |
| 20-8429 |
Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv… |
| 20-8431 |
Brandon Kendale Dudley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the use of the preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing to substantially enhance a criminal defendant's advisory guideline range c… |
| 20-8432 |
Robert L. Garza v. Donald Kleine, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Does a judge exceed his legal authority by making factual findings by a preponderance of the evidence which expose a defendant to the elevated upper t… |
| 20-8402 |
Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi… |
| 20-8403 |
Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-8407 |
Daniel Littlepage v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-murder criminal-procedure due-process orc-2945.06 plea-bargaining post-release-control sentencing three-judge-panel |
1. Is the Petitioner's Due Process Rights Violated Due to the
requiring a Three-Judge Panel Violation of O.R.C. ' 2945.06
for Aggravated Murder?
2. … |
| 20-1778 |
Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the "hazardou… |
| 20-1789 |
Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 |
Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar… |
| 20-1763 |
Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
Should disability-related interference claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 12203(b) be analyzed as retaliation claims susceptible to a burden-shift… |
| 20-1765 |
Donald S. Harden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli… |
| 20-1772 |
Branden Edward Shumate v. California |
California |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court |
I. Whether a Trial Court Deprives a Defendant of His Right to Counsel by Discharging a Defendant's Hired Attorney of Choice Just Before Trial Was to S… |
| 20-8373 |
Kevin Herriott v. Associate Warden Ford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements legal-mail mail-room procedural-law standing state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS MISUNDERSTOOD THE GOVERNING RULE OF LAW THAT THE RIGHT TO DISCOVERY WAS PREDICATED UPON? |
| 20-8384 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8386 |
Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE … |
| 20-8349 |
Thomas Gordon v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8351 |
Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY REVERSED THE DISTRICT COURT ON THE ISSUE OF LAW OF WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD VALID SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDIC… |
| 20-8359 |
James Christopher Castle v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Relief is sought from void ab initio emergency judicial order which void issued are dedicated upon an operation by Eastern District of California Chie… |
| 20-8361 |
Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 1201 (the federal kidnapping statute) requires, as an element, a nexus between the kidnapping and interstate commerce, Does a purely local… |
| 20-8362 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment judge-made-law Pinkerton-liability substantive-offense substantive-offenses |
1. May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspirac… |
| 20-8364 |
David Gilmartin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-sentencing earnings-definition economic-circumstances probation-conditions restitution restitution-order sentencing social-security social-security-benefits statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an increase in a defendant's monthly receipts and revenue from $0 (zero) at time of sentencing to $3000 after release from prison and award… |
| 20-8367 |
Kiera Shanice Graham v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-decision |
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| 20-8369 |
Clarence Clark v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c… |
| 20-8370 |
Loranzo Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of Borden v. United States, -- U.S. --, -- S. Ct. -, 2021 WL 2367312 (U.S. June 10, 2021), aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery by … |
| 20-8372 |
Martez Howard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 20-8343 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing |
On third direct appeal, did the fractionally different appellate Panel plainly err by failing to force district court compliance (mandate rule) with t… |
| 20-8345 |
Ricky Parkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof confrontation-clause due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Proce… |
| 20-8346 |
Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191
(2019) — when it omitted the knowledge of immigration status… |
| 20-8347 |
Terron McAllister v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a District Court adjudicating a motion for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act abuses its discretion when a defendant would have a sig… |
| 20-8325 |
Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8330 |
Ilmane Charone Campas Strong v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-8300 |
Lonnie Norton v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
(N) Do this Court's rulings in Apprend: v. New Jersey,530U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States 577 U.S.99 (2013) require that when a state stat… |
| 20-8306 |
Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent |
Whether the "government inducement" element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent. |
| 20-8310 |
Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 20-8320 |
James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Should the Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted for the lack of Jurisdiction? Suggested answer: Yes. Respondents |
| 20-8323 |
Clint Raymond Webb v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-created statutory-interpretation |
If a state creates a liberty interest by providing a procedural mechanism to enforce and ensure a defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial, … |
| 20-1726 |
Roy J. Meidinger v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure contract contractual-relationship federal-claims-court iRS-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-relief-and-healthcare-act-of-2006 tax-whistleblower whistleblower whistleblower-claims |
The questions presented for review, deal with aspects of a single subject matter reference, The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, Pub. L. 109 —4… |
| 20-1732 |
Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-8284 |
Harold Gashe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Is it fair and equal justice for defendants who present under that the previously harsh 924(c) stacking is an extraordinary and compelling reason dese… |
| 20-8295 |
Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-8296 |
Carrington Sturgis v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the memos of the remire were boad against apelent cut or Austaticr
Dathe court abue Hs discretion in 4ailing to addess apellants reguest to d… |
| 20-8304 |
Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as… |
| 20-8280 |
Trent Slone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal drug-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearms firearms-violation presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
1.Does the presumption of innocence and the due process clause of
the Fifth Amendment protect a defendant at a firearms violation
sentencing when th… |
| 20-8285 |
Enrique Hurtado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force statutory-interpretation |
L. By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The p… |
| 20-8286 |
Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent, where… |
| 20-8287 |
Kenneth Wayne Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-8292 |
Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa |
Does the government have the authority to dictate sovereign particular state, federal trial will be prosecuted other than the state according to the D… |
| 20-8272 |
Roberto Luis Rene Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights correction double-jeopardy due-process judgment-commitment judicial-correction life-liberty sentencing |
1. When a District Court vacates a sentence pursuant to the United States Supreme Court Decision in RUTLEDGE v. UNITED STATES, 116 S.Ct 1246 , 134 L.e… |
| 20-8273 |
Roger G. Babcock v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion state-law statutory-interpretation |
My name is Roger G. Babcock, and, in 1997 a Florida jury found me guilty of the crime of sexual battery, a capital felony not punishable by death. At … |
| 20-8275 |
Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 20-1708 |
Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing?
Is it a violation of separation of pow… |
| 20-1713 |
Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. |
Washington |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process |
As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution^
(1)(a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi… |
| 20-1697 |
Alice Kimble v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness |
1. Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted
willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had
knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR… |
| 20-8257 |
Oscar Daniel Rios Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16a bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law federal-statute legal-definition recklessness statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §16(a) includes offenses that may be committed by the reckless infliction of bodily injury? |
| 20-8259 |
Peter James Sorokaput v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement plea-bargaining sentencing wrongful-conviction |
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| 20-8264 |
Jeremy Hough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, through "assumed error harmlessness review," appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8268 |
Duprece Jett v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing separation-of-powers |
Whether testimony identifying Agent Guy's identifying Def. Dyprece Jett, as one of the two robbers under the Open Door doctrine was harmless error alt… |
| 20-8254 |
Demario M. Peterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implica… |
| 20-1701 |
Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer |
The question presented in this appeal is whether
28 U.S.C. §1631 means what it says: that "when a
court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, th… |
| 20-1702 |
Jimmy Cobb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation |
1. Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and … |
| 20-1692 |
Henry Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution expert-testimony health-care-fraud healthcare-fraud medicaid medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation |
1.) Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies "controlling" in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347; i.e. is evidence of compliance o… |
| 20-1693 |
Erick Allen Osby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments. |
| 20-8238 |
Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "con… |
| 20-8241 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
139 S.ct.2369 (2019) Abrogate crcnit precedest 1n U.5. v. Ward, 770 F.3d 1069 (4+h (i2.2014) Gupy +54 Supercised Belease under 18 USC Bevocation Procc… |
| 20-8228 |
John Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery?
2. Did the district court err in denying sup… |
| 20-8231 |
Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction |
1. Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illega… |
| 20-8232 |
Barbara A. Stuart Robinson v. Greater Lakes Recovery Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-ruling procedural-due-process res-judicata standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8234 |
Arian Lamont Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate, when The United… |
| 20-8201 |
Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation |
Does a "found in" violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, as the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have held, … |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8221 |
Terrence Lavaron Thomas v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel right-to-speedy-trial sentencing sentencing-error speedy-trial |
Was Defense counsel ineffective in failing to contest the sufficiency of evidence against Mr. Thomas, as he was charged with assault with a dangerous … |
| 20-8222 |
In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams |
|
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1680 |
ACI Information Group v. MidlevelU, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-infringement copyright-registration fair-use fraud implied-license internet-publication internet-publications statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
1. A party who uses a copyrightable work with the implied license of a copyright owner is not liable for infringement. Such a license can arise from i… |
| 20-1671 |
Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon, recently reaffirmed by this Court in Jam v. Int Fin. Corp., --- U.S. ---, 139 S. … |
| 20-8189 |
Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
| 20-8192 |
Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 20-8194 |
Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the BOP violate the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of a non… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8204 |
Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
I. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow Supreme Court precedent in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 1900 (2018) when it enfor… |
| 20-8206 |
Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al… |
| 20-8182 |
Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
QUESTION NUMBER ONE
The trial court judge in this case states unequivocally that she misdirected the
jury as to the law in this case that changed Peti… |
| 20-8186 |
Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
| 20-8190 |
Rickey Leon Scott v. California |
California |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Does Senate Bill 43, M37 likely conflicts with Article II of the Constitution?
2. May requiring Courts to overrule their odd. A MAIC preceded simp… |
| 20-8161 |
Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-8175 |
Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Honorable Court when the lower court… |
| 20-8152 |
Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-1653 |
Lazelle Maxwell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1650 |
Carlos Concepcion v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1651 |
Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
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appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu… |
| 20-8143 |
Merwin Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) |
Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c… |
| 20-8121 |
Andy Kejadi Onwuka v. California |
California |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process probation self-incrimination sentencing |
I. Whether the Trial Court Violated petitioner's 5th & Fourteenth Amendment Maximum Sentence Exposure while presenting and basing he him lenient Guilt… |
| 20-8124 |
Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl… |
| 20-8136 |
Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed two revocation sentences for violati… |
| 20-8138 |
Eddy Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
| 20-8100 |
Thomas McGill v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection-clause ex-post-facto-clause florida-department-of-corrections gain-time statutory-interpretation |
(A) Did the Florida Department of Corrections award Me. McGill approximately 4148 days of gainstime before changing their interpretation of s.944.275 … |
| 20-1634 |
Nicole Johnson-Gellineau v. Stiene & Associates, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
15-usc-1692a(4) 15-usc-1692c(b) creditor creditor-definition debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act fiduciary fiduciary-duty litigation-communication statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a fiduciary that obtains a defaulted debt, and is owed the debt, may qualify as a person facilitating collection "for another" within the e… |
| 20-1635 |
Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny |
Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… |
| 20-1625 |
David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute |
The case involves issues regarding two whistleblower statutes, one federal and a California whistleblower statute. The California whistleblower retali… |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8085 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 covid-19-pandemic extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions prisoner-relief sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Barnes' Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 20-8094 |
Corey L. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-8095 |
Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8071 |
Delson Marc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation |
In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov… |
| 20-8072 |
Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation |
1. The enticement of minors over the internet is criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The First Circuit upheld the § 2422(b) conviction below based… |
| 20-8074 |
Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns a methodological problem in applying the categorical approach. The categorical approach compares the elements of a state crime with… |
| 20-8076 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing |
Ded Ha dati wach ond appeals Court abuse (ts diseredven |
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boncluded! that Beterwlint… |
| 20-8077 |
Kavoris Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1614 |
John D. Leontaritis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the… |
| 20-1617 |
Matthew Earley v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Can the "burden of proof" regarding inherency shift if the Court (US Court of Appeals / Federal Circuit) and Board (US Patent Trial and Appeal Board) … |
| 20-1620 |
Joy McShan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of
appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe… |
| 20-1593 |
Devon E. Sanders v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to two counts under federal statutes relating to possession of child pornography. One count charged knowing receipt of th… |
| 20-1594 |
Murray Rojas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
GVR |
Amici (1) |
criminal-statute drug-dispensing drug-regulation fdca federal-criminal-law federal-state-balance federalism lenity medical-practitioner statutory-interpretation young-v-united-states |
Whether the FDCA's felony prohibitions on "dispensing" drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local… |
| 20-8053 |
William Leroy Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence, pursuant to United States v. J… |
| 20-8062 |
Erold Martin Panopio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders |
I. WHETHER A NEAR TWENTY YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN YEAR TERM OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SUCH AS PANOPIO VIOLATES T… |
| 20-8064 |
Derrick Grant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits assaulting any person "designated in section 1114 of this title." Section § 1114 designate… |
| 20-8066 |
James Hill v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
The federal government has committed petitioner James Hill to prison for a term of years based on testimony he briefly possessed a handgun on the fron… |
| 20-8039 |
Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the "relating to" language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8040 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-neutrality plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing trial-rights |
1: Are New York State's procedural rules insufficiently hospitable to a Petitioner's constitutional claims such as here where the Petitioner was deeme… |
| 20-8047 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-8030 |
Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing |
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| 20-8033 |
Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8034 |
George Poole v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1586 |
Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 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… |
| 20-7998 |
Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commercial-transaction craigslist criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-robbery |
The federal Hobbs Act "makes it a crime for a person to affect commerce, or attempt to do so, by robbery." Taylor v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2074, 2… |
| 20-8011 |
Troy Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 20-8013 |
Jesus Manuel Anchondo-Quezada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8016 |
Rico Blackwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel… |
| 20-8017 |
Subrina Brenham v. Joseph Kemp, et al. |
Texas |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
i.
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas case no. 20-0246 denial on November 13,
2020 of my (1) right to a rehearing and the (2) Supreme Court failure to… |
| 20-8018 |
Deshaun Tisdale v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm |
In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime… |
| 20-8019 |
Roberto Torner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline
purposes. |
| 20-8020 |
Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) |
I
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies
to the determination of a "controlled substance offense"
under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)?
II
Whe… |
| 20-8021 |
Jason Scott Pedro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum |
Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7967 |
Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7972 |
Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 20-7987 |
Gregory K. Clinton v. Cheryl Dean Riley |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law endangered-species-act environmental-law national-environmental-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7991 |
Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-7963 |
Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served |
Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when… |
| 20-7964 |
John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018. |
| 20-7969 |
Refugio Agustin-Pineda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a "notice to appear" that fails to specify the hearing's time … |
| 20-7977 |
Bobby Carl Terrick v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto sentence-enhancement sentencing |
CAN PLEADINGS FROM UNDISTURBED CONVICTION BE CHALLENGED POST ID TIME WITH "NEW JUDGMENT"?
CAN A TRIBUNAL DECISION MAKING TO RETROACTIVELY APPLY A STA… |
| 20-1556 |
Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release |
A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi… |
| 20-1552 |
Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing |
1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that
respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel
petitioner's trademark registration even … |
| 20-7956 |
Bryan Montalvo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure? |
| 20-7958 |
Anderson Jean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-7961 |
Antonio Olmeda v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Judgment and Conviction oh two counts,
§ 2K2.1.(a)., for unlawful "receipt", of a firearm and "Possession"
of that firearm is multiplicitou… |
| 20-7946 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits |
The First Circuit held that Fed. R. App P. 4la) is jurisdictronal under Bowles v.Russell, 551 4.s. 205, 214(2007),
and dismissed Ms. Birons 2255-proce… |
| 20-7948 |
Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7950 |
Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-1547 |
Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f… |
| 20-1545 |
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation |
This Court's precedent in Markman requires that the construction of a patent "is exclusively within the province of the court." Markman v. Westview In… |
| 20-7931 |
Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity |
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| 20-7936 |
Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession |
The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7941 |
Kiandrick Onick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7943 |
Tyquez Ursery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-gloss violent-felony |
1. Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burgl… |
| 20-7909 |
Juan Pablo Price v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense, such that the government must prove both that the def… |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable. |
| 20-7913 |
Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT'S AMENDMENT REDEFINING "SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE" FOR PURPOSES OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE … |
| 20-1532 |
Diana Garvey v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference agency-regulation chevron-deference judicial-review plain-meaning statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits willful-misconduct |
Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842 (1984), held, the first question when interpreting a statute is "whether Congr… |
| 20-1535 |
Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson |
First Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act |
1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
| 20-1537 |
Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Truth-in-Lending-Act, passed by Congress into law, to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts. |
| 20-1522 |
United States v. Malik Nasir |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-1523 |
Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights |
1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the
courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile… |
| 20-7895 |
David Scott Franks v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-sentencing eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence residual-doubt sentencing wiggins-standard wiggins-v-smith |
Question One
In Mr. Franks's case, the district court found that "the evidence …was so overwhelming that no competent lawyer could be expected to hav… |
| 20-7901 |
Chalin Merrihew v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7902 |
John Laponte v. California |
California |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing |
Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement; 1 .
Is indefinite incarceration constitutional; 2 .
What constitutes excessive pu… |
| 20-7884 |
Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7886 |
Shirl A. Stephen v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment |
D.C. Code § 14-305 establishes the method upon which a witness may be impeached by a criminal "conviction," which the District's case law defines as a… |
| 20-7887 |
Ronnie Spells v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… |
| 20-7890 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing |
Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-7891 |
Hasan Shareef v. Butler County Public Newspaper, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
US. M& (y i |
| 20-7863 |
Martin G. Lewis v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 burrage-v-united-states detention-legality habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-bar retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government should be foreclosed from relying on prior litigation that it concedes incorrectly invoked a procedural bar to review on the me… |
| 20-7872 |
Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing |
I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search
and seizure of $8,300?
II. Was the career offender gui… |
| 20-1502 |
Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law |
1. Is 49 US.C. § 44092(b) inapplicable to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 cases?
2. Should the "cat's paw" analysis of Staub v. Proctor Hosp., 562 U.S. 411 (2011) b… |
| 20-1498 |
Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor |
Kory Alexander was charged by indictment with first degree murder with the specific allegation that he personally discharged a firearm during the comm… |
| 20-1499 |
American Civil Liberties Union v. United States |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (3) |
article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation |
Congress created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC") in 1978 to oversee electronic surveillance conducted for foreign intelligence pu… |
| 20-7853 |
Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
But for the errors of the trial court which allowed modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements, defendant would not have… |
| 20-7855 |
James Ayers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7860 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation |
Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v… |
| 20-7866 |
Paul Demetrius Lamar Gray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause physical-force pinkerton-conspiracy pinkerton-liability postal-robbery residual-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Before United States U. Johnson, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), the federal courts routinely relied on the residual clause to hold that convictions sustained un… |
| 20-7867 |
Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes |
Groffel was convicted five times for transporting one firearm in violation of five separate protective orders. This case poses a clear question of law… |
| 20-7841 |
Sylvia J. Manor v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation date-of-accrual insurance-law legal-interpretation life-insurance statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
The Defendant, (Respondent), life insurance company maintains that they are free
to choose a Date Of Accrual which is in flagrant violation of the con… |
| 20-7845 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states |
1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the… |
| 20-7849 |
Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing |
Whether mandatory sentences, as a whole or in part, are constitutional and should be replaced with factor-based analysis under §3553, in conjunction w… |
| 20-7829 |
Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7837 |
Sam Bradford v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court |
WheTher PeTiTionER's (Sam Bradford), Due Process of Law when plain error CommiTTed by The Trial CourT in was imposing SenTence for The naToral life a … |
| 20-7839 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process hearsay presentence-report rule-32 sentencing |
When the defendant personally objects at sentencing to a hearsay accusation in a presentence report that he raped a woman, even though his attorney ne… |
| 20-7826 |
Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing |
Whether the district court and Eighth cir. Erred when they determine that m. Joknson 2ass motion was not retroactive to cases on collateral review, Wh… |
| 20-7832 |
Chadwick Marvin Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
What qualifies as 'extraordinary and compelling circumstances under a Motion for Compassionate release, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)?
(2) Does the lower c… |
| 20-1480 |
George P. Naum, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (6) |
21-cfr-1306-04 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice opioid-prescription professional-standards statutory-interpretation united-states-v-moore |
Can the elements of 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(l) as defined in United States v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975) requiring the Government to prove unlawful distribu… |
| 20-1479 |
Eddie Houston, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-21 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion reduced-sentence retroactive-sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sente… |
| 20-1464 |
Rahul Ramesh Joshi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-breach government-misconduct judicial-review plea-agreement resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT CONSTITUTED A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, WHICH REQUIRED REMAND FOR A DE NOVO RESENTENCING? |
| 20-1467 |
Michael Varco v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights crime-victims-rights crime-victims-rights-act dc-code district-court due-process federal-law metropolitan-police-department mpd standing statutory-interpretation victims-rights |
1. Whether a person harmed by a D.C. Code offense, who qualifies as a "crime victim" under 18 U.S.C. § 3771(e)(2)(A), may assert rights under subsecti… |
| 20-1468 |
Robert David Dupuch-Carron, et ux. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
|
compensation compensation-eligibility foreign-vaccination residency-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vaccine-act vaccine-injury |
1. Does the ordinary meaning of the words of section 11(c)(1)(B)(i)(III) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the NCVIA or "Vaccine Act"), 42… |
| 20-7798 |
Christopher Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement |
I. Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for purposes of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 20-7806 |
Zacharias Christopher Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights discovery-manipulation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION FINDING
REASONABLENESS IN THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE
DISTRICT COURT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIFTH AMENDMENT
DUE PROCESS C… |
| 20-7792 |
Ralph Stephen Gambina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7797 |
Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7801 |
Cody Lee Herman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage |
A. Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages of this Case Requiring That Peti… |
| 20-7802 |
Michael Green v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there exist a Fivadde mee fe (
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dst/onen's Conviction Rested On
Pan Jig bye of the New Ss Cio biti ca
his . St… |
| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 20-7793 |
Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-1453 |
Cal Cartage Transportation Express, LLC, et al. v. California, et al. |
California |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
commercial-ramifications federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-statute independent-contractor independent-contractors motor-carrier preemption pricing-regulation statutory-interpretation worker-classification |
Does the Federal Aviation Administration
Authorization Act, which expressly preempts state
laws "related to a price, route, or service of any motor
ca… |
| 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. |
| 20-1455 |
Deborah Cheng v. Mary Raleigh, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2016-obama's-snt-law 21st-century-cures-act congressional-intent healthcare-law implementation-scope planned-national-implementation probate-exception special-needs-trust statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Congress intend the probate exception to include the 2016 Obama's SNT law in the 21st Century Cures Act?
2. What is the scope of the probate e… |
| 20-1459 |
United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(¢)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 20-7778 |
Gerald Scott v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7784 |
Bryan Keith Goins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
(1) Do my Prior Georgia Code ANN 3 16-3-30 lb Possessis
with inent to Dis Tribute methamphetanine 4 or my
TeNNeSSEe Code ANN. 339r 174 lsE PossEsSiON … |
| 20-7785 |
Kevino Graham v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
(A.) "WHETHER PETITIONER GRAHAM WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO CHALLENGE; "WHETHER 18 … |
| 20-7737 |
Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-7742 |
Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7744 |
Millard Price v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7746 |
Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960, which carries a ten-year mandatory-minimum sentence for "knowingly" importing a controlled substance if that substance is … |
| 20-7748 |
Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the designation of Petitioner as a
Sexual offender
Persuant to Florida 8tatutes 3943.0435 is illegal as pertained
to this Petitioner. |
| 20-7749 |
Eric Kamahele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property reckless reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation |
1. Model jury instructions define Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, to include takings caused by fear of future economic harm to "intangible proper… |
| 20-7761 |
Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a
defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant
knew his status P… |
| 20-7765 |
Jared Andrew Martin v. California |
California |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7730 |
Fendi Brooks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointments-clause attorney-general constitutional-law constitutional-violation federal-vacancies-reform-act prejudice standing statutory-interpretation structural-violation |
When colorably alleging a structural, constitutional violation, specifically, that an individual illegally exercised the powers of the office of the A… |
| 20-1424 |
ACE American Insurance Company, et al. v. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
conditional-payment double-damages eleventh-circuit federal-election-commission lexmark-international liability-allocation medicare-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer policy-considerations statutory-interpretation statutory-standing |
When Medicare has made a conditional payment for healthcare services on behalf of a Medicare beneficiary, 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)(3)(A) provides a cause … |
| 20-1429 |
Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration |
The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S… |
| 20-1432 |
United States v. Maine Community Health Options, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
|
affordable-care-act appropriations cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reductions government-liability implied-damages implied-right-of-action premium-tax-credits statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Congress intended to afford insurers an implied money damages remedy as compensation for CSR pay… |
| 20-1425 |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. v. Allen Miller |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights common-law-negligence due-process federal-preemption motor-carrier safety-regulation statutory-interpretation transportation transportation-law |
The question presented is whether a common-law negligence claim against a freight broker is preempted because it does not constitute an exercise of th… |
| 20-1427 |
Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Congress has made it a crime to engage in certain sexual acts with detainees who are "pending deportation." 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(… |
| 20-7707 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. LEDFORD'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENTS DUE TO THE APPELLATE WAIVER LANGUAGE OF THE PLEA A… |
| 20-7720 |
Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure |
ARE FEDERAL COURTS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH PENDING STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS?
DOES CONVICTION AND SENTENCES ON ALL COUNTS BECOME THE FINAL JUDGMENT O… |
| 20-7723 |
Dangelo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit |
I. DID THE DECISION OF THE COURTS APPEALS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN CONCLUDING THAT DAVIS NOWAK'S GOAL OF FURTHERING OR FACILITATING THE CRIMINAL ENT… |
| 20-7726 |
James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7701 |
Samuel Alex Gann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass |
An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-7702 |
Covia Dzell Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense.
II.
Whether the district court's … |
| 20-1421 |
Paul Ballerstein, et ux. v. Penelope McHatten, et al. |
Maine |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-bias property property-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
In this civil case, Maine courts deprived the defendants of their property, after concluding that the facts "foreclose " doing so. The trial court fou… |
| 20-7678 |
Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause |
Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 20-7694 |
Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri… |
| 20-7695 |
Gregory D. Jones v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7672 |
James Michael Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury |
WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY… |
| 20-7680 |
Jonathan Beasley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec… |
| 20-1410 |
Xiulu Ruan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (5) |
controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
A physician otherwise authorized to prescribe controlled substances may be convicted of unlawful distribution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) if his presc… |
| 20-7656 |
James Robert Monson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intentional-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing united-states-attorney |
1. Whether the United States Attorney Offices' standard appeal waiver violates due process of law where, subsequent to the defendant signing the waive… |
| 20-7663 |
Andre Watson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment |
Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int… |
| 20-7670 |
Faizah Dean v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
California |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-employment-action civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process labor-discrimination prima-facie-case procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Question One: In Franco v. MV Transportation, Inc., 2019 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 120 the panel held that injured workers may make a prima facie sho… |
| 20-7671 |
Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p… |
| 20-7655 |
Lisa Bershan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances |
Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t… |
| 20-7659 |
Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act civil-detention criminal-defendant homeland-security pretrial-release statutory-interpretation statutory-time-period |
Whether section 3142 (d)(2) of the Bail Reform Act (BRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq. prevents the United States Department of Homeland Security from civ… |
| 20-7660 |
In Re Justin Paul Sulzner |
|
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used "special care" when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S… |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 20-7637 |
Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing |
Can A Stale Corrections Arbitrarily Change A Defendant 's Prison Sentence
Nearly Two Decades Later, Even After Having Initionaliy Structured Said Cou… |
| 20-7648 |
Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the proportionality principle & the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into… |
| 20-1385 |
Tarek Obaid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation |
Does the Due Process Clause, as construed by Shaffer v. Heitner, require application of the "minimum contacts" test to true in rem proceedings?; and
… |
| 20-1382 |
Emanuel Gettinger, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code for-value good-faith good-faith-transfer ponzi-scheme securities-investor-protection-act sipa-liquidation statutory-interpretation transfer-avoidance value-transfer |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions operate differently in the context of a SIPA liquidation proceeding, notwithstanding that a transfe… |
| 20-7625 |
James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-error prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation property-exemption standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Did the District Court error by ignoring Oregon's Wildcard Exemption Rule announced in ORS 18.345(l)(o)(2011) and in Schlunt v. Nooth, 261 Or. App. 86… |
| 20-7632 |
Shannon D. Hixon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED UNDER THE "DEATH RESULTS" PROVISION OF 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) WITHOUT INSTRUCTING THE JURY THAT IT MUST DECIDE … |
| 20-7639 |
Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
1.) Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial… |
| 20-7640 |
Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit |
Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment … |
| 20-7609 |
Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, "the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7616 |
Deshun Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constructive-denial cronic cronic-standard effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Is a defendant constructively denied the assistance of counsel under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), when trial counsel tells the jury t… |
| 20-7617 |
Willie Lee Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
One: Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for "felony drug offense" to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, al… |
| 20-1369 |
Mohammed Jabateh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction |
Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… |
| 20-1370 |
Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concealment-money-laundering criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-money-judgment honeycutt-limitation honeycutt-v-united-states mirror-image-transactions money-laundering no-loss-to-bank return-of-tainted-property statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property |
Whether a criminal defendant's legitimate, untainted property is subject to an extra-statutory forfeiture money judgment or substitute property forfei… |
| 20-1373 |
Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl… |
| 20-1368 |
Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. §2675(a), is the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative cl… |
| 20-7610 |
Jose Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) because… |
| 20-7590 |
Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7591 |
Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-7593 |
Fernando Clarke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute |
Fernando Clarke was charged with, inter alia, two counts of transporting child pornography. At trial, the government witnesses testified that Mr. Clar… |
| 20-7594 |
Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7570 |
David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment |
When a Court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat… |
| 20-7575 |
In Re Ivory Lee Robinson |
|
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection mandatory-minimum sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
| 20-7585 |
Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce , 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072,… |
| 20-1357 |
Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
|
ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff asserting a failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), must show that t… |
| 20-1354 |
City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation |
1. Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of "effect of prohibiting" in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting sta… |
| 20-7547 |
Saloman Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent |
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| 20-7548 |
David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7545 |
Tyrone Robinson v. Christopher Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidentiary-hearing fact-reduction hearing-standard legal-standing plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-rule sentencing standard-of-review standing state-court-jurisdiction |
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| 20-1335 |
A. P. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute |
1. Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States C… |
| 20-1337 |
APC Investment Co., et al. v. Howmet Aerospace Inc., fka Arconic, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cercla civil-procedure common-law contribution contribution-claim environmental-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation superfund |
Is the statutory claim for contribution in section 113 of CERCLA, including the statute of limitations found in section 113(g)(3), governed exclusivel… |
| 20-1325 |
Wesley Perkins v. John Lipscombe, Judge, County Court at Law No. 3, Travis County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration consent-doctrine due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation transportation-code |
Statutory Challenge
1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional, " as
applied? /
Pleading standard
2. Was dismissal abusive?
Compelled Arbitration
… |
| 20-7533 |
Preston James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7538 |
Frankie Lewis Jones v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-agreement personal-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7516 |
Josue Portillo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing |
Absent proof of incorrigibility, can a district court sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating in a exec… |
| 20-7520 |
Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION THAT THE BAN ON MANDATORY SENTENCES OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE APPLIES TO ONLY THOSE DEFENDANTS WHO WER… |
| 20-7528 |
Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing |
Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. … |
| 20-7502 |
Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7509 |
Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance |
Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court? |
| 20-1301 |
Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief |
1.
Whether, and to what extent, United States v. Morgan, 346 U.S. 502 (1954) fashioned the writ of coram nobis to incorporate the former federal equit… |
| 20-1309 |
Corcamore, LLC v. SFM, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process lanham-act lexmark-test standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-trial-and-appeal-board |
1st Question.
Whether this Court's Lexmark test is the sole
determinant of the statutory power of the Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board to adjudicat… |
| 20-1312 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
health-and-human-services hospital-adjustment low-income-patients medicaid-fraction medicare-fraction medicare-statute statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income |
Whether the Secretary has permissibly included in a hospital's Medicare fraction all of the hospital's patient days of individuals who satisfy the req… |
| 20-7486 |
Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeals can, and should, order an indictment that omits an element of the crime dismissed as part of the appellate remedy given the… |
| 20-7488 |
William Douglas Hampton v. Mark Williams, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-fraud free-speech plea-agreement standing statutory-interpretation |
1) DOES 28 UNITED STATES CODE SERUICE $2LHI's.
SPECIFIC WORDING PERMIT THE JUDICIAL SUBMISSION AND CONSIDERATION
OFA HABEAS CORPUS IFTHE STATUTE'S SUB… |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7495 |
Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-7496 |
Maurice Spriggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7497 |
Kevin Reid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage |
1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at… |
| 20-7501 |
Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to… |
| 20-7507 |
Christopher Faella v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver |
Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence -- unless it exceeds the statutory maximum penalty or violated … |
| 20-7471 |
Christian Joseph Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation |
-Can the Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's application for Certificate of Appedlability ("coA") withoct any analysis of whether the District Courts d… |
| 20-7473 |
Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-7476 |
Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement |
Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7477 |
Hakimah Jabbar v. James L. Graham, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-law circuit-conflict conflict-of-laws due-process fiduciary-duty forfeited-property property-law statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary trust-law |
1) The U.S Court of Appeals 6th Cir. Affirming of District Court decision directly conflicts
with the Appeals Court 's opinion, In re Adams, 302 B.R.… |
| 20-1292 |
Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation |
Congress in 2008 amended the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, expanding some key sections and admonishing courts to const… |
| 20-1295 |
United States v. Timothy Zachary Green |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-1288 |
Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-violations third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (hereinafter "AOPC"), wh… |
| 20-7465 |
Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The District Court Judge sentenced the Petitioner to life in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine , 21 U.S.C. Sect. 841(a)(… |
| 20-7447 |
Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause |
Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7449 |
Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic… |
| 20-7453 |
Douglas D. Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7454 |
Delwyn Manuel v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
WHETHER PETTTIONER IS ENTTTEO TO bE RESENTENED
TO 30 YEARS
The MAximum PoNishmeNT Allowed
STATUTE
794.011 PRIOR TO ThE NEW
UNDER
The
PROJISION ANd PEN… |
| 20-7456 |
Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-1278 |
Johlen Johnson, et ux. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Arizona |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights severability statutory-interpretation takings |
Does the prevailing Opinions of the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme produce a constitutional violation, and therefore provide this Court with good cause … |
| 20-1271 |
Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive? |
| 20-7445 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7408 |
Trystan Keun Napper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden… |
| 20-7410 |
Edward McCain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure |
I. Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review, irrespective of whether … |
| 20-7417 |
Allen Pace, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7420 |
Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving time-credits toward the service of his sentence, when said credits are mandated by statute and … |
| 20-7421 |
Jefferson Levine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) circuit-conflict criminal-resentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion post-sentencing-conduct section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. Whether, in order to properly exercise its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 to impose a reduced sentence for an eligib… |
| 20-7426 |
Rubin L. Williams v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation criminal-law drug-related-death involuntary-manslaughter mixed-drug-overdose state-cases |
Can a conviction of involuntary manslaughter stand, when cause of death is a Mixed drug overdose and the accused is charged with only one of the contr… |
| 20-7427 |
Leefatinie Tirosh Cole v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
34-U.S.C.-§-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
Whether this Court should revisit nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 20-7428 |
Aldo Marones v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights due-process evidence firearms sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7430 |
Carlos Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 categorically qualifies as a predicate "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)… |
| 20-1261 |
Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-1263 |
Gianinna Gallardo, an Incapacitated Person, By and Through Her Parents and Co-Guardians Pilar Vassallo and Walter Gallardo v. Simone Marstiller, In Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
beneficiary-rights federal-statute future-medical-expenses healthcare-reimbursement medicaid-act medicaid-recovery medical-expenses preemption reimbursement statutory-interpretation tort-recovery tort-settlement |
Whether the federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid's payment of a beneficiary's past medical… |
| 20-1253 |
Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
|
chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1
DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPRME COURT BREAK STATE LAW
WHEN IT WOULD NOT APPLY THE MANDATORY
LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE WORD OF SHALL IN
MISSISSIPPI CO… |
| 20-7402 |
Sylas Glenn Brownridge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7412 |
Anthony W. Gardner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7413 |
Zelos Fields v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951
is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18
U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 20-7382 |
Calvin Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 20-7383 |
Jorge Zamora-Suarez, aka Pedro Moncada v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7385 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial where the government has failed to establish, and the lower courts' findings are unsupporte… |
| 20-7386 |
Andrew Chapnick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7387 |
Vaughn Lewis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp… |
| 20-7388 |
Alejandro De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's denial of Mr. D… |
| 20-7393 |
Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7394 |
Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho… |
| 20-1241 |
Michael Paul Miselis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment.
2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-7379 |
Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges |
CAN A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED WITH MULTIPLE CONSPIRACIES FOR A SINGLE CONTINUOUS CONSPIRACY ACT WITHOUT VIOLATING RIGHT TO BE FREE… |
| 20-7359 |
Karen Gagarin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 20-7360 |
Emmanuel Feaster v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate… |
| 20-7363 |
Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE GO… |
| 20-7369 |
Antonia Janai Hickmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-7370 |
Avery Bradford v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1229 |
James W. Robertson, Sr. v. Intratek Computer, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
administrative-scheme arbitration-enforcement employment-rights federal-contract government-subcontractor mandatory-arbitration non-waiver-provision statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Under 41 U.S.C. § 4712, employees of government
subcontractors may not be retaliated against for reporting
violations of laws, rules, or regulations… |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7333 |
Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017)(en banc),… |
| 20-7345 |
Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation |
I) Whether Trial counsel's failune to inwestigate interview, or loss-examine thealleged Victims, Pretrial, Whenshe was inossession of a resantationtaf… |
| 20-7277 |
Niles O'Neil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to $ U.S. Sentencing… |
| 20-7306 |
Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-7313 |
Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r… |
| 20-7314 |
Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… |
| 20-7315 |
Ursula Owens v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability |
Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the … |
| 20-7322 |
Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions |
1) Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 48, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery (Davis v. … |
| 20-1222 |
Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
1. Does a "comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right " under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 e… |
| 20-1209 |
In Re Raymond L. Rogers |
|
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. … |
| 20-7291 |
John L. Harris v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-consensual-reinstatement plea-bargaining plea-opportunity presumption-of-innocence sentencing trial-court |
Whether a trial court's non-consensual reinstatement of a defendant's guilty plea, without admonishments or the opportunity to plead anew, violates th… |
| 20-7294 |
James Peter Sabatino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL AS MOOT, IN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUBSEQUENT RULING REAUTHOR… |
| 20-7299 |
Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con… |
| 20-7301 |
Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment |
Petitioner was convicted under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871, sections of the National Firearms Act that impose criminal penalties of up to 10 years' … |
| 20-7305 |
Larry Daniel Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation |
1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in… |
| 20-7280 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether a federal court analyzing a prior state-court conviction to determine whether the offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed C… |
| 20-7282 |
Earl Malloy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7284 |
Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7285 |
Cedric Durand Collins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7286 |
Kashus Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7287 |
Viguens Cius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1200 |
Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation |
May the United States invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Aff… |
| 20-1205 |
Gazelle Craig v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation |
When Dr. Craig wrote a prescription for a controlled substance that was not medically necessary, did her conduct constitute "dispensing," "distributin… |
| 20-7273 |
Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
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lO&tL'ld. rectrVe. h'-ft 5-cofence (f ht d:d not accept cl
p{tQ_ tf-f fer cLto (td. h<… |
| 20-7243 |
David Linehan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… |
| 20-7244 |
Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a "crime of violence" within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(a). |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7253 |
Nancy Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 20-7255 |
Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-1178 |
Pacific Choice Seafood Company, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference commerce-secretary fishery-management quota-limits quota-shares statutory-interpretation |
The Ninth Circuit below applied deference under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), to a statutory … |
| 20-7216 |
Antwan Seawood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u… |
| 20-7232 |
Raul Almanza-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-7235 |
Michael Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 20-7237 |
Clyde E. Bradley v. Teri Kennedy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus petition pro-se rebuttal statutory-interpretation |
I.) WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PRO SE PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WITHOUT PERMITTING THE PETITIONER A FAIR OPPORTUN… |
| 20-7196 |
Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services |
Virginia |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeal… |
| 20-7197 |
Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy that the maximum term of imprisonment was 10… |
| 20-7213 |
Nathan Ray Dent v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924… |
| 20-7215 |
Sunni Askari Newell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS MISCONSTRUED
U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER
CIRCUIT, RESULTING IN DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF
FIREARMS … |
| 20-7217 |
Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine |
1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7218 |
Crystal Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-856 congressional-intent double-counting drug-involved-premise drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act precedent sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress intended The Fair Sentencing Act to more severely punish persons sentenced under 21 U.S.C. §856 in what is a departure from over 20 y… |
| 20-7220 |
Antonio Diaz-Agurcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7223 |
Angelo C. Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence davis-precedent federal-criminal-law force-and-violence intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-1162 |
Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua… |
| 20-1142 |
Atlantic Richfield Company v. Asarco LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
bankruptcy cercla contribution contribution-claim environmental-liability judicial-settlement liability response-action settlement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a judicially approved settlement that conclusively determines a party's obligation to perform response actions "resolves its liability" for "s… |
| 20-1144 |
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. 1447(d), courts of appeals generally may not review orders remanding removed cases to state court. But Section 1447(d) also states tha… |
| 20-1148 |
Robert M. Sellers v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights claim-scope disability-compensation due-process pro-veteran-canon service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
When a veteran has submitted an application for disability benefits, does the veteran's claim encompass all reasonably identifiable conditions within … |
| 20-7190 |
Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART
FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT
IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT
MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS… |
| 20-7202 |
Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour… |
| 20-7204 |
Shane Faithful v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |
| 20-7207 |
Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing |
1. Did the district court err when it failed to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act ("STA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 3161-3174, when the trial did … |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous?
II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 20-7177 |
Sandra Doyle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process post-arrest-interview prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct safety-valve sentencing witness-testimony |
1. Is it a denial of due process to sentence petitioner to additional imprisonment based on a finding that she lied or minimized in her safety-valve i… |
| 20-7181 |
Quincy O'Neill Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm firearm-possession government-burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dye united-states-v-frady |
The Statute 18 U.S.C.924 (c)(1)(A) which states:
Except to the extent that'a -greater minimumsentence is otherwise
provided by this subsection or by… |
| 20-7183 |
Shameke Walker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime |
1. Should the Court grant certiorari to review whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b), categorically fails to constitute "a crime of violence"… |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7167 |
Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-7172 |
Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
WAS CONSTANTIN DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE SENTENCING COURT RELIED UPON UNCHARGED CONDUCT IN IMPOSING A SENTENCE IN EXCESS OF THAT RECOMMENDED BY THE … |
| 20-1124 |
Michael Don Leatherwood v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
|
affidavit criminal-procedure due-process fair-warning ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion probation probation-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Was Petitioner subject to the release conditions of probation while he was in prison?
Does the statute which defines probation as "a procedure by whi… |
| 20-1131 |
James C. Dimora v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a McDonnell error—i.e., defining the element of "official act" overbroadly in bribery counts and thereby enabling a jury to wrongly conclude t… |
| 20-1122 |
Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L, providing enhanced penalties for different types of firearms, is unconstitutionally va… |
| 20-7123 |
Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. When was my conviction final?
2. When did the limitations period under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1)(D) actually start?
3. Did the Caddo County District C… |
| 20-7148 |
Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7150 |
Creadell Hubbard v. Charles Ratledge, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7152 |
Brian Hook v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth A… |
| 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. |
| 20-7155 |
James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation |
Does the Petitioner have the right to Due Process Equal Law lanse And Jury Trial as guarecd the Cthaudrth b Vou.d Count abuse ifs dxenetod or Sensiaic… |
| 20-7159 |
Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether oa not the lower Covrts' "decision"to "timebar Petitioner' Claims of "Statutory tolling" was in "conflict" with Btatutory Congressional ist… |
| 20-7160 |
Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion |
If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose … |
| 20-7164 |
Marcelino Hernandez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United State s Cour t of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–whi ch affirmed the significant increase of the b… |
| 20-7128 |
Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7138 |
Patrick Begay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist… |
| 20-7140 |
Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry |
18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prohibits individuals falling into particular status categories from possessing firearms or ammunition. Rehaif v. United States, 58… |
| 20-7144 |
Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue |
New York |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation |
Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
1. The petitioner does not owe the statement an… |
| 20-7145 |
Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error |
Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-7146 |
Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits. |
| 20-1113 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic… |
| 20-1114 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law chevron-deference healthcare-regulation hospital-acquisition-cost medicare medicare-reimbursement reimbursement-rates statutory-interpretation survey-data |
Under federal law, the reimbursement rate paid by Medicare for specified covered outpatient drugs is set based on one of two alternative payment metho… |
| 20-1116 |
Anthony Seward v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction |
A registered sex offender who changes residence from one state to another must register in the new state within three business days of arrival. 34 U.S… |
| 20-1092 |
Brandon Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 514(a) prohibits the use of "any false or fictitious instrument, document, or other item appearing, representing, purporting, or contrivin… |
| 20-7112 |
Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7113 |
Troy X. Kelley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure contract-rights contractual-obligation criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process imprisonment-for-debt property-rights stolen-property |
1. Whether a contractual right to paymen t constitutes ownership of money, such that a defendant can properly be convic ted under a federal statute cr… |
| 20-7118 |
Terry Allen Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion … |
| 20-7122 |
Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states |
Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement that requires one to know more than that firearms are "tools of the trade" for drug traff… |
| 20-7124 |
George Skylar Cloud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence evidence-admission federal-charges federal-criminal-law firearm-discharge guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers |
Did the district court error when it allowed the government to introduce into evidence the Petitioner's guilty plea, in a separate pending matter, to … |
| 20-7129 |
Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7100 |
Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an "Alternate Variance Sentence" Which Was Designed To Insulate The … |
| 20-7101 |
Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Is a conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) if, acco… |
| 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… |
| 20-7109 |
Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent |
Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref… |
| 20-1090 |
Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Ci… |
| 20-7076 |
Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Is d ueprocess Violat&J dut ~h> i'neffe:f iVe assistance
of Counsel when defendant aWofney did oof qivc
defendant opportunity to review Peesenfence … |
| 20-7090 |
Michael David Omondi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authorized-entry civil-rights common-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute jurisdictional-boundary military-installation section-1382 trespass |
In United States v. Apel, 571 U.S. 359, 373 (2014), this Court held that the term "military installation" in 18 U.S.C. § 1382 includes all areas under… |
| 20-7091 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-challenge residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
The overall issue is whether, under law set forth in Johnson, Mr. Chaney should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions o… |
| 20-7069 |
Martell Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7079 |
Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors |
Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the United States V McCarthy Rule.
Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circu… |
| 20-7087 |
Brian James Holland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility |
i) What is the definition of the term force Under Statute 18. USCS. 2241? What is the proper Criminal law and procedure used to determine sufficient e… |
| 20-1077 |
Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka |
First Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption
for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate
commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli… |
| 20-7038 |
David Paul Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome… |
| 20-7052 |
Joshua Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the court failed to address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and failed to justify its sentence, whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally… |
| 20-7057 |
Romario Waller v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the Trial Judge in case no 1995-CR-545 violate Petitioner 's 5th, 6th, 14th ,
Amendment rights when he sentenced Petitioner to a more than 20%… |
| 20-7067 |
Wilma Pennington-Thurman v. Sansone Group DDR LLC |
Missouri |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction state-courts state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971 stated: "In the event of conflicting proceedings during the interim, federal jurisdiction prevails over st… |
| 20-7068 |
Jerry Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District
Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und… |
| 20-7024 |
Randy Macario Ancheta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing due-process hobbs-act mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent force. Hobs Act robbery's p… |
| 20-7034 |
Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment —the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye t… |
| 20-7036 |
Emmanuel Ravell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error |
Petitioner asks this Court to grant review to determine whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) a… |
| 20-7037 |
Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 |
1. DOES A COURT VIOLATE THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN GALL v. UNITED STATES, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) BY FAILING TO ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURT'S … |
| 20-7041 |
Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7042 |
Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-7043 |
Kevin Hall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-decision criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dominguez |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under United States v. Dominguez, 954 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2020… |
| 20-7048 |
Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base… |
| 20-7020 |
Richie Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-7021 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons |
Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-7032 |
Salvador Delrio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
1. What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment?
2. Does a distric… |
| 20-7016 |
Andrew David Bruins, II v. Michele Whitman, Associate Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-provisions civil-procedure civil-rights court-proceeding due-process mandate relief remedies standing statutory-interpretation undue-burden |
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Inslifuficn iotuetyds YiSiinci ftrWcil riofifcahon arid
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remedies of a Pubhc mfresflI- The
… |
| 20-6991 |
Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 20-7007 |
Vernon Allen Collins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ADOPTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COURT DISPOSITIVE PROCEDURAL CONCLUSIONS ERRED IN HOLDING COLONS HAD FAILED TO PROVE ARTICLE … |
| 20-6996 |
Delroy T. Booth v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law disability due-process judicial-review legal-precedent social-security standing statutory-interpretation |
Did that Defendant's criminal Trial Violate the Confrontation Clause when a Court Reporter Reading the out-of-court Certified Social Security letter D… |
| 20-6964 |
Dallas Ray Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-6967 |
Justin Loper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE
APPEAL WHERE THE CONVICTION AND SENTENCE WERE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IS NOT A… |
| 20-6969 |
Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA because post-Johnson (2015), he no longer has three prior qualifying "violent f… |
| 20-6971 |
Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
I. Did the court of appeals err when it reviewed the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness?
II. Did the district court impose a plainly … |
| 20-6975 |
Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error |
When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed?
2… |
| 20-6976 |
Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-6977 |
Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6978 |
Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-6980 |
Michael Ray West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6982 |
Misty R. Weed v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights district-court-conflict due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-discretion |
I. DID THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL CREATE A MANIFEST
INJUSTICE WHEN IT EXPRESSLY AND DIRECTLY RULED IN
CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF FELLOW DISTRI… |
| 20-6985 |
Zongli Chang v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
In a plea agreement that was tied to a fine guideline range, the Petitioner was never told his "maximal possible penalty" in terms of fine and forfeit… |
| 20-6986 |
Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1017 |
Lawrence Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-1031 |
Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) Filing Deadline jurisdictional (such that it is not subject to equitable tolling) under current … |
| 20-1010 |
Ded Rranxburgaj v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law agency-discretion immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6954 |
Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport aliens within the United States and being found in the United States after a previous deportation… |
| 20-6955 |
Theresa Skillings v. City of New York, New York |
New York |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act child-services civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law immigration-law social-services-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the respondent, in denying the petitioner's request for services by occupation at the petitioner's home in accordance with New York State Law,… |
| 20-6962 |
Misael Herrera-Fuentes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did n… |
| 20-6931 |
Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re… |
| 20-6932 |
Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 20-6938 |
Muhammad E. Milhouse v. Camba Inc. Staff Members, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-statute freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6940 |
Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing |
Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention… |
| 20-6943 |
Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6946 |
Barry Cashin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-6948 |
Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6949 |
Neally Cunningham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 20-6918 |
Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt |
I. Whether the Court should decide an important question involving the overfederalization of criminal law: namely, whether a defendant is provided fai… |
| 20-6930 |
Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-1000 |
Monico Dominguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 20-992 |
John Vigna v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error |
In this criminal case, the Maryland court, in a trial for sexual abuse of a child, excluded evidence of the petitioner's character trait of appropriat… |
| 20-986 |
Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretatio… |
| 20-987 |
Spielbauer Law Office v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. |
California |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
|
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process entry-of-judgment judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
1. If a statute appears to reasonably permit the
filing of a notice of appeal upon entry of order or
entry of judgment, is it a denial of due process … |
| 20-6924 |
Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court |
During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea… |
| 20-6925 |
Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury. |
| 20-6927 |
Anthony Freeney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
GUILTY VERDICT?
