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24A401 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standard seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A176 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit 2024-08-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit Question not identified.
24A39 Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete appeal-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct official-immunity seventh-circuit Question not identified.
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.
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…
23-7407 Mario H. Lloyd v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel due-process fraud-upon-the-court indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ischemic-stroke judicial-misconduct seventh-circuit substantial-right I. Whether the Seventh Circuit and its predecessor made a err in the judicial proceedings by allowing a defective indictment by named $1,240,675:00 …
23A860 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-25 Presumed Complete appointed-counsel certiorari criminal-justice-act petition-requirements seventh-circuit supreme-court Question not identified.
23A584 Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc petition-for-rehearing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether prison inmates possess due process rights during disciplinary hearings other than those specifically discussed in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S.…
22-6981 Thomas R. Alt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process equivocal-invocation miranda-rights right-to-counsel seventh-circuit unequivocal-invocation WHETHER A SUSPECT'S QUESTION AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF APPOINTED COUNSEL, IN IMMEDIATE RESP
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
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…
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review 1. Whether a habeas petitioner "fairly presents" the "substance" of his federal claim in state court by identifying the relevant facts and the relevan…
22-295 In Re Deborah Walton 2022-09-28 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals? Did the District Court denying the Petitioner her …
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…
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…
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver I. This Court has clarified that waiver is the intentional relinquishment/abandonment of a known right. No federal rule specifies deadlines to object …
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
20-7830 Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent 1: Did the Seventh Circuit s decision put an unreasonable require ment and hieghtened burden of proof in establishing likelihood the merits at the p…
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to issue a dispositive decision upon Gary…
20-1107 Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment In evaluating motions for summary judgment under employment discrimination laws, such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, must a court examin…
20-977 Zachary Pulera v. Victoria Sarzant, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights legal-precedent precedent seventh-circuit standard summary-judgment Whether the Court should resolve the Seventh Circuit's departure from the summary judgment standard articulated by this Court in Anderson v. Liberty L…
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
20-270 Irma Rosas v. R.K. Kenzie Corp., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived 7th-circuit case-law civil-complaint civil-procedure dismissal george-v-smith judicial-precedent pleadings procedural-rule seventh-circuit standing WHETHER A CIVIL COMPLAINT CAN BE DISMISSED SOLELY PURSUANT TO GEORGE v. SMITH, 507 F.3D 605 (7TH CIR. 2007)
19-1424 Kevin LeBeau v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions materiality restitution seventh-circuit strickland strickland-claim strickland-v-washington 1. Was the omission of the concept of materiality from the bank fraud elements instruction error requiring a new trial? 2. Did the Seventh Circuit er…
19-8162 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-discretion due-process judicial-precedent mandate mandate-recall post-judgment-relief recall seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus I. Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit adopted divergent interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States binding precedent cas…
19-1143 FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met, or whether, …
19-7934 Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour…
19-1085 Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous This petition presents the question whether, for purposes of qualified immunity, a merely "sufficiently analogous" case is enough to show that the law…
19-997 Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W…
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…
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing "1) whi…
19-6680 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)?
19-6678 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)?
19-6673 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)?
19-6664 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)?
19-624 Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit (1) Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995)…
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…
19-6177 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…
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Joseph Reinwands ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) disability Pension Case raises a pressing concern of National importance: Whether and…
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether The District Court And Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability Where. The Pet…
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISINTERPRETED THE BUT-FOR CAUSATION TEST IN LIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN, AND INAPPROPRIATELY APPLIED THE CONTRIBUT…
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct 1) Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Cir…
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred, when it failed to issue a Certificate of Appealibility under title 28 U.S…
18-1424 Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held, in an acknowledged conflict with the Third Circuit, that a district court may deny a request for the issua…
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…
18-8730 In Re Jimmie Dixon 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the S…
18-8506 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL BY THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT'S FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL AFTER PETITI…
18-7303 Joel Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility WHETHER ROSEMOND V. UNITED STATES, 134 S.Ct. 1240 (2014), WAS WRONGLY INTERPRETED AND APPLIED BY THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS WHEN IT UPHELD M…
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…
18-829 John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power Whether this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning in John H. Davis v. Jean…
18-797 Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit Is being detained without a trial for two years as frivolous, per , the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or is it an international case of enforced disapp…
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…
18-668 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…
18-623 Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha…
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…
18-6100 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…
18-103 Nathalie Thuy Van v. Language Line LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived court-impartiality disqualification-requirement due-process fraud fraud-upon-court fraudulent-court-records impartiality judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-fraud procedural-irregularities seventh-circuit supreme-court-review void-orders I. Whether the Court of Appeals made a decision with respect to the disqualification requirement that conflict with past United States Supreme . Court…