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN ADMITTING AUDIO RECORDINGS OF MR. FREENEY'S JAIL PHONE CALLS?
DID THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE DISTRICT… |
| 20-979 |
Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a non-discretionary determination that a noncitizen is i… |
| 20-962 |
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-21 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-procedure administrative-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment public-charge standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility contained in 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)(A), and which seek to expand ben… |
| 20-967 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "Notice to Appear" that did not tell Mr. Rodri… |
| 20-6897 |
In Re Lee Charles Bradford |
|
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ABDICATE ITS CLEAR LEGAL DUTY TO EXERCISE ANCILLARY JURISDICTION OVER CLAIMS OF FRAUD ON THE COURT, ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 20-6909 |
Brian Gale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
"WHETHER HOBBS ACT ROBBERY QUALIFIES AS A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE"?, WHERE THE DISTRICT
COURT FAILED TO ADVANCE ANY THEORY (i.e. "residual clause, force c… |
| 20-6910 |
El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6911 |
Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar |
[1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di… |
| 20-6874 |
Jacob Earl Murphy v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process government-fraud standing |
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| 20-6876 |
Leon Tollette v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d) eleventh-circuit federal-habeas-review harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Whether, on federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), a federal court may refuse to "look through" to the last reasoned state court decision, a… |
| 20-6878 |
Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6882 |
Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-courts injunctive-relief jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
1. How did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit make its decision on injunctive reliefs in conflict with not only the U.S. Supreme… |
| 20-6883 |
Christopher Brent Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
Whether courts of appeals reviewin… |
| 20-6884 |
Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6888 |
Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6894 |
Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions
To Sever
a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To … |
| 20-949 |
Angelica Christina Limcaco v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-455 court-impartiality court-payments extrajudicial-source judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics liljeberg-v-health-services liteky-v-us procedural-standards statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is whether the language "might reasonably be questioned" under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) can be judicially restricted to require… |
| 20-959 |
Angela Thigpen v. Board of Trustees of the Local 807 Labor-Management Pension Fund |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6865 |
William Rouser v. Unknown |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6867 |
Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense. |
| 20-6837 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He admitted to the district court only to possession of … |
| 20-6840 |
Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of "intimidation" of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), when the offense does n… |
| 20-6841 |
Steven Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties |
I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6848 |
Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing |
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| 20-6824 |
Raymond Bright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6788 |
Brian Gene McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) prohibits the use of a firearm during and in relation to a federal "crime of violence." "Crime of violence" is defined in § 9… |
| 20-6791 |
Alvin Christopher Penn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law felon-in-possession interstate-commerce minimal-nexus united-states-v-bailey united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-scarborough |
1. Whether United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), compels overruling Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563 (1977), which requires only a mi… |
| 20-6807 |
Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 |
1. Whether sentencing courts are required by Title 18, United States Code section 3553(a)(6) and Supreme Court precedent interpreting unambiguous stat… |
| 20-6809 |
Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 20-915 |
Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-procedure circuit-court-precedent civil-procedure copyright-law copyright-office copyright-registration ninth-circuit publication-standard registration-requirements standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in breaking with its own prior precedent and the findings of other circuits and the Copyright Office in holding that 17 U… |
| 20-895 |
Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-01-07 |
Denied |
|
actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur |
1. Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy.
2. W… |
| 20-900 |
Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-6776 |
Charod Becton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment |
Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine, announced in Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946), holding that a… |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6781 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 20-6754 |
Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6755 |
Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6756 |
David Ray Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime |
1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys… |
| 20-6757 |
Phillip Jazir Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fugitive fugitive-status probation-law sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release tolling tolling-period |
Whether a term of supervised release is tolled during the time in which
the person on supervised release is a fugitive. |
| 20-6759 |
Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum |
Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t… |
| 20-6761 |
Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 20-6764 |
James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 20-6767 |
Marlon Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mental-competence pre-trial-evaluation right-to-counsel sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-880 |
Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax tax-assessment |
1. Is the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act available to debtors who want to avoid paying a tax for reasons unrelated to th… |
| 20-884 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447d appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-issue remand-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-871 |
In Re Bryant Moore |
|
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 2… |
| 20-6730 |
Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan… |
| 20-6736 |
Salvador Diaz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to remedy the District Court's improper venue selection conflicts with this Court's decisions in Nichols v. U… |
| 20-6738 |
Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us… |
| 20-6739 |
Larun E. Miller v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6742 |
Edward Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis violent-crime |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-6743 |
Neil Dussard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6744 |
Sinclair Ellis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Where as the District Court has 30 days on the Speedy Trial Clock to make a ruling on a pre-trial motion under §3161 (H)(l)(J). If the Distrcit Court … |
| 20-6746 |
Jonathan Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing |
Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-6720 |
Terek Harper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration |
Whether A Federal Criminal Plea Agreement is Void and Unenforceable When it Lacks Consideration. |
| 20-6729 |
Michael Allen Bullock v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fraud prior-record sentencing |
Petitioner's attorney deliberately and flagrantly violated my constitutional rights. Why has each court avoided my rights under the United States Cons… |
| 20-6732 |
Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand. |
| 20-860 |
Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab… |
| 20-862 |
Hui Feng, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antifraud-provisions broker-registration capital-raising investment-advisers-act-of-1940 sec-authority secondary-market secondary-market-transactions securities-act securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented are:
1. Whether the SEC exceeded its statutory authority under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which regulates secondary… |
| 20-867 |
Shalini Ahmed v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention |
Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a… |
| 20-6713 |
Danielle Devona Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation |
IS THERE AN ACKNOWLEDGED CONFLICT AMONG THE SISTER CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER SECTION 924(c) CRIMINALIZES TWO SEPARATE OFFENSES (1) "CARRY OR USE" A FIREA… |
| 20-6715 |
Michael Adair Mankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6722 |
Eddie A. Poindexter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6710 |
Marlon Iron Crow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "reckless" mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for "malice aforethought" for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1. |
| 20-852 |
Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act ("… |
| 20-6687 |
William James Jonas, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou… |
| 20-6688 |
Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr… |
| 20-6689 |
Matthew J. Kwong v. Cheswold (TL), LLC, et al. |
Connecticut |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-principles due-process foreclosure judicial-order legal-precedent property-rights republic-design statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Connecticut Superior Court's Order of Judgment of Foreclosure by Sale on September 14, 2018 in favor of the respondent against the petitio… |
| 20-6699 |
Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-6690 |
Randolph Burleson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment |
1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … |
| 20-6692 |
Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6694 |
Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6655 |
Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing |
1. Is it reasonable for a District court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, a… |
| 20-6671 |
Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d… |
| 20-6656 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied the plain error standard of review in determining that petitioner failed to establish plain error regarding… |
| 20-6660 |
Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola |
I. Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circui… |
| 20-818 |
Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim |
Airbnb —a prominent tech company —did not report to the defendant IRS its 2017 payments of $4 billion to its USA hosts, and I informed the IRS Whistle… |
| 20-6640 |
James David Perryman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-6641 |
Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce claus… |
| 20-6644 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing |
1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a… |
| 20-6578 |
Rickey White v. Gary L. Lumpkin, Presiding Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-6622 |
Devon Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-robbery bank-robbery crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in implicitly holding that Bank Robbe… |
| 20-6623 |
Raymond Ka-Lun Pin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-grievance civil-rights constitutional-rights discretionary-parole due-process equal-protection imprisonment parole sentencing takings |
VIOLATON COMHANT AND AFFIRMED BY THE COUAT OF APPEAS FOR THE FOUATH
CIRCUTT IS IN CENFHCT WITH DECISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
WHEN TOE D… |
| 20-6630 |
Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing |
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| 20-6635 |
Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. |
Nebraska |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review |
1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ANDREW R. JACOBSEN ERROR, In denying the Petitioner's
Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §… |
| 20-807 |
Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Two questions are presented:
1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train … |
| 20-6605 |
Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Whether a federal court reviewing a habeas petition incorrectly applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), when it rel… |
| 20-6606 |
Paul W. Miller v. B. Von Blankensee |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process remedies standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Can Congress Statutorily limit the Subject-matter Jurisdiction of Courts Created by Act of Congress?
II. Is there a limitation of time based on pr… |
| 20-6609 |
Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-794 |
Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split district-court-discretion evidence-gathering foreign-tribunal international-arbitration international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation tribunal-definition |
Whether the discretion granted to district courts in 28 U.S.C. §1782(a) to render assistance in gathering evidence for use in "a foreign or internatio… |
| 20-795 |
New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne JAG funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements? |
| 20-796 |
City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
In 2006, Congress enacted the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant ("Byrne JAG") statute, requiring the Department of Justice to provide gra… |
| 20-6594 |
Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines |
WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E… |
| 20-6596 |
Kevin S. Abney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 20-6601 |
Savannah Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits th… |
| 20-6582 |
Curtis Ward v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery force-clause mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation . . . or . . . by extortion."… |
| 20-6585 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights |
One and Two
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant kn… |
| 20-6552 |
Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6556 |
Harvey Bass v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED BASS' SENTENCE WHERE BASS' SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE IN LIGHT OF THE S… |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis.
II. … |
| 20-6559 |
Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-6561 |
Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT INVITED ERROR RESULTING IN FUNDAMENTAL PLEADING DEFECT BY PERMITTING "INCORPORATED GROUNDS " NOT EXPLAINED IN THE PETITION … |
| 20-6565 |
Simon Quinn v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-investigation criminal-procedure homicide-investigation obstruction-of-justice reasonable-doubt specific-intent statutory-interpretation underlying-conviction |
Reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Quinn is guilty of the offense … |
| 20-6566 |
Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6571 |
Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits where his misclassification as a career of… |
| 20-782 |
Raymond Holloway, Jr. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process firearms-prohibition gun-ownership individual-liberty misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does a lifetime firearms prohibition based on a nonviolent misdemeanor conviction violate the Second Amendment? |
| 20-783 |
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 20-6541 |
Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6549 |
Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler |
COUNSEL ON AN INITIAL STATE POST-CONVICTION HABEAS CORPUS APPLICATION, CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT OF MARTINEZ v. RYAN, 56… |
| 20-6555 |
Solomon Manamela v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-uscs-1347 18-uscs-24(b) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care-fraud jurisdiction pennsylvania-public-welfare-code standing state-created-danger statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether affirmative evidence exists to establish Congress' intention
under 18 USCS §24(b) to find City of Philadelphia-contracted non
medical fami… |
| 20-6517 |
Elvis Basic v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6539 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6540 |
Joshua N. Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance |
1. Whether the district court erred in its "crime of violence" instruction to the jury.
2. Whether the district court erred in assessing an enhanceme… |
| 20-6511 |
Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The First Circuit's Judgment Affirming The District Court's Judgment Violates Mr. Lugo-Guerre… |
| 20-6519 |
Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a… |
| 20-6521 |
Hector Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6524 |
Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the State proved the essential element of "without the consent" beyond a reasonable doubt.
Whether the trial court's refusal to charge the le… |
| 20-6529 |
Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met… |
| 20-6508 |
Jesse Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-758 |
Audie Jay Reynolds v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Arizona |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights severability statutory-interpretation takings |
Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability? |
| 20-761 |
Austin Joseph Campbell v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof consent criminal-law due-process jury-instructions sexual-assault |
1. Is evidence that a complainant does not remember giving consent, and states that she awoke from sleep during the sexual encounter, legally sufficie… |
| 20-745 |
Ismael Lechuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr… |
| 20-752 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances |
(1) Did the 4th Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its (a) inquiry and (b) application of Boykin / Tahl 1 analysis under its (c) "tota… |
| 20-753 |
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect… |
| 20-754 |
Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification-to-state-court civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction estate-administration federal-court independent-cause-of-action legal-certification maladministration state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Title 14 Vermont Statutes Annotated Section 1208 provide for an independent cause of action for maladministration of an estate, which can be b… |
| 20-6469 |
Hector Valentine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's Erred
in not addressingconduct has been
rendered non-criminal byanintervening
Whether the Third Cirauit's Erred
in not ad… |
| 20-6481 |
Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea |
The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea:
(1) to e… |
| 20-6482 |
Derrick Moffite v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
WheTher itis a violaTion of due process
where The evidence is insufficient To Support The jury
Verdict of a greater offense; here
AggravaTed AssaulT,
… |
| 20-6485 |
Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken
baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co… |
| 20-6486 |
Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
When determining whether a defendant's substantial rights were affected by an indictment and jury instructions that omitted an essential element of a … |
| 20-6487 |
Andrew Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6492 |
Calvin James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-6468 |
Kinzey Shaw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a… |
| 20-6473 |
Jessica Arnold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe… |
| 20-6474 |
Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-6476 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim |
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's dismissal of petitioner's claim of "tortious interferenc… |
| 20-6444 |
Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
In a pre-Carpenter v. United States case, did the state appellate court err in extending the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requ… |
| 20-6459 |
David Lee Garrett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony |
I. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)?
II. Whether the Texas offense of burglary cons… |
| 20-6462 |
Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notic… |
| 20-6463 |
Alex Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6464 |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to … |
| 20-6465 |
Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's decision to overrule Petitioner's motion for acquittal when the evidence at trial… |
| 20-6466 |
Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing |
[1] WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WHERE MR. JACKSON ARGUED THAT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES … |
| 20-737 |
B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In an inter partes review proceeding under 35 U.S.C. § 311(b), does the Board have authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness th… |
| 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… |
| 20-723 |
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency v. Susan Allan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system civil-procedure federal-regulation number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the definition of ATDS in the TCPA encompasses any device that can "store" and "automatically dial" telephone numbers, even if the device does… |
| 20-728 |
adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
|
5-usc-7513 administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers severance statutory-interpretation us-patent-and-trademark-office |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-731 |
Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and … |
| 20-6436 |
Daniel Lovato v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Wh… |
| 20-6447 |
Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by inti midation . . . or . . . by extortion.… |
| 20-6449 |
Anthony Don Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment waiver |
1. Under Class v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), when a defendant argues on appeal that his sentence was imposed in violation of his Fifth Amend… |
| 20-6450 |
Lee Yerkes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt |
Does Georgia burglary qualify as "generic burglary" under the ACCA? |
| 20-6451 |
Genesis Javon White v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CLASSIFYING MR. GRIFFIN AS AN ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL WHERE HIS PRIOR CONVICTIONS DID NOT QUALIFY AS "SERIOUS DRU… |
| 20-6452 |
Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-6458 |
Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "statute of conviction" must be used for an ACC A predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment in… |
| 20-6409 |
Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6412 |
Robert St. Hilaire v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit, which noted it was deepening a split over the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B), properly construed that Guideline's 4-… |
| 20-6414 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
In an 18 U.S.C. § 113 prosecution, does the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they "work at a United States prison" contravene… |
| 20-6418 |
Michael A. Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6420 |
Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6424 |
Deloyd Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an "enterprise" under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared… |
| 20-6427 |
Marquis Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(… |
| 20-714 |
Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States that there exists no statutory authority for … |
| 20-6404 |
Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6405 |
Joshua Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc… |
| 20-6406 |
Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness |
I. In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, this Court reserved whether a
formal objection at the time of sentencing is required to preserve abuseof-dis… |
| 20-6408 |
Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-704 |
Cesar Santana v. California |
California |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender |
1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted
Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court… |
| 20-6392 |
Peter Gakuba v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
AS A MATTER OF LAW, GAKUBA IS EHTITLED TO EQUITABLE RELIEF PER 18 USE S27IO(E+ SC8) COHBISTEMT W
LIKEWISE THE SAME EOURABLE REUEF 1S DOUBLY AFFORDED … |
| 20-6396 |
Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review.
2. Whether a judge's decis… |
| 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… |
| 20-6382 |
Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing "the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6388 |
Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-6389 |
Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6390 |
Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony |
1. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received
ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's
failure to challenge the … |
| 20-6374 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6346 |
Demarcus D. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing |
1) Count One (RICO) of the Indictment is unconstitutionally vague.
2) Count Two (Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances) of the Indictment is… |
| 20-6347 |
Christopher Mikelinich v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements |
Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he… |
| 20-6351 |
Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation |
Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the Sixth Circuit and the Distri… |
| 20-6356 |
Ryan Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e… |
| 20-6359 |
Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 20-6362 |
Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict… |
| 20-6363 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … |
| 20-681 |
Daniel E. Larkin, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof civil-procedure irs irs-restructuring judicial-review penalties statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-law tax-penalties |
1. Does the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105-206, 112 Stat. 685, Title III, which enacted new sections 6751 … |
| 20-686 |
Michael Shock v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation |
Are significant discovery and Brady violations by the
prosecuting attorney, necessitating the grant of a mistrial,
sufficient to invoke the double j… |
| 20-672 |
Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Did the state court procedure in petitioner's case violate his right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constit… |
| 20-6326 |
Adam Donald Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law |
I. Is a Texas deferred adjudication a "prior conviction" for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)?
II. Does the Texas crime … |
| 20-6331 |
Raphael Dimenick Sam v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
WHETHER OR NOT THE LOWER COURT ERRED AND ABUSED HIS DISCRETION THE TRIAL COURT REVERSIBLY ERRED FOR ALLOWING "VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AND VICTIM IMPAC… |
| 20-6333 |
Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights government-power hearing judicial-power oral-argument procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6335 |
Duane Allen Sikes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
The question presented by this case is whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based o… |
| 20-6337 |
Tramaine Standberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance |
1. Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional?
2. Was the district court's upward varia… |
| 20-6303 |
Lamar Whatley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im… |
| 20-6305 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6311 |
Russell Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing |
I. Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice
liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pink… |
| 20-6313 |
Kevin Merritt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness |
1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-6314 |
Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6316 |
Mickey Pubien v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 20-6323 |
Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Does the Fifth Circuit have constitutional authority under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, to bring Criminal Charg… |
| 20-664 |
Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation |
FLA. STAT. § 57.111 (2020), the Equal Access to Justice Act, entitles small business owners to costs and attorney's fees when they prevail in administ… |
| 20-665 |
Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing |
1.) WhetheR The PetitioNeR DAMON COOk Has Made of A Substantial Showing The DeNial ConstitutioNAL RighT 28 USC 2253(C)(2) IN order To ObtaiN A CertiFi… |
| 20-666 |
Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Granted |
|
byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards.
2. Whether the… |
| 20-648 |
James W. Bonham v. John Sutto, Jr., et ux. |
Arizona |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation |
Currently Arizona uses a scheme of statutes to effectuate forced conveyances of residential single family property Via a non-judicial foreclosure. It … |
| 20-654 |
Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix |
1. Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a "denied . . . benefit " to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Ed… |
| 20-655 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. The Lord god of hosts J… |
| 20-6277 |
Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground |
1. Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida?
2. Is a resident required to leave their residentia… |
| 20-6281 |
Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Whether the
Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782,
regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6282 |
Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code |
Whether, the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a "Career Offender" and Sentencing Him Accordingly? |
| 20-6283 |
Robert Brownlee v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RESEARCH THE ELEMENTS OF A VIOLATION OF 18 PACSA 6301(a)(1)(@i) (THE STATUTE"… |
| 20-6284 |
D'Angelo Domingo Davis, aka D'Angelo Dominico Davis, aka Deangelo Domingo Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United Stat… |
| 20-6285 |
Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6290 |
Orlando Sanchez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6291 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6292 |
Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6298 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing |
Does Fed.R. Crim. P. Rule 35(c)(4) provide the District Court with authority to increase a defendant's otherwise lawful sentence previously imposed on… |
| 20-6268 |
Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation |
Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, under cover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innoce… |
| 20-6271 |
Cordarryl Antonio Betton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process government-breach plea-agreement record-support sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
Is a Plea Agreement breached by the government when the prosecutor announces the government's agreed to recommendation to the sentencing court but the… |
| 20-6272 |
Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-616 |
Stephen Durr v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-to-vacate procedural-rights standing statute-claim statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6258 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden |
THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR, CONTRARY TO 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., WHEN IT ABDICATED THE RESPONSIBILITY, CONFERRED BY CONGRESS ON THE COU… |
| 20-6259 |
Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing … |
| 20-6261 |
Damien Edward Desjardins-Racine v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act guidelines sentencing |
Does Asthnu Diagnosis o A OF Give − Rise EXTZADRDINATY OTD .3F TO AN compelling REASON DURSUANT the SeNtercing GUiDeliNeS?
DD The Rassabe oF oyf FIRS… |
| 20-6243 |
Okeiba Sadio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties |
(1) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wrongly dismiss Mr Sadio's Appeal with out no Briefs being filed or hearing any arguments, violating m… |
| 20-6246 |
Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-6249 |
Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop… |
| 20-601 |
Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat… |
| 20-604 |
InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit innovation longstanding-human-practice patent-eligibility patent-monopoly statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101. |
| 20-6212 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon… |
| 20-6214 |
John J. Powers v. Warden, Allenwood USP |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1-usc-109 18-usc-3624b criminal-procedure first-step-act general-savings-statute good-time-credits sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the General Savings Statute, 1 U.S.C. §109, apply to the First Step Act's amendment to 18 U.S.C. §3624(b) so that penalties of the loss of good t… |
| 20-6225 |
Michael David Lister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not
apply in the puni shment phase? |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the district court failed to consider or address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and focused exclusively on his criminal history, whether the … |
| 20-6242 |
Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of "controlled su… |
| 20-6187 |
Robin Elaine Jackson v. County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law fmla fmla-violation standing statutory-interpretation time-limitation wrongful-termination |
Whether a plaintiff who has no available remedy in a ["FMLA" ] time limitation violation , through no lack of diligence on her part, she is barred by … |
| 20-6197 |
Gregory C. Raymore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
A. Whether Petitioner's conviction must be vacated because (1) the indictment failed to alleg e an essential element of the offense–that Petitioner kn… |
| 20-6198 |
Agustin Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process identity identity-verification post-conviction-information postconviction-information prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U… |
| 20-6202 |
Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation |
Did United States Code Annotated 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought… |
| 20-6204 |
Kenneth Curry v. Kess Roberson |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER PLAUSIBLY HAS SUFFICIENTLY PLEADED A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A SECURED RIGHT PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2253… |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law?
2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's … |
| 20-6207 |
Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness |
1. Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague on its face and as applied beca… |
| 20-586 |
James T. Gersky v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment court-precedent criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process estelle-v-smith judicial-guidance mitchell-v-united-states sentencing |
I.
Should this Court provide guidance to district
courts regarding the forced testimony of
defendants at sentencing, in accordance with
this Court's p… |
| 20-587 |
Hope Angelic White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Myron Pollard v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar personal-representative sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), 2671 et seq., waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and creates a cause of action … |
| 20-579 |
Zimmian Tabb v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Wh… |
| 20-6180 |
Naquan Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's fa… |
| 20-6182 |
Kyle Rainey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Under Brady vs. Maryland, a PCRA petitioner may establish a true Brady violation if the following can be proven; if the evidence at issue is favorable… |
| 20-6192 |
Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d… |
| 20-568 |
William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity |
Whether a waiver of age discrimination claims can be found to be voluntary when an employer verbally revokes an employee's twenty-one (21) day review,… |
| 20-572 |
James R. Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity |
(1) - Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) provides for Criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate Commerce, absent proof that they knew… |
| 20-575 |
Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
Whether a person who is authorized to access
information on a computer for certain purposes violates
Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 20-577 |
Moaze Ibrahim v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-558 |
Jon D. Adams v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6404e case-law fifth-circuit interest-abatement judicial-review lee-v-commissioner statutory-interpretation tax-abatement tax-law tax-procedure |
The Appellant (hereinafter referred to as "the Taxpayer") is seeking abatement of interest assessed by the Appellee (hereinafter referred to as "the C… |
| 20-559 |
Jane Doe v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled?
2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem… |
| 20-6161 |
Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping |
Is a wiretap order, which fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order, insufficient on its face thereby requ… |
| 20-6170 |
Justin David Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance |
Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at… |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
THE COURT SHOULD ISSUE A W.O.C. AND ADDRESS WHETHER THE FEDERAL CARJACKING OFFENSE DOES CONSTITUTE A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF 18 U.S.… |
| 20-6145 |
Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation |
In the extrcordinary ircunstances of this case, lenited states Lourt of Appeals
Daniet, 529 4.s, 473, 48y (2000); B4ck 05 Davi5, - 4.5.m,137 80k 759,7… |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m… |
| 20-6148 |
Smith Merinord v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT APPLIES TO CASES PENDING ON DIRECT APPEAL AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, WHERE THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE HOBB… |
| 20-6153 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "death enhancement" of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation when the statute's language is ambiguous - triggering the rul… |
| 20-551 |
Jack Witt Voris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… |
| 20-555 |
Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-556 |
Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County |
West Virginia |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due process clause of the United States Constitution by being unconstitutionally vague as to the meaning of … |
| 20-6137 |
Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6130 |
Desmond Howard Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-6133 |
Theodore David Newcomb v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-543 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporation cares-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance indian-tribe relief-funds statutory-interpretation tribal-government |
Whether Alaska Native regional and village corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act are "Indian Tribe[s]" for purp… |
| 20-544 |
Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition |
Whether ANCs are "Indian tribes" under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act. |
| 20-6122 |
Jerome Capelton v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing |
1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o… |
| 20-6095 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions home-confinement motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Chaney's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 20-6108 |
Antoine Washington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |
| 20-6109 |
Rashawn D. Watson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states |
A. Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated when (1) t… |
| 20-535 |
Drew Samuel Bates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-531 |
Derek Hutter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse… |
| 20-6092 |
Nathan L. Hill v. Warden of Lee County, U. S. P. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
albeyne-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's holding in Alleyne v United States set forth a Rule of statutory interpretation that could be used on Collateral Review. |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 20-6100 |
Carlos Meza-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6101 |
Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6103 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing |
- Is a prose litigant due a merits determination or adjudication on every claim he presents in his 28usc.f22ssMotion?
-Is a defendant to be provided … |
| 20-6106 |
Rafael Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t… |
| 20-6067 |
Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to … |
| 20-6074 |
Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T … |
| 20-6075 |
Deshawn McCarter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-statute generic-extortion generic-robbery property-threat sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the California robbery statute criminalize a broader swath of conduct than generic robbery or generic extortion in light of the fact that Califor… |
| 20-6079 |
In Re Dale McKenzie |
|
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction |
GROUND ONE
1. Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled
the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior
Georgia convict… |
| 20-6081 |
Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7. Whether the equal protection c… |
| 20-6084 |
Laron J. Wainwright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Most circuits agree that when increasing a defendant's sentence beyond the normal statutory maximum pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), … |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6087 |
Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review |
1. Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object … |
| 20-6088 |
Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 20-519 |
State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
|
11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea… |
| 20-522 |
Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
|
categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c… |
| 20-525 |
Harold E. Rutila, IV v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit hearing-waiver johnson-v-zerbst merit-systems-protection-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner's due process rights when an administrative judge failed to provide him a hearing, in v… |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
1. Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State , 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-6073 |
Desmond Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 20-6042 |
Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-6047 |
Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6051 |
Jonathan Ortiz-Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if trial counsel renders ineffective assistance when he fails to advise his client that the… |
| 20-6053 |
Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation |
Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha… |
| 20-6057 |
David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation |
As of right now, immigration cases use the Esquivel-Quintana standard exposure to statutory penalty for "any 1' prior felony of "sexual abuse of a min… |
| 20-6058 |
Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a
person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-6017 |
Tracey Godfrey v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-6027 |
Michael Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… |
| 20-6029 |
Pedro Tiempo-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in ruling the District Court did not err in imposing an upward departure sentence.
Whether the Court of Appeals er… |
| 20-6032 |
Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation |
The requirement to provide notice of what conduct is considered to be human trafficking I.
will forever be changed by the answer to the question: Is i… |
| 20-6041 |
Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6004 |
Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6007 |
William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue |
Did the Delaware Court Erect to Denie doaht's Modton bo t SINS Che Naictineit? |
| 20-480 |
David Bryon Babcock v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-service-pension dual-status-military-technician military-technician national-guard social-security-act statutory-interpretation uniformed-service |
Is a civil-service pension payment based on dual-status military technician service to the National Guard a payment based wholly on service as a membe… |
| 20-481 |
GE Capital Retail Bank v. Nyree Belton |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy-code debt-discharge federal-arbitration-act implied-repeal legal-procedure lower-court-confusion precedent statutory-discharge statutory-interpretation |
Whether provisions of the Bankruptcy Code providing for a statutorily enforceable discharge of a debtor's debts impliedly repeal the Federal Arbitrati… |
| 20-472 |
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qual administrative-law disproportionate-economic-hardship energy-policy epa-regulation hardship-exemption renewable-fuel-standard small-refineries small-refinery-exemption statutory-interpretation |
In order to qualify for a hardship exemption under § 7545(o)(9)(B)(i) of the Renewable Fuel Standards, does a small refinery need to receive uninterru… |
| 20-5983 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016. |
| 20-5994 |
Mongkhon Leekomon v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure georgia-court-of-appeals indictment legal-procedure statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-exception |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the indictment alleged a statutory tolling exception to extend the seven-year statute of… |
| 20-5995 |
Edwin Virgilio Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Edwin Virgilio Gomez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to app… |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-5998 |
Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-6000 |
Sara G. Kielly v. New York |
New York |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing |
1.5 a defendant required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly state a plea agreement's constitutional conditions, and treatment in priso… |
| 20-6001 |
Antranette Canady v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a
person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-5974 |
Quordalis V. Sanders v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence sentencing |
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| 20-5975 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA?
2. When defining an operative, bu… |
| 20-5979 |
Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing |
Assembly Bill 29u2 allows the Court to recall andlor
resentence the defendant upon recommendation
of the district Attorney of the Cownty in Which
the … |
| 20-5985 |
Derrick Kennedy Crumpton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith-review circuit-court-split criminal-procedure government-discretion government-motion judicial-review plea-agreement proffer-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
What is the scope of judicial review when the defendant and the government have entered in a Plea Agreement and/or a Proffer Agreement in which the go… |
| 20-5948 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2?
Subsidiary question: whether the decis… |
| 20-5949 |
Timmy Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession indictment jury-instructions mens-rea prohibited-status rehaif rehaif-challenge |
1) Whether Rehaif's mens rea requirement is limited to whether or not the defendant knew he was a convicted felon alone, or whether it requires him to… |
| 20-5951 |
Joshua Scott Richards v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S… |
| 20-5957 |
Darius Taurean Caldwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5959 |
Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-5964 |
Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 20-5969 |
Robert Dinkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif vacate the judgement below certiorari criminal-law criminal-participation due-process gun-buy-program illegal-guns non-profit-organization police-department public-announcement rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant Certiorari, vacate the judgement below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Cti. … |
| 20-450 |
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment notice-and-comment-rulemaking public-charge standing statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., an alien is "inadmissible" if, "in the opinion of the [Secretary of Homeland Securit… |
| 20-454 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
abortion abortion-referrals administrative-law agency-rulemaking family-planning rust-v-sullivan statutory-interpretation title-x |
1. Whether the rule falls within the agency's statutory authority.
2. Whether the rule is the product of reasoned decisionmaking. |
| 20-457 |
MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury |
The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano… |
| 20-444 |
United States v. Michael Andrew Gary |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled t… |
| 20-5937 |
Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th… |
| 20-5940 |
Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5917 |
Eric Malmstrom v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it failed to sua sponte order a competency evaluation. The facts of Petitioner's crime, standing… |
| 20-5925 |
Roberto Mendoza-Sanchez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen
where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did n… |
| 20-5926 |
Rolando Candia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be violated by means of "intimidation" through threats of mental or non-corporeal … |
| 20-437 |
United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry |
Under 8 U.S.C. 1326(d), a defendant charged with unlawful reentry into the United States following removal may assert the invalidity of the original r… |
| 20-440 |
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation |
In the Patent Act, Congress established that invalidity is a "defense[] in any action involving the validity or infringement of a patent." 35 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM … |
| 20-5893 |
Jonnie Ravon v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 20-5902 |
Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing |
Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci… |
| 20-5904 |
Tarahrick Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)IFP |
2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? … |
| 20-5910 |
Robert Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. What Conateude celevank Conduck 2°
Ad. \Nhen does teledant Conduck become Celevant Conduct do dhe inslant S¥Sense oF conuicheon Yo be used to enha… |
| 20-5912 |
Adam Alan Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually
explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the
genitals or pubic … |
| 20-5914 |
Clifton Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg … |
| 20-5915 |
Perry Cortese v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing |
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| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 20-5890 |
Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit |
Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should… |
| 20-5891 |
Mauricio Alvarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, which uses the terms "misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties" does not p… |
| 20-423 |
LaQuanda Gilmore Garrott v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
|
charge-bargain judicial-review maximum-sentence plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers |
Whether a district judge violates the separation of powers by rejecting a plea agreement containing a "charge bargain"—a guilty plea to one or more co… |
| 20-5871 |
Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury? |
| 20-5872 |
Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5857 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5863 |
Andrew Newson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection mailing-error parental-rights petition-for-review statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5865 |
John Doe #1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process sentencing supervision-conditions vagueness |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V, when it imposed the communication condition of supervision which is … |
| 20-5868 |
Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between Mexico and the United States, is a participant who had a managerial role in the offense excl… |
| 20-5869 |
Michael Robert Everett v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law |
DURING THE CHARGE IS RECLASSIFIED FROM ONE VARYING DEGREE OFFENSE TO ANOTHER, DOES THIS FINDING RENEW THE BURTON V. STEWART, FERREIRA V. SEC'Y DEP'T O… |
| 20-5876 |
In Re Paula Idele Keller |
|
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
9th-circuit-appeal civil-procedure fair-housing-act loan-modification mortgage mortgage-modification private-right-of-action real-estate real-estate-transaction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiffs loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of "real estate-related transaction " u… |
| 20-5877 |
Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 for "an offense against the United States" is required to be imposed for all offense… |
| 20-5879 |
Michael Matthew Phillips v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence felon-in-possession firearm-evidence rule-404b rules-of-evidence witness-testimony |
1. Whether evidence that a defendant walked with a person to a public place where the other person retrieved a firearm is sufficient to show that the … |
| 20-5880 |
Deepak Deshpande v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript |
1. an statutorily On instad they acquind bypothetinal jurisdiction.
2. convictien have @right to control dfense and right to Casist in Ocon dleeose 9… |
| 20-5882 |
Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-415 |
Pablo Javier Aleman v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-responsibility detainer-transfer interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdictional-authority mental-health-adjudication not-criminally-responsible receiving-state sending-state sentencing sentencing-procedure treatment |
1. Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD"), MD. CODE
ANN., CORR. SERVS. § 8-401 et seq., does the receiving state have the
authority to co… |
| 20-418 |
Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA"), Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat. 2394, prohibits use of an "automatic telephone dialing system" … |
| 20-5851 |
John Christopher Badgett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5854 |
Trumaine Muller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause |
I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES… |
| 20-5861 |
Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense |
IS A HOBBS ACT ROBBERY A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 20-5836 |
Rosie Diggles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process external-document judicial-procedure mandatory-supervision oral-pronouncement pronouncement sentencing special-conditions |
Is the Court required to orally pronounce special conditions and give reasons for those special condition, as a condition of mandatory supervision, at… |
| 20-400 |
James Avery, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state burglary statute that disjunctively lists places that may be burgled under the statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhance… |
| 20-409 |
Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation. |
| 20-403 |
Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California |
California |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance |
1. Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e), which prohibits Group Residential use, is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Four… |
| 20-5824 |
Trenard Caldwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed that … |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central
thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority
of … |
| 20-5807 |
Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a Pro Se [indigent] prisoner to be held to a higher standard than state courts?
Are state courts exempt from following their own statutes and r… |
| 20-5809 |
Albert Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition |
1. Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable?
… |
| 20-5771 |
Taveon Nixon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENC… |
| 20-5772 |
Michael Portanova v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "categorical approach," which this
Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a
… |
| 20-5787 |
Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th… |
| 20-5799 |
Lorenzo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct. |
| 20-376 |
DNF Associates, LLC v. Jillian McAdory |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act henson-v-santander legal-standing passive-debt-buyer statutory-interpretation |
Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties that perform collection, … |
| 20-380 |
Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description |
The Patent Act provides that patents must "contain a written description of the invention" in "such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable… |
| 20-383 |
PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts may look to state law to define
"present right to possession" in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e… |
| 20-5770 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen… |
| 20-5775 |
Natalie Angeles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure harm-analysis judicial-coercion presentence-report sentencing structural-error |
Does a district court coerce the Defendant to withdraw her objections to findings in the Presentence Report where the court informs the Defendant that… |
| 20-5777 |
Leroy Banks v. Anthony Terry, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals and The District Court erred and Prejudiced me in denying and dismissing my claims and case (including injunctive relief … |
| 20-5751 |
Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled. |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 20-5758 |
Damon Woodard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993), which permits the "stacking" of mandator… |
| 20-5759 |
Charles C. Williamson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND CIRCUIT COURT MISINTERPRETED
AND MISAPPLIED THE "RELEVANT CONDUCT" PROVISIONS OF UNITED
STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION, G… |
| 20-5734 |
Alfred Flores, III v. California |
California |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime must be found b… |
| 20-5738 |
Willie Hugh Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5739 |
David Rothenberg v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses |
When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from… |
| 20-5740 |
Edward Mahan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE THE PLEA AGREEMENT?
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MAHAN'S OBJECTION TO T… |
| 20-5741 |
Juan Gabriel Sanchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States , 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5743 |
Johnny Melendez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con… |
| 20-5746 |
Brandon Thomas Finnesy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-636 consent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea judicial-consent magistrate-judge statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3) authorizes a federal magistrate judge to accept a guilty plea with the parties' consent? |
| 20-355 |
Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that "notified of the infringement" and "such notice" under §287(a) refer only to communications from th… |
| 20-360 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
|
attorneys-fees circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights fee-enhancement judicial-discretion lodestar-method prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the PLRA leaves any room for a district court to enhance a fee award in prisoner cases beyond what it statutorily pr… |
| 20-5711 |
David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee… |
| 20-5714 |
Donald Joseph Koshmider, II v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process medical-marijuana possession-immunity retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Did the Sixth Circuit err when its opinion failed to analyze Petitioner's issues according to the Legislative directive that Public Act 283 is retroac… |
| 20-5717 |
William Bradner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit |
Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici… |
| 20-5725 |
Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation |
WAS PETITIONER'S 42 U.S.L. $ 1983 LOMPLAINT ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OFEQUITABLE TOLLING?
IN SOME EXTLA DRDINARY WAY FRDM ASSERTING HIS RIGHTS BEFDRE THE
S… |
| 20-5700 |
Antonio Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5709 |
Rickey Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to… |
| 20-5710 |
Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-338 |
Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION
Federal district courts have their jurisdiction limited to violations of laws of the
United States. During the per… |
| 20-347 |
Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue |
Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-5689 |
Orlando Bell v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a defendant's sentence on conduct for which the jury acquitted the defenda… |
| 20-5695 |
Tony DuPree v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation takings |
(1). Is the Florida Supreme Court correct in saying it lacks jurisdiction where Petitioner is bringing Actual Innocence claim, Newly Discovered Eviden… |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-5658 |
Martin Racioppi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's approach, in United States v. McCants, 952 F.3d 416 (3d Cir. 2020), to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery… |
| 20-5670 |
Henry Horace Givins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
| 20-5672 |
David Kareem Turpin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another
in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible
propert… |
| 20-5674 |
In Re James Ward |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance … |
| 20-5677 |
In Re Jimmy Wren |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus |
1. Whether 28, §2244, U.S.C. deprives similar situated litigants of due process of law?
2. Whether the enforcement of 28, §2244, U.S.C., subjects sim… |
| 20-322 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Esteban Aleman Gonzalez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law bond-hearing danger-to-community due-process flight-risk immigration-detention statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government … |
| 20-315 |
Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12) |
8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of
Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain lawful-permanent-resident statu… |
| 20-5636 |
Miguel Figueroa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5640 |
Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5645 |
Virgil Nickens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano |
In Rehaif, v. United States, this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense only if … |
| 20-5646 |
Sean Justin Owens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… |
| 20-5648 |
Damien Guidry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
| 20-5649 |
David Blaszczak v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
GVR |
Amici (1)IFP |
conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 |
1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" and a "thing of value" belonging to the regulatory agency such that its di… |
| 20-5650 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by
the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for
second firearms… |
| 20-5652 |
Daniel L. Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations |
Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8… |
| 20-5653 |
Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
| 20-5622 |
Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY
TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH… |
| 20-5627 |
Justin Woodard v. New York |
New York |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Was defendant's Constitutional Fourteenth Amendment right to Due process violated when the Monroe County Trial Court denied the re-opening of a sup… |
| 20-5628 |
Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months"
in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
| 20-5630 |
Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit |
Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee… |
| 20-5642 |
Christopher Wooten v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 20-302 |
Steven Dotson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions |
If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sen… |
| 20-303 |
United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero |
First Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (31)Relisted (6) |
civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights |
Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by establishing Supplemental Security Income… |
| 20-294 |
Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence … |
| 20-298 |
El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Pending |
|
appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds |
In January 2019, during a government shutdown, President Trump formally requested from Congress $5.7 billion in appropriations for a wall along the So… |
| 20-5600 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-rights relief-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-5610 |
Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing |
Under Griffith v. Kentucky, new rules apply to all defendants whose cases are "pending on direct review or not yet final." Petitioner was convicted in… |
| 20-5614 |
Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness |
Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5597 |
Rory Swenson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black |
May speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence be criminalized as a "true threat" unprotected by t… |
| 20-291 |
Jamell Birt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation |
Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… |
| 20-285 |
Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board
decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to
be ada… |
| 20-5561 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a
"complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
| 20-5584 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 20-5585 |
Denis Nikolla v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test |
In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 20-5588 |
Joshua Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation |
Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 20-5590 |
Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right" - When Chacon-Lara ar… |
| 20-5558 |
Anthony Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession |
1. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith… |
| 20-5564 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S REFUSAL TO CONDUCT A FULL RESENTENCING WITH THE DEFENDANT PRESENT RENDERS THE P… |
| 20-5577 |
Malik Timbers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement |
I.
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED
WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT
TIMBERS' GUILTY PLEA WAS VOLUNTARY AND THE
SENTENCE-AP… |
| 20-5578 |
Steven Gerard Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether
a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera… |
| 20-262 |
Bridget Alex, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation tort-claims-act |
Plaintiffs sued T-Mobile in state court for breach of contract, deceptive trade practices, and gross negligence that led to Brandon Alex's death. T-Mo… |
| 20-272 |
Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers |
Maryland |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio… |
| 20-256 |
Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm… |
| 20-5543 |
Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5537 |
Anderson Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
At issue is whether, under this Court's law established in United States v. Johnson, Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the ar… |
| 20-5546 |
Rudolph Carryl v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure fraud fraud-definition sale sale-requirement sec-v-zandford securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing statutory-interpretation zandford-precedent |
WHETHER VIOLATION OF §10(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (15 U.S.C. §78j(b)) AND THE HOLDING OF SEC u. Zandford, 535 U.S. 813 (2002) HAS BEE… |
| 20-246 |
Stephen B. Pence, et al. v. VNB New York, LLC, as Successor by Merger to VNB New York Corporation, as Successor in Interest to the Park Avenue Bank |
Kentucky |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
|
banking banking-regulation d'oench-doctrine defenses federal-common-law financial-institutions-reform firrea fraud holder-in-due-course statutory-interpretation |
Does the D'Oench doctrine, D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. FDIC, 315 U.S. 447 (1942), or federal common law "holder in due course" doctrine, survive Congress'… |
| 20-240 |
Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), and its progeny. |
| 20-5461 |
Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board |
New Jersey |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing |
THE PETITIONER, CONTENDS THAT His CASE IS
VERY SIMILAR. TO TRANTINO V. STATE OF N.S. _
PAROLE BOARD. AFTER HAVING SERVED THE PUNIT IVE ASPECTS OF HIS … |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-5515 |
In Re Tracey A. Merrill |
|
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
IS THIS A DISTORTION OF JUSTICE
WAS EXTREME MALICE DISPLAYED IN THIS CASE |
| 20-5530 |
Tony Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-act due-process expert-services independent-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to independent counsel in denying a defense application for necessary expert services pursuan… |
| 20-234 |
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Yolany Padilla, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
GVR |
|
5th-amendment classwide-injunction credible-fear detention due-process expedited-removal immigration immigration-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(l)(B)(ii) —which authorizes the government to detain aliens who are placed in expedited removal proceedings, but who then … |
| 20-5504 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals dealt with the merit and merits due in good faith process protection protect mactin in this case.
2) District court abus… |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-5478 |
Fernando Hernandez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion domestic-violence drug-trafficking due-process sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Was Hernandez ' due process rights violated when the district court abused
its discretion in relying on Hernandez ' domestic violence past in sentenc… |
| 20-5479 |
Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5488 |
Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-Amendment appellate-record due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment Gardner-v-Florida judicial-procedure presentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-review |
1. In reviewing a sentencing judgment, may the Eleventh Circuit consider new materials that were never introduced to the sentencing judge? (A 9-2 spli… |
| 20-5490 |
William James Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) criminal-procedure home-visit home-visits liberty-deprivation probation-officer statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a
person to "permit a probation officer to visit [him] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-215 |
Richard Bernholz v. Internal Revenue Service |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-tort-claims-act government-liability immunity internal-revenue-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-collection |
The question presented is whether any conduct by the Internal Revenue Service which may broadly be construed as a mechanism for the assessment and col… |
| 20-5454 |
Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings |
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| 20-5457 |
Dennis A. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5469 |
Alfonzo Traymayne Lee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether giving the District court discretion to grant or deny sentencing reduction pursuant to 18 USC 3553(a) and the First Step Act of 2018, Section … |
| 20-5470 |
German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5472 |
Henry Dailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
The State of Missouri has a Statute that criminalizes the transfer of dee. Custody or @acontcol of ANY Corin +o aNatrer, or ko another place, when the… |
| 20-5473 |
Andres Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
I. WHETHER CHAVEZ WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN HE WAS MISLEAD INTO ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA; BECAUSE COUNSEL FAILED TO REVIEW THE PSR WITH HIM AND FAILED… |
| 20-5474 |
Montez L. Clayton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-5444 |
Mark Louis Sanders v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure asset-monetization civil-rights due-process government-overreach jurisdictional-challenge property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-procedure |
Respondent, by their own admissions, monetized Petitioner's assets in the amount of $212,945 without jurisdiction and violated their own policies and … |
| 20-209 |
Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act |
The question presented is whether this definition encompasses only systems that autodial telephone numbers generated using a random or sequential numb… |
| 20-5428 |
Jose Ricardo Morales-Mercado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supreme-court |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 20-5429 |
Derrick T. Neville, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne apprendi criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
approacl does not apply to the texn "serious drvg
sffense pursuant to 92yle)(2lA)i). Tne tevm "requires an ly
that the state offsuse inuolue thecondu… |
| 20-5430 |
Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard |
1. Was there sufficient evidence of utter "utter disregard for human life" to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction?
2. Should addition… |
| 20-5432 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Barnes' Plea Agreement bars … |
| 20-5433 |
Gregory Wind v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind? |
| 20-5437 |
Wendell Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars… |
| 20-5407 |
Dominique Mack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest |
1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this
Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 20-5409 |
Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5421 |
Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation |
1. IS SIMPLE POSSESSION UNDER F.S. 893.13(6)(A). A LEGALLY
PERMISSIBLE RACKETEERING PREDICATE INCIDENT UNDER F.S. §
895.02(l)(a), § 895.02(l)(b)?
2. … |
| 20-5386 |
Leon Hawkins v. Donnie Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion merger ohio-law sentencing sentencing-merger |
Does Ohio violate petitioner's constitutional right to be sentenced for sentences that merged (yet) the court sentenced separate sentences for the sam… |
| 20-5393 |
Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness |
1. Does the sentencing courthave Jurisdictionto Sentence a defen dant
to a statute void of judgment,un-enforceable undar the Constitution?
charging, s… |
| 20-5396 |
Austin Peterson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation... or... by extortion" and… |
| 20-5373 |
Don Nell Hawkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
16-usc-3582 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-5376 |
Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5380 |
Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen… |
| 20-171 |
Isaac L. Hobbs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
18-usc-922 constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea knowledge-of-status statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Does a constitutionally invalid guilty plea resulting from the government's failure to inform a defendant of the knowledge-of-status element of 18 U.S… |
| 20-174 |
Patrick Baehr, et ux. v. The Creig Northrop Team, P.C., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-harm due-process fiduciary-relationship kickback kickbacks real-estate respa standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether plaintiffs pursuing claims under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA") must present evidence of an overcharge for services ta… |
| 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… |
| 20-5347 |
Bakari McCant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 attempt crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element of the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of vio… |
| 20-5348 |
Chazdin Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5355 |
Eddie David Cox v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served? |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Aunder parole consideration arficle under I vection 32 of california prparition fonmater whnvilenfe constitution sentence
ner th p atn ith febny atte… |
| 20-5341 |
Erik Becerra v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-justice criminal-prosecution federal-law firearm-possession judicial-development lower-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
In a criminal prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm or ammunition, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), does federal law permit the judicial development of … |
| 20-5346 |
Jerry Lee Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing substance-abuse-treatment supervised-release |
I. Does a district court commit reversible plain error when, in a sentence revoking supervised release, it imposes a condition of supervised release r… |
| 20-5353 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-146 |
Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
WHETHER SECTION 20A.03 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
| 20-158 |
SRAM, LLC v. FOX Factory, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-103 commercial-success federal-circuit graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia patent-act patent-claim patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill secondary-considerations statutory-interpretation |
In Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1 (1966), this Court recognized the pivotal importance of "objective indicia" of nonobviousness (… |
| 20-143 |
Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts |
SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F… |
| 20-5326 |
Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was:
A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 20-5334 |
Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability on the district court's denial of Kieren's motion to amend his petition w… |
| 20-5335 |
Dustin Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Issue I
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont… |
| 20-5336 |
Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley |
Delaware |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct |
1. Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution?
2. Must a plaintiff prove the facts of the Case in the Complai… |
| 20-5321 |
Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing
Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-5323 |
Alfred Domenick Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fair-sentencing-act government-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sentencing-reduction sibron-v-new-york statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance united-states-v-gall |
1.) Should the Government correct error committed when applying 'The Fair
Sentencing Act ' (Nov. 2014)? And if an applicant 's reduction for
Substan… |
| 20-5325 |
Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Where the State postconviction courts assessment of Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of counsel claim was "I guess the only potential issue would b… |
| 20-5305 |
Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the statutes 29 UCS Section 1001 et seq., ERISA insulated Petitioner 's federal pension funds in a account which is not taxable exempt from… |
| 20-5300 |
Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court |
| 20-5302 |
Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
In the interpretation of a sentencing guideline enhancement pro vision to determine whether
it applies to extraterritorial or merely domestic criminal… |
| 20-130 |
Hung Dang v. Washington Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission |
Washington |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
duty-of-care first-amendment free-speech medical-licensing medical-quality-assurance physician-patient-relationship professional-speech statutory-interpretation |
While on-call as a private otolaryngologist, I verbally declined to accept into my care two persons from outlying hospitals, where I was neither on st… |
| 20-136 |
Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme |
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… |
| 20-138 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transfer… |
| 20-126 |
Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law creditor-liens municipal-finance property-rights secured-lending statutory-interpretation |
Federal bankruptcy law generally provides that a creditor's lien does not extend to "property acquired . . . after the commencement of the [bankruptcy… |
| 20-5267 |
Kolongi Richardson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not le… |
| 20-5268 |
Luis Fernando Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Ramirez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illegal … |
| 20-5283 |
Mauricio Lemus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release |
Whether at a supervised-release revocation hearing the government must prove by a preponderance of the evidence its contention that a defendant's cond… |
| 20-5284 |
Tony Lam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5259 |
Robin Hood Who v. Department of the Treasury |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-5263 |
Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing |
1) Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence… |
| 20-5264 |
Lakento Brian Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The First Step Act changed the penalty for petitioner's crack cocaine crimes from life in prison to 10 years to life and changed petitioner's guidelin… |
| 20-121 |
Marshall Spiegal v. Michael C. Kim |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel debt-collection debt-collector-allegations debtor-conduct direct-connection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa judicial-notice statutory-interpretation transaction-nexus |
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") covers debts "arising out of" certain transactions. Does "arising out of" require a "direct" connecti… |
| 20-114 |
Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy |
1. Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this "tax" dispute?
2. Was it error to refer anything to the un-consented-to magistrate?
3. Was it ab… |
| 20-5248 |
Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that "exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo… |
| 20-5249 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Does the circumstances presented and detailed by STATEMENT OF THE CASE portion of the present Petition for a Writ of Certiorari warrant issuance of th… |
| 20-5252 |
Garry Grace v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of,
a crime that was not an offense against the United States, in light of the… |
| 20-5253 |
Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 20-5237 |
Kenneth Lee Manhard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal collision-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection license-suspension miranda-rights sentencing vehicular-manslaughter |
(1) Was he denied equal protection of the law ? |
| 20-5244 |
David Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written? |
| 20-5245 |
Victor John Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act attempt attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of violen… |
| 20-5246 |
Jerry Luke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-110 |
Jack S. Kannry, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law disaster-relief disaster-tax-relief federal-tax-procedure irs-discretion irs-regulations stafford-act statutory-interpretation tax-procedure taxpayer-rights |
The question thereby presented is whether the IRS should be free to pick and choose which mandated statutes and regulations to apply, and to avoid oth… |
| 20-111 |
Walter N. Strand, III v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law board-discretion civilian-oversight due-process judicial-review military-records separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the Secretary of the Navy, is "acting through" the Board for Correction of Naval Records as required by statute when… |
| 20-5194 |
In Re Kevin D. Moore |
|
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5240 |
Cynthia Gilmore v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity ambiguous-verdict conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict predicate-acts reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether the sentencing court is required to use the reasonable doubt standard to determine the predicate acts where the jury's verdict was purposefull… |
| 20-5219 |
Binh Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5222 |
Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation |
Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), meriting remand or reversal? |
| 20-5223 |
Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 20-5226 |
Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5198 |
Franklin C. Smith v. Nurse Mayfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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nch as, Cpi Fay pesinsed Limse eile sondes Dath tesif depition that… |
| 20-5200 |
Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
WHETHER A STATE COURT OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH A DECISION OF A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AND OTHER STATE COURT OF APPEA… |
| 20-5206 |
Nathan D. Knuth v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5207 |
William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. When the Legislation oasses enactments pertaining to all its citizens does not the (14th.Amendment ) Equal Protection apply to all it's citizens ?
… |
| 20-87 |
George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation |
I. How does one determine whether a defendant is an Indian?
II. Is Indian status a jury question? |
| 20-88 |
HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase |
Whether the "basic and novel properties" identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" must independe… |
| 20-89 |
Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i), a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application must be dismissed before a hearing on the me… |
| 20-94 |
Martin Dekom v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC |
New York |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure court-intervention due-process foreclosure foreclosure-procedure judicial-rulemaking legal-burden rulemaking-power standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
A county court in New York invented a legal process which streamlines foreclosure by removing statutory requirements and motions. Can a court of its o… |
| 20-84 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Troy Alexander, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acting-official civil-procedure due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act immunity-doctrine individual-liability jurisdictional-challenge official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken i… |
| 20-86 |
Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
|
but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab… |
| 20-5160 |
Keith Henderson v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 20-5161 |
Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5184 |
Richard Brian Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)… |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a… |
| 20-71 |
Stephen P. Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment |
Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab… |
| 20-5131 |
Michael Kimbrew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bribery-of-public-official bribery-statute commercial-bribery due-process federal-employee ninth-circuit-interpretation official-act public-official quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation sun-diamond |
Is Kimbrew's expansive reading of § 201 unconstitutional? |
| 20-5152 |
Joel Arredondo-Moreno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5153 |
Jamiell Sims v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 20-5156 |
Manuel Contreras Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-60 |
Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official |
(1) Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, un… |
| 20-5135 |
James Bowell v. State Bar of California |
California |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f… |
| 20-5111 |
James Earvin Sanders v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review rare-and-exceptional-circumstances statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-provision |
If a petitioner can demonstrate that he falls under a built-in tolling provision as described in 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(A)-(D), does he also need to de… |
| 20-5113 |
Jeremias Robertson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment guideline-sentencing self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-deliberations silence |
1. In United States v. Mitchell , 526 U.S. 314, 330 (1999), this Court held that a sentencing court may not draw adverse factual inferences from silen… |
| 20-5118 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation |
I.
Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to
review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
II.
… |
| 20-5120 |
Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains… |
| 20-5122 |
Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 20-5132 |
Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether
Petitioner Is actually, Factually,
Legally, and Lawfully
Innocent of his
Rehaif
v.
United States,
139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019)
recently decided by T… |
| 20-5100 |
Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether the PLAINTIFF appeal is frivolous when it involves a trespass of constitutional dimension on the Freedom of Information Act, BY THE UNITED … |
| 20-5104 |
Justin Tapp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-34 |
Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr… |
| 20-37 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights demonstration-projects health-care-coverage medicaid medicaid-demonstration-projects statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that the Secretary may not authorize demonstration projects to test requirements that are designed to… |
| 20-38 |
Arkansas v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion experimental-projects health-benefits health-policy medicaid medicaid-expansion secretary-of-health-and-human-services social-welfare statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the Secretary's approval of the Arkansas Works Amendment was lawful. |
| 20-5084 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was Ellis Prejudicied when NONE of her concerns were considered in her Initial Appeal 17-12737?
Was Ellis Prejudiced per 6th Amendment when Attorney … |
| 20-5088 |
Francisco Javier Ponce-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-below different-result holguin-hernandez Holguin-Hernandez-v-United-States lower-court-decision reasonable-probability reconsider-decision reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5093 |
Dion Clayborn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender congressional-intent deference-to-agency drug-trafficking guideline-commentary recidivism sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Title 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) authorized the Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines that, based on legislative history, were intended harshly punis… |
| 20-5076 |
Jorge Aaron Ceja-Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 20-5077 |
Joaquin Mario Cipriano-Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-classification citizenship-laws due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry morales-santana morales-santana-precedent ninth-circuit-review severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 20-5079 |
Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5080 |
Christopher George Wiggin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5081 |
Clarence Hoffert v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
The question presented is whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case… |
| 20-19 |
Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military |
Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military? |
| 20-5052 |
Jeremy E. Lewis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights due-process frivolous-filings habeas-corpus immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen standing statutory-interpretation |
Lewis was "Completely" barred from filing a motion in federal court. Does Lewis have a "Constitutional Right To Petition The Courts" under this Court'… |
| 20-5054 |
Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the "related to" test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense,… |
| 20-5055 |
Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation |
Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 20-5056 |
George Cortez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5057 |
Ledinson Chavez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate |
Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 20-5058 |
Randy Estevez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity |
1. Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it
should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged
possession of the … |
| 20-5060 |
Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act… |
| 20-5026 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction |
Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio… |
| 20-5040 |
In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer |
|
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act mandamus personal-liberty sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. Petitioner is deprived of Due Process of Law Contrary to Law in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Section 404 of the First Step Act.
2. Because… |
| 20-5051 |
Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums |
Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis… |
| 20-5016 |
Ashton Charles Butler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice united-states-code |
In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court
construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C.
§ 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry in… |
| 20-5019 |
Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of… |
| 20-5020 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Tri-Lift North Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5031 |
Artemio Ramirez-Arroyo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582(c)(2) due-process equal-protection hughes-v-united-states retroactive-amendment retroactive-guideline-amendments sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In 2011, the Sentencing Commission changed its policy statement in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 to disqualify defendants who received sentences below the Guideli… |
| 20-15 |
Pennymac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Erich Heidrich, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1738 enforcement-of-agreement fair-labor-standards-act federal-arbitration-act federal-substantive-law individualized-arbitration state-court-decision state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of an arbitration agreement as applied to Fair Labor Standards Act claims where the parties' … |
| 20-5001 |
Mark Norris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under the… |
| 20-5002 |
Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health |
Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 20-5004 |
Michael Joseph Zeroni v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-USC-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Is the "reasonableness" standard, under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence impose… |
| 20-5008 |
Emilio Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5012 |
In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross |
|
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of Prohibition be issued under the U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari in this case or Writ of Mandamus, I also stated or whatever the… |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW
HIS GUILTY PLEA?
2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 19-8914 |
Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind |
Principle of strict statutory construction requires that term "fear" should not be construed broadly to include any non-violent acts of "economic loss… |
| 19-8915 |
Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether prose defendants since file under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 and are paid back costs by the Court Judge if in be the onus ce oy tt permission of the app… |
| 19-8918 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of
person's property once it no longera
serves a government purpose in the
prosecu… |
| 19-8922 |
Amber Renee Craker v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Was there sufficient evidence to support her capital murder conviction?
Did the Court of Appeals Err in holding Craker's mistaken belief that she kil… |
| 19-8924 |
William R. Jenkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8927 |
Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is… |
| 19-8928 |
Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-8929 |
Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 … |
| 19-1475 |
Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-314 administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause due-process forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c… |
| 19-1476 |
Vantage Energy Services, Incorporated, et al. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-precedent due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intake-questionnaire iqbal plausibility-standard pleadings statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements verified-charge |
1. Whether the combination of an unverified intake questionnaire submitted on behalf of the charging party and an inexcusably dilatory verified charge… |
| 19-1461 |
Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (13) |
civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an "undue hardship" under Title VII, 42 … |
| 19-8907 |
Jonathan Boyer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-uscs-2254 civil-procedure federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-recall relitigation-bar statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
Whether and under what circumstances a motion to recall judgment attacking the erroneous application of the relitigation bar in 28 USCS 2254(d) should… |
| 19-8911 |
Lee Montez Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8912 |
Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
A. Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable, despite being a guideline sentence of six months, where the parties agreed … |
| 19-8847 |
Michael D. Nixon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3006A constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness funding-denial geo-location indigent-defendant sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Michael D. Nixon's constitutional rights were violated when the District Court failed to grant him, an indigent defendant, funding for a geo-l… |
| 19-8899 |
Michael Wayne Blanche v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law jury-finding jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
Whether the verdict and 7-year sentence on the … |
| 19-8900 |
Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review |
Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute? |
| 19-8901 |
Fabian Fuentes Rosas v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equitable-exception federal-habeas habeas-corpus material-misrepresentation ninth-circuit plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to consider and decide one of the certified claims raised in Rosas's appeal, namely an exhausted argument that Ros… |
| 19-1459 |
Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-311 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-service-protections congressional-intent constitutional-remedy ipr-statute patent-law severance statutory-interpretation tenure-protections |
1. Whether severance of the tenure protections for Administrative Patent Judges ("APJs") was unavailable to the Arthrex court to remedy the violation … |
| 19-8902 |
Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing |
Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and… |
| 19-8896 |
Melodio Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8897 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review |
ARE PRO-SE PETITIONER'S ENTITLED TO COURTS' LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR COURT PAPERS OR FAIR AMENDMENT?
IF PROSECUTOR PRESENT ED NO EVIDENCE PETITI… |
| 19-8849 |
Linda Pedroza v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position … |
| 19-8884 |
Samuel Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-8890 |
Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-8892 |
Edwin G. Perez-Cubertier v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceeding collateral-proceedings counsel-rights first-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation withdrawal-from-conspiracy |
In Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003), this Court held that a convicted federal defendant may first bring an ineffective assistance of coun… |
| 19-1453 |
Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller |
Michigan |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts |
The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court… |
| 19-1446 |
Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation |
The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse
the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was
promulgated by this Court in Helvering… |
| 19-8876 |
Solomon Jalloh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing |
Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with… |
| 19-8877 |
Patrick D. Lomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion section-404 sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
i.
Did the District Court abuse it's Discretion when it denied Petitioner's
Motion seeking a reduction of Sentence under Section 404(b) of the First S… |
| 19-8878 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim… |
| 19-1440 |
Melvin Ammons, et al. v. Wisconsin Central, Ltd. |
Illinois |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
comparative-negligence counterclaim federal-employers-liability-act fela fela-liability property-damage railroad-liability setoff statutory-interpretation statutory-limitations void-device |
1. When a railroad files a counterclaim for property damage in an injured employee's FELA action to purposely or intentionally evade FELA liability to… |
| 19-8824 |
Keith Newton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process effective-counsel evidence jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8828 |
Michael Jerald Leggett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-crimes attempted-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act specific-intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step violent-crimes |
The courts of appeals have universally held that a conviction for a completed offense is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)… |
| 19-8830 |
Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra… |
| 19-8837 |
Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi… |
| 19-8799 |
James Johnman, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act |
Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8800 |
Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing |
In a capital case in which the defendant's jury observes him in shackles and jail clothing, and multiple members of the jury expressed the belief that… |
| 19-8802 |
Regina Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Oi ryik finest |
| 19-8813 |
Tom Mark Franks v. Kirk, Deputy Sheriff, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8815 |
Jose Armando Nunez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-8817 |
Barry Lalane Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-range criminal-procedure district-court justification policy-statement sentencing |
I. Whether the district court erred when it sentenced Petitioner significantly above the policy statement range without adequate justification? |
| 19-8820 |
Cesar Velazquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8810 |
Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. DOES NORTH CAROLINA'S OFFENSE OF FELONIOUS BREAKING AND/OR ENTERING QUALIFY AS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT? |
| 19-1408 |
James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below, Respondent's failure to state a claim with… |
| 19-1409 |
Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California |
California |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity |
In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f… |
| 19-1404 |
Michael Lieberman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) What relief is available to a criminal defendant
under the All Writs Act?
2) How, and when, may a district court amend a
restitution order imposed… |
| 19-1406 |
Lord, Lewis & Coleman, LLC v. Bellaco, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-entity choses-in-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process notice notice-requirement standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether a Texas statute, which extinguishes a business entity's choses in action without notice, violates the Due Process clause of the U.S. Constitut… |
| 19-8790 |
Christina Ann Whichard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-8791 |
Jose Angel Vasquez-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-8762 |
Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULV DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT
OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT
APPELLANT'S PETITION WAS UN… |
| 19-8771 |
Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1) Does SENTENCING A FIRST TIME OFFENDER WITHOUT HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY TO 28 YEARS TO LIFE SEND A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE O… |
| 19-8775 |
Kirby Gardner v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. |
| 19-8755 |
Levi West v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-8756 |
Kevin Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-offense categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute federal-sentencing james-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
If a completed offense is categorically a "crime of violence" within 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause, is the attempted commission of that o… |
| 19-8764 |
James William Burney v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b… |
| 19-8696 |
Frank DiTomasso v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing |
,and there is not even an attempt to
sked for,e.g.pictures or video,
2
get any picturer or videos?
.There is a bold lie Tald to the grand jury in firs… |
| 19-8697 |
Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8741 |
Kelly David Ankeny, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon force-requirement oregon-robbery physical-force second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Oregon Robbery in the Second Degree (Or. Rev. Stat. § 164.405(1)(a)) is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the statute'… |
| 19-8743 |
Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8745 |
Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8749 |
Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
was the pirosented Statement made in the Newspaper hommbul evoug to wannt a mistial?
2 D (cRaytaw) Anmendent. Presene his 6tll N3) boovove Dio the De… |
| 19-1388 |
Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) |
civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an "undue hardship" in accommodating an emp… |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8731 |
Edson Gelin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense |
WHETHER THE DEFENSE IS ENTITLED TO A BUYER-SELLER JURY INSTRUCTION WHEN THE INSTRUCTION IS PART OF THE THEORY OF DEFENSE AND OTHERWISE NECESSARY FOR A… |
| 19-8732 |
Efrain Leyva Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion accurate-information criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit record sentencing speculative-inference speculative-inferences |
Does a district court violate a defendant's due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information and abuse its discretion when it imposes a… |
| 19-8733 |
Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation |
The issue presented in this Petition is whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is "official restraint" that prevents an "entry" and … |
| 19-8735 |
Michael A. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8719 |
Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-8720 |
Ankit Puri v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms immigration jury-instructions rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence |
1) Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), the indictment and jury instructions omitted an essen… |
| 19-8702 |
Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level.
2. Alternatively, whether the distric… |
| 19-8704 |
Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
IS THE DECISION OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BASED ON AN UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION OF THE FACTS INASMUCH AS IT IS BASED ON AN INCOMPLETE REC… |
| 19-8710 |
William Frazier v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-8649 |
Angelo Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission |
Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty… |
| 19-8681 |
Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Is it permissible for courts to consider religion as an aggravating factor in determining sentences, or to favor a religion by sentencing defendant… |
| 19-8682 |
Charles Ray Fulmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing upward-departure variance |
Whether due process requires remand for specific performance of a plea agreement or, in the alternative, remand for determination of the full terms of… |
| 19-8683 |
Edgardo Grande v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal-waiver fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-proceedings plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-rights unconscionability unconscionable-contract |
1. Whether the waiver of appeal rights contained in the Plea Agreement is unenforceable since the Plea Agreement is invalid because it is an unconscio… |
| 19-8688 |
Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016… |
| 19-8690 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
The OCR text is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 19-8691 |
Jardiel Infante-Caballero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether imposing a supervised release term —which authorizes a court to send Petitioner to prison for an additional prison term beyond the custodia… |
| 19-8693 |
Nathan Thomas Trujillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states kimbrough-variance policy-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines variance |
A. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WITH ITS SENTENCE?
B. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DI… |
| 19-8694 |
Joseph D. Rouse v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1364 |
Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the decision of the District Court that Petitioners' claim is ba… |
| 19-1365 |
Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within … |
| 19-8655 |
Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8667 |
Diamante Alfred v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation |
1. Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a supervision-violation sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a "promise" made … |
| 19-8669 |
William M. Tyson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251 (… |
| 19-8670 |
Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8672 |
Terry Bridges v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime |
whether the trial court erred in permitting the state to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of keith Slugg, of which Terry Bridges wa… |
| 19-8674 |
Rolando Gus Paez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system civil-procedure dismissal-rule due-process federal-procedure federalism federalism-doctrine habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation |
Does Rule 4 of the rules governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Court, which provides that "[i]f it plainly appears from the petit… |
| 19-8675 |
Issac Oral Chandler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol… |
| 19-8679 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 19-8680 |
Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
To avoid "unwarranted sentence disparities," does 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) require federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of … |
| 19-8653 |
Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner is challenging all Drugs Minus-Two pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (c)(2). Reduction of Sentence, Petitioner is eligible to receive the … |
| 19-8658 |
Garian King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
__U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8659 |
Steven Adam Segovia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 19-8662 |
Jason Paris Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-8666 |
Louis Mayes v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection life-without-parole sentencing |
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| 19-8621 |
Steven Desmond Peterson, aka Primo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8628 |
Deree J. Norman, Administrator of the Estate of Lydia F. Shearlds, Deceased v. Temple University Health System, dba Temple University Hospital, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
decedents-estates decedents-estates-and-fiduciaries inherent-powers inherent-powers-and-duties jurisdictional-standards pennsylvania-statutes self-contained-statutes state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation wrongful-death-claim |
1. Are State Supreme Courts required to adhere to the standards of self-contained statues governing Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries within their re… |
| 19-8645 |
Joe Cephus Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the separation-of-powers doctrine because the statute allows a prosecutor to unilaterally se… |
| 19-8646 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-8648 |
Vernon Wayne McNeal v. Fleming, C/O, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-penalties agency-authority civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction regulatory-compliance standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-strikes |
(a) congress did not includ a statute of Limitation inside 28 u.s.C. Revok2 a jndien+ in1 trree strikes.
(b) Congress did not State in 28 us,C, 1915(… |
| 19-1348 |
Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-09 |
Granted |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the phrase "prescribed by the law of the State" in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to… |
| 19-1349 |
George L. Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of HomeBanc Corp. v. Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-code collateral collateral-liquidation creditor-protection financial-crisis repurchase-agreements safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
In times of acute economic distress, the automatic stay of the Bankruptcy Code functions as a critical circuit breaker: it backstops a vulnerable fina… |
| 19-8636 |
Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it … |
| 19-8637 |
Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should overrule the " legislative override " exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. |
| 19-8611 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-8612 |
Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault |
The government convicted Edward Ronald Stamper of sexual abuse in violation of 18
U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) based on a jury instruction which provided:
In … |
| 19-8617 |
Homar Perez Chavez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-8619 |
Deon Christopher Cobb v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
I Woether The Ruling By The Court Was Confrary Topor INvolved an
Unreasowable Applrcatn Clearly Esablished Unied Sfates Supreme Court
Law?
I. Woether… |
| 19-1344 |
Lahkwinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing |
Whether this Court should resolve the conflict between the
circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood'
should be included in the prop… |
| 19-1336 |
The National Retirement Fund, et al. v. Metz Culinary Management, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actuarial-assumptions arbitration best-estimate employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa measurement-date multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Whether ERISA prohibits multiemployer pension plan actuaries from selecting actuarial assumptions to calculate withdrawal liability, after the Measure… |
| 19-8591 |
Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-motions exonerating-evidence habeas-corpus juvenile-jurisdiction new-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing |
1. Does the improper waiver of Exclusive Juvenile Jurisdiction, (Title 47 Arkansas Code Annotated 45-413(1977)), allow for the dismissing of the previ… |
| 19-8604 |
Dontarius Marquis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure drug-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HALL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYI… |
| 19-8580 |
Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-8581 |
Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an … |
| 19-8583 |
Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18… |
| 19-8585 |
Van Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a federal Prisoner has a Right to Present a argument based on a Change in Procedural law on his first motion under Title 28 U.S.C.S 2255 ?… |
| 19-8586 |
Roy Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-1324 |
Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")* require a plaintiff or prose-cutor claiming an "open pattern" of racketeering to… |
| 19-8573 |
David Konepachit v. California |
California |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
DOES THE SENATE BILL 1393 INHERENTLY DEPRIVE THE PETITIONER FROM EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BECAUSE OF THE AMELIORATIVE STATUTE THAT 1893 AMENDS, LA… |
| 19-8574 |
Calvin G. Latimer v. North Carolina Department of Transportation |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-8559 |
Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8561 |
Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-8563 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes |
1. Should certiorari be granted to address whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question, hence warranting full appellate review, r… |
| 19-8566 |
John Charles Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Was it plain err for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then red… |
| 19-8569 |
Brandon S. Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process procedural-error sentencing sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Is Mr. Wilson's sentence procedurally and substantively infirm because the district court failed to consider the factors under 18 USC §3553(a) or o… |
| 19-8551 |
Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing |
Does a Life sentence., without right to parole, upon a Ninteen year old for killing committed by another cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of… |
| 19-8557 |
Kallen E. Dorsett, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing strickland-standard |
1. Does a prosecutor's threat to prosecute a defendant if he withdraws from his guilty plea invalidate the knowing, voluntary and intelligent clause u… |
| 19-8560 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-order criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-appeal motion-correction self-representation sentencing transcript transcript-error |
DID COURT ERR AND ABUSE DISCRETION BY ERRONEOUSLY QUASHING AS UNTIMELY PETITIONER'S OWN MOTION (POCKETED OWN MOTION) APPEAL OF TRIAL COURT'S 08/8/2°/8… |
| 19-8543 |
Carl L. Burdick v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court, contrary to precedents of this Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, accorded the advisory … |
| 19-8544 |
Hubert Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-8548 |
Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing |
A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la… |
| 19-8536 |
In Re Robert P. Russell |
|
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions |
Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell ("Russell"), convicted of first degree murder under 18
U.S.C. Section 1, retains a federal constitutional righ… |
| 19-8537 |
Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing |
A. whether the Ninth Ciruit should sue sponte vacate or grant
Conviction/sentence becanse ind: ctment alleged certificuateont
of statnte scope aleordi… |
| 19-8540 |
Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… |
| 19-8523 |
Christian James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's
claim that the Government made an implied promise that any
obstruction of just… |
| 19-8524 |
Gregory Preston Coker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-8530 |
Sacorey L. Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process government-duty government-liability judicial-remand legal-claims rehaif rehaif-precedent remand sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether CLARK's Affirmed Sentence & Judgment Must be Vacated in light of REHAIF, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), Then Remanded, Where it is Warranted that CLAR… |
| 19-1312 |
Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test… |
| 19-1310 |
Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation of exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl… |
| 19-8515 |
Michael Munday v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment |
In affirming the 12-year upward departure sentence, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of ju… |
| 19-8518 |
Dexter C. Newson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-law due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-present-defense statutory-interpretation |
Petitioners appeal Without him compusorry process to Call a Witness in his Fabor as guarented in the 6th AMendment of the Constitution and to determin… |
| 19-8504 |
Jose Antonio Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admission-of-guilt constitutional-law criminal-procedure disposition-agreement due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Garcia's admission to a violation of supervised release in this matter violated due process where the district court failed to clearly inf… |
| 19-8505 |
George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1303 |
Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California |
California |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… |
| 19-1304 |
Indian River County, Florida, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-deference federal-assistance qualified-highway-or-surface-freight-transfer-faci skidmore-deference statutory-interpretation surface-transportation tax-exempt-bonds title-23 transportation-project |
The Internal Revenue Code authorizes the issuance of tax-exempt bonds to finance "qualified highway or surface freight transfer facilities." 26 U.S.C.… |
| 19-1305 |
Wanda Vázquez-Garced, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
democratic-governance democratic-representation elected-government fiscal-plan fund-reprogramming governance-of-territories oversight-board promesa promesa-section-202 promesa-section-204-c puerto-rico statutory-interpretation territorial-governance |
1. Whether the Oversight Board may preemptively override the elected Government's ability to request reprogramming of funds under PROMESA section 204(… |
| 19-1306 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation |
1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses… |
| 19-8485 |
Melvin T. Bell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-remedy statutory-interpretation |
WHEN A PETITIONER HAS REALIZED, TWO YEARS LATER, AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY RETRIED FOR THE SAME STATUTORY OFFENSE TO IN THE SAME PROCEEDING, WHICH HAS LE… |
| 19-8487 |
Jerrell Berger v. Robert Adams, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection multiple-charges murder-charge sentencing sentencing-decision sixth-amendment trial-court |
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| 19-8489 |
Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
#1. Does a Juvenile Conviction for "Possession" of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement when 18 U.S.… |
| 19-8493 |
Mark Stinson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jury-trial ptsd |
Can husband and wife be charged with conspiracy, even though the husband (The Petitioner), had been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTS… |
| 19-8472 |
Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure |
1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme… |
| 19-8474 |
Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
i. DOES A DISTRICT COURTS INABILITY TO DEPART BELOW A MANDATORY MINIMUM UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), FOR ANY FACTOR OTHER THAN DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL A… |
| 19-8478 |
John King v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts |
I. BY A JURY TO ENHANCE A SENTENCE?
AFTER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. ALLEYNE, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), NON-CONTROLLING, CAN THE PREPONDERAN… |
| 19-1293 |
Michael Ludwikowski v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic… |
| 19-8455 |
Michael Alan Bruzzone v. James McManis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-espionage false-claims-act federal-recovery judicial-misconduct qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation |
Can federal judge's intentionally error to conceal economic espionage subject 18 U.S.C. §§ 1832, 2382 questions harms country and citizen's presents t… |
| 19-8463 |
Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti… |
| 19-8466 |
Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force |
Would reasonable jurists debate whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence that Mr. Niehouse's threatened use of fo… |
| 19-8467 |
Juan Petis McLendon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandatory-review speech-trial-act standing statutory-interpretation stricklands-prejudice |
Does a failure to obtain a dismissal without prejudice under the Speedy Trial Act constitute "Strickland prejudice," when the mandatory language of Ti… |
| 19-8469 |
Viengxay Chantharath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes:
21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI.
con
victions that qua… |
| 19-8452 |
William Strickland v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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Why The triel court did not
witness" in strction, 1. P.1.3.17, dispitethe existence of
prebible Cduse to indict Doy " Bleck Arms… |
| 19-8421 |
Gilbert Tello v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sentencing mental-health mental-health-records public-trial sentencing speedy-trial |
whether the trial court violated petitioners right to a speedy and public trial, Where petitioner was held in Webb County Jail for almmost seven and a… |
| 19-8443 |
George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the State have the authority to commence prosecution after the twenty-year statute of limitations has expired when the alleged suspect is not kno… |
| 19-8445 |
Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 19-8448 |
Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing |
I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which
an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does
that sente… |
| 19-1282 |
Avery Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL PURSUANT TO AN INVALID APPEAL WAIVER, AFTER MAKING ERRONEOUS FINDINGS, OVERLOOKING AND MIS… |
| 19-8430 |
Valery LaTouche v. New York |
New York |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURTS INVOCATION OF STATUE 440.10(3)(C) DENIED PETITIONER HIS INTEREST, DUE PROCESS RIGHTS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW.
WHETH… |
| 19-8431 |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" … |
| 19-8422 |
Todd Lee Glenn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-8426 |
Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o… |
| 19-1275 |
Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction |
1. Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose "Registry requirements for sex offenders," 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convi… |
| 19-8410 |
Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
The Constitation's Direct anthorty that the wi't of Habens Corpus Shall ot be suspended" superceeds the requirement suspendig shch wight perding the S… |
| 19-8412 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
QUESTION I
Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion
to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8415 |
Arthur Stanley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence gang-related-crime relevant-evidence rico-statute rule-401 standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Where the Government introduced a cache of weapons found four years before the alleged crime, simply because gang graffiti was found nearby, should… |
| 19-8416 |
Hadori Karmen Chantel Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law boumediene-v-bush civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), Mr. Williams' 28 U.S.C. section 2255 Motion to Vacate was timely if 18 U.S.C. sect… |
| 19-8406 |
Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8397 |
Domenico Alexander Lockhart v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cole-v-arkansas constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-narcotic-offenses due-process judicial-review overt-act procedural-and-substantive-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8399 |
Reshon Tolliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-8400 |
Roy Allen Nichols v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 19-8387 |
Robert C. Caldwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute |
The Government seehs to have defendants sentenced
under both the CarJacking
statute and the firearm statute.
The issue befire the Court is whether sen… |
| 19-8390 |
Do Kyun Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-8377 |
Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations |
ARE THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (FRAP) TOO RESTRICTIVE OR INFLEXIBLE IN RESOLVING IMPEDIMENTS TO TIMELY LITIGANTS HAMPERED BY THE CONJUNCTIVE… |
| 19-8382 |
Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee that defendants have the right to "demand and procure counsel" requires state courts to appoi… |
| 19-8381 |
Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-8357 |
Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1248 |
Eli Dunn v. Bryce Hatch, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
|
admiralty admiralty-jurisdiction civil-rights commercial-fishermen commercial-fishing maritime maritime-law public-policy punitive-damages seamen-rights statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour wage-disputes wages |
1. Should punitive damages be available to commercial fishermen cheated on their wages?
2. Is there a conflict among federal courts of appeal, and wi… |
| 19-8361 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase |
Does sy2uce) conretron smpport assault uith a dungerons weapon in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C19saca)c3).? Does the elements clause ofa 39luce) … |
| 19-8342 |
Dearieus Duheart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence? |
| 19-8339 |
Juan M. Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER AN ESTABLISHED BOOKER ERROR (MANDATORY APPLICATION OF THE USSG) CAN BE CONSIDERED PER SE A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE EXCEPTION THAT IS NOT WAIVED… |
| 19-8340 |
Christopher Scruggs v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-8333 |
Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether in the conversion of currency drug proceeds into drug weight for purposes of sentencing criminal violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, federal courts… |
| 19-1239 |
Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows |
Ohio |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B), as decided by the Ohio Supreme Court and the Fift… |
| 19-8314 |
Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8315 |
Todd Michael Vincent v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Question One
A review of an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion does not involve the
validity of the underlying judgment. Yet, the Eleventh Circuit, lik… |
| 19-8321 |
Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts |
WHETHER A STATE PRISONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, SECURED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND MADE OBLIGATORY TO THE STATES T… |
| 19-8322 |
Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
"Whether the U.S. District Court and the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals, have abused their discretion by failing to accept Petitioner's timely amended § … |
| 19-8325 |
Qais Hussein v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin… |
| 19-8308 |
Terry Gooden v. U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
7h) ^<<a /T\J c/tltrri.(j J. /brf) |
| 19-8312 |
Lazaro Candelaria v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation |
1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion.
2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff… |
| 19-8282 |
In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness |
Did reasonable jurist debate whether Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbitrary and di… |
| 19-8285 |
In Re David L. Williams |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing |
1. Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Ciruit?
2. Does Appeal lie with Appeal court,when Petitioner claim he is in custody in viola… |
| 19-8287 |
Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
(1) AGAINST FED.R.CIV.P 12(b)(6) AND 12(e)(6), WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF A COURT'S DISCRETION IN UPHOLDING A PLEADING THAT STATES A CLAIM FOR RELIEF IN LIG… |
| 19-8269 |
Stella Rae James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1791 conviction criminal-statute due-process federal-correctional-facilities federal-correctional-facility federal-criminal-law inmate-contraband possession possession-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether due process requires the government to establish actual or constructive possession of a prohibited object in order to sustain a conviction und… |
| 19-8260 |
Alvin Fulton v. New York |
New York |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses |
1. the usages and principles of law Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts w… |
| 19-8263 |
Larry Wesley Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-8264 |
Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing |
I. Mental Incompetency
The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced
for commission of an offence as long as such inc… |
| 19-8255 |
Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-1212 |
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Innovation Law Lab, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority border-policy due-process immigration-law non-refoulement notice-and-comment preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which applies to aliens who have n… |
| 19-1210 |
Harry's Nurses Registry, et al. v. Claudia Gayle, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-enforcement condition-precedent employment-law fair-labor-standards-act private-right-of-action section-206 section-207 section-216(b) statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour |
Is the finding that the employer has violated
Section 206 or Section 207 of the Fair Labor Standards
Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq , a condition preced… |
| 19-1207 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Denise G. Clayton, Chief Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals |
Kentucky |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access ballot-challenge due-process election-law federalism judicial-review kentucky-supreme-court original-jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing state-constitution state-constitution-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Supreme Court of Kentucky
may nullify Kentucky's ballot challenge statute,
Kentucky Revised Statute ("KRS ") 118.176, and
violate Secti… |
| 19-8239 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Nevada law, a jury may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 19-8240 |
Richard Valentini v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-statute extortion hobbs-act personal-gain property-deprivation property-transfer statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-transfer |
1)
Does a conviction for violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C.A. §
1951(b)(2) require not only that a victim be deprived of his or her
property, but a… |
| 19-8229 |
Donnie L. Harris, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Does Oklahoma's strict application of its statutory requirement that all newly discovered evidence in capital cases must be presented within one year … |
| 19-8231 |
Juvenile Male v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing |
Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendants role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justic… |
| 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… |
| 19-1203 |
Children's Hospital Association of Texas, et al. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation chevron-deference disproportionate-share-hospital medicaid medicaid-reimbursement regulatory-policy statutory-interpretation supplemental-payments |
Because of Medicaid's low reimbursement rates, hospitals with large Medicaid patient populations have a statutory right to supplemental "Disproportion… |
| 19-8218 |
Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest |
This petition asks an important question: whether modern criminl- forfeiture statutes can be squared with the Due Process Clause and and whether petit… |
| 19-8221 |
Feuu Fagatele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8203 |
Rashan J. Hunt v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement repeat-offender repeat-violent-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW: WAS PETITIONER'S PLEA AGREEMENT VIOLATED, AND HIS CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL… |
| 19-8204 |
Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague
residual clause, and has the government, District Court, or the Sixth Ci… |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8188 |
Anthony Wayne Hamilton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence hobbs-act ninth-circuit-conflict physical-confrontation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-florida |
1. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery, which statutorily can be committed by a threat of future harm, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18… |
| 19-8191 |
Benjamin Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-8193 |
John Purifoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… |
| 19-8195 |
Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… |
| 19-8179 |
In Re Harold Wayne Nichols |
|
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
1. When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenti… |
| 19-8182 |
Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8183 |
Jose Nogales v. California |
California |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing |
The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill
No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15
year ol… |
| 19-8161 |
In Re Curtis Smith |
|
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation |
I.
Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different … |
| 19-8170 |
Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8172 |
Adam Carson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction perjury statutory-interpretation witness-credibility witness-tampering |
Can a conviction for witness tampering be upheld when a Defendant did not ask a witness to lie for him? and; can a Court of Appeals change the interpr… |
| 19-8154 |
Jody Stamp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disabilities-act disability-accommodations due-process mental-health post-traumatic-stress sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
The question presented is should the District
Coust Judge forcloser of a down word
variance be based or the Judges Personal
interpcatation of the Defe… |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 19-8133 |
Jorge A. Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE 'BUT-FOR' TEST OF GENERAL CAUSATION IS
SYNONYMOUS TO THE STATUTORIAL ELEMENT OF ACTUAL
CAUSATION IN THOSE STATUTES LIKE 18 USCS § 1347H… |
| 19-1189 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 19-1181 |
Estate of Thomas Steinbeck, et al. v. Waverly Scott Kaffaga, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
17-usc-304 collateral-estoppel copyright-act copyright-law copyright-termination licensing-rights res-judicata statutory-interpretation vesting |
Whether collateral estoppel bars an affirmative defense based on 17 U.S.C. § 304(c)(5) in a second litigation, when the first litigation involving dif… |
| 19-1186 |
Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha… |
| 19-1173 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders, pursuant to Unit… |
| 19-1176 |
Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap |
The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority sys… |
| 19-8111 |
Todd James Broxmeyer v. L. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is the use of the preponderance of evidence standard to enhance at sentencing deemed unconstitutional when the presumption of innocence is restored, i… |
| 19-8117 |
Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
In federal habeas cases, whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner ha… |
| 19-8129 |
Charles Ben Bounds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Obstruction-of-Justice Sentence Enhancement in United States of A… |
| 19-8106 |
Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction. |
| 19-8107 |
Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" app… |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to
hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no
reasonable probability that the state's appell… |
| 19-8100 |
Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-8088 |
Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence |
Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State … |
| 19-8089 |
Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard |
Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.… |
| 19-8096 |
Marvin D. Noble v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8097 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Evidence Rule 103 and Criminal Rule 52(b), once a party informs the court of the substance of the evidence at issue, and the court rules, counse… |
| 19-8098 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-consequences |
This case concerns petitioner's claim that he was misled concerning the sentencing consequences of his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge.
The questi… |
| 19-1166 |
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action challenging a federal agency's compliance with… |
| 19-1158 |
Airbus Helicopters, Inc. v. Mary Riggs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-1442 administrative-delegation aviation-law civil-procedure delegation faa federal-aviation-administration federal-officer federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-removal removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a private party is "acting under" a federal officer and may remove under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), where it is carrying out duties formally and … |
| 19-1162 |
Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act |
In 2014, a photographic mural project was destroyed during the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant United States Postal Service (USPS), New York. The U… |
| 19-8055 |
Corey Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power |
Petitioner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for biting a finger. The Court of Appeals found that "highly unjust, and little short of absurd," and t… |
| 19-8066 |
Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8071 |
Curtis Dion Earley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 19-8073 |
Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-8079 |
Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation |
Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t… |
| 19-8080 |
Julio Solorzano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine |
May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea… |
| 19-8081 |
Juan Isaac Flores v. California |
California |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
benefits constitutional-rights counsel-performance effective-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment |
(1) Was my Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel violated by Attorney Kovtun s ineffectiveness(2) Is the process that preceded the May 3, 2018 pl… |
| 19-8048 |
Collyer Goodman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-8049 |
Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In… |
| 19-8053 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law hobbs-act property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (b) is categorically a "crime of violence" as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c)(3)(A) , if the plain … |
| 19-8054 |
Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard |
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"), 34 U.S.C. § 20901 et seq., requires anyone convicted of a sex offense under state law to… |
| 19-1151 |
Rohit Kumar v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-law due-process federal-judges judicial-misconduct judicial-safety judicial-threats legal-proceeding petition-language procedural-irregularity threat-of-violence threats violence |
Will W now order killing of Federal Judges and Appeals court Judges under the direct nose of this honorable court?? |
| 19-1147 |
Willowood, LLC, et al. v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-U.S.C.-271(g) 35-usc-271 copyright-claims federal-circuit-review limelight-networks-v-akamai monopoly patent-infringement pesticide-labels single-entity-rule statutory-interpretation |
This Petition presents two questions for
review:
1. Whether lability for patent
infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(g) requires that
all steps of a pat… |
| 19-8044 |
Brian Vidrine v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1.
Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in
Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny?
… |
| 19-8046 |
Michael Anthony Cervantes v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
WAS PETITIONERS CONVICTION SUSTAINED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS WARRANTING HABEAS RELIEF WHERE THE DISTRICT
THE INJUSTICE THAT RESOULTS FRON THE CON… |
| 19-8016 |
Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8026 |
In Re Jonathan A. Hampton |
|
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial |
1. DOES THE PETITIONER IN A HABEAS PROCEEDING HAVE AN INHERENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE ENLARGED UPON HIS PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE IN THE INTEREST OF H… |
| 19-8030 |
Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
| 19-8034 |
Whitney Atkinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act… |
| 19-8036 |
Odis Lee Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
I. What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required "complete review… |
| 19-8038 |
Jermaine James v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8043 |
Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a "crime of
violence" that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 19-1145 |
Ng Lap Seng v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
bribery bribery-of-foreign-officials criminal-prosecution foreign-corrupt-practices-act international-organizations mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act quasi-sovereign-public-international-entities statutory-interpretation united-nations |
1. Whether the generic term "organization" in §666 should be construed to include quasi-sovereign public international entities like the United Nation… |
| 19-8013 |
Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7986 |
Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal |
Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to
prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail… |
| 19-7996 |
Milton Mayorga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-authority immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Milton Mayorga, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" t… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-7999 |
Christopher Parker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) categorically a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) w… |
| 19-8004 |
Lamarcus Harvey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause intimidation statutory-interpretation |
I. Bank Robbery, (the basis for attempted bank robbery) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim, or by presenting to the telle… |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
| 19-1131 |
Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement |
Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a "substanti… |
| 19-1119 |
Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-services arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-policy federal-property federal-property-and-administrative-services-act military-helicopter-training military-training national-environmental-policy-act national-park-service recreation secretary-of-the-interior standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in concluding that the National Park Service's approval of military helicopter training exercises on property conveyed for… |
| 19-7969 |
Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ON THE FOLLOWING Q… |
| 19-7980 |
Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights |
IF PETITIONER ORDERS BEFORE OFFERING IS OCT. 10, 1998 AND THE N.C.G.S. THE-501 CONTINUE VICTIM RIGHTS ACTIONS ESTABLISHED FOR CRIMES THAT WERE COMMITT… |
| 19-7984 |
Danny Pereda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7957 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 19-7958 |
Anthony Quinones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7971 |
William L. Lewis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Did the trial Code And The Appellate Court error within entering a finding of quilt On a Single count Robbery when the government Cid net Prove pet… |
| 19-7973 |
Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error |
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6>/n/nf4- murder ir\ */Ae fiirs^ deyrc-e, '
cm^Un -b •lUyJ WWe./* -/-Ac- dnio.1 ^oo>rt err //… |
| 19-7974 |
Jesse Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7976 |
Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7977 |
Robert Morris Hoff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7978 |
Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness |
First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had … |
| 19-7979 |
Leo Chadwick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing |
I. Whether A Judge' Statements Demonstrating Extreme Bias Against Pit Bull Owners as a Class And Advocating the Elimination of Anyone Involved in Dogf… |
| 19-7981 |
Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker … |
| 19-1116 |
LinkedIn Corporation v. hiQ Labs, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bot-technology circuit-conflict computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act computer-trespass data-harvesting legislative-history personal-data public-websites statutory-interpretation technical-barriers unauthorized-access website-scraping |
Whether a company that deploys anonymous computer "bots" to circumvent technical barriers and harvest millions of individuals' personal data from comp… |
| 19-1115 |
American Bankers Association v. National Credit Union Administration |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law agency-authority agency-discretion chevron-deference delegation-of-authority local-community regulatory-definition separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
When a statute expressly directs an agency to define a statutory term, does the delegation expand the scope of the agency's authority at Chevron step … |
| 19-7894 |
In Re Charles S. Renchenski |
|
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-adequacy statutory-interpretation statutory-notice writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE FEDERAL COURT(S) UNLAWFULLY SUSPEND THE WRIT OF HABEAS
CORPUS
BY
RENDERING DECISIONS CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT RELATING TO: … |
| 19-7945 |
Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED AGUEDO'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AGUEDO'… |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 19-7962 |
Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
APPEALA c CO Ai ) PfcTLTtkrLlER S£ERTtfl.Ci\T£ OfRested ££>uari _V o/u q me puE«>Tio iu ;
UUAS PETITIOMER REPRESENTED 6s? EQUNSEL X IVi
1*182. PRIOR… |
| 19-7965 |
Cedric Edney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b |
Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7966 |
Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1) whether the Courts violated U.s. Const. Amend,14
clauses on Due Process and Equal Protection?
2) Whether the courts violated U.s. Const. Amend. 5
… |
| 19-7914 |
Lucas James Moss v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 19-7927 |
Jay Allen Newcomb v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-rights double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement sentencing sentencing-conflict written-judgment |
1. Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that "any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing [Petitioner's] sentence was corrected by the writt… |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
| 19-7933 |
Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 19-7948 |
Omar N. Davis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
The main question in this petition is whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated because he had ineffective assistance of counsel. Here, … |
| 19-7949 |
Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means |
I. Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail fraud, theft of public money, and wire fraud.
II. Did the trial court … |
| 19-7950 |
Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon… |
| 19-7952 |
Michael Deon Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7903 |
Alfred Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 19-7909 |
Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7911 |
Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing |
With respect to a defendant who does not waive his right to be physically present during a re-sentencing hearing, held pursuant to a stipulated resolu… |
| 19-7889 |
Walter Rosario-Colon v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-jurist second-degree-murder self-defense |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado. In the alternative, there was Ins… |
| 19-7896 |
Nicholas Hughes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor "for the purpose of" p… |
| 19-7900 |
Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-7878 |
Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation |
Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Harris alleges an obvious conflict between the criminal 16-93-609(b), and the habitual offender statute 5-4-501(d)(2), that prohibits the two from… |
| 19-7887 |
Juvenile Female v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status |
Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult… |
| 19-1090 |
In Re Bahig F. Bishay |
|
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Against the backdrop of this Court's most recent guidance set forth in Weyerhaeuser Co., — where the Court held, to wit: "The Administrative Procedure… |
| 19-1084 |
Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on… |
| 19-7858 |
Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai… |
| 19-7859 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-seizure civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process judicial-procedure neutral-hearing penal-code property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is it not true that in view of the matters brought to be heard (see APPENDIX A-1a.) the Courts Summary denial is Unreasonable and advance the an Ac… |
| 19-7867 |
David Leon Mims v. Illinois Health and Family Services |
Illinois |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
THe pAyMert oF Chid Supprt (TiHI D PriNAtEe
COMPANY is NOt MANdatoRY, ANd hAS NO JarisdictiON tO
Stop my FOodom AS A FrEt MAN |
| 19-7868 |
Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
In Missouri, it is an ensuing plea of guilty that implicates the constitution. A criminal defendant cannot succeed on a post-conviction claim of ineff… |
| 19-7869 |
Raymond David Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY
CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS
AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt.
LSO WAS The DiStRICt C… |
| 19-7873 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Mr. Alexis appeal asked Justices Gorsuch and Kagan to overturn Defendant's knowledge of his two prior felony convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Aff… |
| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did an unconstitutional "objective risk of bias," Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or "probability of actual bias on the par… |
| 19-7835 |
Miguel Rodriguez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in
McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc , 851
F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the … |
| 19-7838 |
Anthony Shockey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification |
1.When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test should the failure be treated as crime, a grade B violation under Sentencing Guideline § 7B1.… |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab… |
| 19-7854 |
Howronda Overstreet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO
APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE
GUIDELINES CALCULATION ?
QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR… |
| 19-7863 |
Delores L. Knight v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7864 |
Derek Crosby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum |
Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ?
Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible … |
| 19-7815 |
Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings |
Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts
How can there be Habas Corpus reli… |
| 19-7833 |
Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7840 |
Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel |
whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law
where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental
Evaluation an… |
| 19-7842 |
Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret |
I. When considering whether agency expertise could be brought to bear on the questions presented in the "Bennett " decision, the United States Court o… |
| 19-7843 |
Tony Buck v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing |
Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause because the Judgment punishes Mr. Buck for the exact… |
| 19-7844 |
Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was it an abuse of discretion to sentence Buck White when the Statutory Maximum is 10 years or 120 months?
Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse… |
| 19-7846 |
Cemaludin Veseli, II v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7848 |
Barton Joseph Adams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-plea-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11-c-1-c criminal-procedure-rule-32-2-e-1-a district-court-misconduct due-process forfeiture plea-agreement property-forfeiture property-rights protective-order rule-11 rule-32.2 sealed-court-order sealing-orders sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the lower court violated the mandatory requirements of Rule 32.2(e)(1)(A) and breached the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) binding sentence, when the distric… |
| 19-1073 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-112 35-usc-282 clear-and-convincing-standard enablement inoperability non-enabled-claims patent-law patent-validity presumption-of-validity statutory-interpretation unpredictability |
I. In light of a patent's presumption of validity under 35 U.S.C. § 282 and the concomitant clear and convincing standard for proving invalidity, may … |
| 19-1064 |
Kealii Makekau, et al. v. Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-attorneys-fees election-cancellation injunctions judicial-imprimatur merits prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court's grant of an injunction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), which requires a "finding that [plaintiff] has a sig… |
| 19-7812 |
Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous. |
| 19-7817 |
Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing |
When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces… |
| 19-7822 |
Harry J. Williby v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
A. Is Facebook subject to suit under the Civil Rights law(s) based upon the conduct |
| 19-7824 |
Dexter Fisher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7804 |
Ramon F. Flores v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment |
In a sentence reduction application matter pursuant to 1 8
U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) under Amendment 782,to the Sentencing
Guidelines, if a defendant object… |
| 19-7808 |
Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing |
WHETHER THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAILURE TO RETAKE AND REFILE A VALID OATH OF OFFICE BEFORE PRONOUNCING SENTENCE, RENDERS A JUDGEMENT, CONVICTION AND SENTENC… |
| 19-7811 |
Marcus Scott Crum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary
to its definition of "controlled substance offense" in
U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7766 |
Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. |
California |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-7775 |
Rande Brian Isabella v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Whether if was prejudicial error for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by disreg… |
| 19-7794 |
Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION … |
| 19-7797 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING A JURY COULD RATIONALLY CONCLUDE THAT DEFENDANT PHARMACIST ABDICATED HIS DUTY UNDER §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 19-7771 |
Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7777 |
John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness |
Is West Virginia's sexual offender registration scheme, which requires the disclosure of any telephone number that a registrant "has" or "uses," uncon… |
| 19-7778 |
James William Hill, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
bias-motivated-assault civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes hate-crimes-act hate-crimes-prevention-act jurisdictional-prong statutory-interpretation |
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, 18 U.S.C. § 249, criminalizes, among other things, assaults based on the … |
| 19-7780 |
Frank Harper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a… |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-7782 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
I.
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S OPINION DECLINING JURISDICTION
OVER CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS UNDER 18 U.S.C. §401, VIOLATES FEDERAL
RULES OF CRIMINAL P… |
| 19-7783 |
Billy J. Martin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings |
If a Florida U.S. Citizen is convicted of a crime by and through the perpetration of fraud on the trial Judge, and the jury by the assistant state att… |
| 19-7760 |
Jeremy Achey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. Whether, in cases where a drug conspiracy allegedly involves multiple substances, the government must prove that the defendant conspired to distrib… |
| 19-7763 |
Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS EXCEED THE STATUTORY
AUTHORITY CONFERRED UPON THE AGENCY BY CONGRESS
IN 18 U.S.C. § 3585(a), WHEN IT COMMENCES A … |
| 19-7764 |
Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United States,… |
| 19-7776 |
Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7753 |
Juan Ramon Pineda-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pineda because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illeg… |
| 19-7757 |
Babatunde Popoola v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A PERSON WHO WITH THE
CONSENT OF A BANK
ACCOUNT HOLDER PROVIDES IDENTIFYING
INFORMATION TO A
THIRD PARTY TO DEPOSIT
FUNDS INTO THE ACCOUNT W… |
| 19-7759 |
Lyarron T. Emers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentence-investigation right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Is People v. Emers IL App (4th) 170254-0 parallel to People v. Maggio IL App (4th) 150287?
How is it not unconstitutional, if comments are made on a … |
| 19-1051 |
Kansas v. Timothy C. Boettger |
Kansas |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-threats due-process first-amendment free-speech reckless-disregard standing state-law threat |
Does the First Amendment prohibit a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing anot… |
| 19-7720 |
Lamont Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession |
I. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse.it's discretion in upholding
the District Court's conviction that the evidence against Jones was
suffi… |
| 19-7722 |
Audrel Jack Watson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-appeals due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure standing state-court-rules state-statutes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-error |
ARE ALL STATES MANDATED BY ANY U.S. PROVISIONS TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RULE 11 BY ADOPTING THEIR OWN SIMILAR OR IDENTICAL R… |
| 19-7731 |
Michael Herrold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary"
in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit
a crime, and thus lacks an element … |
| 19-7732 |
Jerad Hanks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-7733 |
Gustavo Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co… |
| 19-7737 |
Charles Wolfe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness |
When the "advice of counsel" is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense … |
| 19-7663 |
Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states |
Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7713 |
Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 19-7718 |
Denny Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi… |
| 19-1035 |
ShaRon D. Rose v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
11-usc-362 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-362-a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-filing bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-petition-dismissal bankruptcy-statute-2005-revisions bankruptcy-stay debtor-property repeat-bankruptcy-filings statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 362(c)(8)(A) terminates the automatic bankruptcy stay as to property of the bankruptcy estate. |
| 19-7646 |
Davion Fitzgerald v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation |
May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub… |
| 19-7692 |
R. A. S. v. Montgomery County Children and Youth Services |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1257a adjudication adjudication-hearing adjudication-order constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights parental-rights statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review termination-of-rights termination-proceeding |
Whether the right to a fair termination of parental rights proceeding include the right of an effective adjudication order, and whether the Supreme Co… |
| 19-7703 |
Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the 5th Amendment Release from illegal detention Convicted Against Double Jeopardy 5TH Amendment Petitioner WAS Counse/ Ineffective in Violation … |
| 19-7706 |
Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states |
DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7711 |
John Patrick Vescuso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing |
When assessing if a defendant was prejudiced by a district court's imposing a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indict… |
| 19-7681 |
Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT IN UNITED STATES V. WASHINGTON IS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN… |
| 19-7683 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal arbitrarily-denied civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion resentencing standing state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
carse /evidantiary haaring af a fetition fon a writ of habaas corpus wherein the
prasanted faets include : Marlon Blacher, hereinafter "Patitioner ", … |
| 19-7684 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony |
1. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery, Penal Code § 29.02(a), "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force … |
| 19-7685 |
Dominic Lindsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review |
Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors? |
| 19-7687 |
Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral
But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr
Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede
As Ne… |
| 19-7688 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-standard miller-v-alabama rehabilitation rehabilitation-needs sentencing sentencing-discretion transfer |
The fact, issues, and evidence related to a juvenile lifer's decertification (Transfer) decision are relevant to said Juvenile Lifer's Resentencing. T… |
| 19-7691 |
In Re Wilbert Norwood Starks |
|
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. WHETHER the County Court abused its Discretion and violated Due Process Under the
Fourteenth Amendment and Rule 13, Tex. Rule of Civil Procedure; … |
| 19-1026 |
Ford Motor Company v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
customs-classification federal-circuit import-duties international-trade post-importation-modification precedent statutory-interpretation tariff-classification tariff-provisions vehicle-classification waiver worthington-v-robbins |
I. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding, contrary to this Court's precedent, that a product's post-importation modification and use can determ… |
| 19-1020 |
Florence Bikundi v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act |
1. Whether a district court granting an ends-ofjustice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act of
1974, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), violates the require… |
| 19-7659 |
Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-neglect abuse-or-neglect child-custody due-process expert-witness foster-placement indian-child-welfare-act knowing-waiver parental-rights qualified-expert-witness statutory-interpretation waiver |
In a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA"), 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901 – 1923 (1978), may a court deny a petition to invalidate the proceeding w… |
| 19-7677 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d… |
| 19-7679 |
Jonathan Brownlee v. Keith Hearns, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probation-officer restitution sentencing supervised-release |
1th KNowINGLy fobricating and f/ing a FAKE Supervrsed Release violatron charge against
he Petthoner, which caused the Petitrorer's ijuries of loss of … |
| 19-7680 |
Samuel Howard v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016).
2. Whether Hurst is retroactive. |
| 19-7664 |
Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7665 |
Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 19-7624 |
Jerome Shaw v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing |
Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process
Rights when it erroneously found that the Government had
sustained its burden of proof … |
| 19-7625 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error |
(1) Is it structural error when sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and a constitutional denia… |
| 19-7626 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-02-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses fall within a violation of the eight amendment right of cruel and unusu… |
| 19-7633 |
Anthony Allen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt |
I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which
intent is an element of the crime convicted of,the jury instruction,
"the law … |
| 19-7648 |
Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT FOUND THAT PETITIONER HARRIS WAS NOT ELIGIBLE
FOR A SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER SECTION 404? |
| 19-7649 |
Socorro Susan Caro v. California |
California |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 19-7632 |
Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings |
can a person really sign away the U.S. constitution's guaranteed rights, and amendment 14 the U.S. cnstition, that in ladder part is a right, as well … |
| 19-7635 |
Timothy Courtney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de… |
| 19-7637 |
Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or … |
| 19-7615 |
William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7617 |
Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily … |
| 19-7620 |
Bradley Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss |
Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion… |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §S 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-995 |
Michael J. Murray v. Mayo Clinic, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination discrimination motivating-factor statutory-interpretation |
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination "on the basis of" disability, but does not specifically set forth the standard to be … |
| 19-1000 |
Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
|
bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "an offense against a foreign nation involving . . . bribery of a public official" under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery… |
| 19-7587 |
Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence |
1. MUST MV CONVICTION FOR SECOND DEGREE INTENTIONAL MURDER BE VACATED AND A JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL ENTERED INSTEAD WHERE THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT GOE… |
| 19-7589 |
Michael M. Monzel v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-7595 |
Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states |
Following Welch , does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws? |
| 19-7604 |
Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7608 |
Juan Perez-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7609 |
Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-7562 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. b18-6662 (January 2019)
2. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016).
3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2… |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT? |
| 19-7553 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7557 |
Lance Yarbough v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy jointly-undertaken-criminal-activity relevant-conduct sentencing statutory-minimum substantive-offenses successive-prosecution |
1. Where a prosecution for drug conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. §846 is successive to separate sentences for substantive offenses that are included in the … |
| 19-7559 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights |
• DOES APPENDIX Q PERSONAL GUARANTOR/SURETY BOND 5-9-2017 SUFFICE TO DEFER FILING FEES?
• DID THE ARTICLE 3 COURT-U. S. DISTRICT COURT-MDF-TD ERROR I… |
| 19-7567 |
Richard Ben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2111 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-law dimaya-decision dimaya-vs-sessions due-process firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states johnson-vs-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, under Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson and Dimaya, Mr. Ben's conviction for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of vio… |
| 19-7571 |
Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Tennessee |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue |
Whether, as applied to the facts of this case, the statutory presumption if a body of a murder victim found within the state, the death is presumed to… |
| 19-7573 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness |
Question I. WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM FOR 38 U.S.C. §4215?
Question II. WHAT IS THE NEXT BEST ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ABSENT THE US… |
| 19-7574 |
Luis Beltran v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i… |
| 19-7575 |
Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing |
Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7535 |
Norman Eugene Reed v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-U.S.C.-20913(d) 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-law executive-branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
(1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i… |
| 19-7536 |
James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t… |
| 19-7538 |
Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Minnesota |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute medicaid medicaid-coverage medical-assistance medicare state-statute statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the applicable "plain and unambiguous " language in light of Hauser v.
IdahoDWP and of Congress 's federal statute 42 U.S.C. 1396a(aa) and… |
| 19-7544 |
Robert M. Waggy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
constitutional-law content-based content-based-restrictions criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-concern speech-regulation telephone-harassment |
Whether a statute that prohibits telephone harassment may, consistent with the First Amendment, prohibit speech on matters of public concern or impose… |
| 19-7548 |
Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-7526 |
Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7528 |
David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing |
IS APPELLANT ENITITLED TO
RELEASE ON HISWN
RECOGNANICES,AFTER DEMDNISTRATING NI.C.G.S.I4-7.I
IS PATENTLY UNCANLSTITUTI ONAL COLORABLY SHAINIING HIS IN… |
| 19-7531 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal?
2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-965 |
Kenin L. Edwards v. Michael L. Atterberry, et al. |
Illinois |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appeal conviction criminal-jurisdiction due-process illinois-supreme-court jurisdictional-challenge sentencing |
Whether it is a violation of due process for the Illinois Supreme Court, after being fully advised in the premises, to abstain from addressing whether… |
| 19-966 |
Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
In the America Invents Act, Congress authorized the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review whether certain patents, called Covered Business Method (C… |
| 19-967 |
Craig M. Wood v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan… |
| 19-972 |
Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., requires administrative exhaustion when a plaintiff brings a… |
| 19-962 |
Travis Ray Norwood v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-review criminal-justice criminal-punishment drug-policy due-process equal-protection opioid-crisis opioid-sentencing recidivist-statute sentencing |
Whether, and under what circumstances, can defendants charged with crimes involving Schedule I opioids such as heroin be constitutionally treated diff… |
| 19-7504 |
Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7515 |
Andy Nguyen v. California |
California |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-7516 |
Mary Mosley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O… |
| 19-7517 |
Mario Palacios-Cordero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7520 |
Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7494 |
Ricky Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-limits executive-branch gundy gundy-precedent legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
(1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i… |
| 19-7497 |
Richard Silvestri v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force |
In the second resolution in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson and the State of Kentucky construed the United States Constitution insi… |
| 19-7505 |
Lamar James Crump v. Tracy Beltz, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 19-7450 |
George Maurice Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7472 |
Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent |
Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7479 |
Brian Price v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct.
Whether a criminal con… |
| 19-7481 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona |
Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is … |
| 19-7444 |
Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7454 |
Kenneth James Barfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts |
According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen… |
| 19-7458 |
Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth… |
| 19-7463 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988. |
| 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. |
| 19-939 |
Stephen Gustus v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense. |
| 19-944 |
Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action, which was based on fi… |
| 19-934 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release |
Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… |
| 19-7419 |
Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7420 |
In Re Adrean Francis |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
QUESTION ONE: Whether the continued application of a vacated New York "Youthful Offender" conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separ… |
| 19-7422 |
Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver |
Whether trial court committed reversible structural error, by failing to conduct a mandated on-the-record colloquy into a waiver of counsel, before al… |
| 19-7423 |
Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government |
Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114,
28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction
for the prosecution of such a criminal… |
| 19-7433 |
Anthony Russell Wilson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-sentencing fifth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
The question presented to this Court is whether Petitioner, Wilson, who suffered a criminal prosecution by way of a supervised release revocation hear… |
| 19-7434 |
Andrea Zambrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether "in… |
| 19-7437 |
Tony Sparks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac… |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben… |
| 19-7387 |
Travis Miles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
1. Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under … |
| 19-7389 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process eeoc-obligations employment equal-employment-opportunity-commission equal-opportunity exhaustion-of-remedies human-rights judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was the Petitioner adversely aggrieved by the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission- DC Fiel… |
| 19-7397 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Here in these United States of America where we have all pledged "...justice for all", is this Honorable High Court's supervisory authority called for… |
| 19-7404 |
Joseph James Roe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) |
Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7409 |
Melvin Pryor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a "violent felony" having as an … |
| 19-7410 |
Victor Manuel Mora-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear procedural-due-process removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mora because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illegal ree… |
| 19-7413 |
Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process?
The 1l'h cir… |
| 19-7415 |
Dennis C. Davis v. Fayette County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 adjudicate-merits erroneous-limitation-law federal-jurisdiction state-court-remedies state-law-remedies statutory-claims statutory-interpretation tax-case-litigation tax-cases tax-cases-1983-relief taxation-violation-claim tort-claims |
Writ of Certiorari to resolve a conflict among the state, courts as to whether in TAX CASES, state court must provide relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 whe… |
| 19-7416 |
James P. Griffin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w |
I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in arbitrarily denying a continuance of trial requested due to Petitioner's documented medical proble… |
| 19-7417 |
Corey Michael Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can a the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-930 |
CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (23)Relisted (2) |
administrative-agencies administrative-procedure-act anti-injunction-act apa-challenges direct-marketing judicial-review regulatory-mandate regulatory-mandates statutory-interpretation taxes |
Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawfu… |
| 19-932 |
In Re Julius Jerome Murphy |
|
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
|
2244(b) 28-U.S.C.-§-2244(b) circuit-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction prima-facie-showing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions |
I. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) tasks federal courts of appeals with determining whether an applicant has made a "prima facie showing" that his application … |
| 19-933 |
Monex Deposit Company, et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cftc-authority commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission due-process fraud market-manipulation retail-transactions retroactive-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 7 U.S.C. § 9, the Commodity Exchange Act's "Prohibition Against Manipulation," empowers CFTC to punish conduct that does not manipulate any co… |
| 19-920 |
Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver |
Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour… |
| 19-7382 |
Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity |
I. Whether a generic aggravated assault as defined in United States Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2 requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness, … |
| 19-7390 |
Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered
exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that
the … |
| 19-7356 |
James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation |
Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff… |
| 19-7379 |
Lee Samuel Capers v. California |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-914 |
Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC "may seek" a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to "file suit" se… |
| 19-896 |
Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Antonio Arteaga-Martinez |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law bond-hearing clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process flight-risk immigration-detention immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government … |
| 19-897 |
Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Maria Angelica Guzman Chavez, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
8-usc-1226 8-usc-1231 administrative-law detention immigration-detention immigration-law immigration-procedure removal-order statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal withholding-removal |
Whether the detention of an alien who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal is governed by 8… |
| 19-7346 |
Peggy Jean Clark v. Department of the Army, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action-review administrative-law benefits-revocation due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-review military-benefits procedural-error property-rights retroactive-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the Appeals Court err in its judgment affirming the retroactive revocation of benefits on the premise that the initial determination granting … |
| 19-7322 |
Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7323 |
Leo Stoller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unconstitutionally affirmed the district court's denial of the petitioner's request for relief from the l… |
| 19-7308 |
Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution |
1.) Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract
portion of the jury charge, of "Intentionally" and "Knowingly"
to the nature of th… |
| 19-7320 |
Jurden Rogers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not… |
| 19-7330 |
Michael P. Haldorson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-844h2 constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment statutory-interpretation stirone-v-united-states |
Where a grand jury charges a defendant with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2) based on the carrying of an "explosive, namely, smokeless powder," may he … |
| 19-7331 |
Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t… |
| 19-7332 |
Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing |
I. Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or in ste… |
| 19-7333 |
Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7334 |
Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation |
I.
WHETHER FORCE REQUIRED TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY SATISFIES THE PHYSICAL FORCE
STANDARD OF JOHNSON I TO CATEGORICALLY QUALIFY THE ELEMENTS CLAUSE … |
| 19-7335 |
Chad Prodoehl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7336 |
Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the
judge by a preponderance of the evidence, higher than the sentence the judg… |
| 19-7337 |
Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7338 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with
no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms e… |
| 19-7341 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the inherent inequity in Congress changing the level of the enhancement for prior drug felonies for 21… |
| 19-7343 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter |
CAN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER OR ANY OTHER HOMICIDE BE USED AS AN UNDERLYING FELONY TO SUPPORT FELONY MURDER?
IS THE HIGHEST STATE COURT OBLIGATED TO HO… |
| 19-7304 |
Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond |
The Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in light of Unit… |
| 19-7315 |
Andrew Wright v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United St… |
| 19-7324 |
Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary
as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-7325 |
Hope K. Kantete v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy |
1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi… |
| 19-887 |
Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation |
The United States Constitution requires that parties have at least minimally diverse citizenship for a federal court to exercise diversity jurisdictio… |
| 19-871 |
Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden |
Virginia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro… |
| 19-7292 |
Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler |
First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre… |
| 19-7293 |
Desmond Bowen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) states: "The court shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary." Indeed, there are factors found in § 3553(… |
| 19-7294 |
Mohammed Kwaning v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's
(a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7298 |
James Lee Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Q 1: Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? Florida in deciding whether Petitioner qualified for r… |
| 19-7299 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke |
WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL… |
| 19-7300 |
Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions |
DOES A MNLLY HALDULELT MANLNACULED IDITMENT COLPEL CREMIHAL JURISDICTIDLL BL A STAE MIAL CUAT.
(Q)OOES A COUICTIOLUUDER A FAUDLLELTT LUDICTMEITT BINI… |
| 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… |
| 19-7313 |
Dalton Crutchfield v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7268 |
Acharayya Rupak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri… |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 19-7258 |
Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection |
1. Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence?
Subsidiary question: whether the case … |
| 19-7260 |
Darin Kaufmann v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7238 |
Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights |
1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE… |
| 19-7242 |
Bryan Whitehead v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 5th-amendment conviction conviction-and-sentence crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment jury-determination residual-clause sentence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
I. Whether the Petitioner was denied his Fifth Amendment right to due process
of law by virtue of his conviction and sentence under the residual claus… |
| 19-7247 |
Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
A federal prisoner who seeks to challenge the legality of his conviction or sentence usually must do so in a motion under 28 U.S.C. §2255. Under the s… |
| 19-7249 |
Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Illegal Sentence
After
Revocati
Of supervised Release-Extended past
Originol Sentence Expiration Date. |
| 19-7251 |
William McNeal v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 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 … |
| 19-7187 |
Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
sixth AmEndMEnt U.S. Const to
. whether Petitroner
EFFECTIVE
Fthe story?
I. whEther PEtitoner sixth Amendment eights U.s. const to EfFectIVE
unding fo… |
| 19-7220 |
Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7234 |
Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7188 |
John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation |
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY OF THE CIRCUITS, THE TENTH CIRCUIT HELD THE LANGUAGE OF 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'S PHRASE "AT THE SAME TIME" TO BE AMBIGUOUS. THE T… |
| 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. |
| 19-7207 |
Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea |
Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv… |
| 19-7215 |
Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision |
Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty? |
| 19-7217 |
Rickey Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
L. Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and … |
| 19-851 |
Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default |
Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t… |
| 19-854 |
Universal Telephone Exchange, Inc. v. ZTE Corporation, et al. |
Texas |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-standard legal-integrity revised-uniform-arbitration-act statutory-interpretation texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code undue-means uniform-arbitration-act |
Does an admission by a party of contemporaneous illegal activity at the time of the issues in dispute in arbitration, or contemporaneous with the time… |
| 19-850 |
Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases such as Derrico's where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitr… |
| 19-7185 |
Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
(1) The judgment of the United States District Court has violated long standing precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the United States Cou… |
| 19-7195 |
Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7197 |
Darryl William Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver |
1. The United States Supreme Court is asked to resolve a federal question of jurisdictional law, whether the district court for the Eastern District o… |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u… |
| 19-7164 |
Dominic Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7172 |
Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District … |
| 19-7161 |
Aaron Michael Murray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes … |
| 19-839 |
Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. |
Oregon |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining |
The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).… |
| 19-7123 |
Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7144 |
James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing |
CAN A FEDERAL PRISONER CHALLENGE THEIR SENTENCE
OR CONVICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECT. 2241 MOTION
WHEN THEIR POST SECTION 2255 MOTION IS INADEQUATE
OR I… |
| 19-7146 |
David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights |
1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?
2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process?
3. … |
| 19-7155 |
Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
First Question:
Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and
adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of
authority, prohibits petitioner's 2… |
| 19-7160 |
Ernest J. Espinoza v. Matt A. Ashe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process free-speech patent. standing takings appeal case-statement civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process filing-deadlines jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7113 |
Raynard Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), the so cal… |
| 19-7114 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness |
1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career… |
| 19-7115 |
Alexander Faulkner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-7118 |
Calvin Buffington v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting
PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis f… |
| 19-7126 |
Ronald Damon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release |
Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the "sentence imposed" precludes an appeal of the denial of … |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 19-7131 |
Eric Hanna v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand (GVR) this case with directions that the Eleventh Circuit grant Pe… |
| 19-7132 |
Ric Thomason, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure defendant-presence defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure modified-sentence resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN FAILING TO HOLD A RESENTENCING HEARING, WITH THE DEFENDANT, PRESENT PRIOR TO IMPOSING A MODIFIED S… |
| 19-7136 |
Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-836 |
Paul Ross Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions |
1. When a motion under Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 60(b) is granted with respect to a prisoner's first application under 28 U.S.C. 2255, whether a subsequent a… |
| 19-819 |
Alfred Procopio, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure equal-access-to-justice equal-access-to-justice-act haas-v-peake judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation substantially-justified veterans-benefits |
I. Whether This Court Should Grant Certiorari to
Resolve an Important Point of Law Concerning
the Applicability of the "Substantially Justified"
Stand… |
| 19-825 |
Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (5) |
circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds. |
| 19-7076 |
Cedrick Ponder v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… |
| 19-7083 |
Leroy L. Perdue v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b).
2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f… |
| 19-7084 |
Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204, the International Parental Kidnapping statute, to define the term "domestic violence" for purposes of an affi… |
| 19-7086 |
Walter Daniel Prezioso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether reliance on acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 19-7088 |
Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7095 |
David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-7102 |
Ruben Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7103 |
Edward Merritt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the definition of "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to re… |
| 19-7104 |
Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7105 |
Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "reweigh the [18 U.S.C. §3553(a)] factors"?
SUBSIDIARY QUES… |
| 19-7107 |
Joseph Thor Perkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion booker-v-united-states criminal-sentencing downward-variance federal-sentencing-procedure gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court can abuse its discretion by not varying downward further based on this Court's decisions mandating that a sentencing court … |
| 19-7111 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Kevin S. Portnoy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection insurance rico standing statutory-interpretation texas-department-of-insurance |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7067 |
Michael Baird Jordan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that bank robbery by intimidation is less culpable than a specific in… |
| 19-7070 |
Gary R. Tomey, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-instructions material-variance self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-hearing |
1. Whether a constructive amendment and/or material variance of the indictment occurs when a court instructs the jury for the first time — during its … |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7072 |
Tyrone Walker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states |
1. Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
2. Whether H… |
| 19-7074 |
Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law |
I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-7077 |
Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis oral-argument standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7078 |
Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i). |
| 19-7079 |
Bryan Mark Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause intent intentional-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 19-7080 |
Stanley Jaboin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. Petitioner ask did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and un… |
| 19-809 |
Michael Bonin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on "falsely assum[ing] or pretend[ing] to be an officer or employee acting under the author… |
| 19-7057 |
Johnny L. Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "death results" enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected
and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the
defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7062 |
Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation |
Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7047 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-se sentencing |
Whether Appellant was deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. |
| 19-7049 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay |
1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. |
| 19-7050 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
Wter the Foh ct con pel bue i
1. discretion in sanction the petitioner
Whether the Founth OcH Erceed it Authonty in sancion The petitioner.
A Disco… |
| 19-7051 |
Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in… |
| 19-7056 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? |
| 19-801 |
Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii |
Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w… |
| 19-7031 |
Allen James Hancock v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection land-use property-rights regulatory-takings standing statutory-interpretation takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7040 |
Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings |
Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r… |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault. |
| 19-6972 |
Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation |
The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th… |
| 19-7013 |
Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition |
Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report.
Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro… |
| 19-7017 |
Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. NH4 NO LIABILI7Y INSUNANCE ON BUSiNESSGS
2. WNY IS A CALiFONIA AUOWED TO STRING Ou7 Er CASE. AND NUMEnOUS EXNENSES - DECIDE (ONENHAT THAY PRo-SEL … |
| 19-7021 |
Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation |
Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution… |
| 19-7022 |
Jesus D. Cruz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report |
1. Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner producted a valid search warrant, once they broke… |
| 19-786 |
Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu… |
| 19-782 |
Vahan Kelerchian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
|
carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Does the "right to control" constitute "property" for purposes of wire and mail fraud in light of this Court's holding in McNally, Carpenter, Cleve… |
| 19-783 |
Nathan Van Buren v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (22)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
Whether a person who is authorized to access
information on a computer for certain purposes
violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud
and Abus… |
| 19-6951 |
Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, John Nathan … |
| 19-6979 |
Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene… |
| 19-6994 |
Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione… |
| 19-6996 |
Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE LOWER COURTS ERR IN THEIR DISPOSITION OF PETITIONER'S CASE? |
| 19-7006 |
Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Petitioner Alvin Drummond presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additiona… |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his
18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi… |
| 19-6961 |
Hernan Navarro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process equitable-relief evidence evidentiary-proceedings intellectual-predicate judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
fordamenton error of equitable sharispr tence by evaluating the Detitoners
WS Under an erroneous Stendo revi Me tn &&
B0id Claimg being unFarnly rejec… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6966 |
Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the "fair presentation"/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the decision… |
| 19-6967 |
Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation |
1. There is an important issue of law as to the scope of the remedies available
for violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act ["PURPA"]… |
| 19-6968 |
Brian David Brumbach v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." "Burglary" carries the meaning that the majori… |
| 19-6974 |
Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation |
In her short tenure as U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York, the Honorable Ronnie Abrams has presided over a number of cases that … |
| 19-6975 |
Jason Lee Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS
DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN… |
| 19-774 |
Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a … |
| 19-780 |
Willie Newton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing |
In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully… |
| 19-6948 |
Michael Eugene Spry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
I.
WHETHER
THE
APPELLANT
MICHAEL
EUGENE
SPRY'S
SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE AS IT WAS GREATER THAN
NECESSARY AND AS SUCH, FAILS TO COMPLY WITH TITLE 18,
… |
| 19-6953 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
The Constitution guarantees the assistance and choice of counsel for a critical-stage in a criminal proceeding. Ancient statute guarantees every indiv… |
| 19-6957 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing |
DID THE TRIAL/LOWER COURT CREATE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE WHEN IT ALLOWED THE PETITIONER TO PLEA TO CHARGES THAT VIOLATED DOUBLE JEOPARDY LAWS, WHEN THE T… |
| 19-6922 |
Charles Edward Bates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing |
1) Did the lower courts err in their interpretation even as Chuck Bates' offense did not result in substantial forfeiture? Courts interpretation Cond … |
| 19-6933 |
Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served |
Base upon the case laws, rules, and the authority provided by the Genral Assermbly and the Attorney General, petitioner alleged the his jail good time… |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6936 |
Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation |
In a RICO-conspiracy case, must the government present proof of, inter alia, an existing enterprise, which is engaged in activities that actually affe… |
| 19-6940 |
Kevin James Petroske v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism |
Whether mere video voyeurism – surreptitious videoing of unaware subjects without any posing or manipulation of the video images – of the innocent con… |
| 19-6941 |
Michael Collins v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony |
1. Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career C… |
| 19-6942 |
Savon Germain Carter v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution |
A federal jury convicted Savon Carter and Christina Eichler of the sole
count charged against them, conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a
mi… |
| 19-6913 |
Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1) Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error?
2) Does the Petitioner have a Harmless Error ground?
3) Did the Lower Court overlook the… |
| 19-6920 |
Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S
CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION… |
| 19-6928 |
Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing |
1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp… |
| 19-748 |
John B. Lepore v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-judge-findings administrative-law annuity-calculation basic-pay civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-a-6 creditable-service due-process fact-finding federal-employment government-benefits government-employee-retirement government-employment judicial-review retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the court below had the right to ignore that finding, in plain violation of Rule 52(a)(6) which states that
"Findin… |
| 19-752 |
Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
If state statutes create an adjudicatory procedure that is contrary to the exclusive civil enforcement mechanism under the Employee Retirement Income … |
| 19-746 |
Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses |
I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques… |
| 19-6902 |
Samir Benamor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a 922(g)(1) prosecution, the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics th… |
| 19-6904 |
Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6906 |
Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)?
Whether t… |
| 19-6908 |
Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6915 |
Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 19-6888 |
In Re Roger A. Libby |
|
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
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| 19-6891 |
Ahmad Khan Rahimi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2332a attempted-use attempted-use-of-weapon-of-mass-destruction criminal-law criminal-statute-interpretation detonation explosive-device explosives federal-criminal-code possession-of-weapon public-safety statutory-construction statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-law weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons |
Whether a defendant's attempted "use" of a weapon of mass
destruction, an element of 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, includes conduct besides detonation
such as co… |
| 19-6896 |
Jeffrey Antonio v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
I. Whether, when Congress relinquished all federal claims and extinguished all interest of the Pueblo of Sandia in privately held lands within pueblo … |
| 19-6897 |
Obaydul Hoque Bhuiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction plaintiff-burden prima-facie prima-facie-showing private-party-analogue standing statutory-interpretation |
What prima facie showing is it necessary and sufficient for a plaintiff to make, in order to establish the existence of a private-party analogue suppo… |
| 19-6899 |
Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation |
Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States, Require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering;… |
| 19-734 |
Trina R. Patterson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
15-usc-1692a-6 circuit-court-split debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure ninth-circuit security-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding consistent with the opinions in Dowers v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al and Obduskey v. McCarthy and H… |
| 19-6876 |
Mauricio Aguirre, aka Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt, aka Peter Holston-Aguirre, aka Peter Holston, aka Miller Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether a federal defendant may suffer additional imprisonment
on the basis of facts that have never been placed in an indictment,
nor proven to a jur… |
| 19-6884 |
Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6885 |
Antonio Escobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop |
1. Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009),
Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United … |
| 19-6881 |
April Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres? |
| 19-6883 |
Donald Brian Winberg, et ux. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is a farmer committing' 'fraud"(l8 U.S.C. §1343) when he sells
his "future goods" crop (UCC §2-105) on a '.'future goods" contract,
and accepts a… |
| 19-719 |
Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Colorado |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing |
How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-720 |
United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether Miller v. Alabama, which "h[e]ld that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of par… |
| 19-6871 |
Justin Vazquez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure |
Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is
Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of… |
| 19-6872 |
James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights |
IF A DOCTOR PERFORMS EMERGENCY SURGERY ON A PETITIONER IN A COMA AND MAKES AN INCISION AT AN INCORRECT LOCATION, THEN STITCHES UP THE WOUND AND MAKES … |
| 19-712 |
Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. |
Louisiana |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur |
1. Is "manifest disregard of the law" still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
2. Did the arbitrator in this case manifestly di… |
| 19-6856 |
James W. Riley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Should this court extend Its Hurst v. Florida ruling to the pre-trial and trial stages of capital murder case where it is shown that the Judge's sente… |
| 19-6862 |
Dalton Betsinger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-6864 |
Cedis R. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine |
Does a state court conviction qualify as an "offense of violence" for the purpose of the sentencing predicate pursuant to U.S.S.G.§4A1.1(e), if the st… |
| 19-6865 |
Delante L. Lunn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the but-for test established by Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) for mixed drug overdoses… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6840 |
Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness |
Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-6842 |
Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a
new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit
court… |
| 19-6849 |
Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6850 |
Ledell Tyler v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
1. Whether The Meaning of The Word "Force" Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompassass Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct:
2. Whether The Hobbs Act … |
| 19-6858 |
David Lamont Liddell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-708 |
Gold Value International Textile, Inc. v. Sanctuary Clothing, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
17-usc-411 attorneys-fees copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership copyright-procedure copyright-registration copyright-validity good-faith publication publication-status statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a court invalidate a copyright registration –
and thus terminate a pending case – on the basis of a
good-faith inclusion of inaccurate informat… |
| 19-711 |
Missouri, ex rel. Darrin Lamasa v. Michael Wright, Associate Circuit Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit, Warren County, Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption marbury-v-madison medical-marijuana rational-basis-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Missouri's medical marijuana law (Mo. Const. art. XIV) is preempted by the federal statute.
II. If not, since there is no verdict director… |
| 19-705 |
John F. Sharpe v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion federal-claims military-pay separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treasury-disbursements |
I. Whether the acts of officials of the De
partments of Defense and of the Navy are
bound by statute and regulation.
II. Whether a court may find va… |
| 19-6798 |
Corey Eugene Gill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6799 |
Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)… |
| 19-6802 |
Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1) Did the State of Florida within the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in and Broward County, Florida and the Fourth District Court of Appeal as we… |
| 19-6804 |
Michael Helms v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process extinguishment foreclosure foreclosure-judgment rescission rescission-rights security-interest statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act |
The Truth in Lending Act ('TELA "), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq., provides special rescission rights for loans secured by a borrower's principal dwelling… |
| 19-6806 |
Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification |
I.
WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION.
II.
WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 19-6807 |
Marcus Robinson v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court takings |
Could the District Court or the State Court make a decision to deny the Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim based on U.S. Supreme Cou… |
| 19-6809 |
Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that "Undercover agents may properly make us… |
| 19-6810 |
Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THERE IS PRETENSE THAT THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE STATE UNDER WHICH MR. GREGLEY IS CONVICTED OF, ARE REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LA… |
| 19-6814 |
Issac Efren Jimenez v. California |
California |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony |
Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a
client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against
that… |
| 19-6817 |
Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38
(2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6820 |
Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code |
In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or… |
| 19-6826 |
Jennifer Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-6832 |
James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6792 |
Victor Sanchez v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-intervention plea-bargaining procedural-due-process right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-review |
Where trial counsel admits to ineffective advice that lead to this petitioner being sentenced to (5) five years more time than he would have received … |
| 19-6793 |
Quentin Herndon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) |
Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires… |
| 19-6794 |
Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination |
1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did
the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta… |
| 19-6795 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6796 |
Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6771 |
Larry Wayne Parr v. Simon E. Rodriguez |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-definition bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-procedures business-trust chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 corporation debtor-status homestead-exemption statutory-interpretation |
Due to The Fact Larry Parr 's business and business assets were in The LARRY W. PARR LIVING TRUST, do these facts make The LARRY W. PARR LIVING TRUST … |
| 19-6773 |
Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6774 |
Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His… |
| 19-6775 |
James Marione Butchee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
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T/\1HERE. FLElEiM& VX&TXAA XLQLLAPAt/SSS ft klh &ZB£ AS dRSMBL
SEEM EL - XAlST EA b QF… |
| 19-6784 |
Jermaine Whyte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a self-standing strict liability offense with regard to the age of the victim that removes the mens rea element in… |
| 19-6786 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings |
Whether the Western District of Texas' District Courts lawfully uses Carol Johnene Morris, C# 57931, 1988 for conviction to try granted home confineme… |
| 19-6791 |
Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
SHOULD THE COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL IN THE APPLICATION OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE SE… |
| 19-688 |
Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability |
Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a "logical bond" between the alleged statutory violation a… |
| 19-689 |
Mark Chapman, et al. v. ACE American Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
|
certification civil-procedure duty-to-defend insurance-coverage statutory-interpretation statutory-rights substance-abuse summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by requiring allegations not contained in Chapter 397 and by denying petitioners' motion to cert… |
| 19-667 |
Michael Baker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
The federal fraud statutes define the offense of fraud as a scheme to "obtain[ ] money or property" by deceptive means. 18 U.S.C. § 1343; see also 18 … |
| 19-671 |
Daniel A. Grover v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation civil-procedure civil-service due-process federal-regulations regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies interpretation of their own regulations must continue in the light of the admission by the O… |
| 19-6748 |
Steven A. Adams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6757 |
Jamal Bowens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for
reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-6761 |
Younes Kabbaj v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-115 18-usc-875 apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence elonis-v-united-states first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat true-threats |
It is a federal crime under both 18 U.S.C. §875 and §115 to threaten to injure the person (\.e.
physical body) of another, yet not legally settled as… |
| 19-677 |
Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients?
2. When, if ever, does a plaintiff who wins a preliminary … |
| 19-678 |
United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q… |
| 19-665 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance |
1. May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance … |
| 19-6722 |
Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
(1) Did the Petitionee 1 know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a
gun or fifeafm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). Rehaif v. See ,e .g.
United States , … |
| 19-6742 |
Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court |
1. Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's (20) Twenty year sentence, and then re-impose a sentence of life imprisonment, s… |
| 19-6746 |
Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights |
Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's "due … |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-664 |
Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis |
1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi… |
| 19-6714 |
Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite… |
| 19-6719 |
Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness |
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports the conflicting
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports some unconstitutional and vague special conditions un… |
| 19-6720 |
James Dwayne Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6721 |
Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking
supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6727 |
Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL… |
| 19-6729 |
Cedric Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights |
1. Did the District Court violate my Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent?
2. Could the District Court use my 19% year old priors as proof of show… |
| 19-6736 |
Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-659 |
Miladis Salgado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice |
1. When does a civil forfeiture claimant "substantially prevail" under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)?
2. In civil forfeiture lawsuits where a district court… |
| 19-6638 |
Yannier Arias v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel |
1. Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective assistance of counsel.
2. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting … |
| 19-6707 |
Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s FORCE CLAUSE requires the use of "physical force" (i.e: "violence force" meaning "force capable of causing PHYsICAL in Dima… |
| 19-6711 |
Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6712 |
Adam Scott Caward v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline… |
| 19-6659 |
In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez |
|
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error |
WHETHER CONSTITUTION AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS AND RULE 11 VIOLATIONS MAY HAVE RENDERED ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ORNALEZ'S SENTENCE AND CONVICTION CONSTITUTION… |
| 19-6675 |
Michael Ray Bishop v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 19-6686 |
Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-6688 |
Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of
conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6689 |
Frank Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6693 |
Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty |
The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide… |
| 19-6703 |
Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are
no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is...
remand required i… |
| 19-6706 |
Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 19-6658 |
Booker Terry Simmons v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6667 |
James Anthony Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER A UNITED STATES CITIZEN SHALL BE HELD IN PRISON FOR AN |
| 19-6671 |
Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1)
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the
Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the
deter… |
| 19-6672 |
Erwin Keith Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1)
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the
Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the
deter… |
| 19-6673 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6678 |
Joseph Van Sach v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6680 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6681 |
Louis Milton Willis v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
48-usc-1612 district-court exclusive-jurisdiction gross-receipts-tax income-tax organic-act revised-organic-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction virgin-islands |
Whether the plain language of § 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954
[48 U.S.C. § 1612(a)] establishing that "the District Court of the Virgin
Isla… |
| 19-6682 |
Zhaopeng Chen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea |
Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact… |
| 19-6653 |
Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence |
Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6661 |
Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation |
A.
IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION-OF-POWERS , WHICH PROHIBITS
WJUDTGIAL ENCROACHMENT ON THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF CONGRESS
TO MAKE LAWS, VIOLATED, WHEN… |
| 19-6662 |
Shane E. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S… |
| 19-6664 |
Steven Klikno v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6643 |
John Forrest v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court |
A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col… |
| 19-6644 |
Darrell Freeze v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence. |
| 19-6650 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code |
Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 19-6652 |
Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United… |
| 19-630 |
Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved
Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore
Lake was not an "area" where a fee was charged,… |
| 19-631 |
William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19) |
automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con… |
| 19-633 |
Edwin Arthur Avery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 federal-custody federal-prisoners habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limitation post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief second-or-successive-motion state-custody statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 19-619 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-automated-method computer-automation computer-network data-analysis data-collection patent patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice. |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6636 |
Gregory Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
I. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED MR. WILLIAMS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, IN IT'S IMPROPER DIRECT QUESTIONING AND ILL-ADVISED POINTING OF … |
| 19-6589 |
Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
KENDRA BRANTLEY:
I.
Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions
erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions … |
| 19-6601 |
Kevin Battle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime |
Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 19-6606 |
Ryan T. Root v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION?
II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED… |
| 19-6609 |
Chad Michael Stoner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-875c 18-usc-876c criminal-law due-process federal-crime first-amendment-speech free-speech internet interstate-threat interstate-transmission private-correspondence statutory-interpretation threat video-reposting |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmissio… |
| 19-6616 |
Alberino Magi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states |
In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 … |
| 19-6621 |
Jaquan Walters v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter |
Does "imperfect self-defense," which mitigates murder to voluntary manslaughter where the defendant "intend[ed] to use deadly force in the unreasonabl… |
| 19-6623 |
Mario Denane Fultz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6626 |
Allen Dodson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-6627 |
Andre Williamson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Will the Supreme Court just step aside or now step in for the current and future generation of mental health defendants that desperately need this cou… |
| 19-611 |
Rene A. Boucher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence when it expressly agreed that the defendant would be free to argue for a belo… |
| 19-612 |
Hassan Abpikar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment |
1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-6575 |
Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing |
1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar… |
| 19-6582 |
Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-6583 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits |
I. What is the proper analysis to determine whether there is a threshold showing of an inference of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment cl… |
| 19-6586 |
Shane Inghels v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under the Armed… |
| 19-6564 |
In Re Wei Zhou |
|
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction |
Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite… |
| 19-6569 |
Keyon W. Carraway v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclud e that
Rehaif v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (June 2… |
| 19-6511 |
Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing |
Whether this Court should clarify what "reliable evidence" means for establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, the amount of restitution under… |
| 19-6512 |
Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether The Defcndant's Knwingly with willful Misconduct
1.7
Dut due process of Law.
Yes s NO.
2.)
Whether The DeFendant's Volated A.R.s.4. b) MEMoRAu… |
| 19-6538 |
Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements |
WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN TO PROVE THE ELEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AS TO THE POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY C… |
| 19-6539 |
Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
I. The Federal Court, Question Presented is whether a Sentential Mandatory Sentence + Drug Trafficking Conviction; Sentence Versus N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-… |
| 19-6543 |
Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6545 |
Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture |
1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture?
2. Am I able to pursue relief under … |
| 19-6552 |
Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6555 |
Courtney Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF… |
| 19-599 |
Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ |
What is the appropriate procedure when the Court uses a service of foreclosure order for one property and takes two properties in one foreclosure?
2W… |
| 19-6497 |
David Morillo-Cruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6502 |
Cory Dale Fields v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct |
Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand
Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 19-6504 |
Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6505 |
Michael Ingram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation |
Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan… |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONTER'S MOTION IN LIMINE SEEKING TO EXCLUDE THE PRIOR TESTIMO… |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6517 |
Lynden Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 19-6518 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme |
Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t… |
| 19-6521 |
Marcus T. Simmons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6525 |
Sean Trent Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
The issue subsuming all other issues in this appeal is whether I.
or not, Mr. Sean Trent Barnes, while incarcerated in pre-trial cus
tody as a federal… |
| 19-6496 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
(1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-6500 |
Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-583 |
Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire |
First Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
|
facts-underlying false-claims-act first-to-file-bar judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-provision legal-standing pleadings procedural-analysis qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, permits qui tam relators to sue on the United States' behalf to recover damages for frauds against… |
| 19-587 |
Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
|
continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion |
Whether, notwithstanding the plain language of § 3161(h)(7) of the Speedy Trial Act and this Court's decision in Zedner, a district court may exclude … |
| 19-585 |
Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations |
Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover … |
| 19-6486 |
Eduard Bangiyev v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt |
Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt, also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute. |
| 19-6487 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
DOES TREATING "CIVIL RIGHTS " AS CUMULATIVE RENDER THE
ENFORCEMENT OF 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(l) AND 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) TO BE
CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM … |
| 19-6489 |
Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2?
2. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated r… |
| 19-576 |
Interior Glass Systems, Inc. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing due-process hearing irs iRS-collection penalties seizure statutory-interpretation tax tax-penalties vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the collection of tax penalties an exception to the requirements of due process, or does a citizen have a right to a hearing before the IRS seiz… |
| 19-6428 |
Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-11-01 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-1151 choctaw-nation congressional-act dependent-indian-community diminishment disestablishment extinguishment indian-country jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries oklahoma reservation reservation-status statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE CHOCTAW NATIONS 10,864 SQUARE MILES LOCATED IN
SOUTH-EASTERN PART OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTED A
RESERVATION UNDER 18 USCA 1151 … |
| 19-6462 |
Stephen L. Bush v. David W. Gray, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6466 |
Eric Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery —which can be accomplished without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force —qualify as… |
| 19-6445 |
Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error |
(1) Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis as held by the Ninth Circuit, or subject … |
| 19-6447 |
Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky |
WhEther The power appiled in this case to assert Judiciol authority
wos Contrary to this and other circutr in light of thcwhole
record.
WhEther the I… |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
1. Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction. The courts of appeals continue applying the incorrect standard of re… |
| 19-6453 |
James E. Lang v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it's statutory law committed by it's lower appellate Court, that has affirmed a c… |
| 19-6454 |
Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of Counsel when Contemplating Plea offers. Morris was charged at multiple indi… |
| 19-6420 |
Christopher Mark Heath v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-6421 |
Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers |
Whether in affirming the imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of 360 months on Ralph Fox, where (1) Petitioner Fox entered a guilty plea and (… |
| 19-566 |
Devan Pierson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 401(c) of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-394, provides: "This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to… |
| 19-568 |
Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States,… |
| 19-563 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Patrick J. Collins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law anti-injunction anti-injunction-clause conservatorship conservatorship-powers derivative-action fannie-mae federal-housing-finance-agency freddie-mac shareholders-rights statutory-interpretation succession-clause takings third-amendment treasury |
1. Whether the statute's anti-injunction clause, which precludes courts from taking any action that would "restrain or affect the exercise of powers o… |
| 19-564 |
Michigan v. Eric Lamontee Beck |
Michigan |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
|
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-courts preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether, when imposing a sentence within the statutory range for the offense of conviction, due process permits a sentencing court to consider conduct… |
| 19-6423 |
Halisi Uhuru v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization |
1. The Appellant was improperly convicted of participating in a RICO organization, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), because he was incarcerated during the vast maj… |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
(LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS
FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI… |
| 19-6431 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6433 |
Edward Anthony Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question in light of conflicting Ninth Circuit law that results in a fe… |
| 19-557 |
Cedric L. McDonald v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault |
Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices. |
| 19-6407 |
Derran Smiley v. California |
California |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling |
1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING… |
| 19-6417 |
Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment |
1. If a trial court wishes to cumulate sentences, must it so order at the time and place that sentence is orally pronounced? See Grays v State, 291 S.… |
| 19-6359 |
Stephen Nivens v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-law correctional-services double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentencing-credits special-project-credits standing statutory-interpretation venue |
1.) Whether Judge Daniel P. Dwyer as the Administrative Judge was to preside over and hear Petitioner's hearing for Judicial Review instead of Judge B… |
| 19-6360 |
George C. Pugh v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation |
Is it lawfol for the Petittioner For be decmed an Habitual fetorry offe whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the B years of dor of conviction… |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6391 |
Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act |
1. Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that… |
| 19-6397 |
Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6401 |
Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 Gives The Court of Appeals Error Correction Power. Under § 2106, Error Correction Becomes An Exercise of The Court's Statutory … |
| 19-6405 |
Ernest Vereen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act divisible-statute due-process felon-in-possession innocent-transitory-possession record-ambiguity sentencing sentencing-court transitory-possession violent-felony |
(1) Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under th… |
| 19-544 |
In Re Todd C. Bank |
|
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
|
affidavit affidavit-requirement article-iii-court bar-admission civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1746 due-process federal-courts legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation unsworn-declaration |
28 U.S.C. Section 1746 states that, "[w]herever, under any law of the United States or under any rule, regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant… |
| 19-536 |
Bocilla Island Seaport, Inc., fka Highpoint Tower Technology, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
basis-adjustment deficiency-determination due-process partner-level partner-level-penalty partner-level-proceeding partnership-basis penalty penalty-imposition reasonable-cause statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure united-states-v-woods |
This Tax Court partner-level penalty jurisdiction case raises these four interrelated issues:
1) Should "each partner's outside basis [in his partner… |
| 19-6363 |
David Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6366 |
Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
As Truth is fundamental:
Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in … |
| 19-6370 |
Troy Bennett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony |
I. Whether this Court should resolve the circuit split concerning whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence under Florida Statutes § 84… |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6376 |
Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether, consistent with the Due Process Clause, a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 19-6385 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man |
Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements raises a significant issue: Integrity of appeals that circumvent Supre… |
| 19-6348 |
Billy J. Griffin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Question 1. Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statue indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state cou… |
| 19-6350 |
Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Was Petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial violated? |
| 19-6353 |
Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the general, residual phrase "takes any other action" in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6358 |
In Re Morris J. Warren |
|
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation |
DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, … |
| 19-6364 |
Eduardo Duffy, aka Eduardo Duffy-Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-definition citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge conviction-review due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry judicial-precedent morales-santana severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-527 |
Paul Huskisson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
|
direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform |
1. Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule, like all other exclusionary rule exceptions, take into account the flagrancy and de… |
| 19-517 |
Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-transparency civil-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception express-statement-requirement foia foia-publication-requirements freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandatory-publication secret-law stafford-act statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether section 5148 bars review of claims that FEMA uses secret law in violation of FOIA's mandatory requirements. |
| 19-6315 |
John David Stahlman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) |
1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T… |
| 19-6322 |
Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors |
1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE
DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR
TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 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… |
| 19-6334 |
Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-6336 |
Eddie Jennings v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6340 |
Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal court of appeals below correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction unde… |
| 19-6341 |
Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to… |
| 19-6314 |
Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal |
[1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
[2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho… |
| 19-6318 |
Damon Tracy Locke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6320 |
Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6327 |
Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Refexto All attachmentoregarding
questions of Las
V
E an Modification of Sentence and Re-sentence Lnder
5
Y6 positibn 57 Also, Under ColiForriaPenal C… |
| 19-508 |
AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts |
Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th… |
| 19-511 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") to prohibit calls made to a cell phone without consent using an "automatic tel… |
| 19-512 |
Anthony Robinson v. Department of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure civil-suit consumer-protection fair-credit-reporting-act federal-agency federal-government-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-liability |
Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act authorizes consumers to file civil suits against federal governmental agencies under 15 U.S.C. § 1681n and §1681… |
| 19-507 |
Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (7) |
circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles; and
2) Whether a… |
| 19-499 |
Henry Posada v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada … |
| 19-6306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951… |
| 19-6307 |
Andrew Oreckinto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec… |
| 19-6309 |
Charles Benton Bagwell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intentional-force intentional-use-of-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 19-6279 |
Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force. |
| 19-6282 |
Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United Sta… |
| 19-6284 |
Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts |
1. Whetehr a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner s Sixth Amendment was violated when the district court sentenced him to life without an… |
| 19-6289 |
Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. Unite… |
| 19-6290 |
Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6293 |
Dwight Knowles v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application |
Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in… |
| 19-6297 |
Aleisha O. Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.
Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to
transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented ali… |
| 19-6265 |
Alex Knight v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a … |
| 19-495 |
Martin Shkreli v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
In prosecutions for mail, wire and bank fraud, which require a finding of a loss or an intended loss by the victim, a "no ultimate harm" instruction h… |
| 19-484 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether, notwithstanding FECA's express bar on prohibiting the disclosure of any investigation, and its careful constraints on the FEC's disclosure po… |
| 19-488 |
Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750… |
| 19-6269 |
Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking
supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6247 |
In Re Donald Lee McDonald |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States where his natural life sentence und… |
| 19-6253 |
Adam Strege v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli… |
| 19-6255 |
Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether me, the Petitioner, is entitled to Relief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 19-6256 |
Jason Simon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta… |
| 19-6262 |
Liddon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-intent federal-firearms-law felon-possession firearm-disposal firearms-transfer knowledge-requirement mens-rea prohibited-persons prosecution-burden prosecution-strategy statutory-interpretation |
1. Since the Supreme Court has now held, in Rehaif v. United States , that in a
prosecution under §922(g) and §924(a)(2), the Government must prove b… |
| 19-6264 |
Orane Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a
single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties
under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-483 |
Elsie Marino v. Jeffrey Nadel, dba Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
|
creditor debt-assignment debt-collection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure foreclosure-action postjudgment-remedy standing statutory-interpretation trustee trustee-status |
In Heintz v. Jenkins, 514 U.S. 291, 296, the Court observed that an apparent objective of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et … |
| 19-469 |
John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-481 |
In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy |
|
2019-10-10 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6235 |
Scott Thomas Erskine v. California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing |
I.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth,
Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States
Constitution by failing to… |
| 19-6236 |
Christina Marie Eichler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction |
1. Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to
distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs
to end users a… |
| 19-6238 |
Brannon D. Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) 18-USC-924c categorical-approach contemporary-interpretation crime-of-violence elements-clause predicate-crime statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in applying the categorical approach to the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), courts must analyze the least of the acts historical… |
| 19-6244 |
Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
.WhEthER fectiv ASisA of COUE ws h WhE cOU AppoNd cOUe ft
CRMN RACICE to peSUE rNSURAUCE lAW the MIdle of y MEl. whCh cAUSE y AEAl to
bE disMissEd "du… |
| 19-6245 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
IS a Family Law Divorce Proceeding in which Parental, Custody Property and Financial rights are at issue a Bona Fide Civil Access to Courts Action war… |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption with… |
| 19-6199 |
Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6200 |
Michael Scott Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Can a State Court indict an accused on one of the tried crime merely being in the quise a theory of crime of the Florida Statutes. and each are comple… |
| 19-6216 |
Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver |
If a self represenTed defendanT Taks THE wiTNss sTNd in hiso heR detense whether oNe continves To represent her or himself or whethr The Trial COT mU … |
| 19-6225 |
Marc Pierre Hall v. Warden Andrews |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 district-court fundamental-errors habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-analysis retroactive-statutory-interpretation savings-clause-28-usc-2241 statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation-28-usc-2255 subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Petitioner respectfully requests the Supreme Court's Supervision of uncommunicated Circuit Courts regarding Statutory Interpretation and applicatio… |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER
THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING
AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-6230 |
Claudius L. Fincher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-question jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum safety-valve safetyvalve-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the district court's resolution of a contested factual question under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (safety-valve statute) for the purpose of determining w… |
| 19-6193 |
Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement |
g the Court to put i halt to the Intrmant systen as esteuctive and inherently Bangerons
And
droxen Censing the life of at jeust one aw enfoscement off… |
| 19-6197 |
Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation |
1) Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in Martinez v. United States , that
the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions,
inconsistent … |
| 19-6209 |
John Hudson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica… |
| 19-6176 |
Christopher Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclud… |
| 19-6177 |
Valerie Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-6178 |
Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-6181 |
Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which … |
| 19-6183 |
Reginald Chatman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution |
1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.… |
| 19-6186 |
Latroy Leon Burris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the "use of physical force against" that person for purposes of the Ar… |
| 19-6132 |
Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing |
The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine
whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision
in a plea… |
| 19-6143 |
Christopher Scott v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution-framing constitutional-law due-process exoneration judicial-review original-intent separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FRAMER! Si OF THE CONSTITUTION BELIEVE THAT THE DOCUMENT'S
POWER WOULD "EXONERATE?! [A] MAN ? |
| 19-6144 |
Tom Smith, III v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
I. whether the Sentencing Commission via commentary exceeded its statutory mandate under § 994(h) by includiiig/aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and a… |
| 19-6146 |
Hector Rosario-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,sixth-amendment,fifth-amendment,ineffe fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Fifth and Six Amendment Rigths 1.
violated by plain error made in calculating petitioner's were
and the numerous ways that Pe… |
| 19-6155 |
Deounte Ussury v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes |
I. Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute § 18 U.S.C. 1959(a), also known as VICAR, requires a special verdict for… |
| 19-6128 |
Bacari McCarthren v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-battery categorical-approach crime-of-violence deadly-weapon descamps descamps-v-united-states mathis physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation turner |
The Florida crime of aggravated battery may qualify as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines only if the … |
| 19-6131 |
Derrick Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional |
Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a "crime of violenc… |
| 19-435 |
SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation |
The Third Circuit, in conf lict with the D.C., Ninth, and Federal Circuits, deferred to an IRS regulation under step two of Chevron even though the ag… |
| 19-438 |
Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 19-440 |
Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act |
For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary… |
| 19-425 |
Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915 (e) (2) (b) (ii), "fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted", as it relates to Rule 12 (b) … |
| 19-428 |
Ryan Courtade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent |
1. When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a "lascivious exhibition" under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court r… |
| 19-6084 |
Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle |
(1.)Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based
upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the
U.S.A. by implication given… |
| 19-6102 |
Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision |
GRANTED PETITSONER A CERTI FICATE of APPEAlAbIty PORSUANT TO MILlER -EL V.COCKER, 537 U.S.3a2 ON. QUESTIONS OF HIS THE U.S. CONSTITUIONAl RIGHTS? PERT… |
| 19-6104 |
Freya D. Pearson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1) Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a "Materiality" determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court o… |
| 19-6107 |
Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges?
And
2. Whether a… |
| 19-6108 |
Corey Kidd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the court below err in finding that the offense of aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under … |
| 19-6113 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T… |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-6116 |
Ronald E. Evans v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation generic-burglary north-carolina north-carolina-burglary north-carolina-statute second-degree-burglary sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation trailers |
Whether North Carolina second degree burglary (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51), which encompasses unlawful entries into trailers used to store property, is c… |
| 19-6119 |
Masnik Sainmelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 |
1. Whether The District Court Erred When The Court Increased The
Appellant's Guideline Range Four Levels By Finding That The Offense
Involved Between … |
| 19-6120 |
Raul Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-6090 |
Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere
serivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a "new judgment" within the
mea… |
| 19-6097 |
Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact |
Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional?
Is the Virginia Parole Board Manual that mandates the use of … |
| 19-421 |
In Re William Henry Hamman |
|
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
1) Florida 's public colleges and universities each
require a high school GPA in order to participate in
the Dual Enrollment program. But law states… |
| 19-413 |
Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa |
Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an "advertisement" as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the… |
| 19-415 |
Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether a grant of TPS to an alien by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") constitutes a lawful admission into the United States fo… |
| 19-6072 |
Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington |
Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1), Indecency with a Child, and 22.011(a)(2), Sexual Assault of a Child, two statutory rape offenses that criminalize … |
| 19-6086 |
Luis Alberto Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review |
In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.… |
| 19-6087 |
Atif Babar Malik v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton |
DO COURTS LACK SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION WHEN THE SCOPE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT FALLS OUTSIDE CHARGED STATUTE? |
| 19-6088 |
Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6089 |
Joseph Signore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6094 |
Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6078 |
Terreall McDaniel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the
applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6079 |
Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6042 |
Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6055 |
Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
II. May courts … |
| 19-6056 |
Michael Renee Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
§-2255 28-U.S.C-2244(b)(4) 28-U.S.C-2255(h) 28-usc-2244b4 28-usc-2255h armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner gatekeeping-standard johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-hurdle sentencing successive-motion |
(1) Once a federal prisoner secures appellate-court authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h), must the prisoner satisfy a s… |
| 19-6057 |
Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6062 |
Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets |
(1) May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)?
… |
| 19-6065 |
Emilio Fusco v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii article-three constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power sentencing standing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER ACQUITTED CONDUCT SENTENCING UNDERMINES DUE PR… |
| 19-399 |
Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing |
1. Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012),—that sentences of life without the possibility of parole f… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-402 |
Howard L. Baldwin, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law agency-deference brand-x-doctrine common-law common-law-mailbox-rule stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund |
(1) Should Brand X be overruled?
(2) What, if any, deference should a federal agency's statutory construction receive when it contradicts a court's p… |
| 19-403 |
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes |
Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming, as the National Indian Gaming Commission,… |
| 19-387 |
Ambac Assurance Corporation v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
11-usc-904 11-usc-922 48-usc-2165 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-debtors special-revenues statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 11 U.S.C. § 904 and 48 U.S.C. § 2165 prohibit a bankruptcy court from enforcing the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code against municipal deb… |
| 19-6025 |
Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6033 |
Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido |
I. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holdin… |
| 19-6039 |
Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PROSECUTION OF MR. VARGAS - AN
ECUADORIAN NATIONAL WITH NO TIES TO THE UNITED
STATES — FOR TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN
INTERNATIO… |
| 19-6044 |
Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment |
I. As applied, does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land Subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B) (vi) ("IRC … |
| 19-6050 |
Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach
fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining
force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-6021 |
Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS' AFFIRMANCE OF THE PETITIONER'S GUILTY-PLEA SENTENCE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER, AND TH… |
| 19-6027 |
Jordan Combs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing |
WHETHER JORDAN COMBS' DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FIFTH
AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WERE VIOLATED
WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT SENTENCED J… |
| 19-6029 |
Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order |
1. Is not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court required in its Per Curiam conclusions of law with respect thereto. If the court finds that...[2] the sentenc… |
| 19-374 |
Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing |
Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y… |
| 19-381 |
Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company |
Tennessee |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118
unconstitutional as applied, given the lack of due
process created by artificially limiting a Defendant's… |
| 19-6001 |
Gregory Leroy Packer v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-duty counsel-representation court-docket court-procedure diligence diligence-appeal due-process legal-diligence pennsylvania-statute prejudicial-delay related-case-law standing statutory-interpretation unprecedent-case |
1. WERE THE APPELLATE COURTS RULINGS UNPRECEDENT FOR THIS CASE?
2. DID THE COURTS DISREGARD PETITIONER'S COURT DOCKET IN THEIR RULING?
3. DID THE CO… |
| 19-6002 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion
and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Co… |
| 19-6015 |
Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-6016 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-6018 |
Joey Little v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise |
Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-6019 |
Marco Antonio Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-defendants indictment indictment-right mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-haymond |
1. Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment? Su… |
| 19-6005 |
Robert L. Malone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
1.) Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal History?
2.) Is Mr. Malone's … |
| 19-6006 |
Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits life-without-parole sentences for all but the rarest juvenile s who exhibit a lack of rehabilitative potential due thei… |
| 19-372 |
William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative "voids ".
… |
| 19-373 |
James Walker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed
with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent
felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-5987 |
Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state |
1. Can the Washington State Courts refuse to adhere to this Courts holding in North Carolina v. Pearce?
2. Since Washington State's Sentencing Reform… |
| 19-5994 |
Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. California |
California |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-code-section-352 jury-instructions prior-acts-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial robbery-charges sixth-amendment standing |
True the felony had to be independest of the illing,was
Prejudicial and sequses Reversal of The Special.
C'rcunstance Finding
Code Section 1los stad … |
| 19-5996 |
Michael J. W. Potter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 19-5983 |
Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5985 |
Leeroy Cesar Carballo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit-review fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase |
During Petitioner's sentencing hearing, Petitioner took the stand, maintaining his innocence, and expressed his desire to tell the jury his side of th… |
| 19-5946 |
Anthony Carl Spence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se… |
| 19-5952 |
Keith A. Gordon v. Cenedra D. Lee, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals err in finding that Petitioner has not shown a "clear and indisputable right" to issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel… |
| 19-5956 |
Adrian Apodaca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing |
I. Whether the Defendent, Mr. Apodaca
and sentence can not be upheld' under the definition of "crime
of violence" for count five of the indictment o… |
| 19-5962 |
David Tjader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-5964 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c… |
| 19-5965 |
Robert Jessie Hill v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
(A). When a defendant pleads guilty to a charge, in addition to the "direct" and "collateral" consequences of the party does the Fourteenth Amendment … |
| 19-5969 |
Tawoine Aquil Frank Banks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process revocation revocation-sentence section-3624e sentencing supervised-release |
Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming of a supervised revocation sentence that ran consecutively to other supervised release revocation sentence? |
| 19-5975 |
Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment.
… |
| 19-5976 |
Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5979 |
Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution, as suggested in Hester v. United States, 139… |
| 19-5981 |
William James Truesdale v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer |
Whether the united states Distriet court Middle District of Florido Tompo Division deliberately OF OBJEETIONS" U.S. DiSTrIET JUdYe ORDER DENYFNG MOTEO… |
| 19-5929 |
Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5944 |
Jerry D. Scott v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING
A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES
v. SWOPES , 892 F.… |
| 19-5926 |
Refugio Quintanar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection |
1. Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence?
2. W… |
| 19-5928 |
Marcos Santiago v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5903 |
Martin Ogden v. Digital Intelligence Systems |
Arizona |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-claims federal-law judicial-authority judicial-review nullity state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Like any other state or federal court, both state courts of record for this case (specifically, the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County and … |
| 19-5913 |
Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony |
Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe… |
| 19-5923 |
Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used… |
| 19-5924 |
James Hennessee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-329 |
Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response Waived |
ability-one agency-acquisition bid-protest bid-protest-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims government-contracts mandatory-source-directive statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-preference |
Congress enacted the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act
("JWOD"), 41 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq., to increase employment for individuals who are blind and severely
dis… |
| 19-5861 |
Louise K. Saine v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer |
When can Rule 35 be used error?
Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies?
What is th… |
| 19-5907 |
Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5908 |
Howard Leon Combs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime |
1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt… |
| 19-5911 |
Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does the "saving clause" of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a Congres… |
| 19-5871 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent |
1) Did the district court error in increasing Havis base offense level based upon its belief that the Commentary to &4Bli2 appropriately includes atte… |
| 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… |
| 19-5882 |
Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
1. Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court… |
| 19-5889 |
Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis |
Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju… |
| 19-5891 |
Donte Island v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling |
Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m… |
| 19-5893 |
Melissa Pfeiffer v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
conscious-disregard-for-risk criminal-law felony-murder inherent-dangerousness inherently-dangerous inherently-dangerous-felony judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions malice-aforethought massachusetts-law presumption-of-malice sentencing |
Is it unconstitutional for the courts, as a matter of common law, to withdraw the third element of felony murder from the jury's consideration by labe… |
| 19-5900 |
David Earl Ison v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-bargaining self-incrimination sentencing |
1. Wasn't it a threat or promise by the State: Prosecutor wilhelm when he drafted up a document, gave the document to my Attorney him giving it to me … |
| 19-323 |
Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with r… |
| 19-5865 |
Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 19-5872 |
Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated by the sponte filing (at petitioner's sentencing) of an additional criminal charg… |
| 19-5875 |
Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… |
| 19-5840 |
Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California |
California |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
WHETHER MR. STUCKEY IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WHEN ATTACKING HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCING ON GROUNDS OF TITLE II A.D.A. AND A.D.A.A.A. VIOL… |
| 19-5848 |
Saquawn Harris v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-review federal-rule-35 federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-statute judicial-procedure majority-vote recusal statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the federal statute providing that en banc rehearing is granted upon the vote of "a majority of judges of the court in regular active servi… |
| 19-5852 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5853 |
Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings |
I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. … |
| 19-314 |
Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin |
California |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation |
Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law? |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United… |
| 19-5820 |
Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) permits a court of appeals, when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based … |
| 19-5821 |
Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Should the verdict be reversed because the plea was not entered into knowingly intelligently and voluntarily?
Did the prosecution violate Brady requi… |
| 19-5829 |
Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5833 |
Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question A:
Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's
Constitutional Due Process Ri… |
| 19-5835 |
Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §
924(c)(3)(B), which defines "crime of violence," is unconstitut i… |
| 19-5812 |
Mitchum Pastor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Because 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines bank robbery in a way that does not require intentional intimidation, does § 2113(a) bank robbery fail to qualify … |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-288 |
Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment |
The question presented is whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition —grounded in th… |
| 19-296 |
Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether Chevron deference, rather than the rule of lenity, takes precedence in the interpretation of statutory language defining an element of vari… |
| 19-5777 |
Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… |
| 19-5778 |
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
1). Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison absent such relief i… |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5793 |
Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall… |
| 19-5794 |
Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights.
(2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1… |
| 19-5796 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… |
| 19-5747 |
Jamall Gibson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY… |
| 19-5762 |
Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-5763 |
Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5770 |
Danny Lee Banks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing |
1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS
FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING
A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH… |
| 19-5771 |
Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5772 |
Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
California state courts have authoritatively construed the state statute punishing assault with a deadly weapon, California Penal Code $ 2a5(a)(1) and… |
| 19-5773 |
John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5727 |
Trayvon Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5738 |
Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 |
I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed
justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct
the … |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5750 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
1. Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deter
ring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long
sentences run afoul of the 8t… |
| 19-5753 |
Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1029 constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law-mens-rea criminal-procedure due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states intent jury-instructions knowingly knowledge mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1) To satisfy the "knowingly" and with "intent" in 18 U.S.C. § 1029(A)(3), Do Courts have to prove precise "mens rea" as set forth in Rehaif v. United… |
| 19-5754 |
Charmar Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.… |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple.
Does the Eighth Ame… |
| 19-256 |
Yuzef Abramov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-powers counsel-of-choice due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause necessary-and-proper necessary-and-proper-clause sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation treaty-power |
I. Whether it is constitutional to extend 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c) to noncommercial conduct allegedly committed by a foreign citizen and resident against o… |
| 19-259 |
Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. |
California |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
|
berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?
2. P… |
| 19-5723 |
Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make
new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b… |
| 19-5730 |
Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5732 |
Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation |
To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of t… |
| 19-5743 |
Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced
sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and
3582(a), or d… |
| 19-5665 |
Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing |
Parsuant to U.S. Sup. C. ruke 1H. 1(a). In 2o08, Pefitioner was convictedf ofa'misdemeanor' D.U.I.(V.C.823152). This was elevated to a felory ander P.… |
| 19-5710 |
Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United… |
| 19-248 |
Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Like many federal statutes, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 incorporates the traditional common-law test for distinguishing betwee… |
| 19-242 |
Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation |
Whether "regular occupation" refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's "actual job du… |
| 19-5606 |
Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing |
Did the trial court erred by admitting into evidence of the illegally obtained wiretapped tape recording of the defendant's oral conversations with th… |
| 19-5664 |
Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute |
1. IF THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURTEDICTIOON DECTION TO SETTHE CONVECTION -JUDGMENT AEIDE AND DEEMISETHELAUSE.
2. THE TREAL COURT /THE COURT OF CREMONA… |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5699 |
Robert Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5702 |
Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETER 28 U.S.C.3 1915(S) s OVERBROAL, UNCONSTUTIONAL, AND INVALID WHERE CONSRESS HAS ENAETEd THE STAIUNE THAT INTENTIONALLY CHILLS ANd VIOLAIES IN… |
| 19-237 |
James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert |
Nevada |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding |
1. Did the Nevada Supreme Court have the right in its Order of Affirmance to blatantly disregard past decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court as to statut… |
| 19-5649 |
Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation |
To what degree for interpretation of a constitution, statute, rule and regulation is a question of law for consideration by the Supreme Court is neces… |
| 19-5652 |
Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines? |
| 19-5654 |
Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5629 |
Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony |
I. Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a‐133 categorically qualifies as a "violent felony" under the force clause of the Armed Care… |
| 19-5630 |
Roosevelt Stolden v. California |
California |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr… |
| 19-5647 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington |
Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal … |
| 19-218 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Wu Hua Jing, et al. |
New York |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-messenger due-process governor judicial-intervention jurisdictional-claim legal-petition mandamus mandarin-chinese registered-mail religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
1. messenger sent by Jehovah,- the Lord of host, said through the angel: 'Bring it over to face the judge.' Said it on October, 2012,
Wu Hua Jing M.D.… |
| 19-221 |
Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court should overrule
Chevron.
2. Whether Chevron requires courts to defer to
an agency's resolution of a conflict between statutory
p… |
| 19-213 |
Charles Fischer v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute |
Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity. |
| 19-5631 |
Joe Fernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's de… |
| 19-5638 |
Jeffrey E. Lee v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
betterman-v-montana constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-delay standard |
I.
IN THE WAKE OF THE QUESTION LEFT OPEN BY
THE COURT IN BETTERMAN v. MONTANA . 136 S.CT.
1609 (2016), DOES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE
CREATE AN ENTITL… |
| 19-5641 |
David Anthony Gordon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process government-breach judicial-assignment judicial-procedure mandatory-minimum plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether, in reaching the decision to affirm in part and to dismiss in part, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepte… |
| 19-5601 |
Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-5608 |
Christopher Joe Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-elements-clause certificate-of-appealability disagreement federal-prisoner judicial-disagreement post-conviction-claim postconviction-claim reasonable-judges statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary |
Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that judges have, in
fact, disagreed about the legal issues governing his postconviction claim, is he entitled t… |
| 19-5613 |
Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error |
When the district court expressly relies upon a clearly erroneous fact in selecting its sentence, is the error harmless if there are other factors in … |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory … |
| 19-5623 |
Deshawn Legrier v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-possession indictment knowingly-element rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) -- which held that the elements of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 19-200 |
Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with
the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and
Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged
tra… |
| 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… |
| 19-199 |
Manfredo M. Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-law agency-decision-making benefits-determination final-decision judicial-review railroad-retirement-act railroad-retirement-board railroad-unemployment-insurance-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under section 5(f) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, 45 U.S.C. § 355(f), and section 8 of the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U.S.C. § … |
| 19-5597 |
Randall B. Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation |
I. Is it a plain error for the District Court to regulatory deference to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a… |
| 19-5603 |
Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig… |
| 19-5589 |
Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI… |
| 19-196 |
Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a federal court seeking to identify the content of state law pursuant to Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), may choose the … |
| 19-5571 |
Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER?
DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P… |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J… |
| 19-5572 |
Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to… |
| 19-5574 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5575 |
Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5576 |
William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing |
I. WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL SIXTY (60) YEARS TAYLOR RECEIVED AT TRIAL WHEN ATTORNEY ALLEN LIDY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY TWENTY (20) YEAR P… |
| 19-5578 |
Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-5579 |
Sebastian Eccleston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos… |
| 19-5580 |
In Re Sebastian Eccleston |
|
2019-08-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos… |
| 19-5534 |
James W. Royster v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner filed two (2) Motions with the Henrico County, Virginia Circuit Court Per Virginia Code section(s) 8.01-428(D) and 19.2-227, upon the gr… |
| 19-5556 |
Regina Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 |
Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b)
Did my arrest and prosecution violate the narrow federal-state… |
| 19-5539 |
Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation |
Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b… |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5542 |
Robert Maloy v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment |
The OCR text provided is severely degraded and largely illegible in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTION(S) P… |
| 19-5549 |
Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM? |
| 19-182 |
Francisca Guillen v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code california-law district-court-discretion electronic-records employee-protection employee-rights jury-instructions labor-code labor-law labor-standards-enforcement statutory-interpretation wage-statements |
1. Whether it was error not to instruct a jury on the law set forth in almost 20-years of opinions of California's Department of Labor Standards Enfor… |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Respondents are United States-based organizations that receive federal funds to fight HIV/AIDS abroad. In Agency for International Development v. Alli… |
| 19-179 |
Naora Ben-Dov v. Shoshana Zelda Sragow, aka Stacy Suzanna Sragow, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal continuous-accrual court-discretion criminal-law criminal-offenses dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review pleadings procedural-violation statute-of-limitations |
1. Should an action based on multiple civil and criminal offenses be considered from the first instance? The last known instance of a transgression? O… |
| 19-5505 |
Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated in the Follow?
a) When Counsel Failed to file a Not… |
| 19-5510 |
Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process |
(1) Mr. Fortune certifies the Commonwealth of Virginia err in deferring contents essential to the definition of a trial. A trial; as defined by Merria… |
| 19-5511 |
Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Are inccrcerated plaintiffs m civil coses in corcercted fro se U.S. Distriet Cout cnfairl trected, cadlar in prejedd agoinst, becaule they ore not giv… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5521 |
Steven Michael Cox v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-standard welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-5529 |
Kendrick Ledelle Dotstry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges district-court-discretion divisible-elements divisible-offenses felony-enhancement felony-offense misdemeanor-elements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-misdemeanor |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CAN ENHANCE A SENTENCE PURSUANT TO UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE (U.S.S.G.) PROVISIONS UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(b)(6)(B)… |
| 19-5455 |
Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5460 |
Jose Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap… |
| 19-5489 |
Azibo Aquart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering |
1. Whether a defendant acts for the "purpose of. . . maintaining or increasing [his] position in an enterprise" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1959… |
| 19-5491 |
Shed T. Woods v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under th… |
| 19-5494 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
MR. ISKANDER WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AFTER SERVING SIXTEEN YEARS (INCLUDING 2 CONCORDANT TO 6 CONCORDANT YEARS WITHOUT SUBSTRACTI… |
| 19-5501 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel |
Whether in light of the Court's opinion in Rehaif v. United States, No. 17-9560 issued on June 21, 2019 this Court should vacate the opinion of the U.… |
| 19-5451 |
Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) provides the procedures by which inmates request, and federal appellate courts grant, permission to file second or successive 28 U… |
| 19-5478 |
Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of… |
| 19-5480 |
Andrew Dorsey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of … |
| 19-5447 |
Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit-which refused to unequivocally recognize the constitutional right to … |
| 19-5456 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-5457 |
Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC … |
| 19-5465 |
Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the Guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 19-164 |
David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners. |
| 19-168 |
Remington Arms Co., LLC, et al. v. Donna L. Soto, Administratrix of the Estate of Victoria L. Soto, et al. |
Connecticut |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process firearms-immunity firearms-industry-regulation free-speech plcaa plcaa-immunity predicate-exception statutory-interpretation unfair-trade-practices |
The question presented is whether the PLCAA's predicate exception encompasses alleged violations of broad, generally applicable state statutes, such a… |
| 19-5427 |
Danny Reaves v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1291 civil-procedure due-process final-order jurisdiction standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation unadjudicated-claims |
§2255 motion is Order Within the meaning of §2253. Standard to deny COA. |
| 19-5434 |
Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5413 |
John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction |
Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or Statutory subject-matter jurisdiction or due to an Unconstituti… |
| 19-151 |
United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry |
Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime has "the ba… |
| 19-5383 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5410 |
Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUFFICIENTLY DETERMINED THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE IN ITS SENTENCING OF PETITIONER BY 31 MON… |
| 19-5420 |
Kendrick Terrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet… |
| 19-5422 |
Michael A. Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner, Michael A. Webb, subjective to ineffective assistance of counsel or deficient representation by defense counsel in a prosecution?
Was… |
| 19-5391 |
Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum |
Both questions presented by this petition involve circuit splits.
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on … |
| 19-5394 |
Michael Leon Bell v. California |
California |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 19-5401 |
Thomas Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-5407 |
Fabian Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 19-140 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, once an appeal of a remand order has been explicitly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the en… |
| 19-133 |
Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination |
1. Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury? The amended complaint is for wrongful termination on account of statutory p… |
| 19-134 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund |
1. Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements, made … |
| 19-137 |
Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
A circuit split currently exists over the scope of 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), which provides remedies for the improper filing of an involuntary bankruptcy pe… |
| 19-5370 |
Pedro Medina Castillon v. California |
California |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness |
presentedquestion (s)IV.this Honorable
from theand/or petition sCastillon wishesPetitioner Pedro Medina
review this Stateand in distinguishing
and/or … |
| 19-5309 |
William Dante Mitchell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _ S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5330 |
Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
GVR |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to
instruct the jury that, in order to convict a person under 18 U.S.C.
§ 922(g), it … |
| 19-5350 |
Stevie Elbert Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-4b1.1 ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery satisfies the definition of "crime of violenc… |
| 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… |
| 19-5358 |
Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5361 |
Luis D. Cabrera Mejia v. Walmart |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights class-action court-procedure due-process employment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-parties lower-court-error standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the lower court 's erred, in violation of justice for all to 4 U.S.C. § 4. |
| 19-5362 |
Kasine Deleston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfi ambiguity breach-of-contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-stipulation withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether a Plea Can be Ambiguous, and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfillable Sentencing Stipulation and the Government Fails to Offer the … |
| 19-5363 |
Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause; and
Whether this make… |
| 19-125 |
Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event |
QUESTION 1:
In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Indus. Corp.,
544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court held that federal courts
have jurisdiction to consider… |
| 19-128 |
Charles Daniel Maye v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-restrictions authorized-access circuit-split civil-procedure computer-fraud-abuse-act computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime-law information-access information-use legal-scope standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud Abuse Act ("CFAA") is limited to violations of restrictions on access to information, and no… |
| 19-130 |
In Re Randolph George |
|
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus |
In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti… |
| 19-120 |
IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention |
Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai… |
| 19-5300 |
Fremo Santana v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings |
WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 19-5304 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Appellate count committed a manifest of Constitutional error by failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article il subsecti… |
| 19-5308 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that the Court has now answered in United States v. Davis… |
| 19-5325 |
Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5337 |
Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5344 |
Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to convict the Petitioner for witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1) and two interrelated charge… |
| 19-5345 |
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to … |
| 19-5346 |
Jose Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentenc… |
| 19-5297 |
Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application |
Whether, Arizona Supreme Court abuse it's discretion by dismissing the Petition For Special action and Motion For Stay?
Whether, the Superior court w… |
| 19-5303 |
Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I.
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in
Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5310 |
Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment |
Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat… |
| 19-5311 |
Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid |
1. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules o… |
| 19-5312 |
Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime |
Mr. Burke was convicted of knowingly carrying a firearm during and in relation to a "crime of violence," in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The "crim… |
| 19-5314 |
Aurora Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 19-5273 |
Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings |
SHeLby counTy CRIMINAL COURT LACKS VueisdicTon inTHS CASe AgAInST THis PeTiTioner, WHere THe ViETiM TATyAnA MCgeR Testifiedhopen COURT And UNSER OAT P… |
| 19-5283 |
Kyle Jason Korte v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law |
1. Does the "good faith exception" outlined in Illinois v. Krull 480 U.S. 340 (1987) extend to circumstances where the statute, rather than being "sub… |
| 19-5289 |
Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing |
I. Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense
and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender?
II. Is Pe… |
| 19-5247 |
Charles Michael Hedlund v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing |
1. Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), requires resentencing, particularly where the error originated in t… |
| 19-5262 |
Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5268 |
Thomas Bois v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-with-dangerous-weapon crime-of-violence enumerated-offenses federal-sentencing force-clause massachusetts-assault massachusetts-assault-with-dangerous-weapon massachusetts-law sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Where the Massachusetts offense of "Assault with a Dangerous Weapon," Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265 § 15B, may be committed merely by means of an offensive … |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5270 |
Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-5274 |
Anthony James Hill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5275 |
Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability of the District Court's … |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 19-5279 |
Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
This case presents the issue of whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2), is entitled to not… |
| 19-107 |
Vincent Asaro v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t… |
| 19-100 |
Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties who perform collection, a… |
| 19-5221 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review?
Can… |
| 19-5236 |
Seab Nolen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession |
Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-5243 |
Larry Marvel v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
Where the State General Assembly legislatively defined in two separate statutes the same identical "conduct" for two criminal offenses mandating the s… |
| 19-5244 |
Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness |
Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria… |
| 19-5245 |
Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. This case represents a public issue to thousands of transgenders confined to state and federal institutions whom are being denied treatment despite… |
| 19-5246 |
Jason Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-5251 |
Thomas Cascio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states |
1. Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, eve… |
| 19-5260 |
Michael Levon Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Question One
The Constitution requires that a jury find every element of the crime
beyond a reasonable doubt. The district court, however, did not pro… |
| 19-5230 |
Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Tennessee |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence length of life in prison without the possibility of parole judgment IS legal? |
| 19-5231 |
James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court |
.Should this court vacate the conviction where the petitioner failed to preserve the issue and the trial court denied defendant's Motion to set aside … |
| 19-5237 |
Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-5198 |
Robert Rang v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Does a "substantial step" under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) [attempted coercion and enticement of a minor] require evidence of intended "interpersonal physica… |
| 19-5203 |
In Re Angel Ruiz-Rivera |
|
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment debt-issuance due-process federal-law government-debt judicial-authority judicial-discretion legal-interpretation puerto-rico-government referendum standing statutory-interpretation takings |
IS JOINT RESOLUTION 87*121 OF AUGUST 3, 1961 BY THE U.S. CONGRESS AND THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF P.R. APPROVED THEREIN AND RATIFIED BY 82 % … |
| 19-5217 |
Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar |
WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO
A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY
MAXIMUM… |
| 19-5182 |
Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se… |
| 19-5194 |
Edward Hector v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5197 |
Eric T. Roden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT PANEL CORRECTLY CALCULATED GUIDELINES RANGE FOR USE AT A FEDERAL SENTENCING HEARING. |
| 19-5201 |
Kenneth Medenbach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release |
Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term… |
| 19-5202 |
Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-5172 |
Jesus Hilario-Bello v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process economic-loss fair-trial hobbs-act intangible-asset judicial-intervention physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) because it can be committed without using physical force, by causing the … |
| 19-5176 |
Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing |
Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 19-5183 |
Miguel Grado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5184 |
Kristopher Courtney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5188 |
Jermaine Tart v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-access discovery discovery-limitations due-process employment-royalties ninth-circuit procedural-scope royalties standing state-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
DO INKNATES HAVE 5 AND I4TL AMAEND MENT PRE-DEPRIVATION ROYALTIES?
D, SHOULD THE EASTERN DISTRICT U.S. DISTRIOT COURT OF NC ORDER THE DEFENDANTS TO P… |
| 19-5189 |
Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
ISSUe ONE
whether the u.s. supreme cart should great certiorcc
to cesdve the Circuit Canflict, whether schlup gateway
lnquir require neusly Presented … |
| 19-5190 |
Steven Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5196 |
Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t… |
| 19-73 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis |
1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C… |
| 19-74 |
Michael A. Willner, et ux. v. James Dimon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law constitutional-claims due-process fdic federal-deposit-insurance-corporation financial-institutions financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce firrea judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the DC Circuit erroneously held that 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)(A) required claimants to have filed their constitutional claims against the FDIC i… |
| 19-67 |
United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-68 |
Unity HealthCare v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference civil-procedure judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation volume-decrease-adjustment |
This case presents the following question: whether federal courts must defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of its own regulations (commonly… |
| 19-71 |
FNU Tanzin, et al. v. Muhammad Tanvir, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability due-process federal-employees free-speech religious-freedom rfra standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C 2000bb et seq., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal employe… |
| 19-5159 |
Quinetta Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition |
1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute… |
| 19-5162 |
Frederick Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-5166 |
Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian
national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in
international wate… |
| 19-5142 |
Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPOALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
ERR ON AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION BY-ENTERING ITS
DECISION/JUDGMENT, WHICH IS IN CONF… |
| 19-5149 |
Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5150 |
Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 19-61 |
Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Title 28, section 516, of the United States Code, vests the authority to litigate on behalf of the United States in the Department of Justice, under t… |
| 19-5129 |
Kendell Lee Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 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 … |
| 19-5137 |
Albert Duval Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Un… |
| 19-5138 |
Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 19-5141 |
William Wade v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. The 10th Circuit has already declared that the 924(c) "residual" clause is unconstitutional in light of this Courts Johnson v US and Sessions v Dim… |
| 19-5096 |
Nicholas Rivera v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5105 |
Rudy Espudo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5107 |
James C. Karahalios, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 bank-robbery categorical crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-v-united-states pharmacy-robbery statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
1. Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical "crime of violence" under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)?
2. Whether… |
| 19-5108 |
Donald Covington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5110 |
Barry Bays v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont… |
| 19-5111 |
Avery Blodgett v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-§2113 18-U.S.C.-§924(c)(3) 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3 crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
1. Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical "crime of violence" under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)?
2. Whether… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-5118 |
Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness |
1. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court
imposes a condition that requires a defendant to "successfully
complete" a treatme… |
| 19-5123 |
Richard Parrish v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-support gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-reliability reliability sentencing townsend-v-burke united-states-v-tucker united-states-v-watts |
Sentences based on unreliable information violate Due Process, see United States v. Tucker, 404 U.S. 443, 447 (1972); Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736,… |
| 19-5124 |
Arthur Durham v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states |
1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 19-5125 |
Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors |
Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 19-5127 |
William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)--"old law"
— parole statute 18 USC §42.06(d) mandating federal prisoners'
lease on parole absent certain… |
| 19-5093 |
Jason Ellis Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 19-5098 |
Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states |
In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen… |
| 19-5100 |
Matthew Karahalios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa
predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-5102 |
Dan Pizaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 19-52 |
Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-5078 |
Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 19-5085 |
Darren L. Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony |
Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "violent felony" element of physical force, and one of which does not,… |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 19-41 |
Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions |
May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … |
| 19-5043 |
Justin Panus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of on offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate… |
| 19-5066 |
Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
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When the First… |
| 19-35 |
Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis, 2019 W… |
| 19-5039 |
Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-5053 |
Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1) Whethe tn heen o Conion
in context with his intent at sentenciny, is a violatiken of the Separation of
powers doctrine, in the United States Consti… |
| 19-5058 |
In Re Artur Tchibassa |
|
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY REFUSING TO APPLY THE REYES-REQUENA/SAVINGS CLAUSE JURISPRUDENCE. |
| 19-5060 |
Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing |
1: Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons abilities t… |
| 19-5061 |
Akeem Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951: conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery, qualify as a "crime of viol… |
| 19-5063 |
Jose Thomas Barriera-Vera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-crime criminal-law criminal-statute person-or-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether attempted armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element "the use . . . of physical force against the person or property of another,"… |
| 19-5070 |
Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113), which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand note,… |
| 19-5034 |
Leland Dudley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction |
IN THIS CASE THE GRAUD JURY
GRAND JURY IMPEDED
THE STATES ATORNEY SPECCALLY
WAS IMPE-DED(BY)
MURDER AND THE TRCTICO IMPLOPED (BY) CHICAGO POLUICE
ATER… |
| 19-5036 |
Craig Alan Toaz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS ERRONEOUSLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, AND IF SO THEN;
II. WHETHER T… |
| 19-16 |
Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (5) |
18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have held, or… |
| 19-5023 |
Jason Keith Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the petitioner, Jason Keith Walker, is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that his trial counsel provided ineffective … |
| 19-5025 |
Isaac Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
1. Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) convicti… |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 19-5027 |
Eddie David Cox v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, in the first instance, whether Cox is entitled to relief… |
| 19-5029 |
Frederick Tyrone Calhoun v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain equal-protection just-compensation private-property standing statutory-interpretation takings |
The Constitution requires the federal government to obtain an indictment and jury verdict before imprisoning a person. While on federal supervised rel… |
| 19-5030 |
Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 19-5032 |
Tyrone Felder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis… |
| 19-5003 |
Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release |
1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum.
2. Whe… |
| 19-5010 |
Andrew Nelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine |
1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious,
unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 18-9793 |
Timothy Dale Gould v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is divisible for purposes of categorical analysis? |
| 18-9803 |
Salvador Galvan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact |
Whether, in a case involving embezzlement from a municipality, it is procedural error for a district court to consider every resident of the city a vi… |
| 18-9804 |
Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
I. Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for "plain unreasonableness"? |
| 18-9812 |
Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon |
In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts … |
| 18-9830 |
Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied on th… |
| 18-9834 |
Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge |
1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac… |
| 18-9844 |
Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel |
The trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 1930 days after assuring… |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-1589 |
James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
|
contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the act of an accused to delete or destroy contraband constitutes a "knowing or intentional possession" of the contraband. |
| 18-1593 |
Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an… |
| 18-1581 |
Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1623 ambiguous-questioning ambiguous-questions bronston-rule bronston-v-united-states false-declaration false-statements grand-jury grand-jury-testimony literal-truth perjury perjury-statute prosecutorial-questioning statutory-interpretation |
Can responses to fundamentally ambiguous questions - or literally truthful answers to unambiguous questions - constitute "false declarations" before a… |
| 18-9805 |
Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability |
1. Whether the statutory phrase "can be used" contained in the definition of "access device" at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove u… |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-9808 |
Manuel Reyes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness |
1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 18-9809 |
Willie Strong v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption |
When is evidence sufficient to render the "Automobile Presumtion" N.Y. P.L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable?
Does the N.Y.P.L. §265.15 (3)(a), violates t… |
| 18-9776 |
Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-9780 |
Christopher Hannigan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation |
Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts? |
| 18-9781 |
Adam J. Winarske v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to … |
| 18-9782 |
Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 |
(1). Whether The Lower Court(s) Erred In Concluding
That Petitioner Did Not Suffer Ineffective
Assistance Of Counsel At His Resentencing
On Appeal … |
| 18-9785 |
Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9789 |
Dan Pizarro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum |
Because Pizarro is still in the direct appeal process, is he entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sen… |
| 18-9790 |
Alexander Monzoni v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9796 |
Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) … |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum Life Sentence for one who is convicted under The Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 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… |
| 18-9770 |
Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD REVISIT THE CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS WHEN COUNSEL FAILS TO DISCUSS THE PROS… |
| 18-9772 |
William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 18-9740 |
Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing |
1. Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant -
Appelart MyRon JEssle as an aider and abetter to armed
bery and ist degree home invasion?Did h… |
| 18-9760 |
Andrew D. Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau… |
| 18A1351 |
Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-challenge extension-of-time pro-se statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1352 |
Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act chevron-deference criminal-enforcement machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1561 |
Armament Services International, Inc., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-923-f-3 de-novo-proceeding due-process federal-firearms-licensing firearms-licensing gun-control-act standard-of-review statutory-interpretation statutory-review statutory-safeguards third-circuit willful-violation willfulness |
1. Whether the Third Circuit applied an improperly deferential standard of review in a de novo federal firearms licensing proceeding under 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-1564 |
LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
|
citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation |
Petitioners are private attorneys general who brought a Congressionally authorized Citizen Suit against Respondent under the Resource Conservation and… |
| 18-1566 |
Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti… |
| 18-9737 |
Laquan L. Kellam v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest |
1. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ABUSE ITS DISCRETIONARY, BROADLY-BASED AUTHORITY OF INTERPRETATION, THUS, VIOLATING PE… |
| 18-9739 |
Timothy Paul Malone v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a l… |
| 18-9742 |
Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1315 |
United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act burglary intent-element sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1344 |
Saquawn Harris v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9705 |
Leonard Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ… |
| 18-9723 |
Jennifer Cardenas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment due-process false-statements indictment indictment-specificity jury-instruction statutory-interpretation variance visa-fraud |
1. Whether an indictment charging visa fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a)
or other crimes involving "false statements" must specify the allegedly false
s… |
| 18-9724 |
Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas |
WHETHER AN UNSOLICITED AND UNAPPOINTED ATTORNEY'S
FILING TRUMP.S A PRISONER'S PRO SE FILING WHEN BOTH
FILINGS RELATE TO THE SAME ISSUE BUT RELY ON DIF… |
| 18-9725 |
Jose Munoz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness |
Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague.
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a… |
| 18-9726 |
Lorenzo Hale v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 18-9729 |
Odell Lameche Overby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-9734 |
Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT(S) ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED APPELLANT SECTION 3582(c)(2) RELIEF? |
| 18-9735 |
Carlton Darden v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing dillion-v-united-states district-court-authority due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review new-evidence offense-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-adams ussg-1b1.10 |
Does 18 USC 3582(c)(2) after Dillion give a district corut authority to make additional finding as to offense conduct attributable to a defendant base… |
| 18A1333 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-sufficiency guilty-plea plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1336 |
Robert Rang v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1552 |
Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud |
Does the potential for collection of fines and costs which may become due to the state from unadjudicated traffic tickets, on which there has yet been… |
| 18-9696 |
Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9699 |
Jose Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9701 |
Antoine Gause v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a mis- carriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence … |
| 18-9707 |
Blair Cook v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
The underlying question presented is: Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause.
This involves a… |
| 18-9715 |
Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
WHETHER THE US DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION FOR FAILURE TO CONDUCT [A]N EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO 28 SECTION 2255(b) IN LIGHT OF A FACTU… |
| 18-9656 |
In Re Lexter K. Kossie |
|
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase |
Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense by (1) proceeding to the sentencing trial 45 minutes after the j… |
| 18-9658 |
Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment |
Whether due process requires the correct calculation of
Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range. |
| 18-9687 |
Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce |
Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense? |
| 18-9691 |
Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error |
Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9692 |
Jody Lanardo White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-9673 |
George Djura Jakubec v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-9677 |
Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO ADDRESS THE PROPER APPLIATION OF LAW TO FACT RELATING TO SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR QUANTITY DET… |
| 18-9679 |
Gary Raymond Harvey, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
in conflict with Chevron and Section 6325(f)(2) administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference irs-fiduciary-duty irs-lien lien-validity limitation-period statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tax-debt tax-lien-reinstatement-validity tax-procedure |
Congress enacted the Release of lien or discharge of property Act, 26 U.S.C.A. § 6325 (f) (2); Public Law 115-281, approved 12/1/18, to inform both th… |
| 18-9681 |
Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation |
MONTANA
SUPREME COUT
IMPOSOD A 10 VEAR SONTENCE
DURSUANT D0 MCA 46-18-SO2.
ON OCT 16T LO13 TH8 21ST JUICDAL DITRICT
COURT, RAMAI
CO.MT., IMPOSED A GO … |
| 18-9684 |
David Prien-Pinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-1546 |
Century III Mall PA LLC v. Sears Roebuck & Co. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
|
9-usc-10a4 arbitration-award arbitration-review arbitrator-authority binding-arbitration civil-litigation contract-interpretation contractual-rights dispute-resolution judicial-restraint lease-valuation prudential-restraint scope-of-authority statutory-interpretation |
While courts exercise prudential restraint when considering whether to vacate an arbitration award under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4) ("where arbitrators excee… |
| 18-1547 |
Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit—in direct conflict with
the Seventh Circuit—erroneously fail to recognize that
28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from … |
| 18-1539 |
Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility |
Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil… |
| 18-9616 |
Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-9620 |
Christopher J. Miller v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse civil-rights criminal-law due-process emotional-harm legal-precedent mental-health non-sexual-touch prosecutorial-misconduct restitution |
Like unknown numbers of American citizens, petitioner is unfortunately a pedophile. Seizing upon that fact, the prosecutor vilified the defendant for … |
| 18-9646 |
Max Edward Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9653 |
Todd Ricks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9661 |
William Kostopoulos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S GENERAL DENIAL TO STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THAT HE COMMITTED A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE IS SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE FEDERAL NEXUS… |
| 18A1302 |
Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9615 |
Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession |
THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |
| 18-9633 |
Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation |
(1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection… |
| 18-9634 |
Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing |
ISSUE NO ONE AND TWO whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge th… |
| 18-9635 |
Carlos Antonio Flores v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-deference co-defendant-sentences deference due-process just-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparities substantive-reasonableness |
Is the Sentence Substantially unreasonable because if creates unwarranted Sentence Disparities for deterrence and in light of the fact that the Senten… |
| 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… |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9643 |
Herichie Paul v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-9644 |
Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts |
1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
2)… |
| 18-9645 |
Victor J. Black v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9608 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 18-9610 |
Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing |
i) Dos the Stake have unlimited absoluk discseton to dery a petrtoner a enoval f petihoner qualifies inder florida and federal Statutes?
21f Florida … |
| 18-9612 |
Gregory Rayford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing |
1.) The State failed to prove defendant Bayfard quilty beyond a reasonable doubt because it did not show that defendant Constructively possessed the n… |
| 18-1530 |
Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i… |
| 18-1531 |
South Carolina v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to ch… |
| 18-9592 |
Gene T. Favors, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9601 |
Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two "armed career crim… |
| 18-9568 |
Roderick Mullins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution |
Does the Florida "Life Means Life" sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process … |
| 18-9570 |
Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough |
Did Texas v. McCullough, 475 U.S. 134 (1986) create a brightline rule that anytime a jury returns a sentencing verdict at the original trial it become… |
| 18-9578 |
James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed an unsupported departure and/or variance… |
| 18-9581 |
Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9582 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-conditions federal-preemption federalism government-regulation labor-law labor-relations labor-rights national-labor-relations-act statutory-interpretation workplace-governance |
Are "terms and conditions of employment and working conditions" as defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to free peo… |
| 18-9584 |
William Earl Miller v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Cons… |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 18A1274 |
Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure fee-shifting prevailing-party statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9562 |
Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in 'denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statu… |
| 18-9563 |
Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the
statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary " to ach… |
| 18-9573 |
Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9574 |
Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen… |
| 18-9575 |
In Re Phillip Love |
|
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union?
… |
| 18-9534 |
Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20.
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by upholding the admission of evidence… |
| 18-9539 |
Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower |
Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a … |
| 18-9556 |
Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment |
1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when… |
| 18-9558 |
Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by allowing Petitioner to be shackled in the courtroom during his trial; allowi… |
| 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… |
| 18-9531 |
Lan Deyerle v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-rules |
-er4 I) f
e cL2L)rt L V)u' re( 4- |
| 18-9541 |
Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe… |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18-1511 |
Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Controlled Substances Act permit the United States to impose a fine for each and every technical violation of … |
| 18-1501 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
agency-enforcement disgorgement equitable-relief judicial-review kokesh-v-sec lower-court-precedent penalty sec-enforcement securities-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as "equitable relief" for a securities law violation even… |
| 18-9522 |
Renee Lopez-Galvan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-9472 |
Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
A UNITEA STATES COURT oF APPeaLS has dECided an imPOrtant
question of Federal Law that hasnot beent,but should be setled
hy this CouRT,
And has decide… |
| 18-9520 |
Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search |
Whether in light of Coolidge vs. Judge Susanno C Pineda for the State of Arizona abused discretion denying Bartett's motion to suppress Petitioner arr… |
| 18-9482 |
Jorge J. Rubio v. Tina Raburn, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
I WherTher A FederAl CourT OF APPeAs hAs JurIsDIcTiOn
Under U.S.C.28 32lo7 To Review An order denting
LeAVe To Proceed in FormA PAuperis under SecTion… |
| 18-9493 |
Jose Santillan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-9494 |
Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing |
1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce… |
| 18-9495 |
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff… |
| 18-9497 |
Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
why petitioner the except a stipulated facks would trial plea agreement to the Worst per. Case scenerio without right trying ot trirl o he was in his … |
| 18-9499 |
Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar |
1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal
Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999
under manttory sentencing Gidelines"… |
| 18-9501 |
Bruce Mayo Ennis v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9502 |
Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-9506 |
Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed within one year of, Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and claiming that Johnson inval… |
| 18-1500 |
Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-1493 |
Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act |
I. Whether a U.S. court of a ppeals can explicitly decline
to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent requiring a
voluntary act and a "special benefit" fo… |
| 18-9457 |
Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation |
DOES STRICT CALCULATION OF TIMELINESS AFTER FINDING OF EXTRAORDINARY CURCUNSTANCES CREATED BY A STATE IMPEDIMENT TO FILING 28.U.S.C. SECTION 2244(D)(1… |
| 18-9483 |
Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER IT IS PERMISSIBLE FOR A STATE CRIMINAL COURT TO PREDICATE FELONY MURDER LIABILITY ON AN ALLEGATION OF BURGLARY THAT LACKS SUFFICIENT BASES IN … |
| 18-9491 |
William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ISSUE OF WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S CORRECTLY CONCLUDED THAT HIS ROs… |
| 18-9432 |
Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9434 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred when it adjudged that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warran… |
| 18-9456 |
Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c |
I. When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an imper… |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9460 |
Quentin Perry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth… |
| 18-9462 |
Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender |
1. Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was… |
| 18-9465 |
Beth Galloway v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial |
I. WHETHER A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ON COUNTS 1 AND 2 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT MS. GALLOWAY KNEW THAT THE MARTELLE H… |
| 18-9466 |
Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States, _U.S._, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disable… |
| 18-9467 |
Koran McKinley Allen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9468 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when a state court enters a nunc pro tune judgment to attempt to cure a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, the first … |
| 18-9469 |
Paul Melvin Watson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-1489 |
Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
|
automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the… |
| 18-1476 |
Randy Lee Carney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn |
When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-9431 |
William Maurice Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018?
If so did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply Griffith … |
| 18-9436 |
William Edward Branham v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9439 |
Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9444 |
Gregory Greer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
GVR |
IFP |
922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
1. Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S… |
| 18-9411 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the judicial construction of "lascivious exhibition" of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-9413 |
Hozay Royal v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appeal-deadline appeals civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadlines mail-filing notice-of-appeal postmark statutory-interpretation time-computation time-limits |
A. Does the thirty-day period under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Fed.R.App.Proc. 4(a) (1) (A) allow for the notice of appeal to be filed in the United States … |
| 18-9420 |
Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. __, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) and Oh… |
| 18-9424 |
Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime ? The Court … |
| 18-9425 |
Kevin Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states |
I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense?
II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-9430 |
Bobby Ray Turner v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Felony conviction? |
| 18-1468 |
United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity |
1. Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigan… |
| 18-1474 |
Sunoco, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
congressional-intent excise-tax federal-circuit renewable-fuels statutory-interpretation tax-credits tax-incentives tax-liability tax-system |
Whether the Federal Circuit properly held that tax credits operate as a reduction of tax liability rather than as a payment of taxes owed. |
| 18-9394 |
Ward T. Evans v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law |
Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) as it was written when Petitioner was charged and convicted, define three distinct and separate crimin… |
| 18-9398 |
Ali Cisse v. New York |
New York |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent |
Does knowledge of wiretapping establish "consent" to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)? |
| 18-9403 |
In Re Christopher Johnson |
|
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal prisoner may file a
petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed
by binding… |
| 18-9407 |
Humberto Verduzco-Magana v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-waiver circuit-court conformity judgment-correction oral-pronouncement sentence-modification sentencing written-judgment |
Whether a written appellate waiver giving up the right to appeal any portion of the sentence waive the right to ask the Circuit to conform the written… |
| 18-9408 |
Freddie J. Hennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments. |
| 18-9415 |
Michael Don Neely v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled … |
| 18-9365 |
Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights |
Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule… |
| 18-9375 |
Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-9377 |
John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1209 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees fee-shifting foia litigation-costs statutory-interpretation substantial-prevailing |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1207 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause felony-robbery johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9354 |
Donald Reddick v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Is federal bank robbery as defined in 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) categorically a crime of violence, where the statute does not require an intentional use, att… |
| 18-9360 |
Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9364 |
Javontae Tyree Street v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off… |
| 18-9370 |
Mark A. Blankenship v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors |
Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s… |
| 18-9348 |
Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether or not the State Court And Federal Courtis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing crimels) and charge (s). |
| 18-9350 |
Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force |
Can a fist a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
Is it considered proper procedure for the Court to add dialogue not supported by th… |
| 18-9351 |
Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process of law guarantees?
Can 42 U.S.0 Sect. 1983 be used to resolve the con… |
| 18-9357 |
Mondrick Bradley v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution sentencing standing unlawful-search |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1446 |
Lettie Sexton, ex rel. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Kentucky |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
beneficiary-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-benefits medicaid-program medical-coverage personal-liability standing state-agency statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(3) requires a state participating in the Medicaid program to provide a "fair hearing" to a beneficiary when coverage of h… |
| 18-9318 |
Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INDIGENT APPELLANTS WITH A COMPLETE COPY OF THE RECORD/TRANSCRIPTS FROM ALL PRE CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS … |
| 18-9319 |
Robert Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9320 |
Domenick James Howard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION
SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY
WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE
VIS-A… |
| 18-9321 |
Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9322 |
Edward Ray Crosby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S .__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of
aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a se… |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9324 |
Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9325 |
Davion L. Jefferson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 18-9328 |
Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel |
1. Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA") unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are requi… |
| 18-9330 |
Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco… |
| 18-9331 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Would it be violation of procedural & substantive due process and deprivation of right to meaningful, effective access to courts, if District Courts, … |
| 18-9337 |
Ronnie Barnes v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law anatomical-definition anatomy back-injury civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process neck-injury permanent-disability-rating statutory-interpretation workers-compensation workers-compensation-act |
Does the term Back as used in the Award of June 0 1, 1982 include petitioners neck_
(a). Was the ruling of the WCAB (Board 's) On, Nov. 2,20 17, deny… |
| 18-9340 |
Anes Subasic v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 18-7047 make an error in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing … |
| 18-9299 |
Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9300 |
Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS
RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE
BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT
IMPROPERLY SE… |
| 18-9301 |
Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use |
Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9306 |
Shawn Sayer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
I. Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sente… |
| 18-9280 |
Miguel A. Jusino, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9289 |
In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR A THIRD-STRIKE SENTENCE UNDER 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)?
WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCING WA… |
| 18-9290 |
Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings |
1. Does the State of California create a ton Flav. Under the US. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. By not Providing a Rational Relationship Between a leatti … |
| 18-9291 |
Adrian Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error |
Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant?
Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in… |
| 18-9292 |
Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bail bail-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandamus pre-trial-detention pre-trial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
What recourse is available to a defendant, when an appeal and mandamus enforcement of the ministerial and self-executing release on bail provision of … |
| 18-1432 |
Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal |
Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin… |
| 18-1434 |
United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-1423 |
Paul E. Cooper v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-867c article-i-authority court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces johnson-v-united-states judicial-review matter-of-fact matters-of-fact matters-of-law military-appeals-court-authority military-appellate-review military-law navy-marine-corps-court-of-criminal-appeals statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces exceeded its statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 867(c) when it took action with res… |
| 18-1430 |
ReDigi Inc., et al. v. Capitol Records, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
copyright copyright-law copyright-reproduction digital-distribution electronic-transfer exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-use first-sale-doctrine reproduction-right statutory-interpretation |
1. Under 17 U.S.C. § 109(a), is the acknowledged owner of a particular digital phonorecord lawfully purchased via electronic distribution under 17 U.S… |
| 18-9248 |
Preston Phillips v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-offense indirect-force omission physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether an offense committed by indirect force, or by "any means" like an omission, qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Careener Criminal … |
| 18-9255 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-9257 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9258 |
Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
"Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the "vagueness challenge" of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is consid… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-9266 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Petitioners were convicted of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of crimes of violence. The dis… |
| 18-9271 |
Eteri Kholost, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consumer-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-trade-commission interstate-litigation national-security reseller standing statutory-interpretation |
Must Real Page, Inc., in interests of national security define itself as a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) and be responsible in that number under Fai… |
| 18-9276 |
In Re Jesus Avila |
|
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure miscarriage-of-justice motion-recharacterization rule-60 rule-60(b)(6) standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE RE-CHARACTERIZATION OF JESUS AVILA'S PROPERLY FILED RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION CONSTITUTES AN IMPERMISSIBLE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE |
| 18-9243 |
Chima Edozie Aligwekwe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial restitution sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the right to a jury trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is violated when a district court increases the defendant's prison sentence and… |
| 18-9244 |
Danny Herrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018)?
If a cond… |
| 18-9245 |
Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Court of Appeals erred by not requiring the District Court to correctly apply the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Specifically, the sentencing cour… |
| 18-1416 |
Adam Bereki v. Gary Humphreys, et ux. |
California |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines penal-forfeiture restitution standing statutory-interpretation takings unjust-enrichment |
1. Are sections §7031(a) and (b), of the California Business and Professions Code unconstitutional in effect or as applied?
2. Is disgorgement under … |
| 18-1418 |
Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Akorn, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-144 federal-circuit mandate non-obviousness obviousness-standard opinion patent-appeal patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144's directive that the Federal Circuit "shall issue … its mandate and opinion" in all appeals from the Patent and Trademark O… |
| 18-1412 |
Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 46) as… |
| 18-9221 |
Barrington M. Hamilton, aka Jaame Amun Re El v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-claims debt-discharge due-process government-administration government-liability legal-procedure property-rights statutory-interpretation |
operation?
Ans. No. The languagefound in Title 11 UScs$5a caxa) says "(a) A discharge in a case under
this title [11 uscss 1o1 et seq.I (a) operates a… |
| 18-9233 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.)
… |
| 18-9238 |
Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender |
Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against … |
| 18-9197 |
Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Earl Moore Found himself in the sights of what has become known as a sting operation. That is, Moore was sitting at home in great need of resources to… |
| 18-9210 |
Curtis Solomon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. If Davis holds § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague, is that ruling retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review?
2. If Davis rein… |
| 18-9217 |
Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations |
(1) Whether the "right" in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a… |
| 18-9218 |
Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands |
The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands provides for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 48 U.S.C. § 1612, and for the appointment of judg… |
| 18-9156 |
Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9186 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits |
Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14' Amendment and the… |
| 18-9189 |
Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing |
PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE DRUG OFFENSES AND SENTENCED BY THE JURY TO A TOTAL TERM OF 90 YEARS. THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT FOUND INSUFFICIENT E… |
| 18-9195 |
Keith Walter Bullard v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection index-of-authorities jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-certiorari standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
expert related services, non-psychiatric, what is the threshold determination to be made, and what does that consist of? |
| 18-9205 |
Antonio Ballesteros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability |
I. Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine generated data that implicates the… |
| 18-9206 |
Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts |
(1) Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11, United States v. McCarthy "62 interrogation questions" ma… |
| 18-9154 |
Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE
THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG… |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9182 |
Aziz Mateen-El v. W. Robert Bell, Judge, Superior Court of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process fraud government-benefits immunity social-security |
Do defendant's in this case while under Suspension, meaning not in a De jure State Immunity do this not suspened their And using security bu plaintiff… |
| 18-9184 |
Michael B. White v. Collene K. Corcoran, Trustee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506-c bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506(c) bankruptcy-conversion chapter-11 chapter-7 debtor-in-possession debtor-recovery debtor-rights preservation-costs recovery statutory-interpretation trustee-duties |
Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals err when it determined that a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession loses all rights to recover under 11 USC 506(c) upo… |
| 18-1401 |
David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 18-1396 |
Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Arkansas |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image… |
| 18-9138 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Timothy J. Corrigan, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9139 |
Calvin Lyndale Gaddy v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process standing unpublished-opinions |
WAS it NOt ERRoR: FOR UNitEd SHatE distRiCt: COURt: MagistRAtE: dismissEd potition ORiginal Complaint: AS FRiOloUS -ANd. without ISSUANCE AND SERVICE … |
| 18-9142 |
Joshua Neil Harrell v. California |
California |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Did the insefient ecod fal to stalish a Kowing, whiver of attelhints to Amerament right and Voluntaly andVor was Structural revessible enor coussel… |
| 18-9148 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. James T. Blomo |
Arizona |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether or not the Honorable Margaret Mahoney Should had issued Civil Procedure, Rule 7, to reply to Defendant/Appelles Motion to Dismiss, as a minima… |
| 18-9164 |
Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-9119 |
Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
#1:
WHETHER THE FULL,FAITH, CREDIT CLAUSE : DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE
PROHIBITS THE STATE OF TEXAS FROM REPROSECUTING : REIMPRISONING
MODI SON JO I SO YH… |
| 18-9124 |
Garland D. Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 |
DOES JURISDICTION EXIST TO CORRECT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AT ANY TIME. |
| 18-9135 |
Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction of (10) years when the (O.G.S.) offense gravity score was changed from Felony (1) t… |
| 18-9070 |
Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony |
I.
Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine
that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses Nino Tanzini and Shawn Hous… |
| 18-9100 |
Corry Mency v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge |
Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli… |
| 18-1384 |
Joseph D. Bradley v. Alco Oil & Gas Company, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-959(b) diversion-of-funds exclusive-in-rem-jurisdiction federal-equity-receiver federal-freeze-order federal-receivership fund-diversion in-rem-jurisdiction in-rem-jurisdiction-28-usc-754 midlantic midlantic-decision notice-to-parties state-agency state-agency-regulation statutory-interpretation summary-proceedings |
1. Whether a State agency, with notice that certain
defrauded investor funds on account at a bank are
subject to 28 U.S.C. § 754's exclusive in rem ju… |
| 18-1374 |
Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl… |
| 18-1381 |
Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by following FCC commentary to hold that an "'incidental [fax] advertisement' 'does not convert the entire communication int… |
| 18-9066 |
Peter B. Rojas v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
does 42 U.S.C. § 2254 (e) obviate the need for fe 42-usc-2254 constitutional-provisions due-process federal-hearing habeas-corpus state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court undeveloped-facts |
Where the State Court conducted a hearing and the party was "denied due process of law in the proceeding', does 42 U.S.C. § 2254 (e) obviate the need … |
| 18-9084 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
I. Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegat… |
| 18-9091 |
Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9092 |
Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FAILED TO PROPERLY APPLY TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 922(e) IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLIS… |
| 18-9105 |
Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING THERE ARE "NO AGGRAVATED CRIMES", SUCH AS AGGRAVATED COMMON LAW ROBBERY, IN NORTH CAROLIN… |
| 18-9111 |
El-Sayyid Nosair v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida judicial-review muslim-arab-prisoners prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation sentencing terrorism united-states-v-o'brien wrongful-conviction yick-wo-v-hopkins |
WHETHER THE DENIAL OF EQUAL JUSTICE BY LOWER COURTS IS STILL WITHIN THE PROHIBITION OF THE CONSTITUTION AS THIS COURT HELD IN YICK WO v. HOPKINS IN 18… |
| 18-9112 |
Daniel Bronson v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Un-1 -oj-e5
CJou - ' Appeals uj cks ckrad cic
Jou1 ik -kis |
| 18-9117 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment |
"The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (… |
| 18-9040 |
Valerie Arroyo v. Joseph Colbert, Jr., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
1985 1988 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 242? 18-usc-241-242 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1988 civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation-due-process-42-usc-1983-1 color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug… |
| 18-9057 |
In Re Miles Kaufman |
|
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Can The Respondent just not follow any and all Court Orders.
Can just let an Indigent Mentally ill person rot in prison.
Can The lower Courts do as … |
| 18-9060 |
Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 |
This Court provides that the Ex Post Facto Clause applies to any change in the law that creates a significant risk of a higher sentence, including cha… |
| 18-9062 |
Derek Ray King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether violations of supervised release that require or permit additional imprisonment must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, place d… |
| 18-9063 |
Tyrone Leonard James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3584 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentences,federal-sentencing,state-sent Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiora federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-consideration sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors state-sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit unrelated-crimes vagueness |
Whether a district court's finding that a state crime and federal crime were unrelated is sufficient, in itself, to satisfy its obligation under 18 U.… |
| 18-9071 |
Jason Moody v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-law firearms interstate-commerce knowledge-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(a) provides for criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of thei… |
| 18-9043 |
Bryan Binkholder v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing victim-rights victims-rights writ-of-mandamus |
1. Did the Crime Victims Rights Act, 18 USC 3771 (CVRA), and its 72 hour review requirement for a petition of Writ of Mandamus violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-9049 |
Jackie Madore v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law. A concatenation … |
| 18-9003 |
Ariel Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession |
1. When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration attached to her objections to a
Presentence Report, which denies certain key required elements of the … |
| 18-9004 |
Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement |
(1) Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea
where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of
… |
| 18-9019 |
Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the "use" of another's identity without lawful authority as unambi… |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 18-9029 |
Tyron James v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure |
1. May a conviction baded dn a unconstitutional hard o life
Senfence be overturned at any time?
2. May this Courts decisionin Apprendi ar to what con… |
| 18-1347 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity |
The removal was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed creditors, a con… |
| 18-1349 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
The motion to re-open was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit… |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the "ministerial exception" … |
| 18-1359 |
William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
(1) Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's … |
| 18-1346 |
Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
|
age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation |
Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, as this Court held when interpreti… |
| 18-8932 |
Vickie L. Sanders v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti… |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
I. Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the
same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had
erred in its … |
| 18-9020 |
Michael Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid. |
| 18-8995 |
Maurice Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement |
1. When a judge induces a defendant to plead guilty by reassuring him that if his plea is accepted the court is bound to impose a sentence specified i… |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
| 18-8999 |
Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135
S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c),
t… |
| 18-1341 |
Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision |
Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla… |
| 18-1336 |
Walter P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. •-. has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the … |
| 18-8975 |
Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) WAS PETITIONER SMILEY WRONGFULLY CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED WITH BREAKING A SPECIFIED STATUTE, (PC:607, GCD)), WHICH CHANGED THE LEGAL CONSEQ… |
| 18-8977 |
Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (… |
| 18-8978 |
Rico Montell Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing… |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8947 |
Michael-Francis Palma v. Harris County Appraisal Review Board |
Texas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process property-rights state-judiciary statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
NOTE: In order to simplify and facilitate the courts understanding, items highlighted in yellow and the chart contained herein concerns case #2. All o… |
| 18-8948 |
Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. At Sentencingthe District Court calculated a higher oftense tevel than the plea to the united states Constitution?
2. Angel morates-De Jesus agree… |
| 18-8953 |
Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits |
MUR OF HER ENTITLEM ENT TO JUST COMPENSATUOU: PUESUAUT
TO.TITIE 28 USC 13.58, EMWENT DOMAW STATUTE (RE:MCAD
V. CREOL JOHNENE MORRIS, TP13106, FUOO OCT… |
| 18-8959 |
James Paul Arlotta v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1.)Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2403(a), may apply because neither the W.D.N.Y. federal district court, nor the U.S. C.A. 2dcir. certified to the U.S. Atto… |
| 18-8964 |
Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8965 |
Olusola Olla v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness |
1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
| 18-8973 |
Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Has the Petitioner been validly sentenced under §53.1-202.2 Code of Virginia, therefore being encompassed by this statute?
Is the Petitioner one of "… |
| 18-8909 |
David Lee Gentles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1385 constitutional-violation evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-search law-enforcement-limits posse-comitatus-act search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence |
Should a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 1385), serve as foundation for suppression of fruits of the resulting illegal searc… |
| 18-8911 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 18-8931 |
Tajie Coleman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an… |
| 18-8938 |
Elza Budagova v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-restitution judicial-discretion jury-findings sentencing sentencing-exposure southern-union-co |
Should Apprendi's rule apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 18-1331 |
William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial |
1. The scope of the authority of the United States Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records ("Naval Board") to remove an unjust summary court-mart… |
| 18-1328 |
Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the oblig… |
| 18-8913 |
Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-8915 |
Jonathan Zepeda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver |
As matters of first impression:
Whether a n individual 's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prose… |
| 18-8917 |
Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
(1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran… |
| 18-8922 |
In Re Efrain Campos |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution, By The With Holding Of Information By The Assistant Distric… |
| 18-8923 |
Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals.
Whether the Sixth Circuit C… |
| 18-8886 |
In Re James Rodgers, Jr. |
|
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER ACTR NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, IS FACIALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF SECTION 13A-5-40(a), CODE O… |
| 18-8890 |
Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights |
medical Knee And Her Disease And medical Denial Tredtment
The united states court of appedls has entered a decision in Conflict with the decision of … |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8898 |
Melinda J. Campbell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a… |
| 18-8900 |
Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-8901 |
Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT
OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE
PETITIONER'S ABSOLUTE RIGHT IN
FILING AS WELL AS TO APPEAL HIS
CIVIL ACTION IN FORMA PA… |
| 18-1319 |
Elijah Thomas v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-impairment civil-procedure court-of-appeals-for-veterans-claims disability disability-compensation due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review procedural-barriers procedural-exhaustion statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-claims |
Should the 120 day deadline stated in 38 U.S.C. § 7266(a) for filing a claim in the Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims be equitably tolled where the … |
| 18-1320 |
Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit |
1. Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes—that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence—should be consid… |
| 18-8851 |
Lester James Smith v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction |
M. Smith alleges that the State of Geargia has illeggally sentenced him to 25 years for five counts Single incident, and a single jurisdiction for pro… |
| 18-8875 |
George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
The 'Pipeline' Analysis Should Be Expanded To New Law That Applies To Postconviction Claims Where The Resolution Of The Postconviction … |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does 18 Usc §3664(0) and USC H3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of t… |
| 18-8819 |
Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8842 |
Michael Demon Nixon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 18-8845 |
Abel Revill Ochoa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-funding funding habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-standard statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether, in light of Ayestas v. Davis, 138 S. Ct. 1080 (2018), a court applies an overly burdensome standard for funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f)… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8847 |
Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt |
I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport
cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating
witnesses who are not credi… |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8858 |
Aspen Warren v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
IN A MURDER CASE WHERE UNDER STATE STATUTES A JURY NEED NOT BE UNANIMOUS AS TO MANNER AND MEANS AND ARE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE FROM THREE SEPARATE MANNER A… |
| 18-1309 |
Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration |
Applicants for trademark registration dissatisfied with a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can commence a civil action seeking de novo… |
| 18-1314 |
Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise its mandatory diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 by refusing to make an "Erie guess" whether… |
| 18-1298 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid… |
| 18-1299 |
Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
I. Does the Precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict United States Supreme Court precedent of Schindler Elevator Co… |
| 18-1302 |
Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 … |
| 18-1304 |
Richard Ashbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained … |
| 18-8807 |
Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
| 18-8824 |
Darren Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
After the Court's decision in Cuellar v. United States, does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute s… |
| 18-8825 |
Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth?
2. Did the District Court use an incorrect offense lev… |
| 18-8827 |
David McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insi… |
| 18-8830 |
Julio Cesar De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms mens-rea misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force statutory-interpretation voisine-v-united-states |
I.
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__,136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical… |
| 18-8834 |
José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
2. Whether the sentence imposed by the… |
| 18-8803 |
Raymond Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court |
Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without author… |
| 18-8814 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments |
I. Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a diff… |
| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) this Court initiated a twisting journey by holding unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.… |
| 18-8798 |
Brent Lynch v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8733 |
Russell T. McElvain v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism self-incrimination statutory-interpretation |
I. Can a state enact a statute that combines the use of older, established
statates as the ways and means to commit the new statutes crimne,
thereby e… |
| 18-8745 |
Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation |
When underlying USPTO disciplinary proceedings are conducted according to regulations which abolish both 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery under the… |
| 18-8752 |
Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment |
(1) Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated ver… |
| 18-8755 |
Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation |
Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8773 |
Emmanuely Germain v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error |
1. Is the error of omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions rendered harmless by the sufficiency of evidence to support a… |
| 18-8774 |
John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. |
Nevada |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8781 |
Kerri L. Kaley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states |
In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 18-8782 |
Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-1285 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen |
Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection. |
| 18-1286 |
Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force |
1. Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an
issue in this case since two Judges have made
rulings concerning the Constitutional Rights of the
Pet… |
| 18-1282 |
David Lee Sanders v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial |
1. Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement and serves a five-year, split sentence, which is subsequentl… |
| 18-1284 |
Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
North Carolina |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue |
Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.… |
| 18-8737 |
Mario Bachiller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015),
applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a
conviction and sentence im… |
| 18-8738 |
Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth… |
| 18-8741 |
Francisco Frank Apodaca, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association-in-fact corporation enterprise enterprise-definition guilty-plea individuals ineffective-assistance legal-entity rico rico-statute sentencing-error statutory-interpretation union |
1. Can a corporation or other legal entity be associated in fact with a union or one or more individuals under the "enterprise" definition of the RICO… |
| 18-8743 |
Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8747 |
Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-8761 |
Arthur Jones v. California |
California |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing |
(1) WhEthER A CoNdUet ENHANCEMENT. StAtUTE"CAif PENAl COdE SER.1192.7(2) ThAt "REMOVES, ASSESSMENt" of FALT FROm Jury USEd TO INREASE PUNISHMENT" 1s U… |
| 18-8763 |
Terry Walker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution recharaterize a defendant's conviction into conduct th… |
| 18-8718 |
Anthony C. Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8719 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit … |
| 18-8725 |
Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8726 |
In Re Stetory Calhoun |
|
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER ACT NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF … |
| 18-8729 |
Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter |
In light of United States v Peter, 310 F.3d 709 (11th C ir 2002), does the ambiguousness of the nature of the term "material" within Title 18 USC 2252… |
| 18-1276 |
Andrew Levert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-1279 |
K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
|
29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation |
Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under § 1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches… |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8711 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-record due-process family-law parole probation sentencing |
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| 18-8713 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment code-of-civil-procedure constitutional-violation counsel-of-choice due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance marsden-hearing plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does a Defendant have a right to replace his privately retained choice of counsel at anytime during the trial court proceeding even up to and at the a… |
| 18-8714 |
Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8698 |
Marcel A. Walton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing |
1. Consistent with Due Process, can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts—first raised at the sente… |
| 18-8699 |
Marckenson Chery v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422b criminal-offense criminal-offense-element double-jeopardy fifth-amendment indictment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) must identify the ''criminal offense'' element in order to meet the required nature of the … |
| 18-8700 |
Dorian Givens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8703 |
Alan Wade Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruet… |
| 18-8706 |
Donn Deveral Martin v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure patent scotus-rules standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rules takings |
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conviction oftthined from an perury
Question daro. toes the scotus precednt still hold that aftaaid fom a warrntless pristected se… |
| 18-1274 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
|
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion |
Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every single requirement o… |
| 18-8695 |
Deontray Vershon Tate v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 18-8696 |
Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-8673 |
Jamael Stubbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to preserve either a sentencing challenge or a constructive amendment claim under All… |
| 18-1264 |
Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation |
1. Can the Environmental Protection Agency
revise clear statutory terms of the Clean Air Act to
allow the importation, sale, and use of motor
vehic… |
| 18-1265 |
September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings |
What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations? |
| 18-8642 |
DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality |
Whether The Tenth Circuit Erred In Failing To Address In Its Order Denying A Certificate Of Appealability, The Unconstitutionality Of Use And Carry Of… |
| 18-8646 |
Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8649 |
Bradley Cobbler, aka B-Rad v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the District Court erred by partially denying Mr. Cobbler's Amended Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty? |
| 18-8654 |
Karyea Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception |
Did The Court Of Appeals err by dismissing the appeal of the District Court's reasoning that Mathis was inapplicable to Karyea Williams on Collateral … |
| 18-8660 |
Tyree Mansell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing violates the Sixth Amendment jury trial right. |
| 18-8600 |
Tony McLeod v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 18-8619 |
In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241
TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN
THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18. |
| 18-8623 |
Justin Cole Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review |
I.
Are appeal waivers presented in federal criminal plea agreements an
unconstitutional overreach by the Government preventing review of
constitutiona… |
| 18-8625 |
Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Illinois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a "contributing c… |
| 18-8627 |
Frank Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing |
The sentencing court failed to disclose the "Confidential Recommendation" of the Probation Officer in regards to the sentencing of the Petitioner. The… |
| 18-8629 |
Rogelio Barajas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8632 |
Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 782;… |
| 18-8634 |
Andrew A. Chavis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery career-offender crime-of-violence johnson-ruling mandatory-guidelines post-Johnson pre-Booker sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PRIOR CONVICTION IN ILLINOIS FOR ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY CATEGORICALLY QUALIFIES AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE UNDER THE 4131.1 CAREER OFFENDER PRE-B… |
| 18-8636 |
Brian Hoskins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions |
Whether, this Court's decisions in Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1995), Daniels v. United States, 532 U.S. 374 (2001), and Johnson v. United … |
| 18-1258 |
Enclarity Inc., et al. v. Matthew N. Fulton |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-availability commercial-communication commercial-transaction communication-law due-process fax-regulation information-request standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement unsolicited-faxes |
Whether faxes that only request information and propose no commercial transaction with recipients are "advertisements" under the TCPA. |
| 18-1260 |
Jessica Cooke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
|
administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the common-law "mailbox rule" applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a). |
| 18-1251 |
Sandy Annabi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of … |
| 18-8599 |
Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights |
DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING… |
| 18-8603 |
Gralyn Leon White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Err by Failing to Apply the Holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5th Cir. 2018). to Hobb's… |
| 18-8604 |
Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations |
I. May a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., be treated as resetting the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(0… |
| 18-8614 |
Leonard Dwayne Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment atf-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation |
23 Year Long "Circuit split" is making 9Jxgj) Unconstitutional to my case.)
The 23 Live Rounds of Ammunition Was Manufactured An Assembled In The (Sa… |
| 18-8616 |
Parley Drew Hardman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conclusion constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felon-in-possession index second-amendment sentencing statutory-provisions table-of-contents |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8617 |
Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
I. Count 1 Conspiracy Indictment is insufficient on its face because it omitted essential element(s) that the Government had to prove.
(a). Is Title … |
| 18-8545 |
Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8549 |
Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute |
In 2013, The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Va. Code § 18.2-361(A), a state criminal statute under which Petitioner remains convicted, sente… |
| 18-8557 |
Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
GRou oNE: Houston Police Department Detective, Jhn Brooks, testified during
the state's case -in-chief concerning ownership of a cll phone involved
in… |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8536 |
Elmar K. Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8537 |
Daniel Salinas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8540 |
Eric David Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable " standard once … |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE… |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply.
Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim |
| 18-8496 |
Anthony Swatzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-8512 |
DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights |
In light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1897, 201 L. Ed. 2d 376 (2018), which, states, "[{fJailure to correct plain error that affecte… |
| 18-8524 |
Tony Kalumba Tshiansi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-claims judicial-discretion objection presentence-report presumption-of-reliability reliability sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the factual claims of a Presentence Report are presumed reliable in the face of objection? |
| 18-8525 |
Robert Brian Winston v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8528 |
Willie Robertson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act force-clause state-robbery state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an
element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim
resistance" categorically a "violent felony"… |
| 18-8530 |
Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1233 |
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness |
Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a … |
| 18-1231 |
Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." (fE ftl?. (fli) !
Attorney for … |
| 18-8486 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Minnesota |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ of Habeas corpus moot?
Did Court error by holding his petition was moot… |
| 18-8490 |
Bernard Mitchell v. California |
California |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review |
1. Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames "Crip" and "'Scrap,"' which have been taken as a suggestio… |
| 18-8494 |
Alberto Sostre-Cintron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-371 18-usc-641 conspiracy conspiracy-18-usc-371 criminal-conspiracy criminal-law district-court-proceedings morissette-standard morissette-v-united-states parties-to-the-proceedings statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence theft-of-government-property theft-of-government-property-18-usc-641 |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to support Alberto Sostre-Cintron's conviction of conspiracy pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §371.
Whether there was suff… |
| 18-8504 |
John Whaley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether, on remand, imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum ter superviselease was bot procurally n ubstantively rabl… |
| 18-8507 |
Randall Jennette v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1738 admiralty-law admiralty-maritime full-faith-and-credit maritime-contract relief-sought statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court |
Whether Tax Court, had subject mattter jurisdiction, under it's Admiralty/Maritime
Jurisdictions. To grant Appellee, relief sought in the absence of … |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8476 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
1. Since Maryland Law Prohibits Imposition Of The Death Penalty Without Considering The Presentencing Investigation Report Convictions As Evidence The… |
| 18-8479 |
Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) PRESIDENT THRU VE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO PARDON HIMSELF?
2.) IS PRESIDENT TRUMP SUBJECT TO SUBPOENA(S)?
3.) DID PRESIDENT TRUMP SELL CO… |
| 18-8491 |
Ernest Marquis Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment unlawful-detention |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ILLEGALLY DETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS UNDER FULLY ENFORCEABLE VERDICTS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT … |
| 18-8493 |
Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE… |
| 18-8497 |
Leslie Roy Lynch v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Are the Idaho Courts going to be allowed to violate U.S. Laws, or is the U.S. Supreme Court going to enforce U.S. Constitution Article I Clause 2? |
| 18-8498 |
Oryan Yazzie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis… |
| 18-1218 |
Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Dismissed |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 18-1223 |
Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional |
Is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Title 5 U.S.C. § 706) somehow nonrelevant under Alice/Mayo, or does the Federal Circuit's refusal to addres… |
| 18-1224 |
NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contract-relationships contractual-relationships federal-maritime-law maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner vessel-supplies |
Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-8443 |
James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Question presented being important to administration of Criminal Justice.
If the defendant James F. Oliveira had been granted his Speedy Trial, would… |
| 18-8445 |
Tommy McAdoo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force |
The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,… |
| 18-8454 |
Carl Lynn Scott v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8455 |
Marc Shiroma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery constitutional crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery ussg-4b1.2 void-for-vagueness |
1. Is a threatened use of physical force against the person of another an element of federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), so as to make it a crim… |
| 18-8456 |
Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
1. Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the
United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same
offense and conduct for which he was acquitted … |
| 18-8467 |
Abukar Osman Beyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the Court Of Appeals create a Procedural Error, when it determined Petitioner, Abukar 0. Beyle, in a "Capitol Murder Case", did not make a claim t… |
| 18-8468 |
Alfredo Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has … |
| 18-8469 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b… |
| 18-8470 |
Tommy Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing |
Tommy Lee Jones was convicted of advertising, distribution, and receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2251(d) and 2252A(a)(2), and h… |
| 18-8472 |
James Allen Eapmon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS OBLIGATED TO IMPOSED. A STATUTORY MANDATORY MI… |
| 18-8441 |
Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing |
Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-8442 |
Marc Dutch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Given that the Sixth Amendment and Apprendi prohibit a sentencing judge from finding facts about a prior conviction, does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requ… |
| 18-8447 |
Javis Wilson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-1209 |
Nicholas J. Bonacci v. Transportation Security Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure apa-section-706 chevron-deference chevron-doctrine due-process judicial-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sec. 706 of the APA is compatible with Chevron, or other deference models when a Court is faced with a significant question of statutory law.
… |
| 18-1211 |
NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contractual-relationships maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner |
Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-1214 |
Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act apportionment-clause census-act census-citizenship-question census-data commerce-department commerce-secretary constitutional-authority constitutional-provisions district-court-injunction due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-injunction standing statutory-interpretation voting-rights-act |
Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census. |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8395 |
Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states |
The Sentencing Reform Act requires courts to "recogniz[e] that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation." 1… |
| 18-8410 |
Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con… |
| 18-8436 |
David Fehr Harder v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8437 |
Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court failure to grant a Wis.Stat.5(Rules) 809.71 Supervisory Writ to change Jurisdiction of cases 2013AP714 and 2012AP1… |
| 18-1198 |
Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 18-1190 |
DoctorDirectory.com, LLC, et al. v. Davis Neurology, P.A. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1446 article-iii federal-court jurisdictional-timing notice-of-removal other-paper removal removal-statute second-removal spokeo-v-robins standing state-court statutory-interpretation thirty-day-deadline |
Whether the thirty-day deadline for filing a notice of second removal from a state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(3) can begin and expire in fe… |
| 18-8413 |
Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila |
Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by" [N]oti±ring the creditor" in writin… |
| 18-8415 |
John L. Lotter v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amend… |
| 18-8417 |
Robert Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness |
I. In a prosecution for filing a false claim against the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, does the mens rea element require a showing of… |
| 18-8419 |
Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test |
1. Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the spec… |
| 18-8423 |
Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation |
(1) Once Respondent failed to reply to the courtt orders on October 26,2017, should the application have been granted via 28: U.S.C. § 2248. |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill … |
| 18-8388 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no "egregious violation" of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular pho… |
| 18-8390 |
Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime |
Whether, consistent with due process and 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a "vict… |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8393 |
Irma Ovalles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-8394 |
Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-1177 |
Bradford G. Peters, as Executor of the Estate of Andrew J. McKelvey, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law fair-notice internal-revenue-code judicial-gap-filling phantom-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-law-exceptionalism tax-regulation treasury-delegation treasury-regulations |
Whether, or under what circumstances, the Judiciary may enforce an ambiguous provision of the Internal Revenue Code by filling a statutory gap, when C… |
| 18-1182 |
Scott Ogle v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8360 |
Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-8366 |
Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 18-8373 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
COULD A HAZEL-ATLAS MOTION BE USE TO ATTACK A CRIMINAL CONVICTION? MOTION UNDER HAZEL-ATLAS IS IT OR IS IT NOT A SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE §2255 PETITION?
… |
| 18-8333 |
Jorge Sosa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering |
I. Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeerin… |
| 18-8339 |
Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8341 |
Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications |
Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a… |
| 18-8346 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense when it approved the district court's… |
| 18-8349 |
Daverne Michael Foy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver |
1. In Rosales-Mireles, this Court struck down the court of appeals' heightened "shock the conscience" standard for a Rule 52(b) plain error review, an… |
| 18-8352 |
Lino Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-8318 |
Helen Thomasina Gardner v. Verizon Communications Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach civil-procedure defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-section-502 fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty health-insurance life-insurance participant plan-participant relief standing statutory-interpretation |
Do sections 502 (a)(2) of the Employee Retirement Security Act of
1974(ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(2), and 502(a)(3), 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(3)
authorize a p… |
| 18-8324 |
Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-8325 |
Amaury Villa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel?
2. Whether appellant's sentence was properly calculated? |
| 18-8327 |
Robert Nathan Alm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8329 |
Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A). |
| 18-8330 |
Martin Fitzgerald Connors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8269 |
Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control?
Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-8277 |
Trevor Ransfer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 binding-precedent circuit-precedent crime-of-violence federal-appeals-court habeas-petition hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
Should a three—judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit's Order Denying A Second Or Successive habeas petition for re… |
| 18-8301 |
Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus |
This Court previously reversed and remanded petitioner's case to the court of appeals. The judges of that court, however, have different interpretatio… |
| 18-8302 |
Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8303 |
Thomas T. Alford v. Stephen S. Carlton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8309 |
Darwin Zoch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8311 |
Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8313 |
John Allen Newton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence offense fails to require any intentional use, attempted use, or threatened use of violen… |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8234 |
Jeremy Snider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8272 |
Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Cour… |
| 18-8274 |
Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance |
The Probation Department assessed the Movant with two separate enhancements under USSG 3C1.1 and 3C1.2 for obstruction of justice and Reckless Endange… |
| 18-8280 |
Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8281 |
Michael Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit… |
| 18-8286 |
Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County |
Florida |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists… |
| 18-8289 |
Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence |
Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee… |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 18-1141 |
Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine |
New Hampshire |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction. Whether the
New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in failing to find
that the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medic… |
| 18-1150 |
Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (34)Relisted (2) |
annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of… |
| 18-8236 |
Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States District Court/United States Court of Appeals violated the 10th Amendments of the United States Constitution when they creat… |
| 18-8239 |
Negus Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing |
On a Crosby remand, the district court decided not to resentence the defendants. On a Jacobson remand, the district court again decided not to resente… |
| 18-8254 |
Eddie Earl Phillips v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment jury-instructions sentencing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions |
Whether Phillips' Conviction and Sentence stems from a defective indictment, a violation of his due process rights?
Whether phillips' indictment was … |
| 18-8256 |
Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8260 |
Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings |
This Court's holding and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) require a § 2255 court to conduct an evidentiary hearing unless the record and filings conclusively prove… |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported.
Whether an appeal waiver is enf… |
| 18-8265 |
Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti… |
| 18-8266 |
Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
507, 5a7 (I9Be) In Which the California CourT OF Appeal held tHat "state Priooners Presently have a statutory right absent a judicial determination th… |
| 18-8210 |
Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. DID TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY CONSIDERING A NOLLE PROSSED CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN SENTENCING PETITIONER TO THE 20-YEAR PLEA CAP,… |
| 18-8211 |
Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a persons height be a disability under Tithe II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42U.s.C.8 12102(1)(A)-(C)?
2) Can a "Strike" be access… |
| 18-8222 |
Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code |
Was the Trail Court in error when the Court therefore find that it is without jurisdiction to conduct a resentencing or modify the Defendant's sentenc… |
| 18-8225 |
Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony |
obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to
testify on his behalf? |
| 18-8176 |
Anthony James Brightwell, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Petitioner's Constitutional Rights were violated when he guilty plea was not knowingly and intelligently made when the details of the guilty plea were… |
| 18-8179 |
Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER A STATE CRIMINAL CONVICTION SHOULD STAND WHEN A STATE HAS INCORRECTLY CONCLUDES THE SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF AIDIN… |
| 18-8181 |
Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a
defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved
by a separate "reasonablen… |
| 18-8187 |
Kelley Toney v. David Stock, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1) Shoud A CONVcd PERN b FL ANishEd A SENENING?
2) Is A SENtence Not AuthoRizEd by StAtUte Void?
3) IS AN IPRPER SENtENCE in ViOLATiON OF UNiTESAtES… |
| 18-8188 |
Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PLEA AGREEMENT AFFIRMED BY THE LOWER TRIBUNAL VIOLATED THE CONTRACT AND DUE PROCESS CLAUSES OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION |
| 18-8190 |
Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8197 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law |
Whether Texas Penal Code Article 42.082 BEVACCP, as interpreted by the Texas Court in EX PARTE KUESIER, 24 SW3d 247 (2000), is unconstitutional.
The … |
| 18-8198 |
Brandon Lisi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari… |
| 18-8200 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Assuming the Circuit Courts Application oF The June 15, 1989-Amended PArole Statute in Texas, By The 71 sT Legislature, strategicly Dismantling The SA… |
| 18-8205 |
Elamin Bashir v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. WHETHER THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE WAS IMPROPERLY IMPOSED FOR DRUG-TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY, BECAUSE INDIVIDUALIZED JURY FINDING AS TO QUANTITY O… |
| 18-1126 |
Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing |
In today's world, there is no such thing as a purely local business. All businesses use credit card machines, access the internet, and purchase out-of… |
| 18-1130 |
David W. Charron v. Glenn S. Morris, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-procedure contempt contempt-sanctions debt-discharge discharge discharge-of-debts due-process intent non-dischargeable non-dischargeable-debt non-dischargeable-debts statutory-interpretation |
Whether contempt sanctions are per se non-dischargeable debts under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6)? |
| 18-1131 |
United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
|
accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten… |
| 18-1122 |
Alpenglow Botanicals, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
26-usc-280e administrative-determination administrative-determinations administrative-law civil-rights criminal-culpability criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process irs irs-investigation section-280e standing tax tax-deductions tax-law |
1) Did Congress, under 26 U.S.C. §280E, empower
the IRS and its civil auditors to investigate federal
drug law crimes and administratively determine
w… |
| 18-8148 |
Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne… |
| 18-8149 |
Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the State have a Constitutional duty to bear the burden of proving that an error in enforcement in order to obtain a conviction, and/or a fair vo… |
| 18-8156 |
In Re Dennis Bowden |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-8162 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis |
1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho… |
| 18-8164 |
Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8169 |
In Re Alfredo Aguirre |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… |
| 18-8107 |
Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation |
Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity?
Did the District Court err by not performing separate calculations und… |
| 18-8128 |
Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct |
South Carolina |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (SCFPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face and as applied and is a… |
| 18-8133 |
Daryl Mingo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction |
When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(C)(1)(A) periodically, did Congress give federal criminal courts discretion to make their own … |
| 18-8135 |
Jerry Lee Williams, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process standing state-court-error state-law statutory-interpretation transcript-request trial-court-error |
1. Was the clerk of court in error for not applying
With LSA-R.S. 13:1885(A) andLSA-C.CR. P.Art.843?
2. Whether the clerkof court in error for not ad… |
| 18-1109 |
James Erin McKinney v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-02-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
aggravating-evidence arizona-supreme-court criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma mitigating-evidence resentencing sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death … |
| 18-1116 |
Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. 1113(2), which runs from "the ea… |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
In Texas, a person who commits aggravated assault - family violence by causing serious bodily injury to his girlfriend with a deadly weapon is subject… |
| 18-8087 |
Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute Mr. Kurz for an allegations that the time limitati… |
| 18-8130 |
Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 18-8076 |
Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and
Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits?
… |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta… |
| 18-8095 |
Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A CLARIFYING AMENDMENT UNDER UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOULD APPLY RETROACTIVELY UNDER 18 USCS 3582(C) |
| 18-8098 |
In Re Christopher Hanson |
|
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process government-interference habeas-corpus pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief-act statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions timeliness |
WHETHER APPELLANT HANSON'S PCRA'S WERE TIMELY UNDER 42 Pa. C.S. § 9545(b) DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND REFUSAL TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS.
WHETHER AP… |
| 18-8099 |
In Re Henry Lee Bryant |
|
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation |
At the end of Henry Bryant's direct appeal the government informed his appointed attorney (Sheryl Lowenthal) that the lead investigator had been disci… |
| 18-1097 |
SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a state law exempt from the Dormant
Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce?
2. Is a state law exem… |
| 18-1100 |
Wayne D. Ramsay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure deficiency deficiency-interest interest internal-revenue-service jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax tax-court tax-law |
DOES THE U.S. TAX COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO DETERMINE DEFICIENCY INTEREST ASSESSED BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE? |
| 18-1088 |
Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test |
For over 70 years, the Court has used a common law patent eligibility test that deviates from the language and plain meaning of the patent eligibility… |
| 18-8050 |
Alvaun Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 |
A federal criminal statute this Court has not construed, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, prohibits wide-ranging conduct that facilitates, directly or indirectly, th… |
| 18-8051 |
Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-8055 |
Kevin Ventura v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec… |
| 18-8059 |
Christopher David Simmons v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power second-amendment |
In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States; does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18… |
| 18-8064 |
Fernando Luviano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove … |
| 18-8068 |
Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8069 |
Eric Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation |
Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 18-8078 |
Elbert Walker v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation time-requirements trial-court-error void-judgment |
WHETHER THE BENNETT AND PURSUANT TO GEORGIA LAW/ STATUTE O.C.G.A.817-9-4 50 SEe RI/EY V.GARRETT, 219 GA.345,133 S.E.2d 367 (1463 AND GUTIERMEZ V.STATE… |
| 18-8043 |
Victor Alanis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8044 |
Lois Brooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights |
in derogation of them may constitute "plain error" under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b)?
If so, did the imposition of a sentence of post-release supervisio… |
| 18-8047 |
Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law |
WHEN THE STATE CONCEDES IN HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS AND
ASKS THE COURT TO VACATE SOME OF THE CONVICTIONSCHALLENGED, WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT MUST G… |
| 18-8010 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A.
Whether Under 18 U.S.C. S3582 (C) (2) should
the Petitioner be eligible for a resentencing
when two clariying amendments relevent to his
case was e… |
| 18-8016 |
James Goff v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial mitigation-evidence resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
Is a trial judge's independent weighing of new mitigation evidence and imposition of the death penalty at a resentencing hearing unconstitutional unde… |
| 18-8025 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness |
1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstit utionally vague, given the Court's holding in… |
| 18-8026 |
Sergio Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the force cla… |
| 18-8031 |
William Bolden v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN … |
| 18-1075 |
RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's… |
| 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… |
| 18-1070 |
Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
|
employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership |
Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act
states that nothing in the Act "shall be construed as
authorizing the execution or application of ag… |
| 18-1072 |
James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, what standard should be applied in determining whether prior art is "analogous," and, if the… |
| 18-7969 |
Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT?
PETITIONER ANSWERS - YES.
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED … |
| 18-7989 |
Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-7993 |
Ronald Bedford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor |
Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service ("USPS") to haul mail is a person… |
| 18-7994 |
Daniel H. King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 18-7995 |
Rodney Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
L The trial court sentenced Mr. Martin to 168 months in prison, but the court did not adequately address Mr. Martin's arguments or the Section 3553(a)… |
| 18-7996 |
Emory Watkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-conspiracy residual-clause statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause at 18 USC Sec. 924 ( c) (3) (B) is void for vagueness, a question that divides seven Court of Appeals?
2. Whether the… |
| 18-7939 |
In Re Daniel Eric Salley |
|
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus patent standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers |
Whether the district court failed to
Perform it's ministerial duties pursuant to 28
U.S. C. 3636()()(Band(), and Fed,R. Civ. P 6(a)
by not Computing
T… |
| 18-7955 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT "NON-VIOLENT" OFFENDERS, SO STIPULATE EARINGS, AN PAROLE CONSIDERATION FOR WHO RECIEVE A DETERMINATE SENTENCE, DO NOT NEED A … |
| 18-7961 |
David Martinko v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the "Absurdity Doctrine" be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether in order to protect legislative supremacy?
II. When states… |
| 18-7967 |
James Dalton Smith v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh… |
| 18-7968 |
Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute |
WHETHER A STATE STATUTE THAT GIVES SENTENCING JUDGES UNLIMITED, UNCHALLENGEABLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION TO IMPOSE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES, VIOLATE T… |
| 18-7973 |
Jaime Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.
Whether There Was Insufficient Evidence To Prove Villa Guilty Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt?
II.
Whether Armed Bank Robbery Constitutes A Crime Of Vio… |
| 18-7974 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio… |
| 18-7976 |
Gerald Adger v. New York |
New York |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings |
WHEN THE PETITIONER GERALD ADGER #05-B-1254 WAIVED HIS RIGHT FOR A JURY TRIAL, WAS THE JUDGE SUPPOSE TO DENY GERALD ADGER WAIVER OF THE JURY TRIAL BEC… |
| 18-7979 |
Eric K. Watkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3) (B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal c… |
| 18-7984 |
James Scott Ervin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determ… |
| 18-7986 |
Maurin Chacon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan |
Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 585 U.S. - (2018). Clar -
ified the Plain Error Standard in United States v.Olan, 507 U.S.
725, 736 (1993). Does a… |
| 18-7936 |
Jaquan Henderson v. Greg Skipper, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure duress legal-justification murder statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DURESS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PRIOR TO AN OCCURRE NCE OF MURDER? |
| 18-7938 |
Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7941 |
Trevor Little v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
the lower Courts, Fourth Circuit. Violated The Petitioner's
st Facto Clause of The Cluted States Constituton, Artice,
on 9 Clause 3, When It Still Enf… |
| 18-7944 |
Jerkeno Wallace v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error |
WHEN COURT CONSIDERED OBSERVATIONS OF
THE NON-TESTIFYING
DEFENDANT AS BASIS OF PROVING
NO REMORSE |
| 18-7948 |
Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-7949 |
In Re Reginald Watson |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION #1- Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watsons 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
QUESTION #2- Whether in light of Decamps v … |
| 18-7950 |
Marquette Walker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure |
DOES NONEXCLUSIVE POSSESSION OF A PREMISES SERVE TO ESTABLISH CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION OF ITEMS FOUND WITHIN THE PREMISES. |
| 18-7910 |
Richard Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when: 1) it was authorized by virtue of the fact … |
| 18-7912 |
Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment,
Chapter 2016-13, Laws of Florida, which required a vote of no less than… |
| 18-7913 |
Travis Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) before determ… |
| 18-7916 |
Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts?
Whether due process violations toll the state's statute of limi… |
| 18-7918 |
Rutilio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
I. Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to compl… |
| 18-7920 |
Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
"Whether; Dean v. United States, 581 U.S. (2017) permits a district court the discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive s… |
| 18-7921 |
James Howard Looman, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app… |
| 18-7922 |
Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification |
Did the Eleventh Circuit court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's SubjctMatter Jurisdiction claim, where the charging documents statute [26 … |
| 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… |
| 18-7932 |
Dale Allen Hamer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining pre-trial-hearing sentencing transcript warrant-review |
That counsel's conduct fell below the wide vanse of Attorney iciet
Thut the record vevealed no reasouable strategy in counsel's 7 failure to investis… |
| 18-7878 |
John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence |
WHETHER the interpretation of conspiracy in the FourthCircuit
is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth
Amendment departing from t… |
| 18-7883 |
Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing |
1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) … |
| 18-1051 |
James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department |
First Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-1044 |
PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a relator's admission that he, in fact,
derived his complaint from public disclosures
triggers the Bar, requiring an analysis of
whether su… |
| 18-7798 |
Steven Floyd Voss v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County |
Nevada |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
1. Do the imposition of and discharge from the subsequently invalidated Judgment of Conviction violate the constitutional principles of Double Jeopard… |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 18-7857 |
Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) lists the factors district courts should consider when responding to a defendant's violation of the conditions of supervised… |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether district courts can consider future earing capacity in determining whether a person is "non-indigent" for the purposes of assessing the $50… |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 18-7864 |
Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling |
Is it Lawful, For The State 01 4 Ohio To Hoid The Herein FetitionerIn Illegal Confinemen United States Supreme Court Has Ruled UnconstitutioiiaI. On T… |
| 18-7872 |
Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure |
I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-7789 |
Ashley Richards v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d… |
| 18-7803 |
Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Is It Time to Extend the Eighth Amendment Protections Enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to Late Adolescent Homicide Offenders Like Hegstrom (i.e., 18 to… |
| 18-7804 |
Denandias Watson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7815 |
Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-judgment civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing state-court-judgment state-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7816 |
Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness |
Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7818 |
Marcos Castaneda v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Marcos Castaneda admitted by his plea to the elements of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixfure or substance containing methamphetami… |
| 18-7821 |
Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSONS AND THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS CAUSE, IN ABSENCE OF A SIGNED FORMAL COMPLAINT?
WHETHER M… |
| 18-7827 |
Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti… |
| 18-7828 |
Robert Largo v. New York |
New York |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-law-section-440.10 due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penal-law-section-70.02 persistent-violent-felony sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Did the New York State Supreme Court err in holding that as-applied, the part of Penal Law Section 70.02, subdivision one (2), challenged as being voi… |
| 18-7831 |
Curt Lockett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing |
Should a circult Court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to Correct illegal sentence after the petitioner has been prose barred from that… |
| 18-7836 |
Michael Travis Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) is … |
| 18-7838 |
William Floyd Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a general inte… |
| 18-7839 |
Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1.Did the Fourth:CuEcuit:Coutt 6 1f, appeals in dismissing 1.the district Court case, violated petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process to redress the… |
| 18-7842 |
Brian Michael Burton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence |
Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted when the abusive tactics of the Government acting in concert with a Confid… |
| 18-7844 |
Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1030 |
United States, ex rel. Thomas A. Berg, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
energy-savings-performance-contract false-claims-act government-knowledge materiality scienter statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements utility-cost-savings |
Although fraud-in-the-inducement taints all subsequent payments, belated discovery of the truth can leave the Government with no practical choice but … |
| 18-1032 |
Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the "DOL's independent interest in Mawhinney's AIR21 discrimination and retaliation complaint ... cea… |
| 18-1027 |
Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether, under § 314(d), a party may appeal the PTAB's application of § 315(b)'s time-bar provision made during its decision to institute IPR.
2. … |
| 18-1028 |
Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
appropriations appropriations-riders bait-and-switch federal-circuit government-contracts government-obligation health-care health-exchanges health-insurance insurance statutory-commitment statutory-interpretation statutory-promise takings |
Whether Congress can evade its unambiguous statutory promise to pay health insurers for losses already incurred simply by enacting appropriations ride… |
| 18-7769 |
Demetrius Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching |
Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial?
Did the district court err in failing to determine t… |
| 18-7776 |
Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-7779 |
Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm |
Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. … |
| 18-7783 |
Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
1. Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clau… |
| 18-7784 |
Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-7795 |
Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
| 18-7797 |
Coree Patrick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-7800 |
Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Following Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing argumen… |
| 18-7801 |
Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
| 18-7753 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review rules-of-construction separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did MN Supreme Court violate Separation of Powers?
Did MN Supreme Court's interpretation of Minn.Stat. § 590 and Minn.R.Crim.P. 27.03 unconstitutiona… |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE
AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7737 |
Tyshawn Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7739 |
Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-7743 |
Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Antirerrorist and3 Effea tive Death Penalty A (AEWA) of 1996) vitiates; m citizens 1) Privilege to t he Wr it o' Hbeas Corpa pursuant to "… |
| 18-7744 |
Corey Clark v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity |
1- DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMAS ACT 2OIY-IGS
VIOLATE THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE TEVO PURPOSE'S.
2) DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMA'S ACT 2OIY-I6S THAT
R… |
| 18-7748 |
James Freeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims |
Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione… |
| 18-1017 |
Angelex, Ltd. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
|
33-usc-1904 administrative-delay administrative-law apps-act-to-prevent-pollution-from-ships civil-procedure compensation-claim due-process government-liability maritime maritime-law marpol-treaty statutory-interpretation takings unreasonable-delay vessel-detention |
1. Whether the Court below erred by prematurely dismissing Angelex's case prior to trial and full presentation of Angelex's evidence; and
2. Whether … |
| 18-7709 |
John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether contestability precedent from this Court, see Hurni, Enelow, Stewart, Pickering, Wallerstein and Button; the N.C. Supreme Court, see American … |
| 18-7712 |
Andre Mims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-7714 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses |
I. Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding in light of Missouri v. Hunter convictions for common law first degree murder did not merger… |
| 18-7715 |
Jose Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 |
Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |
| 18-7716 |
Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui… |
| 18-7720 |
Howard Webber v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
| 18-7722 |
Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a
merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth
Circuit… |
| 18-7723 |
Randy Dempsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7727 |
Gregory Hatt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple… |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 18-7680 |
Hector Cirino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7685 |
Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. Porter County, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-compliance county-treasurer due-process indiana-statute property-tax standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr.'s property tax payments submitted to the Porter County, Indiana Treasurer in 2011 and 2012 were properly and l… |
| 18-7690 |
Thomas Phillip Bell v. Kiah Demarias Leigh, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review mental-competency record-correction sentencing standing |
I am Thomas Phillip Bell and I would like to know how serious is the court compaired to the Federal Court's and does the Fact matter about a Case a ot… |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7699 |
Facundo Ruiz-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process recidivism sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-7700 |
Luther Gene Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 18-996 |
Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT REFUSE TO APPLY THE MANDATORY LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE, WORD OF SHALL IN MISSISSIPPI CODE OF ANN § 11-1-17 IN VIOL… |
| 18-991 |
Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute |
1. Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692e(8), 1692g(a)(3), is a debt collector required to treat a consumer's oral dispute w… |
| 18-995 |
Crunch San Diego, LLC v. Jordan Marks |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Dismissed |
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automatic-telephone-dialing-system capacity-to-dial circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation tcpa telemarketing-practices telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in expanding the TCPA's definition of "automatic telephone dialing system"—in acknowledged conflict with the Third Cir… |
| 18-7617 |
Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7622 |
Kendrick Bernard Demus v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witness-rule criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
GROUND ONE
When the State had Petitioner's codefendant testify against Petitioner and claim that the codefendant had received no promises of leniency… |
| 18-7641 |
Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7663 |
Randy Jason Ford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force |
When an Iowa "assault" is accompanied only by the "display" of a dangerous weapon, does the "displaying" provide the "threatened use of force" such th… |
| 18-7666 |
Rowy De Jesus Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing departure district-court-discretion due-process notice notice-requirement sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-1b1.1 ussg-5k2.0 |
Whether the district court must have provided defendant notice for the grounds for a sentence above the range recommended by the advisory guidelines r… |
| 18-7668 |
Patricio Paladin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-7669 |
Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments? |
| 18-7674 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
CourT To Federal CourT?
2) CaN A state Habeas Corpus, Filed by A"state PrisoNer
CONTract Housed iN Federal PrisoN (withiN the sTarte) be
Removed To Fe… |
| 18-7679 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence |
Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7596 |
In Re Robert F. Russo |
|
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-overreach legislative-action legislative-overreach procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions |
Has the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals arrogated its own form of legislative action concerning a Petitioner's request for "leave" to commence a succ… |
| 18-7624 |
Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing |
Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal
sentence under federal law and represent a
manifest injustice calling in question the
integrity of … |
| 18-7625 |
Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing |
CAN THE STATES OF THE UNDTED STATES OBTAIN UALID CONKOICTDON BASED A ON A ONA REPORT THAT DOES NOT PROVE BEYOMD A RAONAIGUE DOUIBT TO SUPPORT ADJUDIUT… |
| 18-7636 |
Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
i. Does court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 28 usc 2244(d)(1) to deny review of C.O.A. Challenging District c… |
| 18-7639 |
Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7642 |
Kirk Lassend v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F… |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review when… |
| 18-7649 |
Sergeyi Bazar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty |
1. When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908… |
| 18-7652 |
Brian Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017). |
| 18-986 |
Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation |
An Oklahoma social worker and two law enforcement officers investigating child abuse allegations contributed to the brief removal of a minor child fro… |
| 18-989 |
United States v. Marvin Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-7579 |
David L. Price v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7580 |
Mourice Neal v. Wayne County Treasurer |
Michigan |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitution-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Is the United States Constitution the Supreme Law governing this Land?
Is every judge bound by oath or affirmation to support the United States Const… |
| 18-7592 |
Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
(1). In CoNTROVERSIEs /NVOLVING TRENSON AND LEVy By
The UiiTeo SnTEs GovernmeNT AwD WiTuiN One STiE WiTH
SoTE GoreRnMieNT AGAiNsT One Orr MoRE OF lres… |
| 18-7593 |
Richard Michael Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver consecutive-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process legal-interpretation plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Does a plea agreement's limited appellate waiver preclude a defendant's challenge of a decision to impose a consecutive sentence where the appellat… |
| 18-7602 |
Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation |
In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-7607 |
Bruce White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-actions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-withdrawal plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
IF A PLEA WAS NOT ENTERED VOLUNTARY, INTELLIGENTLY, OR KNOWINGLY WILL THAT BE CONSIDERED GROUNDS TO FILE A MOTION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF A PLEA AGREEMENT P… |
| 18-7609 |
Merlin Alston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the conviction of a local poli ce officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 9… |
| 18-7612 |
Nathaniel Bowens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65, 78 (2014) that in order to ai… |
| 18-7570 |
Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7572 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7573 |
Matthew Hearn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7577 |
Roland Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
Whether it is inconsistent with Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), for a court to require a prisoner who files a second or successive mot… |
| 18-7588 |
Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing |
Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7567 |
Ron Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate
of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of … |
| 18-7490 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? This C… |
| 18-7502 |
Edjuan Payne v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7510 |
Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
As a matter of first impression - Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process pursuant to 42 Pa. C.S.A. 721, 726 constitute… |
| 18-7511 |
Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing court's discretion of setting modification via 3553(A); include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language of the … |
| 18-7515 |
Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption |
1. Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) —that structures with traditional characteristics associated with churches or synagogues are places used pri… |
| 18-7542 |
Pamela Suzanne Harnden v. St. Clair County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process implied-private-right implied-private-right-of-action kidnapping statute-of-limitations tolling |
Do the 5th and 14th Amendments justify the tolling of a civil action during the course of a criminal action?
As kidnapping does not have a federal st… |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7551 |
Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? |
| 18-7556 |
Michael James Horton v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-trial-stages due-process pro-se-representation right-to-be-present right-to-counsel self-representation standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
FX ONS _JUSTiCe so eloQuent ly pot Veo
"Lest We SEHe WWISTI Ch ONL DAT TR AROUND
) Sttouks THE UNE@ViVOCA RLGKT TO
RENRESENT ONES SEIF OR HAVE COUNSe|… |
| 18-7557 |
Terveus Hyppolite v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
| 18-7558 |
Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE, NEW TRIAL, AND/OR RESENTENCING BASED ON THE TRIAL COURT FAILING TO CONDUCT A COMPETENCY HEARING AFTER IT … |
| 18-7560 |
Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED BY MISCONSTRUING
THE PETITIONER'S MOTION BASED ON BUCK vs. DAVIS
BY FAILING TO APPLY THE CORRECT LEGAL ANALYSIS
STANDARD… |
| 18-7565 |
Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully. |
| 18-7523 |
Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1.)THE IOWA STATE COURT DECISION IN STATE V. HEEMSTRA, THAT IT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUTE IS CONTRARY TO THE DECISION IN STATE V. GOOSMAN, TH… |
| 18-7529 |
Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, 6th Amendment, And Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petiti… |
| 18-7533 |
Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL
2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN… |
| 18-7482 |
Edgar Baltazar Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3599 capital-case criminal-procedure due-process expert-expenses expert-fees global-cap investigative-fees legal-compensation reasonably-necessary statutory-interpretation |
Whether, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) and (g)(2), a global cap may be imposed on investigative and expert fees and expenses in a capital case in an… |
| 18-7500 |
Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime |
Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 18-7513 |
Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Under Which Standard of Review This Case Shall Be Determined Actual Innocence Injective Assistance of Counsels, The AEDPA Limitations, or After Guilma… |
| 18-7518 |
Kevin Holt v. J.A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-cfr-chapter-1-2-61 federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-judicial-system first-impression good-time-credits life-sentence military-prisoner military-prisoners military-prisoners-life-sentence presumptive-release sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-4206 title-18-usc-4206a |
Should the Supreme Court of the United States hear this case that presents a substantial issue of first impression in the Federal Judicial System that… |
| 18-7519 |
Daltonia Duncan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody … |
| 18-7485 |
Marcus Noel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power |
1. When the United States prosecutes a foreign national for kidnapping a United States citizen in a foreign country, must the government prove that th… |
| 18-7489 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 bond-v-united-states capital-case due-process-clause federal-authority hostage-taking international-terrorism recusal-standard statutory-interpretation treaty-power |
(1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1203 should be interpreted in accordance with its underlying treaty and the principles in Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. 844 … |
| 18-7491 |
Scott Anthony Crow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
District Judge Juneillm Ronvusly"nuled that I am icarcerate
Q Are My Equal Prokchins under the 14th Amend. and Due Process rights violated when; loth… |
| 18-7495 |
Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952), were the Appellate Court has made 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-7498 |
Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision… |
| 18-7504 |
Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY NOT REVERSING THE TRIAL COURTS ORDER DENYING PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO WITHDRAWAL OF THE GUILTY PLEA… |
| 18-7507 |
In Re Dwight Carter |
|
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)… |
| 18-936 |
Jeremy Kettler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment congressional-taxing-power constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cox-v-new-hampshire due-process murdock-v-pennsylvania national-firearms-act second-amendment sound-suppressor standing statutory-interpretation tax taxation united-states-v-sonzinsky |
1. Whether the National Firearms Act of 1934, upheld in Sonzinsky, continues to be a constitutional exercise of Congress's taxing power when the justi… |
| 18-938 |
Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1). In diverting from this Court's prio… |
| 18-941 |
Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation |
By operation of law, when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy "estate" is created consisting of all of the debtor's property "wherever … |
| 18-927 |
Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness |
1. Whether the government's expert's afterthe-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretatio… |
| 18-7467 |
Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing |
Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-7468 |
Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel advised him to stipulate to a sentence of life without the possibility… |
| 18-7470 |
Carl Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is federal carjacking by way of intimidation a crime of violence as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause?
2. In light of this Court'… |
| 18-7471 |
Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a "willful" violation of the Arms Export Control Act (""AECA"),
22 U.S.C. § 2778, requires proof that the defendant was aware of the export… |
| 18-7473 |
William Dale Albright v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION 1: DOES THIS COURT'S DECISION IN ALLEYNE V. UNITED STATES, 570 US 99 (2013) ANNOUNCE A NEW RULE OR WAS IT DICTATED BY APPRENDI V. NEW JERSEY,… |
| 18-7475 |
Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. |
West Virginia |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent |
Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements of caretaking, providing for, legally acknowledging, and forming a par… |
| 18-7478 |
Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Are the sentencino proceedinos that was found to be urconstitutionel made to be invalid?
2. Did the 'trial court ebuse its discretion by refusinn … |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7443 |
Wallace Thornton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the … |
| 18-7445 |
Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter?
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the state court f… |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
I.
IS THE UNitEd dTATES ApPEALy COURt FOR THE EleVENth CiRCUit iN
ERROR, beCAUSE it DENIES PETITiONERg C.O.A, WhEN PETiTIONERS
CLAiMg ARE JURiSSICTION… |
| 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… |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as
the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for
sentence red… |
| 18-918 |
John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987), this Court held that to maintain a facial challenge, a plaintiff must establish that "no set of… |
| 18-925 |
A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter |
Missouri |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t… |
| 18-7412 |
Keith Kennedy v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing standing |
Why did Judge Gail Shenp force Keith Ray Kewmekj who guilty plea?
Is my attorney Charles Kw en Be. abandoned?
Is that ss, fo ron +4 \\ Mancl. If So,… |
| 18-7414 |
Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence a… |
| 18-7418 |
Derrick T. Seals v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement?
Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu… |
| 18-7419 |
Fausto Becerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man… |
| 18-7422 |
David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
Is defendnt entitled to relef where he was constuctively denied counsel duing trial?
Is ndnt ied to whhewas cnuctivy dend counsel duina his one and o… |
| 18-7432 |
Cornell W. Barber v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated… |
| 18-7387 |
James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(… |
| 18-7388 |
David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-7390 |
Martin R. Stancik v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7394 |
Torrey Brown v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process motion-to-proceed motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7399 |
Gene Donta Carter v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-conspiracy drug-delivery drug-offenses due-process non-violent-crime offense-gravity offense-gravity-scores sentence-proportionality sentencing sentencing-error |
THE SENTENCING CURT ERRED IN APPLYING INCORRECT OFFENSE GRAVITY SCORES IN VIOLATION OF APPELLANT'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BASED UPON THE UNPROVEN WEIGHT O… |
| 18-7382 |
Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect |
Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th… |
| 18-7345 |
Mario Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518(9) burden-of-proof due-process exclusionary-mandate mens-rea notice statutory-interpretation wire-intercepts |
In the case, as in hundreds of cases over the years since the enactment of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which … |
| 18-7346 |
Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker |
I. Whether The Lower Court Denial Of Modification Of Sentence Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) Based On A Mandatory Guidelines Range Departure's Sentence V… |
| 18-7348 |
Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… |
| 18-7352 |
Giovanni Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7358 |
Aaron Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… |
| 18-7359 |
Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole |
Tennessee |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing |
Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off… |
| 18-7360 |
Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw?
Did th… |
| 18-7364 |
Brandon M. Chambers v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-interpretation grammar grammatical-construction judicial-deference judicial-discretion legislative-intent punctuation state-court statutory-analysis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
That responsibility/power does a State District court have in interpreting a provision of a statute, and when interpreting a statute to determine legi… |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
2. Do… |
| 18-890 |
David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… |
| 18-895 |
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
general-welfare-benefits gross-income income-tax-exclusion indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act indian-general-welfare-benefits statutory-interpretation tax tax-interpretation tribal-general-welfare-exclusion-act tribal-welfare |
The 2014 Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act states that, for income tax purposes, "[g]ross income does not include the value of any Indian general w… |
| 18-878 |
Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order to satisfy the mental state requirement of "knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know" that removal or alteration of copy… |
| 18-882 |
Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
but-for-causation causation civil-rights discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination personnel-actions retaliation statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Whether "shall be made free from any discrimination" permits federal-sector personnel actions that are not made free from any discrimination or retali… |
| 18-7306 |
Michael Martin Steele v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video |
Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… |
| 18-7307 |
Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-7323 |
Robert Willis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony |
GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA?
GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7325 |
John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison
3
being N.C.G.S.S14-27.7A, a statute thathas been
abolished, and replaced with two separate statutes,
… |
| 18-7331 |
Ishmael Douglas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7282 |
Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals errer in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Re… |
| 18-7284 |
Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statut… |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense.
2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… |
| 18-7290 |
Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing |
(I). WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD REVERSE AIAD REMAND DUE TO THE ADMISSION OF EVIDEHCE OF PRIOR COVVICTION USEN AS EHHANCEMENT THAT WAS MOT FIMAL.
I). RI… |
| 18-7291 |
Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial |
Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai… |
| 18-7292 |
Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime |
Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence?
Did the Eighth Cir… |
| 18-7293 |
Neil Walker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue |
1. WHERE THERE ONLY BEED ONE PRONOCNIEMENT IN COURT, WHAT SENTENCE IS THE LEGAL SENTENCE, NATURAL LIFE, OR 5?
2. DID THE COUDT HAVE TURISDICTION TO P… |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e
when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes
s… |
| 18-7313 |
Lewis Templeton v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver |
Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. … |
| 18-7317 |
Willie Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-intent due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Appellate Court's reading of 18 U.S.C.§ 3231 in relation to 18 U.S.C.§ 3179(a) exceeds Judicial power
Whether a Court's interpretation of… |
| 18-7249 |
John Doe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U. S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7257 |
Amadou Diakite v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection personnel policy sentencing standing |
The Pivotal Guestion here is, diol the olenial of Petihoner's Oral request for in camera review of the prosecution's Star woitness personnel file, ole… |
| 18-7263 |
Gerald Patmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation |
The question presented by this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2… |
| 18-7269 |
Larry Allison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no trial resulting in a conviction has been held?
2. Will this Co… |
| 18-7272 |
Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was, admitted erroneously because it was not inextricable intertwined with the charges in the indictm… |
| 18-7276 |
Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight |
MAY A FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ENACT A SYSTEM OF RETRIBUTION AND DETERRENCE BY WAY OF POLICY, IN DESECRATION OF THE DICTA OF KANSAS V. HENDRICKS, 521 U.… |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting… |
| 18-866 |
Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
4-r-act discrimination fuel-tax infrastructure-funding interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-taxation railroad railroad-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination transportation-law |
Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), states may not impose taxes that discriminate against railroads by favoring their competitors, such as motor carriers. … |
| 18-858 |
James McCullars v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence |
Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications - either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-846 |
David Allen Anderton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la… |
| 18-849 |
HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
This patent infringement case squarely presents a question acknowledged by the Court but left unanswered in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brand… |
| 18-851 |
Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … |
| 18-853 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Postal Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-deference cost-attribution institutional-costs package-delivery postal-accountability-and-enhancement-act postal-regulatory-commission postal-service statutory-interpretation |
1. Should this Court reconsider the doctrine of Chevron deference?
2. Should this Court hold that Chevron deference does not apply to an agency's une… |
| 18-7222 |
Winifred Jiau v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
The Second Circuit held, contrary to the holdings of Supreme Court considering the question, a prisoner seeking a Certificate of Appealability (COA) m… |
| 18-7227 |
Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth… |
| 18-7228 |
Dashawn D. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
1. WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING
HEARSAY STATEMENTS AS EXCITED UTTERANCES.
2. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY
STATEMEN… |
| 18-7230 |
Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel Where Counsel Advised Ashley that if He Made an Open Plea to th… |
| 18-7233 |
Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition |
Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 18-7238 |
Antron Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7239 |
Daniel P. Cannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit |
1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-7240 |
Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 18-7241 |
Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations |
Can this court determine it is "extremely unusual and extraordinary circumstances" for QBE insurance and their adjusters to deny coverage by attributi… |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was "critical" to his case before fund… |
| 18-7192 |
Lavell Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), a "violent felony" is defined as, inter alia, a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, o… |
| 18-7196 |
Edward Allen McElroy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel |
Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… |
| 18-7197 |
Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation |
Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic "robbery" for purpo… |
| 18-7176 |
Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense that can be committed by causing fear of har… |
| 18-7178 |
David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark |
THE CIRCUIT COURT SHOULD HAVE GRANTED MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BECAUSE THE COURT ERRED IN THEIR PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATUTE IN THE UNITED STA… |
| 18-7180 |
Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-7181 |
Antonio Amar White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment because the district court's factual findings, based on dismissed conduct, provided the leg… |
| 18-7183 |
Christopher Jude Martin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consequential-damages criminal-law criminal-valuation damages enhancements evidence legal-damages property-damage restitution restitution-order sufficiency-of-evidence valuation |
A. Whether there was sufficient evidence that the value of the items at the time that Mr. Martin damaged them was over $1,000?
B. Whether Mr. Martin … |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… |
| 18-818 |
Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration |
Whether the statutory requirement that the petitioner show his criminal case was dismissed based on innocence or grounds consistent with innocence as … |
| 18-7143 |
Derian Eidson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… |
| 18-7149 |
Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
In Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), this Court explicitly stated that a federal court on habeas review must look to the actual reasoning of … |
| 18-7139 |
James Castleman Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-7140 |
Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St… |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7147 |
Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… |
| 18-7166 |
Gerard Mann v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct.… |
| 18-801 |
Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation |
Whether the phrase "[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings" in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in… |
| 18-790 |
Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation |
The Clean Water Act authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits for the discharge of certain pollutants into "navigable waters," whic… |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-7132 |
James R. Bright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-7133 |
Paul Burks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty |
Contrary to the rule in James v. United States, 366 U.S. 213 (1961), is the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law … |
| 18-7135 |
In Re Walter Edward Harrington |
|
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection key-terms legal-issues petition precedent scotus standing statutory-interpretation topic-areas writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7137 |
Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
May withholdin exculpatory and impeaching evidence [in violation of Brady (373 U.S. 83, 63) /Due Process as Guaranteed under the 5th and 14th Amendmen… |
| 18-7152 |
Yosnel Bonet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7154 |
John Visconti v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion |
Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a "distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock," the question expressly left open in Boulwa… |
| 18-7101 |
John Samuel Ghobrial v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7103 |
Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance |
1. Whether the "official restraint" doctrine precludes the possibility that that a defendant can be illegally "found in" the United States, for purpos… |
| 18-7104 |
Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation |
May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not … |
| 18-7105 |
Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense… |
| 18-7106 |
Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge… |
| 18-7107 |
Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does it violate the 6th Amendment Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally, willfully and knowi… |
| 18-7109 |
Tshombe Miller v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution |
Is "carbon copy" charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const… |
| 18-7114 |
Earle D. Williams v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), as applied to … |
| 18-7115 |
Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
This Court's Article III inferiors are in turmoil over the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s phrase "inadequate or ineffective." Congress has not defin… |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in failing to n… |
| 18-7123 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New … |
| 18-7127 |
Christopher French v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute |
Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-776 |
Pedro Pablo Guerrero-Lasprilla v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
agency-decision criminal-alien-bar diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling immigration-law judicial-review removability statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the application of a legal standard to an undisputed set of facts is a question of law, or a pure question of fact that may be barred from … |
| 18-781 |
Baltimore County, Maryland v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adea-enforcement age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent circuit-court-split discretionary-authority judicial-discretion pension-plan pension-plans retroactive-relief statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that a
retroactive award of monetary relief is mandatory
under the ADEA in this pension case,
A. becau… |
| 18-7086 |
Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7088 |
Oscar Raul Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 18-7074 |
Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. The convictions on Count two must be vacated because the evidence at trial was insufficient to establish guilt and also conflicts with the law of o… |
| 18-7075 |
Patrick Martinez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment |
Texas courts found no ineffective assistance of counsel in this criminal case where the Petitioner, Sergeant Patrick Martinez, rejected a pretrial ple… |
| 18-7079 |
Franklyn Morillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted |
1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though … |
| 18-7080 |
Yusufu Danmola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code |
Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution?
Are The People Prohibited Liberty Of Usage of the Uniform Commercial Co… |
| 18-7084 |
Anthony Steven Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 |
1. What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use
the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence … |
| 18-7039 |
Alexander Ndaula v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The 5th & 6th amendments to the Constitution guarantee fairness in criminal proceedings to the accused. When the verification of a sentence enhancemen… |
| 18-7061 |
Francisco Reza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-crime federal-crimes felon-in-possession firearms-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing state-misdemeanor |
Issue 1: Did Petitioner's prior crimes for which he spent less than 1 year and a day imprisonment: qualify as Federal Crimes for enhancement?
Issue 2… |
| 18-7065 |
Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a de… |
| 18-7067 |
Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 18-7071 |
Chad Preston Brewer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammuni… |
| 18-7032 |
Reginald L. Lomax v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 18-7033 |
Michael Casey Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
congress district-court federal-indian-law indian-country judicial-restoration land-relinquishment land-rights native-american-lands native-americans reservation-status separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether or Not a District Court Judge Can Restor Lands That By TREATY Were Relinquished By Indians to the United States All Claims and Rights They Pos… |
| 18-7036 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-7037 |
Gerald L. Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'… |
| 18-7056 |
David Leonard Johnson v. California |
California |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery |
I.
IS THE CRIME OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY
A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF ROBBERY, AND
IF SO, WAS THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE. TO
INSTRUCT ON RECEIV… |
| 18-7002 |
Clifton Stanley Diaz, Jr. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages default-judgment due-process employment judicial-review legal-procedure motion reinstatement remand standing statutory-interpretation |
U.S. COURT OF APPENCS FOR TNE D.C. CIRAMIT D.D NOT
RESPOND TO THE MOTION SEEKING MONETARY DAMAGES
BECAUSE THE COURT WAS REVIEWING THE ORDER FICED
FIVE… |
| 18-7019 |
Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden |
Nevada |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing |
Does The U.s, supreme court's holdins in Goraham U.Florida, 176L.Ed,2d 825. Dealins WiTh Juvenilt Ofrtnders only apply to The sentencins of a Juvenile… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-7024 |
Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence - post-trial - without notice are unco… |
| 18-7029 |
Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law
Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum
senten… |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| 18-750 |
JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of… |
| 18-752 |
Edward Taupier v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats |
The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the "true threats" doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is s… |
| 18-743 |
White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions |
1. Where a statute directs an agency to carry out
and pay for a federal project for public benefit
without granting express authority to regulate
priv… |
| 18-747 |
Sonja Ritter v. Lois Brady, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-chapter-7 bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7 chapter-7-liquidation judicial-precedent lien-stripping lien-valuation secured-claims stare-decisis statutory-interpretation unsecured-claims |
The question presented is whether Dewsnup v. Timm , 502 U.S. 410 (1992), should be overruled . |
| 18-6968 |
Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment |
ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine… |
| 18-6972 |
Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6974 |
Dannye T. McIntosh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing post-booker sentencing |
1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-6979 |
Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of "culpable negligence" qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-6981 |
Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-6984 |
Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ENTITLED TO FILE AN APPLI-' CATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2241 AND/OR 28 U..S.C. 2255(e) IN LIGHT OF McFADDEN v. U.… |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6989 |
Jessie Lee Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6991 |
Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges. Consequently, char… |
| 18-6993 |
Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6995 |
Ashley Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss?
2. Did the Lower Courts viol… |
| 18-6977 |
James Edward Mitchell v. California |
California |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION FOR RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY IN CALIFORNIA VIOLATE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHERE IT FAILS TO CONVEY THAT THE "DI… |
| 18-6900 |
Jacob Scott Watters v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions |
As written, and by the actual language used in the Statute, is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) in excess of Congress' Powers under the Commerce Clause to. regulate… |
| 18-6921 |
Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d… |
| 18-6937 |
Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
It is a crime for a person to induce or attempt to induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The statute criminalizes … |
| 18-6941 |
John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment |
I. Whether or not the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 1 1 and
the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning persona… |
| 18-6950 |
Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
waived even though it is observed and Texas Penal Code § 25.1(d) prohibited the use of more counts for the same offense arising out of the same crimin… |
| 18-6951 |
Jamal Cooper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518 4th-amendment congressional-intent consent-requirements criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware necessity-requirement omnibus-crime-control-act probable-cause separate-application statutory-interpretation wiretap-application wiretap-necessity wiretap-statute |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (1)c) a statutory provision that reflects Congress' core concerns and does § 2518 (1)(c) require that each request for a wiretap b… |
| 18-6956 |
Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law |
1. When changes in a state's substantive criminal set out the elements of capital murder which the prosecution must prove to the satisfaction of a una… |
| 18-6960 |
Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6962 |
In Re Walter E. Kostich |
|
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Question #1), Whether, the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case, in the absence of a statutory required signed "… |
| 18-729 |
Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer. |
| 18-6913 |
Lamar Sowell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6914 |
Daniel Rojas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime |
I. What amount of force satisfies this Court's definition of "physical force," that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another pe… |
| 18-6915 |
Carlton Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g… |
| 18-6920 |
Clyde Retiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6926 |
James Valentine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,… |
| 18-6927 |
In Re Jerry Urbina |
|
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER IN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT HOLDING IN HUGHES V. UNITED STATES (CITATIONS OMITTED), THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING PETI… |
| 18-6934 |
Bobby Evans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i… |
| 18-6936 |
Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6946 |
Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity |
Constitutionally, when a presentencing waiver of appeal is not bargained for in exchange for an agreed upon sentence, can that waiver be knowingly and… |
| 18-6911 |
Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo… |
| 18-6912 |
Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-6917 |
Rodolfo Portela v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That There was
Sufficient Evidence That the Appellant had Committed the Acts
Alleged in Count I, Co… |
| 18-717 |
PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… |
| 18-718 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Sannie L. Overly, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud immunity judicial-review party-accountability political-parties standing statutory-interpretation |
If the decision in Rosenberg v. Republican Party of Jefferson County, 270 S.W2d 171 (Ky. 1954) is not overturned, will the Republican and Democratic P… |
| 18-6895 |
Michael Clark v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit |
Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i… |
| 18-6896 |
Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct |
Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers… |
| 18-6897 |
Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release |
I. Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation
of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid
double jeopardy clause … |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6902 |
Scott Mansfield v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant |
Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction … |
| 18-6904 |
Oree Roberson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea… |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6888 |
Kathy Glenn Clay v. Peace Officer Papik |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6873 |
Angela Armenta v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant deprived of due process where the absence of evidence constitutes probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
2. Are the… |
| 18-6880 |
Jason A. Lenz v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accidental-death character-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-deadlock standing statutory-interpretation |
Should a certificate of appealability issue in a Section 2254 proceeding where counsel learned directly from a juror that the jury had deadlocked 10-2… |
| 18-703 |
University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust |
Whether an agreement to arbitrate "all claims" that an ERISA plan participant "may have" against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du… |
| 18-6839 |
Billy A. Robin v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing statement-of-the-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
DOES INVALIDATE LAW WHILE ARMED ALGRAVATED ASSAULT CONUILTIONS MENS REA BECAUSE HE LACKED THE REQUISITE TME CRIME TD COMPLETE
(2) WAS APPELLATE WHEN … |
| 18-6854 |
Matthew Lane Durham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits minor-protection noncommercial-activity noneconomic-activity sexual-acts sexual-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress exceed its enumerated powers under the Foreign Commerce Clause by punishing noncommercial, noneconomic sexual acts committed by a U.S. ci… |
| 18-6855 |
Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness |
APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS GROSSLY INEFFECTIVE, BY ARGUING A MATERIAL VARIANCE IN THE INDICTMENT, INSTEAD OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF T… |
| 18-6858 |
Micah G. Pritchett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law |
Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 18-6859 |
James Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), apply both to offenses analyzed und… |
| 18-6865 |
Adony Nina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi… |
| 18-6867 |
Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6870 |
James Frederick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force |
In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the ACCA's elements clause to mean "viole… |
| 18-6789 |
Delroy McLean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness |
IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS NOT A PROTECTED PERSON UNDER THE STATUE OF 18 U.S.C.S. § 115 (a)(1)(B)
THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS AS WE HAVE SAID, AN OFFICER CREA… |
| 18-6832 |
Keddron Rakee West v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process indictment mens-rea mistake-of-fact statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Is due process violated by not allowing Petitioner to rely upon the statutory enacted mistake of fact defense as his sole defense to an indictment for… |
| 18-6833 |
Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level u… |
| 18-6842 |
Matthew Davis, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Matt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3500-material brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence sentencing witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Government failed to properly discharge its obligations under Brady v. Maryland, when it produced an exculpatory chart prepared by an u… |
| 18-6846 |
Luis A. Pena v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness |
I. Whether The Maryland Appellate Courts In Concluding Pena Failed To Sustain His Burden Of Proving He Did Not Voluntarily And Knowingly Enter A Guilt… |
| 18-6852 |
Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d)… |
| 18-6801 |
Van McDuffy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation |
What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-6806 |
Eliana Sarmiento v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a d… |
| 18-6807 |
Larry M. Slusser v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th… |
| 18-6809 |
Desmond Camp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18
U.S.C.§ 924(c) when Hobbs Act robbery does not match the elements clause of
S… |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPOSED A DEF'AC']X) LIFE SENTENCE THAT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE STATUTE OF CONVICTION BY CALCULATING THE DEFENDANT'S LIFE… |
| 18-6815 |
Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
QUESTION 1:
IS A COA MANDATED IF A PETITIONER DEMONSTRATES
THE STATE ARRIVED AT A DECISION CONTRARY TO AND A UNREASONABLE
APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND AN… |
| 18-6817 |
Michael Albert Focia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
Where is the second and fifth amendments to apply the statutory scheme of 18 USC § 922 (a)(1)(A) and 18 USC § 922(b) to a Non-Federal Firearm Licensee… |
| 18-6818 |
Ruben Rangel v. California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing |
1.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth
Amendments to the United States Constitution by failing to… |
| 18-682 |
Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
|
aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation |
Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a "means of identification of another person" under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. |
| 18-6822 |
Mark Anthony Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The plain language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requires the United States to, "before trial," file an "information" if it intends to seek enhanced statutory pe… |
| 18-6826 |
Carlos David Caro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
§-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc… |
| 18-6829 |
Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6830 |
Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime |
Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-685 |
Lynn Robinson, et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adhesion-contract adhesion-contracts airline-deregulation-act common-law common-law-contract consumer-rights contract-interpretation contract-law forfeiture statutory-interpretation unconscionability |
Since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, there has been confusion and uncertainty among the courts as to what the answer is to the… |
| 18-687 |
Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
|
chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's s… |
| 18-6794 |
Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
DO A TIMELY FILED MOTION FOR REHEARJNG OF AN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REUIEW THAT IS NEVER RECEIVED, RECEIUE THE BENIFIT OF THE MAILBOX RULE |
| 18-6798 |
Elvin Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-force |
1. Under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), an offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" -- required for conviction under § 924(c)(1), … |
| 18-680 |
Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether it is clearly established federal law, as is required to grant relief in a federal habeas case, that the Sixth Amendment jury right applies… |
| 18-670 |
SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
federal-housing-finance federal-housing-finance-authority fhfa foreclosure-bar lien-enforcement lien-priority mortgage-securitization property-rights real-estate-transactions secondary-mortgage-market securitized-mortgages statutory-interpretation tax-liens |
1. Does 12 U.S.C. § 4617(j)(3) apply to foreclosures of properties for which FHFA holds a securitized mortgage solely as trustee for the security hold… |
| 18-6747 |
Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test |
When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |
| 18-6748 |
Malachi M. Glass v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6757 |
Ronald Ray Norman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony |
I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act?
II. Is the… |
| 18-6767 |
Brent Galbreath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process error johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error violent-felony violent-felony-definition |
When a Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sent… |
| 18-6768 |
Michael Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
1. Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qual… |
| 18-6770 |
David Nino-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6771 |
Johny Gardner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 18-6778 |
DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
In cases such as Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), and Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003), this Court found deficient performance where trial… |
| 18-6785 |
Christopher Scott v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
1st degree murder charges Count 23.
Whether Petitoner
PriNt, while Also Killed in the Course of Another Felny"
5/18-2 & 5/19-3, Violated the Joiner of… |
| 18-666 |
Alliance for California Business v. California Air Resources Board |
California |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clean-air-act epa epa-approval epa-regulation judicial-review sovereign-jurisdiction state-courts state-implementation-plan state-jurisdiction state-law state-law-challenges statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under a provision of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), the inclusion of a state regulation in an EPA-approved State Implementation P… |
| 18-668 |
Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Under Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b), regarding when "a creditor offsets a mutual debt owing" and "the date of such setoff," does this require that th… |
| 18-650 |
Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether, or under what circumstances, the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on… |
| 18-651 |
Jason Craig Montgomery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422b attempt coerce criminal-attempt entice induce intent interstate-communication interstate-communications minor minor-solicitation persuade sexual-activity statutory-interpretation substantial-step telecommunications-act |
I. Does a defendant attempt to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b), where the defendant communicates… |
| 18-6741 |
Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis? |
| 18-6751 |
Patrick McIntosh v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4243 civil-commitment criminal-law due-process mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect mental-health-law personality-disorder statutory-interpretation |
Does a severe personality disorder constitute a mental disease or defect under 18 U.S.C. § 4243(c)(d) civil commitment provision? |
| 18-6753 |
Jesse Mendez v. Gary Swarthout, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition harrington-v-richter judicial-deference reasoned-decision state-appellate-court state-court state-court-decision statutory-interpretation |
When a state court denied a habeas claim without a reasoned decision, in assessing whether "there was no reasonable basis for the state court to deny … |
| 18-6754 |
Domonic McCarns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial M… |
| 18-6755 |
Daederick Lacy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
age-of-consent criminal-sexual-activity interstate-commerce mens-rea minor prostitution statutory-interpretation transportation-of-minors |
Does the statute require proof that the defendant knew the individual transported had not attained the age of 18 years?
Does the statute require proo… |
| 18-6756 |
John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights contempt debt-imprisonment disgorgement due-process erisa erisa-case erisa-enforcement garnishment imprisonment judicial-review labor-secretary-powers preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly decided that parts of a $38 million judgment for "disgorgement" entered in 2015 against the Pet… |
| 18-6758 |
Michael Bordman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-vagueness continued-dissemination due-process harm-disaggregation initial-abuse restitution sentencing supervised-release |
(1) Whether the restitution award in child pornography sentencings must disaggregate the harm caused by the initial abuse from the harm caused by the … |
| 18-6759 |
Gregory L. Brown v. Shawn Hatton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2244b brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition recurring-issue second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Is a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-6763 |
Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity |
I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL… |
| 18-6722 |
Craig Porter v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIRST COURT OF APPEALS ERRONEOUSOY AFFIRMED APPLICANT'S CONVECTION BASED ON STATE PROSECUTION'S ARGUMENTS WETH ROGARDS TO APPLICANT'S REGAT TO… |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by
United States v. Booker and its progeny. |
| 18-6738 |
Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing |
This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is… |
| 18-6714 |
Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6716 |
Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether The Seventh Circuit Contravened The Holding Of Griffith By Concluding That Booker And Pepper Were NOT Retroactive To The Petitioner's Case Wit… |
| 18-6695 |
Zafar Mehmood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter |
Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli… |
| 18-6706 |
Jeremiah Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Tennessee aggravated assault conviction, which does not require proof that the defendant caused serious bodily injury or used or displayed a… |
| 18-6707 |
Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
L In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally' mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) a… |
| 18-6712 |
Bryan Marque Gilstrap v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism preemption state-rights state-sovereignty |
Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-6697 |
Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where… |
| 18-626 |
Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability |
This is a case of first impression and national importance affecting the entire United States housing industry. It concerns who can be held liable und… |
| 18-629 |
Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. |
California |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation |
In this case of first impression before this Court, does the CAA withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of s… |
| 18-6665 |
Maurice T. Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY BY IMPOSING AN EXCESSIVE SENTENCE IN TERMS OF THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S ROLE BEHAVI… |
| 18-6660 |
Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute because Congress intended such allegations of false advertising of nonprescript… |
| 18-6671 |
Jimmy David Malone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta… |
| 18-6675 |
In Re Ryan Lee Zater |
|
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness |
Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth… |
| 18-6677 |
Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme … |
| 18-616 |
Roger Nepal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law |
Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th… |
| 18-610 |
TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
For a consignee to be liable for demurrage it must agree to be a consignee for the goods being shipped as the liability for such charges is based in c… |
| 18-614 |
In Re George Houston |
|
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
|
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… |
| 18-6647 |
Kiran Sharma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing forfeiture forfeiture-restitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victim-restitution-act plea-agreement restitution statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiary trust-corpus |
Does the language in the Mandatory Victim Act (MVRA) 18 USCS 3663A, and 21 USCS 853(a), and this court's opinions in Hughey v. United States, 495 US 4… |
| 18-6598 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Tony Baynes |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6609 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Office of Personnel Management |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-immunity due-diligence due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction negligence statutory-interpretation |
When harm occurs and there is no resolution under current statutes and guidelines that regulate that agency, the following questions present themselve… |
| 18-6612 |
James Pinkney v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a "violent felony" under the… |
| 18-6633 |
Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the 22nd Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange for a guilty plea?
Whether Counsel for the Petitioner was in… |
| 18-6641 |
Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing |
Why did'nt the judge let he take. back my plea,When my counsel told the court the i never admitted to any of the (RAPE) charges.
When i found out tha… |
| 18-606 |
Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements |
The Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") requires that candidates for federal elected office report certain disbursements to the Federal Election Co… |
| 18-600 |
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a person directly infringes a patent whenever she "offers to sell" a patented invention "within the United States." The ques… |
| 18-601 |
John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand |
1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6592 |
Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing |
Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven… |
| 18-6604 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-reporters-act court-transcript due-process judicial-misconduct perjury perjury-by-exclusion qualified-retirement retirement-savings sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Can "catchall phrases" form a basis for a 'perjury by exclusion' indictment and conviction in the absence of precise questioning, open court transcrip… |
| 18-6607 |
Scott Peters v. John Baldwin |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA… |
| 18-6608 |
William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco… |
| 18-6563 |
Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-6564 |
Cephus Hollis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle "t… |
| 18-6566 |
Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), separate opinions by Justice Thomas and Justice Breyer questioned whether Euans v. United States, … |
| 18-6574 |
Curtis D. Hall v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence firearm-use sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
1. Whether (as the court of appeals held) the categorical approach does not apply in any case in which the defendant was also convicted of "use[ of] a… |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6583 |
Dionysius Fiumano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
DOES THE UNDEFINED ELEMENT "SCHEME TO DEFRAUD"
IN 18 U.S.C. § 1343 SATISFY FIFTH AMENDMENT
DUE PROCESS NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN LIGHT OF
THIS COURT'S DE… |
| 18-6588 |
Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina |
Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… |
| 18-6589 |
Liddon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation |
1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t… |
| 18-597 |
John Ching En Lee v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
|
agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation |
1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total… |
| 18-583 |
Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli… |
| 18-6561 |
In Re Jesus Denova Lopez |
|
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
WHETHER THE PANEL OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY THE RUBBERSTAMP OF THE ERRONEOUS AND IMPERMISSIBLE CONCLUSION OF ERST… |
| 18-6567 |
Luis Delprado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition criminal-history-enhancement generic-offense herrold-v-united-states quarles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review united-states-v-stitt |
I. Whether the following cases pending before this Court create a reasonable probability of a different result in the instant case insofar as the addr… |
| 18-6569 |
Mark Lee Murray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether ge… |
| 18-6545 |
Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California |
California |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation |
Does it matter. Appeal's Court Judge States It Consequently, whether defendant intended to commit robbery from the moment he first approached or punce… |
| 18-6553 |
Michael Founier Dixon, aka Michael Fournier Dixon v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing |
PlEA AgReemeNts At "ANy" stagE duRinNg the CRimiNs pRocess CAUSE the defendant Harm; considering that they All contrined a factually iNsufficint deadl… |
| 18-578 |
William L. Pender, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
|
appropriate-relief benefit-plan civil-procedure divided-bench employee-benefits equitable-relief equity-courts erisa judicial-remedy pension-law solicitor-general statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "appropriate" in ERISA § 502(a)(3) authorizes ERISA courts to decline to award an established equitable remedy based on consideration… |
| 18-6512 |
Jabril Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search |
(1) HAVE petitioner BEEN ARREStEd − without PRobabolE CAUSE
(2) whether MOUANTS ARREST WARRANT ViolAtE the SECoNd ClAUSE JO The Fourth AmendmeNt
(3)… |
| 18-6533 |
Anthony Lewallyn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's opinion in Nichols v. United States, can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the dis… |
| 18-6535 |
Rodney Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence |
WAS DEFENDANT DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT HIS SENTENCING AND RESTITUTION HEARING; CONSTITUTING A VOID SENTENCE AND RESTITUTION ORDER… |
| 18-6537 |
In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten |
|
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca… |
| 18-6543 |
John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
29-usc-1132 appropriate-relief benefit-plans defined-benefit defined-benefit-plan erisa erisa-29-usc-1132 erisa-standing fiduciary-duty monetary-relief plan-surplus secretary-of-labor standing statutory-interpretation surplus-assets trust |
Does the Secretary of Labor have standing to sue for "losses" to the surplus of an ERISA defined benefit welfare plan - i.e., a theoretical injury to … |
| 18-6547 |
Christopher Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 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… |
| 18-6502 |
Chris Jonathon Epperson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process executive-power foreign-affairs foreign-policy national-security political-question separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Executive Orders:
JohnF. Kennedy
Theadore Roosevell
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reaqun
ioth
Amendment
ForeanPolicy
UKraine -Indonesia
2ndAmendmenl
France - G… |
| 18-6513 |
Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 18-6516 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation |
Was the trial court Clackamas State of Oregon's judgment sentence Municipal Court dated 01/26/2017 in favor of respondent Happy Valley Municipal Court… |
| 18-6518 |
Gregory Crum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
I. Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct.
2; Whether Greg Crum should receive a leadership enhancement.
3… |
| 18-6520 |
Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error |
Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner was obviously and falsely convicted of possessing forged bills, and then g… |
| 18-563 |
Darren Commander v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness |
Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness
under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations
that at best are mere negligence in conflict with
th… |
| 18-568 |
Bart H. Rippl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantive-regulations |
Does the Fifth Amendment's "due process of law" guarantee apply to the specific language set forth in the Internal Revenue Code and other laws, and in… |
| 18-6495 |
Richard Anthony Trent v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation |
Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is "suggestive" and … |
| 18-6468 |
Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden |
This case presents 3 narrow and discrete questions for this Court to consider, viz. - what happens when (a) the Government fails to allege in an indic… |
| 18-6472 |
James Gibson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court imposed a minimum mandatory sentence of l… |
| 18-6473 |
Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-6476 |
Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. |
Michigan |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment fraud hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability sexual-harassment standing statutory-interpretation workplace-abuse |
Must a court overlook co- workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and
to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile enviro… |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6483 |
Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-554 |
Charles J. Weiss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process irs levy-action notice statutory-interpretation tax tax-notice taxpayer-rights |
under the notice prong of the Fifth Amendment due process clause and the statute itself, whether the IRS notice means what it says – as the 3rd, 9th, … |
| 18-550 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva conventions. |
| 18-6438 |
Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler |
California |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question 1.
The
Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth
and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront
and Cross-Examine His Accussers.
Scientific Evidence … |
| 18-6447 |
Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did Counsel ' Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 18-6448 |
In Re Michael Quattrocchi |
|
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-forfeiture administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-approval judicial-review procedural-violations property-rights statutory-interpretation trial-delay unborn-rights |
WHETHER "ACTUAL INNOCENCE" REQUIRES THE ACCUSED UPON MOTIONS "ACTUAL AND |
| 18-6455 |
Ronnie McGee v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 district-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-courts federal-habeas gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation |
WHEN A DISTRICT COURT MISCONSTRUES A § 2254 CLAIM AND/OR FAILS TO CONSIDER OR PROPERLY CONSIDER MATERIAL EVDIENCE SUBMITTED TO SUPPORT A CLAIM, DOES T… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6414 |
Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
1. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THE ISSUE " A HABEAS CORPUS IS AN APPROPRIATE VEHICAL FORSECOND OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THIS ISSU… |
| 18-6415 |
Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure |
Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those … |
| 18-6445 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional |
I. WHETHER THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 36.1 OF THE TENNESSEE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED § 29-21-101, AND TENNESSEE LAW ARE UNCON… |
| 18-542 |
John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation |
Under our extradition treaty with Poland, Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland on the Application of the Extradit… |
| 18-544 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t… |
| 18-6416 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-record due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargain registration-requirements sentencing transcripts |
Is a Plea Agreement considered to be terminated or full-filled fifteen (15) years later upon the destruction or lost of the actual sentencing plea agr… |
| 18-6421 |
Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Whether District Court erred in imposing overbroad conditions of Supervised Release, limiting Petitioner's access to the Internet, for the term of sai… |
| 18-6408 |
Tiffany A. Prince v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a "significant physical injury" under
U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2. |
| 18-6413 |
Joshua Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-534 |
Well Luck Company, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law customs-classification customs-law explanatory-notes general-rules-of-interpretation hts-heading-1206 hts-heading-2008 legislative-intent nesoi prior-statutory-construction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tariff-classification trade-classification |
Whether the panel disregarded legislative intent and prior statutory construction to improperly use the General Rules of Interpretation and the Explan… |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior… |
| 18-6377 |
Rashad Woodside v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing where the reasons for the sentence are stated in open court aft… |
| 18-6389 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-6391 |
Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and
United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief
for Plain… |
| 18-524 |
Eric D. Gathings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Was the appellate court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) reciting that it had "carefully reviewed the original file of the … |
| 18-512 |
Lee Simmons v. Paul Daniel Smith, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the National Park Service, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency-deference administrative-law agency-action agency-discretion chevron-deference due-process judicial-review property-rights statutory-interpretation takings wild-and-scenic-rivers-act |
1. Whether an agency can advance an interpretation of a statute for the first time in litigation and then demand deference for its view under Chevron.… |
| 18-6359 |
Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. The mandatory five year minimum under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U. S.C. 3661 and 3553(a) becaus… |
| 18-6360 |
Jocelyn Faurisma v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
After Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __ , 135 S. Ct. 2551 and Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), can reasonable jurists debate whether ar… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho… |
| 18-6379 |
Ramess Nakhleh v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a "loud and unusual noise" unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-6385 |
Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retr… |
| 18-6355 |
Christian Dominique Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination as to facts that increase the sentence imposed followin… |
| 18-6363 |
Calvin Bernhardt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
1. A person can be guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) if he "corruptly persuades" someone else to withhold testimony or an object from an official proce… |
| 18-6369 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-494 |
Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of … |
| 18-482 |
Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
|
bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for constructi… |
| 18-6331 |
Vernon Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
did the 1st Diothict Count of appeal departiment from the essentinl reluinement of law ts Mandate By the uvited States Supreme the count muotmake A ex… |
| 18-6334 |
Ahkeem Wiggins v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement-penalty guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing |
The 1st Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana was without jurisdiction to accept guilty plea to enhancement penalty under Louis… |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-6343 |
Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-6346 |
Mark A. Dubarry v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 18-6348 |
Eric M. Pence v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution criminal-statute disorderly-conduct due-process electronic-communication fighting-words first-amendment free-speech true-threat true-threats |
This case presents an important question involving the application of the First Amendment to the Constitution to state disorderly conduct statutes pro… |
| 18-6349 |
Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6292 |
Anthony Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6300 |
Cheryl Singleton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-stipulation presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing |
Does the filing of joint stipulation(s) as to the presentence investigation report entitle the defendant to allocution on the (A)(i), (ii) ? |
| 18-6317 |
Desmond DeWayne Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach eleventh-circuit mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing united-states-v-ovalles |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the convictions for Burglary in the first degree under Alabama law qualified as a … |
| 18-6322 |
Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-481 |
Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation |
1.Does the statutory term "confidential" in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, thus requiring the Government to withhold all "commercial or f… |
| 18-468 |
SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on whether the § 325(d) Multiple-Proceedings rule applies and bars an IPR's institution when (1) the a… |
| 18-6289 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing |
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| 18-6302 |
Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as set forth as a predicate felony offense in Count 4 of the Second Superseding Indictment qualifies as a "crime of violence… |
| 18-6303 |
Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 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… |
| 18-6311 |
Winston Ray Walters v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress congressional-disestablishment criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-prosecution disestablishment federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus indian-reservation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-member tribal-membership |
Whether Congress has disestablished the reservation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Nation in Oklahoma. |
| 18-6313 |
Lacoya Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing sex-trafficking trial trial-severance |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to convict Lacoya Washington of the sex trafficking crime.
Whether the Honorable Trial Court… |
| 18-6314 |
Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial |
Is Dertyincj Appealbity of case no.17-1243 when the issues of career offender, enhancements of my priors and excessives sentences, and was unfairly de… |
| 18-6274 |
Robert Klein v. Centennial Ranch and Aspen Mountain Ranch Association |
Colorado |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-obligations constitutional-rights court-orders discrimination due-process judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-procedure legislative-intent prevailing-party-rights pro-se-litigation standing state-courts-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether state courts are following what the legislators have put in place through the statutes? Have the legislators put Statutes in place for reasoni… |
| 18-6277 |
Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony |
The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… |
| 18-6293 |
Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6299 |
Jonathan Wade Dunning v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appraisal appraisal-disclosure criminal-intent duty-to-disclose joint-ownership market-value property-purchase property-sale purchase-price scheme-or-artifice-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. For purposes of the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, has a defendant engaged in a "scheme or artifice to defraud" when the defendant, without … |
| 18-454 |
Derek L. Dinger v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules |
After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can… |
| 18-456 |
Michael J. Persico v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
apprendi due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
1. Does Petitioner's sentence, which would have been deemed substantively unreasonable in the absence of the district court's factual findings, violat… |
| 18-460 |
Walter Daniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rebekah Daniel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine medical-malpractice military-discipline military-exigencies service-member service-members stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
In Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950), and its companion medical malpractice cases, Jefferson v. United States, and United States v. Griggs, … |
| 18-445 |
Tanya Ramirez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code |
Is TEXAS PENAL CODE §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… |
| 18-447 |
Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers |
Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a
State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use
tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to
transport goods interst… |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
(1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
(2) What is the proper… |
| 18-6282 |
Iseal Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-6228 |
John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement |
Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou… |
| 18-6232 |
Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness |
Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
In light of Johnso… |
| 18-6237 |
Jacob L. Smith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance |
In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-6240 |
Darryl Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c… |
| 18-6241 |
Edward Jewell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's holding in Mathis v. United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of Whether a prior convicti… |
| 18-6248 |
Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2
Whether Congress … |
| 18-6249 |
Markos Pappas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the certificate of appealability ("COA") requirement of 228 U.S.C. § 2253(c) that explicitly applies to motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, also appl… |
| 18-6256 |
William Wise Mock v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach to determine if a defendant is a career offender, the sentencing court can use a Presentence Investig… |
| 18-442 |
Jesse R. Benton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE MATERIALITY REQUIREMENT IN 18 USC SECTION 1001 CAN BE TURNED INTO A MERE FALSITY REQUIREMENT IN THE FEC REPORTING CONTEXT OR WHETHER TH… |
| 18-6215 |
Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6230 |
Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6198 |
Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation |
Is a defendant guilty of social security fraud pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B) – which prohibits "falsely represent[ing] a number to be the socia… |
| 18-6222 |
Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez |
Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |
| 18-420 |
United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
The question presented is whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circui… |
| 18-418 |
United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter |
Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d… |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-431 |
United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6188 |
Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections |
Colorado |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused it's discretion in it's Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secu… |
| 18-6195 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Natasha Doe, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 18-6205 |
Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b), thereby … |
| 18-6206 |
Jason Randall Howard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
1. Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarr… |
| 18-6207 |
Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held - in conflict with the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3005 and in conflict with a 45-year split between … |
| 18-6208 |
Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants, 18 U.S… |
| 18-6212 |
Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e |
IF A DEFENDANT DID TRY TO PERSUADE THE COURT OF APPEALS TO CHANGE
ITS BINDING PRECEDENT BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, WOULD THE DEFENDANT BE
ABLE TO SEEK RELI… |
| 18-6169 |
Tracy L. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6181 |
Michael Patino v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and does not contain a full petition for writ of but the text you've provided appears to be incomp I cannot extract a meaningful Question Presented I will respond with: Question not identified. administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether, in a murder trial, under the Rhode Island general murder statute, there was a
deprivation of the accused's right to Due Process provided i… |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to clarify the Sixth Circuit's "Pinney Dock" standard governing review of claims which were no… |
| 18-6175 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law |
1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 18-6180 |
Brian Deronceler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED DERONCELER'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT DER… |
| 18-6184 |
Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "concurrently" in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing se… |
| 18-411 |
Cindy Omidi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-5317 31-usc-5324 civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture jurisdictional-basis money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation structuring |
1. Does 31 U.S.C. § 5317 give a district court authority to enter a personal money judgment against a person who has violated only 31 U.S.C. § 5324(a)… |
| 18-413 |
David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue |
Arizona |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration |
May a, "non-federal," / "recipient agency," (as defined in the Privacy Act of 1974)
purport to act under authority of 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) pursuant to … |
| 18-6150 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6151 |
Claude Thelemaque v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony |
Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor… |
| 18-6156 |
Hector Medina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… |
| 18-6157 |
Sealed Appellee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553 due-process government-appeal individualized-hearing liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver |
Whether, under the rules governing the construction of plea agreements and in light of due process fairness considerations, sentencewaiver provisions … |
| 18-6159 |
Charlise Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count |
Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated?
Was the Petitioners potentially violated Sixth Amendment Right, u… |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply § 3553(a)(6), which requires consideration of "the need to avoid unwarrante… |
| 18-6112 |
Opherro G. Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6135 |
James K. Kahler v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2018-09-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health |
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? |
| 18-6138 |
Lance Fox v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6113 |
Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that… |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe… |
| 18-6121 |
Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction qualifying an enhanced … |
| 18-6080 |
Abraham J. Bonowitz, Douglas A. Pagitt, Lisa S. Harper, Suezann K. Bosler, Arthur J. Laffin, Randy Gardner, Derrick W. Jamison, Thomas W. Muther, Jr., Shane A. Claiborne, Sam R. Sheppard, and John M. Travers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
40-usc-6135 assembly constitutional-law display first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-forum statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the open-air, public space surrounding the Supreme Court a traditional public forum, despite a flawed, constitutionally suspect challenged law t… |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
I. Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
II. Whether sentences arising under Guideline 2G2.2 tend to produce substan… |
| 18-6103 |
Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 18-6106 |
James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6117 |
Josette Buendia v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney |
In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t… |
| 18-389 |
Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws |
Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui… |
| 18-384 |
Papierfabrik August Koehler SE v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-record adverse-facts-available antidumping-duty commerce-department corroboration facts-available judicial-review statutory-interpretation tariff-act |
Whether a court may rely on the Tariff Act's perceived purpose to override its specific statutory requirements for selecting antidumping duty rates. |
| 18-386 |
Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings |
Whether, as the court below held, the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction—such as maintaining a … |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 18-6097 |
Leonard G. Marquez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-6100 |
Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
The district court enhanced Pliego-Hernandez' sentencing guideline range on the strength of a prior conviction for attempted robbery. Nothing in the t… |
| 18-6065 |
In Re Eric M. Richardson |
|
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6082 |
Jeffrey Eugene Lee v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
betterman-v-montana braden-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-circuit sentencing sentencing-obligation speedy-trial state-constitutional-obligations state-obligations state-procedure |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS BELOW ERRED IN REJECTING THE PETITIONER"S CLAIM UNDER BRADEN V. 30th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF KENTUCKY, 410 U.S. 484 (1973) an… |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct not c… |
| 18-6057 |
Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6067 |
Edward Lee Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc… |
| 18-6069 |
Joel Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United … |
| 18-6072 |
Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6073 |
Tramain Deon Price v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute (… |
| 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… |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-370 |
Marlon Haight v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) who has three previous convictions for … |
| 18-6035 |
Zachary Chambers v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1. Whether the lower court abused its discretion in ruling that trial counsel's erroneous advice about petitioner's sentencing exposure if he proceed … |
| 18-6054 |
In Re Michael Boone |
|
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process |
Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe… |
| 18-6056 |
Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, which nullifies a Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) sentence, unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth … |
| 18-6063 |
Craig Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran… |
| 18-6030 |
Jason M. Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing |
In the decision under review, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an appellate waiver provision in petitioner's plea a… |
| 18-6034 |
In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell |
|
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case entitled United States of Ameri… |
| 18-6036 |
Donald S. Harden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-6040 |
Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing |
Does The Petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right? Cognizable on 28 use 2254 and Uudr 28 Usc 225314)(2)?.
Does a … |
| 18-6042 |
Ronald Eric Ary v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-361 |
Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… |
| 18-5978 |
John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6013 |
Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-6014 |
Javier Vega-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi Certiorari criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment Supreme-Court |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-6025 |
Rene Borrero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is catego… |
| 18-6026 |
James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing |
The question presented is whether the Circuit Court's decision which held that the term "ministerial correction" nullified amendments to Petitioners' … |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment of the Constitution to impose an adult sentence upon a minor who has been convicted of a non-dangerous, non-… |
| 18-6028 |
Maurice Baum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was Trial Counsel's failure to object to the District Court's determination and findings of the drug amount attributable to the Petitioner objectively… |
| 18-6004 |
Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university |
civil prosecution?
2. Is having sex without divulging an infected partner's HIV status
considered attempted murder?
3.Is Yale University considered a … |
| 18-6006 |
Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materia ls used to
produce child pornog raphy once crosse d state lines at an unspeci… |
| 18-6007 |
Valerie Louise Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 18-346 |
Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits |
1. In the face of Scheuer v. Rhodes, whether the trial court could have properly determined that the Estate's complaint must fail?
2. Whether 38 U.S.… |
| 18-5950 |
Artis Ryan Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5976 |
In Re Jaame Amun Re El |
|
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis |
Qustin.Is t ueditat's duty toterret a ta?
Question. Are Banking statutes appropriate for alleged banking violations?
Can a Federal prisoner seek rel… |
| 18-5993 |
Douglas Roy Burns v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent |
WHETHER A STATE COURT MUST CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNIZE AND ALLOW A DEFENSE IN THE FORM OF TESTIMONY AND OR OTHER RELEVANT EVIDENCE WHICH DISPROVES THE … |
| 18-5994 |
Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts |
Question One:
Is an error of a lower State Court in
exceeding the maximum sentence legally
allowed, cognizable for relief at any time?
Question Tw… |
| 18-5996 |
Gene Lemay Barris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence |
1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the
Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots
2. Hou Or can… |
| 18-5997 |
Francisco Burciaga v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
All University Englh Dictionaries define/describe as follows:
heroin— a derivative of morphine
morphine— a derivative of opium
What is heroin hydro… |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida whom all are equally situated under the statutory schemes and criteria's of… |
| 18-5965 |
Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force. |
| 18-5966 |
Joseph Faulkner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states |
(1) Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduc… |
| 18-5967 |
Matthew Wade Howard v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of
U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's te… |
| 18-5981 |
Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights |
New York |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Should the Supreme Court have transferred the Article 78 to the Appellate Division without a hearing?
Should the lower court have denied full discove… |
| 18-5930 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. |
Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5944 |
Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc |
I.
Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18
U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing… |
| 18-5945 |
David Chiddo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts |
1. Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea?
2. Where a plea agreement provides that stipulated facts present an adequ… |
| 18-5958 |
Kevin Wilmot v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
FLonida Violate State Ard Federal
CAN the State oF
Constitstional Amendments. And ProviSions ThAt Are
GUArAnteEd becAuse the Prisorer is Poor Ard CArN… |
| 18-5923 |
Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force. |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion to Dismiss the Petitioner's Appeal? |
| 18-5935 |
Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-5942 |
Darren K. Byler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure clean-water-act de-minimis-standard environmental-law refuse-act sewage-discharge statutory-interpretation water-pollution |
1. Does 33 U.S.C. 407, The Refuse Act, apply to sewage?
2. Does 33 U.S.C., 407, The Refuse Act. require discharges, into the water, to be morE than d… |
| 18-308 |
Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-314 |
Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U… |
| 18-292 |
Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-297 |
Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
New York |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
The decision below ruled that New York's promise to the Seneca Nation of Indians to refrain from assessing taxes "for any purpose whatever, upon any I… |
| 18-5844 |
Rocco Tinoco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation |
whether a mental state of recklessness - absent
Subjective intent to threaten - in conveying a threat is
sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U… |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johnson motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5915 |
Michael Hill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony |
The Armed Career Criminal Act treats as a violent felony felonies that require the use of force. In Illinois, as in many states and as for many federa… |
| 18-5919 |
Lance R. Martin v. Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr., et al. |
California |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5904 |
Donavan Cross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence |
(1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5873 |
Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing |
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| 18-5879 |
Emory Dickson Eneh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment |
In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States; and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-5882 |
Daniel Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-5884 |
Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor |
1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment… |
| 18-5885 |
Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal |
1. Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of
Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light
most… |
| 18-5895 |
Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition ? |
| 18-5896 |
Beverly Allen Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ®
By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
| 18-5897 |
Arthur Braddy v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court |
DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO CORRECT THE TRIAL COURT'S IMPOSITION OF A MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCE … |
| 18-5900 |
Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-288 |
Philip A. Mearing v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his "sentence" covers an appeal of… |
| 18-5866 |
Nathan Mosley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. In accord with the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, should a conviction under the Hobbs … |
| 18-5872 |
Miguel Medina-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) drug-trafficking federal-criminal-justice-system pre-sentence-report sentencing 3553(a) 3553(a)-factors 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-quantity-attribution drug-trafficking-conspiracy due-process pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-discretion threshold |
Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated where the district court erred by failing to determine whether, at sentencing, Petitioner was in… |
| 18-5875 |
John Vivo, III v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation |
1. DID THE STATE COURT OF LAST RESORT ERROR BY DECLINING TO REVIEW THE PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR REVIEW UNDER PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE THE APPLICATION OF §… |
| 18-5876 |
Steven Sanford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5877 |
Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5840 |
George Stoney v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5854 |
Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces… |
| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
(1) Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cr… |
| 18-267 |
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights congressional-intent due-process federal-election-commission-v-akins federal-question federal-statute informational-injury injury-in-fact judicial-review munsingwear-doctrine munsingwear-vacatur privacy public-disclosure standing standing-injury-in-fact statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to … |
| 18-5817 |
Jermaine Moorer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5835 |
Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5838 |
Hosea Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony |
1. Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by th… |
| 18-5839 |
James Frederick Rebmann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5846 |
Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing |
I.
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the Petitioner should have been allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffe… |
| 18-5847 |
Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras, 892 F.3d 8… |
| 18-5848 |
Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings |
[SEE APPENDIX D] WHO IS UNABLE HIMSELFWITH
HOBEOS CORPUS POSTCONUICTION PETI TION TO THE COURTS ).--
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HELP BY ANOTHER INMATE
"W… |
| 18-5808 |
Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment because it concludes that the crutial question… |
| 18-5809 |
Robert Carl Sharp v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness |
Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness?
Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |
| 18-5810 |
Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
VIOLATION OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ILLEGAL SENTENCE AND DETAINED THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE GOVERNMENT ERRED BY NOT EVIDENCE OR ARGUMENTS AT SENTE… |
| 18-5811 |
Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question..., he asserts that (… |
| 18-5812 |
In Re Richard DeCaro |
|
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception |
Whether the Court should overrule the "separate sovereigns" exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. |
| 18-5816 |
Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5821 |
Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law |
(1) Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief when one of a set of multiple sentences is now invalid because of… |
| 18-5827 |
Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal?
Did… |
| 18-5828 |
Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-5831 |
Willie Riley Curry v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation |
The Fourth Amendment has continuously been applied to cases like the one here. The Sixth Circuit failed to follow that jurisprudence. Does Carpenter a… |
| 18-5770 |
John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con… |
| 18-5771 |
Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a conflict among the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and find that the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming Petitioner… |
| 18-5786 |
Donell A. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object … |
| 18-5787 |
Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard |
WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH… |
| 18-5788 |
James Everett Dutschke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment |
1-Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as… |
| 18-5795 |
Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to establish that the bright line "Blockburger" double jeopardy test accepted in Dixon is the one a… |
| 18-5797 |
Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review |
The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th… |
| 18-5801 |
Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Did claim(s) state a cause of action? |
| 18-5804 |
Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.- Whether the District Court failed where did not granted his motion for acquittal because the Government failed to produce sufficient evidence to s… |
| 18-255 |
George Briscoe v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness |
Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has… |
| 18-256 |
Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cercla-preemption circuit-court-review circuit-court-summary-order civil-rights common-law-tort common-law-tort-claims congressional-intent cts-corp-v-waldburger due-process environmental-law judicial-precedent preemption statutory-interpretation torts toxic-exposure |
1) Did the Circuit Court's Summary Order, which held that CERCLA preempts Petitioners' common law tort claims, directly contradict this Court's decisi… |
| 18-244 |
Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act |
This Court often has emphasized the importance of statutory interpretation. But a significant split has developed among the Circuits as to whether and… |
| 18-5748 |
Rory Allen Meeks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment |
QUESTION I:
Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions:
- In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5773 |
Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-5775 |
William Christopher Hogan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5779 |
Ray Cobia v. Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2004-conviction 2012-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
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| 18-5746 |
Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
IS FLORIDA. STATUTE 784.045 IMPERMISSIBLY VAGUE AND/OR DOES IT ENCOURAGE ARBITRARY AND DISCRIMINATORY ENFORCEMENT? |
| 18-5732 |
James LaConte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process-clause florida-robbery florida-robbery-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida's State § 812.13 robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is categor… |
| 18-5737 |
Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation |
The Court of Appeals has adopted and applied a "Fifth Circuit Principle" that "changes in the discretionary. ules, affecting. parole suitability canno… |
| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the… |
| 18-5740 |
In Re Mark Clark |
|
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process relief separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether U.S.S.G. Amendment (790), a retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, calls into serious question the Seventh Circuit … |
| 18-5742 |
Solomon David Roberts v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing |
Whether CAJ NEw Rule oF Lonsttitonal law by the Supreme Lourt to the Dnited states Made [RJe troactive to the statEs is Subsect Previsus filings.?
Pe… |
| 18-241 |
Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
This Court held in Reich v. Collins, 513 U.S. 106, 108 (1994) that "due process requires a 'clear and certain' remedy for taxes collected in violation… |
| 18-5754 |
Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari |
WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED… |
| 18-5757 |
Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing |
I. THIS COURT SHOUID CONSIDER WHETHER PETONER FARLY PRESENTED
HIS CLAIMS AT EACH LEVEL OF THE STAIE'S COURS FOR FEDERAL
REVEW.
A.PETITIONER HAS CEARLY… |
| 18-5762 |
Pedro Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga… |
| 18-5686 |
Dwight Mundle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony |
Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th… |
| 18-5687 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar |
1.) Whether ding he tiaevieoce gertd by federal proedural and substantive de proces of law preseribed particubarly by the 7rotected liberty interest i… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. … |
| 18-5725 |
Alfred Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure |
Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-5730 |
Terrence Denmark v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,statutory-interpretation,retroa retroactivity statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-confinement |
1) Should there be a two-part test for the 28 U.s.C. § 224l instead
of a Five-part test, and should the test be based on (l) illegal
unconstitutional … |
| 18-5735 |
Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane |
Pursuant to the intervening Constitutional rule announced in Montgomery v Louisiana, 577 US ; 136 S Ct 718 (2016), which clarified the retroactivity j… |
| 18-5692 |
Melvin Jordan, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-5700 |
Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment |
Mr. Docaj seeks leave to appeal the following issues:
1) Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law, unconsti… |
| 18-5706 |
Hugo Islas-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-cfr-100.4 8-cfr-100.4(a) 8-usc-1325 8-usc-1325(a)(1) administrative-law administrative-regulation entry federal-code geographic-designation immigration immigration-law port-of-entry statutory-interpretation |
Whether immigration officials "designate[d]" geographic areas or physical port facilities for "entry" in 8 C.F.R. § 100.4(a) for purposes of 8 U.S.C. … |
| 18-5707 |
Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his
§ 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1… |
| 18-5708 |
Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings |
WHETHER PETITIONER HAS BEEN DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMEN XIV, IN HIS STATE COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS OF R… |
| 18-5671 |
In Re Kenneth Simpson |
|
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release |
which is unconstitutional for any reason, can a Court refuse to address that claim under conditions available at revocation hearings under Johnson v U… |
| 18-5673 |
Eugene Smalls v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5678 |
Lee Andrew Paul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with the Supreme Court's opinion in Burrage v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 881 (2014), which held that … |
| 18-5681 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error |
1. PETITIONER WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO A JURY VERDICT OF GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
2. PETITIONER WAS DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS
3. TR… |
| 18-5684 |
Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague following the Supreme Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2… |
| 18-220 |
Javier A. Carrillo, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Florida |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
15-usc-1635 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal creditor-possession due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-review per-curiam rescission-right standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-possession |
Borrowers exercised timely the right to rescind the transaction in satisfaction of the requirements of Section 1635 [1635(i)]. The creditor did not ta… |
| 18-216 |
Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation |
Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667, 686 (2000), because, as Justice Thomas's dissent predicted, the lower cour… |
| 18-5640 |
Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi… |
| 18-5646 |
Syrus Martin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements |
Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child. |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |
| 18-5655 |
Cory D. Foster v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5656 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misadvice counsel-role due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing trial-court-denial waiver waiver-of-rights |
I. WERE THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT DENTED HER MOTION FOR ILLEGAL SENTENCE BASED UPON THE PETITIONER'S REFERE… |
| 18-5658 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender commerce commerce-clause-jurisdiction,interstate-commerce,d criminal-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that the pret Did the Ninth Circuit err when it sentenced Mr. Br due-process due-process,pretrial-identification,suggestive-ide predicate-crime sentencing sentencing,career-offender,predicate-offense,viole |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was sufficient evidence for interstate commerce when the underlying acts did not have even a "de mi… |
| 18-5662 |
Myrna Diaz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment unauthorized-practice-of-law |
DID THE STAFF OF THE "PROJECT FREEDOM FUND" WHO PROVIDED
FAULTY LEGAL ADVICE TO PETITIONER, AND THUS INDUCED HER TO
WITHDRAW A GUILTY PLEA FOR WHICH S… |
| 18-5663 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … |
| 18-5666 |
Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO STATE PRISONER ARTHUR DENNISON TO CHALLENGE THE DENIAL OF HIS … |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit… |
| 18-5614 |
Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation |
Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r… |
| 18-5620 |
Mario Zuniga v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I.
Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… |
| 18-5626 |
Bruce Wishnefsky v. Jawad Salameh, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-appeal prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-provision |
Whether the "three strikes" provision of the federal in forma pauperis statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), bars a prisoner from appealing in forma pauperis … |
| 18-5632 |
Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness |
Is the decision announced in State v. Ronald-Smith, a new susbtantive rule of law that the Federal Constitution requires to be applied retroactively t… |
| 18-5636 |
Edgar Searcy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro… |
| 18-5637 |
Afelix Desir v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense |
Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both "Penile/Vaginal intercourse" unlawful sexual activity with specifi… |
| 18-5642 |
Miroslav Fejfar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal |
Whether the plain language of the relevant statutes and the Due Process
Clause prohibit extradition of an alien who has claimed in immigration court
… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-5603 |
In Re Mark Kilmartin |
|
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error |
WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT CAN BE CONVICTED AND SENTENCED
TO LIFE FOR A SEPARATE, NEW AND DISTINCT CRIME WITH WHICH HE HAD
NOT BEEN ON TRIAL FOR AND… |
| 18-5607 |
Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness |
1. Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the ev… |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Reasonable Jurist would find it debatable Whether the District Court Erred When it Ignored Undisputed Facts Establishing that The Prosecution Violated… |
| 18-5624 |
Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts B including the fact of a prior conviction B that increase a defendant =s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and… |
| 18-206 |
Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross |
Almost 80 years ago, in Yearsley u. W. A. Ross
Const. Co., 309 U.S. 18, 21-22 (1940), under seemingly
innocuous facts, this Court created a defense to… |
| 18-202 |
Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant, by executing a pre-sentence waiver of the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence, implicitly waives his right to… |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sent… |
| 18-5586 |
William Knight v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY ALLOWING
THE STATE ATTORNEY OFFICE TO IMPOSE A SENTENCE CONTRARY
TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW ON DOUBL… |
| 18-5594 |
Cory Devon Washington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh… |
| 18-5599 |
Anson Chi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing |
(1) Is the risk-of-force/residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague in the light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 332 U.S. 584, 138 S.… |
| 18-5606 |
Hagop Demirjian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288… |
| 18-192 |
J. B. R. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
|
age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment |
Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that … |
| 18-194 |
Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
|
community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration |
Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? |
| 18-195 |
William S. Poff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
GVR |
|
exemption exemptions federal-seizure-law government-seizure incarceration-payments mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-enforcement seizure service-connected-disability statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation substantial-resources veterans-disability-benefits |
Petitioner is a disabled military veteran currently serving a federal prison sentence. While incarcerated, Petitioner is entitled to approximately $13… |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light
2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? |
| 18-5552 |
Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 |
Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… |
| 18-5554 |
Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-5577 |
In Re Adam D. Boylen |
|
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether petitioner, as a truck driver for an independent "person" Congress exclusively defined in the Clean Water Act to only mean any "source" an… |
| 18-5547 |
Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States, __U.S.__, 138 S.Ct. 1959 (June 18, 2018)… |
| 18-5548 |
Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt… |
| 18-5549 |
Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-5550 |
Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation |
In United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828 (1987), this Court held that a defendant may not be convicted of illegal reentry after a prior order o… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an
argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit
have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma… |
| 18-5520 |
James Morris Sellers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5521 |
Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY
ENHANCEMENTS TO HIS GUIDELINES SENTENCE WITHOUT ANY PROOF
TO SUPPORT THOSE ENHANCEMENTS?
… |
| 18-5528 |
Brian Thurman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution |
Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution when it increased his sentence… |
| 18-5534 |
Juan Carrasquilla-Lombada, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation testimonial-evidence |
Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… |
| 18-5484 |
William N. Washington v. California |
California |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO RECALCULATE
ALL DAYS OF CUSTODY FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL JUDGMENT, AND ONLY
AWARDED CUSTODY CREDITS FROM … |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
(1) Ground 1: The evidence was not sufficient to prove the State charged the offense of an irrelevant and constitutionality of the conviction, duly as… |
| 18-5504 |
William Lem Posey, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5512 |
George Clinton Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing state-court-proceedings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5474 |
Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the U.s. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and Committed reversable error in dismissing Ebroni's 42 U.s.C. 5 1983, Appeal, finding no reve… |
| 18-5478 |
Ryan Jennings v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy criminal-law due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud mortgage-assignment obstruction-of-justice real-estate-fraud witness-tampering |
Dees this case involve one or more parties that have premeditated
the act of intentially violating the appélants civil rights, due
process of law and … |
| 18-5480 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony |
1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… |
| 18-5481 |
John K. D. Watson v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'colloquy" ' 'due-process" ' 'evidentiary-review' ' 'guilty-plea" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'learning-disability" civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency plea-bargaining sentencing |
1)IN HIS CASE, THE GUILTY PLEA WAS NOT ONLY INCOMPREHENSIVE, BUT COERCE AND MADE THROUGH DURESS BY RELYING ON GROSSLY MISINFORMATION BY COUNSEL. I WOU… |
| 18-5483 |
Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all … |
| 18-5495 |
In Re Billy Ray Irick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment … |
| 18-5496 |
Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California |
California |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey,
530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged
wi… |
| 18-5449 |
In Re Michael D. Smith |
|
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
WHETHER A TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE RENDERS THE ATTEMPTED SENTENCE VOID.?
WHETHER THE TRIA… |
| 18-5467 |
Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light … |
| 18-5473 |
Justin Michael Credico v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" |
After a colorable attack was made to the government's case-in-chief evidence, an audio forensics expert was provided to the petitioner, causing the go… |
| 18-5445 |
Jason Lee Pyles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
L Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erroneously
held that Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member
… |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Is it the District Court's duty or to determine under 4 ) the dg quantity Atributable to, D reasonably "Pinkertan" instructions on Co-conspirater when… |
| 18-5426 |
Gabriel Rivero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5434 |
Troy Victorino v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death… |
| 18-5435 |
Martin Michael Ybarra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-felony |
I. Is federal bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which can be accomplished by "intimidation," a violent felony under the elements clause u… |
| 18-5439 |
Adam Longoria v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Under the ACCA, can a sentencing court rely solely on non-elemental facts to infer that a defendant's temporally overlapping and related offenses were… |
| 18-5444 |
Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
I. This Court and individual Justices have increasingly explained that Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize conduct otherwise fal… |
| 18-5405 |
Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5407 |
Mladen Mitrovic v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF
UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO
PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione… |
| 18-5422 |
Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-5431 |
Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5390 |
Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance |
(1) Several United States Courts of Appeals have suggested that the use of defendants' uncharged, unproven conduct in deciding their sentences may vio… |
| 18-5391 |
Daniel Sexton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question I. Does this Court's reasoning of Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what… |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 18-5420 |
Tyler T. Heagy v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process filing-restrictions habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-as-applied |
Was 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9543 (a)(1)(i) unconstitutional as applied to Petitioners case?
Were 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9545 (b) and (c) unconstitutional as applied to … |
| 18-132 |
Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
|
appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Activ… |
| 18-5388 |
Albert William Roberts, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy-clause due-process relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts watts-precedent |
Question Number One: We hold that an acquitted count that incorporates all of the
succeeding counts of an indictment retains its acquitted status whe… |
| 18-5389 |
Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant |
WHETHER: THE DISTRICT COURT SHOULD HAVE SUPPRESSED ALL OF THE FRUITS OF THE POISONOUS TREE BASED UPON THE FOUND TO BE CORRUPTED OFFICIALS AND THE ILLE… |
| 18-5392 |
Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing |
The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United … |
| 18-5393 |
Shane McMahan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-5395 |
Wayne Clyde Mezzles v. John N. Katavich, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure-forfeiture defense-counsel due-process federal-claims forfeiture-bar jury-admonitions jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-proportionality state-procedural-bar trial-court |
Before trial, the court ruled that defense expert Robert Owen could testify about Mezzles's PTSD but not about his capacity to form the specific inten… |
| 18-5397 |
Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-5398 |
Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5363 |
Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines |
Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… |
| 18-5371 |
Michael Ellis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute |
Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (71h Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-5373 |
Otis Sykes v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |
| 18-5374 |
Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. … |
| 18-5378 |
Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-5383 |
James Rodney Shuman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… |
| 18-5385 |
Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights |
I. Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state resp… |
| 18-127 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 biotechnology enablement federal-circuit innovation patent-law possession statutory-interpretation written-description |
Whether the standard for determining the adequacy of the "written description of the invention" should be as the statute says—that the description mus… |
| 18-114 |
G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., in His Official and Individual Capacity v. Jeffrey O'Neal, et ux. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-duty due-process notice notice-requirements property-rights qualified-immunity service-of-notice state-auditor statutory-interpretation tax-deed tax-lien tax-lien-purchaser |
1. Whether a Deputy State Auditor is entitled to qualified immunity because no previous court had interpreted the State's statutory scheme as imposing… |
| 18-5292 |
Armando Angeles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop |
Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's… |
| 18-5314 |
Shannon Dale Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5335 |
Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance |
Virginia |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents |
Which policy did Kwon contract original policy?
Kwon filed policy exhibit I page 002089-002 102 that Kwon contracted.
Erie filed policy exhibit A pa… |
| 18-5349 |
Tyron Young v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5324 |
Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Has the Fifth Circuit erred and its decision is in conflict with this Court's holding in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d … |
| 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… |
| 18-5329 |
Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-5334 |
Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result. |
| 18-107 |
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33)Relisted (13) |
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender |
1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's
prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42
U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and
in… |
| 18-5310 |
Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5311 |
Jack Reid v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection |
Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … |
| 18-5313 |
Joseph Steele v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ… |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a means rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of Joh… |
| 18-5299 |
Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts |
If the tIh exually?
. Grounds for dismissal of my caseywere brought dn y trial by the district attorney due to the lack of widence. The Judge denied i… |
| 18-5317 |
Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5321 |
Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-98 |
Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority |
The Court stated in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the Eighth Amendment prohibits life without parole sentences "for all but the rarest of juvenile offe… |
| 18-5280 |
Patrick Lanier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error |
1. In Puckett v. United States, 556 US 129, 135 (2009) this Court held that under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals shou… |
| 18-5284 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat… |
| 18-5287 |
Luis Salas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-5293 |
George Anthony Autobee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness |
1. Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the
constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was
timely because it … |
| 18-5294 |
Herbert Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing |
1. Did the Circuit Court error in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication giving a insufficen… |
| 18-5297 |
Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5304 |
Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an uns… |
| 18-5305 |
Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served |
1. commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate?
2. May a state's primary jurisdiction over an inmate only be … |
| 18-5256 |
Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court |
1. Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the S… |
| 18-5260 |
Mike McGlocklin v. FNU Blankenship, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis motions procedural-posture standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S MOTIONS AND REQUEST
TO PROLEEΔ IN FORMA PAUPERIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN
GRANTED BASED ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND,THE
PROCEDURAL POSTU… |
| 18-5276 |
William Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations |
Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?
Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… |
| 18-5257 |
Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso… |
| 18-5258 |
Howell Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker |
WHETHER A DRASTICALLY INCREASED SENTENCE (FROM ROUGHLY 10 YEARS TO 12 YEARS) THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE BUT FOR JUDGE-FOUND FACTS VIOLATES TH… |
| 18-5266 |
Michael Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
(1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence?
… |
| 18-5268 |
Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing |
1.) Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified … |
| 18-5269 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-5230 |
John Parker Murphy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING… |
| 18-5250 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Ground One
The District Court, Appeals Court for the Districtof Columbia Circuit committed reversible legal error, by improperly categorizing and misa… |
| 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… |
| 18-80 |
Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments |
Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence.
Whether the Federal Circuit's decision conflicts with this Court… |
| 18-5238 |
Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a "crime of violence" under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5241 |
Victor Maturino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Sentencing Guidelines in § 2K2.1 setting forth provisions concerning unlawful possession of firearms and specific offense characteristics provide … |
| 18-5242 |
Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely
on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at
l… |
| 18-5234 |
Marcos Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness.
Whether the granting of a request to join in motions of a co-def… |
| 18-5215 |
Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the 5th Cir. Ct. ignore that Det. Mends inferences identified petitioner as in co-possession of recent stolen property and thus implicated petitio… |
| 18-5217 |
Audy Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care… |
| 18-5219 |
Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did quH circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with ioth circuit court of Appeals decision where determining factor significantly substantiate … |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |
| 18-5222 |
Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions |
1. Whether a Petitioner Who Was Sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Which was Enhanced By Two Later Invalidated State Convictions, Ma… |
| 18-5188 |
James Wilks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
Did the District Court enter a plainly unreasonable sentence for revocation of supervised release when it did not properly balance the sentencing fact… |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ?
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… |
| 18-5206 |
Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5210 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation |
Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … |
| 18-5170 |
Ijaz Khan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully signed to Shabsan before he became Naturalized?
2. Whether an authorize… |
| 18-5177 |
Herman Majors v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… |
| 18-5182 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied … |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. §4Bl.2(a)(2), a clause identical to that of the res… |
| 18-5189 |
Glenvert Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements |
A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… |
| 18-5191 |
Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(D) can consider the current understanding of the nat… |
| 18-5194 |
Teofil Brank v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation |
Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… |
| 18-5195 |
Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness |
1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, WHEN PROSECUTOR MISSTATED LAW, MISSTATED TESTIMONY, AND MISSTATED EVIDENCE TO THE JURY?
2. WHETH… |
| 18-5156 |
D'Angelo Battis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety.
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of… |
| 18-5168 |
Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Fifth Circuit, and two other circuits, have interpreted the mandate rule in a "restrictive" or "waiver" approach, meaning that when a case is rema… |
| 18-39 |
Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola… |
| 18-40 |
Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici… |
| 18-5107 |
Willard Quinn v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force |
Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of "crime of violence" can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting.
Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 18-5139 |
Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing |
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| 18-5149 |
Francisco Cubero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term |
I. During Francisco Cubero's plea hearing , the magistrate judge told him that his
supervised-release term could not exceed five years but, at sentenc… |
| 18-5161 |
Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
The plain error of the State of Texas Appeals Courts on direct collateral review. The use of Jackson standard of view in the light most favorable to t… |
| 18-5162 |
Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o… |
| 18-5164 |
George Adrien Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |
| 18-5166 |
Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations |
Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when… |
| 18-5167 |
Levar Brown v. California |
California |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-29 |
Shailendra Bhawnani, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure criminal-restitution fraud judicial-discretion legal-scope mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation victim-definition |
Whether the definition of "victim" under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. 3663A(a)(2), includes all victims directly and proximately h… |
| 18-5114 |
Nigel L. Faison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
failed to review 4CCA when entered Claim .5 hualidated due to that 0lea insufficlent factuar basis. e founs whea it 4CCA that shcofret erned drug quan… |
| 18-5121 |
Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question # 1
Whether it is a Sixth Amendment and Due Process violation for a judge
at sentencing to attribute acquitted and relevant conduct by a pr… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … |
| 18-5127 |
Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the "aggravated range" at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |
| 18-5135 |
Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling |
WAS HONISH'S FIRST STATE HABEAS WRIT "APPLICATION" PROPERLY FILED WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), AND REQUIRED TO BE TOLLED?
DID THE FIF… |
| 18-5144 |
Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson |
I. Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to do so by the district court at se… |
| 18-5075 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
beyond-reasonable-doubt-standard Blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states Brady-v-Maryland concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence glover-v-united-states in-re-winship kyles-v-whitley ray-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-determination sixth-amendment |
MAY A CONVICTION THAT IS ADMITTEDLY A VIOLATION OF THE CONCURTRENT SENTENCE DOCTRINE BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN LIGHT OF RAY V. UNITED STATES, ,481 U.S. 7… |
| 18-5108 |
Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… |
| 18-5109 |
Reggie Rankins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-5111 |
Lynette Gregory v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum |
1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… |
| 18-5072 |
Jill M. Evans v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses |
Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, should a defendant be entitled to credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline (USSG §3E1.1) if sh… |
| 18-5073 |
Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1. Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi… |
| 18-5083 |
Rahman Fulton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner comes forth with Question base under Graham v. United States ; U.S., No. 16-6308, friend of the Court brief filed 10/28/16. To Be Held ThAb… |
| 18-10 |
Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
|
appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer |
Whether a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee is "a United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity" for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(… |
| 18-15 |
James L. Kisor v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33) |
administrative-law agency-deference ambiguous-regulation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review regulatory-interpretation retroactive-benefits statutory-interpretation substantive-canons veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Court should overrule Auer and Seminole Rock.
2. Alternatively, whether Auer deference should yield to a substantive canon of construc… |
| 18-5033 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… |
| 18-5035 |
Sandra Grazzini-Rucki v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure coerced-testimony constitutional-law defense-evidence due-process false-statements jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5036 |
Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i… |
| 18-5038 |
Neil Sweeney v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should resolve the differing applications of the Circuit Courts as it applies to the use of Federal Rule of Evidence 414 … |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… |
| 18-5043 |
Guy St. Amour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Title 49, United States Code, Section 46306 (b)(9), makes it a felony offense to knowingly "operat [e] an aircraft with a fuel tank or fuel system tha… |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court … |
| 18-5047 |
Keith Lamont Tutt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility corporate-liability criminal-procedure-due-process discretion due-process environmental-regulations fair-opportunity officer-responsibility plea-bargaining regulatory-compliance sentencing statutory-interpretation withdraw-guilty-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
1) Whether the district court Prejudiced the defendant by denying him due process of a concerning his reasons for Wanting to withdraw his guilty plea … |
| 18-5051 |
Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5056 |
Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career
Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the
modified categorical ap… |
| 18-5061 |
Travis Horne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu… |
| 18-8 |
Samuel Cohen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-3 |
Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
|
alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation |
1) Labor Management Relations Act Section 302(e)
grants federal courts jurisdiction to restrain violations of the statute. 29 U.S.C. § 186(e). The Cou… |
| 18-5001 |
John Theodore Hancock v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe-
ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply
tracking the statutory lang… |
| 18-5002 |
John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness |
Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ… |
| 18-5016 |
George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop |
DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… |
| 18-5022 |
Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states |
In Stokeling v. United States, No. 17-5554, this Court has granted certiorari to resolve whether a state robbery offense that requires a purposeful us… |
| 18-5027 |
Mark O. Wright v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment |
1. Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included… |
| 18-5028 |
Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering |
Appellant was indicted for witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), which states someone is guilty if they "knowingly use intimidation, threate… |
| 25A568 |
Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment transcript-access trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |