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25-7202 Kurt N. Hausch v. Florida Florida 2026-04-15 Pending IFP criminal-procedure felony jury-trial right-to-trial sixth-amendment state-court Whether a person charged with a felony in state court has the right to trial by a twelve-member of jury under the Sixth Amendment?
25-6779 Sasho Stantchev v. Bunker Hill Community College Massachusetts 2026-02-11 Pending IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection personal-injury procedural-deadlines state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment is violated when the enforcement of procedural deadlines takes priority over the merit of cases o…
25-6777 Olda Rachel Guardiola v. Maricela Rodriguez Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction nunc-pro-tunc procedural-change state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court —after its plenary jurisdiction has expired —to use a nunc pro tunc order to retroactively…
25-6764 Jerry Lee Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict misdemeanor-enhancement prior-conviction state-court "WHETHER PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED "WHETHER THE STATE CAN REPLACE A JURY VERDICT WITHOUT HAVING ANOTHER JURY TRIAL?" "WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENI…
25A863 Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Florida 2026-02-02 Application appellate-review certification final-judgment judicial-procedure opinion-withdrawal state-court Question not identified.
25A860 Ruth Torres v. Veretta Frazier, Judge, 44th Civil District Court, Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violations declaratory-relief due-process judicial-conduct judicial-immunity state-court Question not identified.
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals, as a state court of last resort, has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with two d…
25-6603 David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court 1. Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice …
25-6602 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2026-01-16 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Question not identified.
25-827 Joseph Leslie McClory v. Scott Hobbs California 2026-01-13 Denied appellant-rights form-deficiency judicial-council record-on-appeal rule-making state-court If a rule-making arm of a state court system, including but not limited to the JCC, approves a form for use (regardless if optional or not) to designa…
25A770 John De Light v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. California 2026-01-05 Application due-process ex-parte judicial-review pro-se procedural-irregularity state-court Question not identified.
25A775 Cosea Bell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-01-05 Application collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application Question not identified.
25A609 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-24 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-review criminal-case judicial-review state-court supreme-court Question not identified.
25-6172 Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. Florida 2025-11-19 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objec…
25-6131 Zeno E. Sims v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentencing federal-court judicial-discretion legal-precedent sentencing-procedure state-court Whether this Court should revisit Setser and affirmatively hold that once a federal court runs a future state court sentence concurrently to a defenda…
25-6059 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud that results in void orders…
25-6050 David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP criminal-appeals dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' fifteen-year, twenty-three case unbroken string of denying DNA testing appeals create a plausible claim that…
25A506 Walter W. Bullock, et al. v. Rivian Automotive, Inc., et al. California 2025-11-04 Presumed Complete corporate-charter federal-court forum-provision initial-public-offering securities-act state-court 1. This case asks whether a publicly-traded corporation can unilaterally amend its corporate charter to include a forum-steering provision for suits b…
25-536 Robert G. Hicks, Individually and as Trustee of the Roberta Cherry Hicks Testamentary Trust v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Kentucky 2025-11-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment discretionary-review due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction state-court In an eminent domain proceding in state court involving non-residents, does a failure to cite or follow that state's own clear statutory and decisiona…
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court 1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta…
25-522 Ruby Tang v. Somerset House Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Maryland 2025-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-fees state-court Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to deny a statutorily guaranteed de novo evidentiary hearing after collecting the required fees, …
25A470 Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair Massachusetts 2025-10-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court Question not identified.
25-5931 Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court I.Wh^v -Pv^Ul'M h\s SubsWiWe tiiAe. Process uAiev-e 0 < um.M tAvvM Wl ^4 feuwo( oh A-33^^kd Hee,^ AUekMpUj -k E-luiAc A PoWoPficcv- pv-t0V. 4c, -P4;lz…
25A442 Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. Florida 2025-10-20 Presumed Complete automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment Question not identified.
25A427 Indiana, ex rel. Freddie L. Byers, III v. Superior Court of Indiana, St. Joseph County, et al. Indiana 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel property-rights state-court Question not identified.
25-5886 Kevin Scott v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and rules to similarly situate state prisoners violate the Due Process and Equal Pro…
25A417 In Re Ramsey E. Clayter 2025-10-10 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights emergency-relief judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court 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.
25A403 Antonio Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete cares-act emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua state-court unemployment-benefits Question not identified.
25A338 Earl Howard v. New York New York 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process leave-to-appeal state-court Question not identified.
25A255 James Webb Hunter v. S. F. California 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari jurisdictional-deadline state-court supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25A220 Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process state-court time-extension Question not identified.
25-213 Atlas Turner, Inc. v. Donna B. Welch, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Melvin G. Welch, Deceased, et al. South Carolina 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process in-rem-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court territorial-boundaries The U.S. Constitution imposes due-process limits on the jurisdiction of state and federal courts. Those limits differ depending on the type of jurisdi…
25A199 Peyman Roshan v. Chika Sunquist, Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-action civil-rights judicial-proceeding procedural-barrier state-court younger-abstention Question not identified.
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Granted Amici (5)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court.
25-5195 Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-07-25 Denied IFP declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court 1. Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduci…
25-5180 Sherrod Anthony Wright v. Florida Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights jury-trial sixth-amendment state-court waiver Whether the ancient right enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to trial by a twelve-member jury applies to a state court trial for major felonies where th…
25-5172 William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court 1. Were the Petitioner 's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when petitioner 's Rule 60(B) motion was denied yet, the Northern District court o…
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Question not identified.
24-7474 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-20 Denied IFP arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti…
24-1284 Eugene Dingle v. Leslie Armstrong, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem of Dorchester County Family Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review rooker-feldman state-court 1. Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal courts from reviewing state family court decisions where the petitioner alleges egregious violatio…
24A1173 Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-leave state-court supreme-court Question not identified.
24-7065 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error state-court Whether a state court's denial of a hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, when such a hearing is required by state statute, can amoun…
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
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…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-6837 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un…
24-6780 Earl Felton Crago, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state court defendant, when a state court of conviction lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter, can appeal a conviction to a higher s…
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner "fairly presents " her federal claim, thus exhausting that claim, when the petitioner raises the substance of a fede…
24-6722 Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court Question not identified.
24-6675 Pierre Cornelius Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-court Federal Courts must defer to state court factual findings unless an evidentiary hearing has been made after a hearing on the merits of a factual issue…
24-898 John Doe Corporation v. Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C. Tennessee 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement state-court summary-dismissal Whether, in holding that a state trial court can summarily dismiss a plaintiff's complaint without attempting to provide notice to the plaintiff befor…
24-6552 In Re Kevin Othell La Ferney 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge due-process judicial-review state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Is a State Courts Subject Matter Jurisdiction REALLY NECESSARY and imprison a defendant? 2) Can a State Court Arbitrarily deprive a defendant of t…
24-834 Evgeny Pistrak v. Kseniia Golubeva Washington 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption immigration-law maintenance-obligations spousal-support state-court supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and federal immigration law preempt a state court from imposing maintenance obligations solely because a spouse lacks …
24-6433 Jesus C. Gonzalez v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-claim ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication procedural-default state-court Where the defendant raises a federal due process claim, and only a federal due process claim, in the State circuit court, the State appellate court, a…
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…
24-6346 Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court Question No. I Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues prese…
24A666 Donald J. Trump v. New York, et al. New York 2025-01-08 Denied Amici (2) criminal-prosecution executive-power presidential-immunity state-court transition-period trump-v-united-states Whether President Trump is entitled to an automatic stay of criminal proceedings against him in state court while his claims of Presidential immunity …
24-6217 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Colgate Palmolive Co., et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-court patent-application procedural-action state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction QUESTION I: Whether a federal court has the Subject-Matter Jurisdiction under any law of the United States to "Order " and "Adjudge " that a State Cou…
24-6138 Andre Terial Love v. J. M. Robertson Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions due-process federal-review procedural-default state-court supreme-court-precedent IS THE STATE COURT'S FINDING THAT CLAIMS ONE AND TWO ARE PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED ADEQUATE TO BAR FEDERAL REVIEW OF THOSE CLAIMS? DOES THE STATE COURT'…
24-5985 Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court The question presented is whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases in state courts. And, if s…
24A459 Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Brian D. Phillips, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court time-extension Question not identified.
24A415 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. Arizona 2024-10-29 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court 1. Does the legal standard of evidence require a showing of imminent harm to justify the issuance of an ex parte custody injunction without notice? 2…
24-329 Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw…
24A282 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court Whether the New York State Court of Appeals denied Petitioner her Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial and equal protect…
24A253 Kent Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied constitutional-challenge contempt-proceeding emergency-relief injunctive-stay pro-se state-court Question not identified.
24-175 Kathleen M. Bonczyk v. John Wardle, et al. Florida 2024-08-19 Denied Response Waived communication-restrictions due-process ex-parte-communications judicial-policy procedural-safeguards state-court 1. Whether violations of the Due Process Clause occur when a state judicial policy authorizes exceptions to the proscription against ex parte communic…
24-154 Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (43)Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption 1. Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the or…
24-5263 Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federa…
24-5179 Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court A Louisiana Executive Pardon of a felony sentence erases the criminal history and restores civil rights and liberties to a party. An Executive Commuta…
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Since birth, Alphonza L. P. Thomas-Bey has been held hostage in an unfair, unjust, social, economic, and legal system. And all questions raised and lo…
24A87 A.M.B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection due-process family-association fundamental-liberty parental-rights state-court Question not identified.
24A42 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete clearly-established-law constitutional-claim federal-statute habeas-corpus state-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5068 Frankie Wayne Pope v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court transcripts trial-fraud ^ Wn SMVXA^ <A.<\ T-We^aX fOM/XcboW \W^ OF- TAVtoiL tbU>JT7/fa^tZJBi'FA D^PdA^tUGk Wxs xMMoc£*it rn^OA uiWc? *STAre OT ?Ml+xov^ xrT? ^'Lol*/ M0C\( C…
23-7822 Nukarri Williams v. Florida Florida 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE THE PETITIONER WITH THE PROPER TO SIMILAR SITUATION TO DEFENDANT'S WILL AT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FE…
23-1339 Frank R. DiFranco v. Patricia M. Fallon, Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Illinois 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived election-contest election-law mandatory-or-directory mode-of-procedure state-court statutory-deadlines statutory-election-contest statutory-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-party vote-counting 1. Whether a State Court has subject matter jurisdiction in a special statutory election contest proceeding when there is a statutorily unauthorized…
23-1334 Centennial Resource Production, LLC v. Northern Natural Gas Company Nebraska 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment based exclusively on actions taken by the non-res federal-preemption minimum-contacts over a non-resident defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment violates the constitutional due-process 14th-amendment due-process federal-regulatory-requirement non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a state court, over a non-resident defendant, based exclusively on actions taken by the non-resident …
23-7771 Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho Idaho 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court 1. Is the Idaho state court in violation of the rule in Brady v. Maryland by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing…
23A1116 John Phillip Bender v. Texas Texas 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal discretionary-review due-process judicial-procedure state-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A1123 Sylvester Traylor v. Pacciuco LLC Connecticut 2024-06-18 Denied civil-procedure due-process notice-requirement premature-execution state-court summary-judgment Question not identified.
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…
23-7666 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing factual-determination factual-record federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-proceedings unreasonable-determination Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief only by showing that the state court's denial of his claim was "based …
23A1096 In Re Eric Drake Texas 2024-06-07 Denied appellate-review criminal-defendant emergency-relief mandamus procedural-stay state-court Question not identified.
23-7635 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Nathan Hoffman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction postconviction-proceedings standing state-court WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S SUA SPONTE STAY OF HABEAS CORPUS PETITION PENDING RESOLUTION OF POSTCONVICTION PROCEEDING IN STATE COURT IS APPEALABLE AFTE…
23A1082 Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz Texas 2024-06-04 Denied appellate-procedure discretionary-review federal-question page-limits pro-se state-court Question not identified.
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Question not identified.
23A1025 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari final-judgment jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Question not identified.
23-7479 Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and …
23-7450 Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri Missouri 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law May the due process clause of the United States Constitution that require the State Courts to provide to defendants a full and fair post-conviction pr…
23-1170 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri 2024-04-30 Denied best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody civil-procedure dual-citizenship expert-witness family-law judicial-consideration state-court testimony Whether the state courts erred in using Petitioner's dual citizenship status as consideration in their final judgment. Whether the state courts prope…
23-7302 In Re Michael A. Farrell 2024-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due process, equal protection of the law and 28 U.S.C. 2254(d) by failing to ho…
23A931 Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Question not identified.
23A871 Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group Illinois 2024-04-01 Denied federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct mortgage-servicing removal state-court sua-sponte I. Whether Illinois Supreme court could endorse a Cook county state lower court abuses and could abridge/Infringe/encroach the Federal Jurisdiction o…
23-1064 Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2024-03-29 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment criminal-liability due-process imprisonment judicial-legislation state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction sudden-quarrel-provocation Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, Petitioner, imprisoned under a sentence imposed by a Nebraska Court, upon convictions of …
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…
23-7025 Stevie Wyre v. Texas Texas 2024-03-19 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court >), \be p>wjo4a\ c^uesViOk , u^oeVoe^ %xe 3tote>' defied &ppe\\ftd VixS ~T)ue ^V\2.oc£SS > Vv5bao iV p^£Sso\ed ^s\g ao, rftxsYeftdi'o^ 4e^Vi*Y)0O{j …
23-1004 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court 1. Whether a federal claim is "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) so long as the state court resolves the claim on su…
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine peKWcwv) pqpse U*cl&r Uk?er4 i'w-k^pre^fi o<^S LrVrcj<=tVe5 W OtovJ' ot U)v4+ ^of VUW:> V- Ker^iev; 404 U*s 513 (b7^) +U16 fW'Ko.o +Ui5 (WV Vo Chfevoh…
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…
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights /. y^<l<L^g)lV/sf <3 7>/£ C&tvejr >*3 tier?**/-7bM&r*t£>/£^JY Ua/H>£'& CJ)TPi_ 4Ctf7A*SWtK gL/t-' Z/- 2.0/Zj &/£-&£> A/OT£ a//3£ zC /7> ~Zo2/ 3ttaciO£…
23-6791 Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2024-02-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a…
23-6563 Justin Taylor v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-challenge remand standing state-court supreme-court void-proceedings I Whether this Honorable United States Supreme Court 'must " investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by one of the petitioning party(ies) to …
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Governing the Statutory Requirements that a Federal Court as Ms. copy Section 2r^S^£^jli9.^AC. properly exhaust in the highest Court of his State. Jal…
23-6515 John Edward Hall v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP burden-of-proof death-penalty due-process federal-habeas standard-of-review state-court Question not identified.
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute? Does Rooker…
23-6407 Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. California 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution federal-procedure interlocutory-order judicial-review standing state-court state-courts Question 1: Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs / offense / invalidate my Federal Constitution and Due p…
23-6401 Wayne Johnson v. Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-misconduct civil-rights court-immunity court-reporter criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process immunity judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing state-court Whether a court reporter in a state criminal action is entitled to immunity for failing to record objections made by parties in a criminal preceding t…
23-695 Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution This case arises from a question this Court has repeatedly declined to answer over the last four decades: what sources of law constitute "controlling …
23-6334 Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. California 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution interlocutory-order judicial-procedure state-court state-courts statutory-provisions Question 1: Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs / offense / invalidate Federal Constitution and Due proc…
23A484 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court Question not identified.
23-6127 Shawna Karnes, et al. v. Tiffany Montengo, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception judicial-review jurisdiction rocker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-judgement Does the federal district court and federal court of appeals have the jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court judgement though a fraud excepti…
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.
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Question not identified.
23-5895 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court Question not identified.
23-5750 Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court 1. Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective assistance of trial and direct appeal counsel issues were defaulted because …
23-5744 In Re Jimmy Wheeler 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collusion constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fraud habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Question not identified.
23-5720 In Re Terrance A. McCauley 2023-10-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court Question not identified.
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction 1. Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultane…
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.
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court 1. Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowin…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
23-83 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2023-07-27 Denied 14th-amendment contract-coercion court-ordered court-ordered-visitation due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract procedural-due-process state-court visiting-supervisor 1. Whether a state court's denial of the right to freely negotiate the terms of a visiting supervisor's contract on the grounds that the supervised vi…
23-5186 Kinley MacDonald v. Jeanne Lambrew, et al. Maine 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-removal civil-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling family-law federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction transcript-accuracy 1) Can a trial court open and remove children in a protective custody case based solely on hearsay circumstances prohibited by State Statute in secret…
23-5165 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2023-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-xiv civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct standing state-court 1. Whether the state court judges can willfully use all the lies made by Respondents and impose the unreasonable state statutes to dismiss this case w…
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court CAN A STATE TRIBUNAL DEPRIVE LITIGANTS TO THAT TRIBUNAL EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND EVEN HANDED JUSTICE BASED UPON A COMMITMENT OFFENSE? DOES THE…
22-7892 Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation dd 0\ier IMd CQSS5 of >gtn radon oojans J prooP oP a conspiracy Subj ecV fc\acX lasers "Vo discipline and cl S^ecxf .ccxmpaiQn do d^screib *n FKrrl …
22-7850 In Re James C. Winding 2023-06-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court Question not identified.
22-1228 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-06-21 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court, to order the compelled sale of a private person's real prope…
22-7721 William Whittman v. Prime Autotech, Inc., et al. Virginia 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-questions petition-for-appeal reversible-error state-court state-court-decision 1. Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's Petition for Appeal on 2/27/23 on grounds that no reversible error occurred in the lower court v…
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts After trying for many years, Willie Manning was finally given access to biological evidence, including hairs that were introduced at trial and used ag…
22-7545 Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction 1. Whether, when dealing with its citizens, a State court is permitted to issue decisions that are in direct conflict with this Court's precedents, an…
22-7397 Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats 1. Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, withou…
22-7402 Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court 1. Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United St…
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction After holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine jurisdictionally barred it from determining whether a state court judgment is void ab initio and subjec…
22-7173 Marty Tarell Gaston v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial motion-for-appropriate-relief state-court state-laws 1. Did the North Carolina State Superior Court deny this Petitioner actual justice in the face of established State laws allowing the filing of a se…
22-877 John Lugo v. Avena L. Sturm Illinois 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived case-exception civil-procedure collateral-consequences judicial-review legal-precedent mootness sibron-v-new-york standing state-court In determining whether a case is moot, is a State Court bound by Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40, 53 (1968): "Where "a secondary or 'collateral ' inju…
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 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts…
22-6882 David Byron Russ v. Florida Florida 2023-02-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency 1. Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency?
22-813 Samuel Edward Trapp v. John Gunn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bar-licensing civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action declaratory-relief due-process licensing rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court state-court-action 1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine foreclose a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in federal court against outside-the-licensure-process individual influencers …
22-6768 Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas Texas 2023-02-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent lA)as »4- £)]?j<d'iVC|^ wrtasbyxflkle } urd{r u*£.C. ■for 4ke, Sbrlt cowrfj 4t> dflncUwU Da -ilt record beJbrt i-H- ik^cf no r6aPN>ib^ PtiLcA 'P^dnf' …
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 …
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-699 Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court 1. Does a preliminary injunction issued by a district judge enjoining a state attorney general and nongovernmental organizations from filing public in…
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Is Medstar Washington Center Hospital and their attorney going to say that petitioner is not about having ovarian cancer and the respondent mis-diagno…
22-6512 Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court WHETHER THE LOWER FLORIDA STATE COURT'S ERROR IN FAILING TO CORRECTLY CALCULATE THE DATE THAT PETITIONER'S DIRECT REVIEW OF HIS CASE BECAME "FINAL" IN…
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.
22-6465 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony AjW A Uer -xUe. csAA^- c<pop4" -£ L^u3 uMzr -\Ue~ Ao<2__ ^roeeSLS ' Clause- c& AUg- LaA-VA S\a\-<^s C^ l\sVA o-VA( s-i\ as V° l-5 AAAs r0 (^por-WA--…
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Question not identified.
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner "fairly present " federal nature of his claim on direct appeal where he cites to a lone Florida Supreme Court case that cites to, …
22-6356 Tyler Nees v. Oregon Oregon 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court Question not identified.
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Has the State Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas adjudication to dismiss petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus contrary to or involve an unreasonable app…
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.
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination I, UketW OKlakomo, Court ef tf'un'aai Appeals t)e./uaj of ft ttesc-e-alaivt of An En ftelM U1c-K.a4a.1i Sm^n'-s Subject-Matter TvtrUA\^\on Lieu rn In …
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper 1. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S.…
22-315 Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting…
22-5613 Kennrith L. Foster v. Illinois Illinois 2022-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-interpretation notice plea-bargaining prisoner-rights state-court waiver eanciFh Fo / tfial and -b (docg) Did d-c i a I £ourt t/iolafe Vilo-Vional rights +*o 4 j 0f |au3 u)hen if atte^je.d ht'S jW f atvoniTi nri5of\£.on$ e…
22-5556 Mehmet Ali Whicker v. Washington Washington 2022-09-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances jury-instructions legal-procedure standing state-court sua-sponte Should fay Codr-J- bi fa/o^ocd h facets fa fa perceived fap/faAbno?do a/A -0 AmiVCS jury (juJesA'am b/ fa <u ^j/efaon cj.J (jd) h ie kit5 rich! Ac d…
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court "Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be e…
22-5495 Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's "unreasonable determination of the facts" clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5372 Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent Wheather a state high court can deny a review to a constitutional challenge of its own statute when procedural due process, Kansas Supreme Court prece…
22-5324 Daniel Del Brumit v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-protection indian-law native-american-rights res-judicata reservation-boundaries state-court state-law treaty-interpretation 1. Under the provisions of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, how does the Government and its Citizens have an obligation to protect the Red People a…
22-5228 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-court civil-procedure federal-issue federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements removal removal-procedure service-of-process state-court state-court-removal state-issue Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the…
22-73 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2022-07-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-removal federal-statute jurisdiction remand-order removal-jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings This Court should resolve the question of the law, whether the state court's jurisdiction continues during the removal period and whether state court …
22-5169 Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings Question not identified.
21-1601 Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas Texas 2022-06-28 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (7) capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict…
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari VJHer-rPCfc T've /I'P'P cals pjjp I i ^w^/^-pro t//at/p£^riTitfw€Z 'S /ionot-l fofc CerT?T/HCA t£ PP /dpPcALA'S/C/r'f U/^5 P/(/<£]> utJ-ri/WcLH ofc A…
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d 1. Does a State Judges have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has acte…
21-8107 Keith Undray Ford v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-interpretation presumption-of-innocence presumption-of-law state-court state-courts 1. When an issue before a state court is resolved by an assumption of fact, as opposed to a factual finding, has the issue before the state court been…
21-1524 Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied courts-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review objectively-unreasonable precedent standard-of-review state-court unreasonable-manner What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable mann…
21-8016 John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma…
21-7986 Stephen Gosch v. Florida Florida 2022-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court 1. Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment where the prosecution failed to …
21-1471 Denise Halvorson, et vir v. Hennepin County Children’s Services Department, et al. Minnesota 2022-05-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) consent-requirement due-process federal-indian-law foster-care indian-child-welfare-act jurisdictional-transfer nonmember nonmember-party state-court tribal-jurisdiction 1. Whether it is an error of law for a state court to order the transfer of a foster care proceeding to tribal court when the transfer forces a nonmem…
21-7884 Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. North Carolina 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-court state-jurisdiction 1. Is it lawful for the State of North Carolina to hold the herein Petitioner under unconstitutional confinement under the Court's unexplained refusal…
21-7873 Charlie Branner, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process georgia-appeals-court motion-for-reconsideration service-of-order service-of-process state-court writ-of-certiorari Was it Court error for the Georgia Supreme Court to deny writ of Certiorari, when the Georgia Appeals Court failed in its duty to Serve All Parties, u…
21-7846 Jose L. Arroyo-Garcia v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection exceptions indictment-amendment legal-discrimination state-court state-courts Does the Due Process Clause tolerate invidious discrimination by way of a state court's denial of a well-established exception to the rule? Is notice…
21-7717 Kacy Fonteze Williams v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim discretion discretionary-review district-court federal-review firearm-charge habeas habeas-corpus right-to-be-heard standard-of-review state-court Whether The District Court Failed To Properly Utilize Its Discretion On The Petitioners Habeas Where The Court Dismissed The Firearm Charge Issue Rend…
21-7602 Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney New Hampshire 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment Whether The State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred when affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process unde…
21-1341 Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of "illegally" possessing out…
21-7470 Reggie Orlando Williams v. Texas Texas 2022-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-charging legal-procedure margin-of-error state-court state-prosecution \/OV\en '■WML o€ "Y&*aS -£<x\\eA 'V^ eAeoV vJVucIa cJaargin^ -Vrtvvsaoticn °f -VVml oCCW# -V4 ,v€_ V> W»\)£- Cen\i\<ot«A uaQ$J\ O^s AV\e. scvw-e- re_s…
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure 1. Did The State/ District Court Judge's Failure To Abide By Nevada's State Procedural Law Violate My Constitutionally Protected Liberty Interest Unde…
21-7407 Janece Tisdel v. The Witness Protection Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction government-disability legal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction DQpS "ITE UfOITET> STATE'S COuPT of /VPTS /\NP THB STATE'S T l STRICT COURT tf/hJB SueJECT MaTTPR T U ft ISD (CT |OM? 51WCE A PSP. &oN PPPp^AT (^'VI…
21-1233 Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley Massachusetts 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court I. May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a l…
21-7244 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-03 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure standing state-court trial-court Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state trial court granted Respondent leave to file the criminal information?
21-7261 Ezeani Gregory Ifesinachi v. Guy Cirillo, Warden Third Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review procedural-inconsistency state-court Question not identified.
21-7241 Darrell Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-instruction evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error pennsylvania-state-court state-court stipulations trial-counsel Was the Pennsylvania State Court's ruling supported by the evidence and free from legal error when it held that Petitioner's trial counsel was not ine…
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition should this Court use its power to grant certiorari to a non-prisoner to raise a compelling claim of actual innocence Whether the Court of Appeals de…
21-6755 Kenny Pugh v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts Question not identified.
21-944 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-27 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-liability mold-remediation property-rights state-court takings 1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a state court from compelling a real property owner to pay thousands of dollars fo…
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…
21-6593 Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony 1. Whether this Court should clarify its holding in Greene v. Fisher, 565 U.S. 34, 38 (2011), to reflect that the state court decision by which "clear…
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appedability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition if there Las a dispute in the l.s. District Cou…
21-6576 Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage Question not identified.
21-6562 Francis Timothy Plaza v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP case-progress civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing judicial-precedent precedent prisoner-rights procedural-fairness state-court WAS IT AN UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT TO RULE THAT EQUITABLE TOLLING SHOULD NOT APPLY TO THE PETITIONER'S CASE WHERE THE STATE …
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and asjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invo…
21-6470 Michael George Kogianes v. Edward Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-rights state-court Question not identified.
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.
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court First Question Presented: Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to…
21-743 Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is "in custo…
21-6320 Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent When a state statute is ambiguous as to its divisibility at the time of the defendant's state conviction, may a federal court certify the divisibility…
21-6270 Catherine Pileggi v. Florida Florida 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief state-court state-court-procedure Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution requires a state court adjudicating a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel to a…
21-6242 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Washington Washington 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling factual-innocence fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus state-court unlawful-incarceration When a state court evidentiary ruling impinges on the constitutional rights of a factually innocent person, does the fundamental miscarriage of justic…
21-607 Maura Lee Wahlberg, Individually and as Trustee of the Grever-Burke Trust Agreement v. Roy Grever Florida 2021-10-26 Denied extrinsic-fraud fraud full-faith-and-credit interstate-judgment intrinsic-fraud judicial-fraud legal-preclusion procedural-comity sister-state-judgment state-court state-court-judgment Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause permit a state court refuse to give a sister state's judgment full faith and credit based on its belief that the…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Question not identified.
21-5651 Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent Under the principle that federal courts must defer to state courts on questions of state law, if a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law…
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur This Court has recognized that while the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) reflects a federal policy of favoring arbitration, "there is no federal policy …
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Mr. Rodriguez alleged that his appointed counsel for the offense in which he is currently incarceratedswitched sides and worked for the prosecution fo…
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…
21-160 Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied when the issues presented plainly meet the standards articulated by …
20-8447 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-distinction procedural-bar standing state-court supreme-court supreme-court-authority CAN A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CIRCUMVENT THE AUTHORITY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO CREATE AN INVESTMENT LEADER TO A PROCEDURAL CASE, A 12.2…
20-8368 Bruce L. Farmer v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP criminal-statutes due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-officer presumption-of-correctness state-court I. WHETHER A CLEARLY ERRONEOUS LEGAL CONCLUSION BY A STATE COURT MY BE AFFORDED A PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS AND RELIED UPON TO DEMY HABEAS CORPUS 'RE…
20-1762 Ross R. Caliguri v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association New York 2021-06-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-decision mortgage-foreclosure state-court (1) Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York was in a "conflict of interest" position when it issued its Memorandum Decision dated Decemb…
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Question not identified.
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether, in pursuit of his first federal habeas corpus petition, Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling during the d…
20-8044 In Re Annamalai Annamalai 2021-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody-release due-process habeas-corpus judicial-order privity-of-judgment specific-performance state-court warden-liability pursuant to the "specific performance" (Execution) ordered & adjudicated by the Indiana
20-7949 Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition, err in holding that evidence admitted at trial essentially established wha…
20-1541 Pivotal Software, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2021-05-05 Granted Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) discovery-stay federal-court private-action reform-act securities-act securities-litigation state-court Whether the Reform Act's discovery-stay provision applies to a private action under the Securities Act in state or federal court, or solely to a priva…
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), permit a federal habeas court to assign "implicit" factual findings to a state court's order when appl…
20-7933 Erika Jacobs v. 35 West Apartments Oklahoma 2021-05-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-court judgment-reconsideration judicial-review post-trial-motion standing state-court supreme-court-jurisdiction trial-court-decision Question not identified.
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review (1) May a federal court seeking to determine whether a state court decision was reasonable for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) substitute its own reas…
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.
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) ruled correctly on the Petition for Writ of Mandamus, MA-2020-930, to the correct Petition in th…
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court I)CAN A STATE PROCEDURAL RULE OR STATE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT PRECLUBE A FEDERAL COURT FROM REVIEWING A DEFENDANTS FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONIAL CLAINS? 2) CAN…
20-7627 Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court IWant Justice t be Don Formeandrydaght She got bet onhery by madison police and oAyo y
20-7569 Deidre M. Hunt v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-claim post-conviction procedural-dismissal standing state-court substantive-validity PuurouOJrL do tiajnes \J. Hornet, t+°'+ ^ C«tp) sivcib prfSGtet> mcUy crri / pro( soI J-s dr\ ■crM-Hid. -io <sdrhc posd- tomvitbt cm dcum prcmis^f on…
20-7582 Lonzell Green v. California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari (1) pzp iTt<r-ST&rg C.omii _t^s) VX£'la-tit PfTOXoMT«- Due - f>flj>t£ss Pro)recrreo (Lz&tt-TCi.) Lt LjVpwUy'6LV PlTnj'u/LLT) Tcir^bjv'v ( de Ur gjJ/u-…
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Federal courts have a "virtually unflagging obligation" to hear and decide cases within their jurisdiction. In Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), …
20-7511 Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition 1. May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district c…
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), prohibiting federal courts from granting a writ of habeas c…
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court DID THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW AND PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FAILED …
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret 1. Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are "judicial proceedings" ent…
20-1270 Scott Erik Stafne v. Bank of New York Mellon Ninth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived article-three boundary-lines federalism judicial-power real-property res senior-judges state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Federalism structure of government prevented the District Court from assuming subject-matter jurisdiction over a real property res for …
20-1239 Edward Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure state-court stealthy-encroachment When the Supreme Court of Ohio "sidestepped," & refused to enforce the protection & privileges of the 5th, 6th, & 14th Amend, to the U.S. Constitution…
20-7245 Jeremy Kerr v. John Collier, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Henry County Ohio 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process notice notice-of-proceeding procedural-due-process receiver-appointment state-court substantial-right substantial-rights Does a State Court violate an individual's right to procedural due process under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, when it issues …
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice 1. Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scanned for obstruction into an investig…
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…
20-7219 Cedric C. Westbrook v. California California 2021-02-23 Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surmou…
20-7141 Curtis Jerome Brown, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-review fraud habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-court Can this Court fund pro tunc Release me under libers ouFt orderFr Discharge From SAil JAn3!,1997 Strete Should the Federal Courtshould have let the S…
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should be purved n apped process totlly regerded to Direct Appea be properly-conpetent exected Whers the mess rea and actus rea have wotbees presested…
20-7035 Rondell Slaughter v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure error exhaustion ineffective-assistance legal-concession oral-argument procedural-exhaustion state-court state-court-pleading I. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is exhausted when the state-court pleading asserted that appellate counsel rendered …
20-6899 Cynthia Hudson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bench-warrant certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court 1. Is a state habeas corpus petitioner who pleads ineffective assistance of counsel claims denied federal constitutional due process when the state ha…
20-6906 Charles Hamilton v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-restrictions counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights federal-law sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review 1. Whether a State Court's erroneous denial of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Right to be represented by counsel of choice, resulted in a d…
20-6833 Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-6760 Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas Texas 2021-01-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations CAN U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE MARCIA MORALES HOWARD WITHDRAW THE FORMA PAUPERIS ON THE HABEAS CORPUS FILED IN JURISDICTION APPEAL NO. 20-104215 AFTER PLAINT…
20-6617 In Re Theresa Romain 2020-12-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-law-application judicial-error justice-standard legal-interpretation standing state-court state-court-review 1. Can a State Court applied clearly established Federal Law erroneously or incorrectly as to cause harm to a Petitioner? 2. Can innocent as proven g…
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…
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court I would like to be able to have a lawyar uppointed to me on this matter because of my income Im asking for the courts to provide me with one. so I con…
20-6507 Darrell Berry, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreclosure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court Question 1 - Whether the Berrys ' Fifth Amendment Rights to Due Process were Violated. Question 2 ■ Whether the federal court should have remanded u…
20-756 Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor Minnesota 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service? May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o…
20-6432 Elise LaMartina v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine creditor-claims immunity judicial-immunity jurisdiction state-court trustee ultra-vires-acts i. May a bankruptcy court apply the Barton Doctrine to its own proceedings and exponentially expand its authority under Barton v. Barbour, 104 U.S. 1…
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court 1. Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Co…
20-695 Derek Piersing v. Domino’s Pizza Franchising LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) aaa-rules arbitrability circuit-court delegation-doctrine employment-agreement first-options procedural-rules state-court There must be "clear and unmistakable evidence" of parties' intent to have arbitrability decided by an arbitrator for a court to find that they agreed…
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…
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Question not identified.
20-608 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure california-department-of-industrial-relations employment-dispute evidence-transfer federal-court government-code retaliation state-court transfer-of-record unlawful-termination 1) Does the Opposing Party the Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to refuse to transfer the reco…
20-589 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? Can a state-judge refuse to obey …
20-6113 Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a "new judgment" pursuant to th…
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…
20-6083 John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review…
20-5867 Jerome Ceasar Alverto v. Bryan Dwain Cline Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jury-trial standing state-court takings A. WHETHER PETITIONER'S COMPLZNT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DKMKSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. P SPAELATE COURT ERRORED IN APLXING THE STATUTE OF WMUTATION UUDER WASHI…
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise 2020-09-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a co…
20-5803 Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules Did the State Courts of Pennsylvania violate petitioner's due process under the United States Constitution where they quash Petitioner's appeal?
20-5696 Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction (a) Would the ordinary Forfeiture rule, as codified in the Civil Rules, apply to the limitations period of the 28 U.S.C. § 2254? (b) Would a § 2244(d…
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court A. Is a petitioner deried a fair trial when a juror B Is counsel ineffective if he does not raise the fact that A Petitioner was dheried a fair trail…
20-5683 Carlton Smith v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-standard standing state-court structural-defect (1) Does the states's waiver standard of fundamental Standard of the Federal constitution? (2) Does a state collateral review court's failure to revi…
20-327 BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. Texas 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas Under the Due Process Clause, courts may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants only when the plaintiff's claim arises f…
20-293 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General New Mexico 2020-09-08 Denied civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court 1. Whether the federal government or a state government, as the real party in interest in a qui tam action brought in its name and litigated to judgme…
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when the record of the case is wholly devoid …
20-5552 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Reeve Kelsey, Judge Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure default-judgment dismissal-prejudice due-process non-legal-entity procedural-due-process standing state-court Does a state court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it issues a Default Judgment against a non-legal entity? Does a …
20-207 Lara Bush-Pensy v. Timothy Pflieger Wisconsin 2020-08-21 Denied due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech private-communication private-email state-court state-court-restraint unprotected-speech Whether basic First Amendment and Due Process freedom of speech is infringed where a state court restrains a person's private email absent any evidenc…
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts defense cause prejudice } due to inadequate nofice? If so, is it bad favth -for a conscious prosecutor to seeK this outcome? Does a Federal Court's,…
20-198 Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law State law determines whether a n entity is a state or a local entity for purposes of Section 1983 liability . McMillian v. Monroe C ounty ., 520 U.S. …
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-123 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 28-usc-1450 5th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery-requests due-process federal-court federal-removal-law procedural-due-process removal-law state-court 1. Whether the lower courts misapplied important principles of federal removal law and erred in concluding there had been a failure of discovery in th…
20-5109 Ganaa Otgoo v. Illinois Illinois 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-between-state-court-decisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights legal-review reasonable-doubt state-court state-court-actions wrongful-conviction 1) Grant Certiorari to decide legal questions whether State Court actions denied Petitioner's Rights under Federal Law, denied Petitioner "Fair and Im…
20-5095 Jethro L. Clairvoyant v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel jury-instructions martinez-claim reversals similarly-situated-defendants state-court 1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW BY THE STATE COURT'S REFUSAL TO RESERVE THE CONVICTIONS FROM THE STATE CO…
20-5096 In Re Shavez Evans 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court 1) he Distic Cor Aiona n the ptner Evn uce ual when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immone. from S 1983 suits for damages when t…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Mr. Wardlow's initial state habeas proceeding was essentially a sham, in which the trial court wholly allowed the prosecutor to determine the course o…
19-1340 David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. Arkansas 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting…
19-8018 Timothy Humphrey v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa-limitations aedpa-limitations-period antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus postconviction-relief properly-filed state-court state-court-procedure time-barred Whether an application for state postconviction relief is "properly filed" within the meaning of Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act provisi…
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…
19-7614 Jason Perry v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court 1. Whether the Courts violated Rule 2/a) Governing Section 2254 Cases? 2. Whether withholding an officer's statement until the habeas Corpus stage is…
19-987 H. Stephens Winters, Judge, District Court of Louisiana, 4th Judicial District, et al. v. Stanley R. Palowsky, III, Individually and On Behalf of Alternative Environmental Solutions, Inc. Louisiana 2020-02-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1257a administrative-function case-pending federal-law forrester-v-white judicial-immunity record-destruction state-court state-law 1. This Court is the final arbiter of the content of federal law. Louisiana has adopted the federal law of judicial immunity as its own state law and …
19-7533 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure state-court state-court-decision unreasonable-application 1) The crux of this Writ of Certiorari is whether Law Enforcement Authorities' engaged in tactics and procedures designed *to* Petitioner 's circumve…
19-7461 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 109 S.Ct. 1038 103 L.Ed. 2d (1989); Caldwel…
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Question/Issue No.l: Isthe juckgment of the because the habeas petitiower's State hebeas proceralie Question/Issue No.2: Did the United Stctes Distri…
19-895 R. Kirk McDonald v. Bellco Credit Union Colorado 2020-01-17 Denied case-removal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication procedural-integrity removal standing state-court Whether a State judge can fabricate a lie into the Record attempt­ing to prevent removal of a state case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution xnHbthet l PeTiTfotjGk Bol^btt S CoHsjimTONAL PH&hts \siezjg v/W)7£-o /3y THE tHiHteeht H Judicial b<37&CT Cjduat orN&n./Dexivd und&l the Dub Proces…
19-803 Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. New York 2019-12-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." Mit (t,) That the civil magistr…
19-773 Ann Merlino, et al. v. Cara Buonincontri New York 2019-12-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-investigation hearing investigation judicial-conduct state-court state-court-judge Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United States Constitution, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment for a State Court Judge to conduct a …
19-6962 Tom S. Mourning, II v. Honorable Gayle L. Crane Missouri 2019-12-17 Denied IFP civil-rights commitment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus hearing judicial-circuit mental-health notice notice-and-hearing state-court state-department state-detention 1. Mou ow. Skote Dudtelal Cirevik Courk cekuse »_peovid, Aottce cond oo henclag pursuant by due FIC, Darensmark bo We Unik Shakes Corstitvitn when o d…
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-6846 James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court Where the tril judge failed to revew evidence of trial coursel's gross misconduct of Fraud identical to the issues addressed in this Court's decision …
19-6873 Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent 1. Is i a epe heaen d oton ai Or whole on the Court's failure to rule withinm a neasonable time? Constitutonal rigpt to Due Procss and Acess To Courts…
19-6835 Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge Michigan 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law WHETHER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE STATE COURT DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS "LIBERTY INTEREST" …
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…
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-6679 Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
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…
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Present Petitioner, an indigent state prisoner, brought suit for monetary damages against state court clerk under civil rights statute for alleged fai…
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…
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation 1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision…
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Question number one of five Question number two of five Question number three of five Question number four of five Question number five of five
19-565 Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder…
19-6455 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-filing state-court-proceedings statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling tolling Jowarski R. Nedd filed in the district court, below, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2254. Despite the facts alleged in Nedd's…
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…
19-463 Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin…
19-6161 John Connolly v. Florida Florida 2019-10-04 Denied IFP adjudication civil-procedure due-process federal-claim judicial-reasoning procedural-requirements reasons state-court Whether the due process clause requires a state court adjudicating a federal claim to set forth the reasons for its adjudication?
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings 1) Whether Petitioner was denied "Fundamental Fairness " in the State Court Proceedings? 2) Whether State and District Court erred in denying Petitio…
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction whEthER Countq clinton Heit ANd NURSE JA:l violAted PEtitioNER's 14+h Right AMENd mENt BY DENYiNg oppurtonity the him to woRk IN food 2 SERV.CE ; whot…
19-362 Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones Louisiana 2019-09-18 Denied 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure contested-funds due-process equal-protection finality-of-judgment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-judgment right-to-appeal standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a n…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution 1) If several states following close versions of Rule 25 (FRCP) have held that judgments without jurisdiction of the decedent are a nullity, and tho…
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Petitioner Questions whether Discrimination of Equal Opportunity Because of Social Economic To Defend Petitioner Right to Appeal. Petitioner Question…
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 …
19-259 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…
19-5728 Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court (1) Whether a federal appel late court fai ls to provi de legitimate federal habeas revi ew when i t rejects an i neffecti ve assi stance of counsel c…
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review 1. When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim his claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by fe…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal In Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (2002), the Court held that when a State voluntarily removes a case from …
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…
19-5297 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…
19-5323 Edwardo De Juan v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHEN POSTCONVICTION MOTION WHERE CASE ELEMENTS FILED OR EXIST8 AND (B) CONFLICT EXISTS IN DEC…
19-5271 Demarko Deon Cooper v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review lower-court-decision state-court unreasonable-application Was the lower court's decision to deny habeas corpus relief to the Petitioner in this cause contrary to, and an unreasonable application of, clearly e…
19-5204 Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence I wish for the court to review the errors Comitted in vidence Was allowed nowever I do not agree on the basis that now I have a criminal record and wi…
19-31 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge dallas-county judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-court-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction state-law void-judgment void-rulings Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void [not voidable but, void] "proposed " State Court Rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, empl…
19-5055 Isaac Decurtis Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied IFP arraignment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction court-rules criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest state-court transcript warrantless-arrest I.) Whether the 'State .Court had causeda conflict within the State Court ignoring its controlling governed caselaw People v, Thomason 173 Mich. App,…
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal This Petition presents an important, unsettled, and recurring question concerning the "mass action" provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)…
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court 1) Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process exis…
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9588 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Illinois 2019-06-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus illinois-supreme-court standing state-court state-court-review supreme-court Was the Petitioner denied his constitutional right to of Illinos denied his Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus, pursuantto 735 IcS 5/0 -102 tSeg witha…
18A1249 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Question not identified.
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation DOES THE FAILURE OF THE STATE COURT CLERK'S OFFICE TO NOTIFY PETITIONER OF THE COURT'S DECISION ON APPEAL CONSTITUTE RELIEF? SHOULD EQUITABLE TOLLING…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond…
18-9476 In Re Anthony K. Anderson 2019-05-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the 8th District Court unfairly precluded pro-se litigant Anthony K. Anderson from obtaining an equal and fair ruling without implied judicial…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
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.
18-9203 Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have Jurdiction? Did the United States District Court have Jurdiction? Did the Penn…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
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 …
18-9021 Valerie Arroyo v. Daniel J. Zamora, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-conduct deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-court federal-questions judicial-interference sovereign-immunity state-agencies state-court Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug…
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Did the eleventh circuit court of appeals enter a decision in conflict with decisions of other court of appeals (U.S.C.A.) on the same important matte…
18-8848 Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-16 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur 1. Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias…
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…
18-8608 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame…
18-8503 In Re Leroy Lamont Wells 2019-03-21 Denied IFP case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.20 1404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pu…
18-8430 Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent In Brumfield v. Cain, 135 S. Ct. 2269, 2276, 2282 (2015), this Court made clear that 28 U.S.C § 2254(d)(2) is satisfied when a state court denies an e…
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…
18-8384 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2019-03-13 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason Can the state appeal court deny me my konstitutional igt to y fiber u y e e e ent as to y it dend y Peion r A xt writ?
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…
18-8236 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…
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Did The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in Denying Certificate of Appealability of the denial of the Amendment of th…
18-8212 Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness Question not identified.
18-8178 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. David Liebel, et al. Indiana 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure exceptions federal-court federal-removal judicial-discretion jurisdiction multi-defendant procedural-rules removal state-court unrelated-claims Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 18 allows a case with unrelated claims to be removed from state court to federal court, and, if so, the except…
18-8150 Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa…
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE COURTS BEING DENED WHEN A FRAUD ON A STATE COURT DECISION IS USED TO PROVE UNTIMELINESS WHEN FEDERAL COURTS…
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts 1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that…
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
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…
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Question not identified.
18-1021 Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts I. WHETHER AN OBJECTION IS REQUIRED TO PRESERVE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR AN ALLEGED PUBLIC TRIAL VIOLATION. II. WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT CAN RELY UPON A S…
18-7736 Robert Davis v. New York New York 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance legal-review procedural-due-process questions-of-fact questions-of-law standing state-court state-court-review Did the State's highest court fail to lawfully review the questions of law in Petitioner's application prior to denying him permission to appeal his c…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court David Riley filed a pro se state post-conviction petition because, unlike every other state, Alabama does not provide counsel to death-sentenced inmat…
18-7512 Ronald Jackson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment state-court subjective-intent as Iweffective and to resolve dis agreements about the Spe cific Legal question D0 Attempt murder oN A Polide officer Carry A mandatory Ferearmerhanc…
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…
18-7364 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…
18-894 Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation…
18-871 Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde…
18-7157 Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect …
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes "an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim" in state court? Does Stone v. Powell apply when a case is …
18-6988 Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio…
18-6976 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2018-12-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon This Courts precedent in United States V. Di xon, 509 U.S. 698 (1993) reached the question of whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a lesser -in…
18-736 Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA New Jersey 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to pro…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6776 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
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 …
18-644 David Carl Cottingham v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Washington 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct bar-discipline due-process first-amendment objective-analysis petitioning petitioning-rights pro-se-representation professional-discipline regulatory-approval split state-court strict-scrutiny A Washington State Bar disciplinary investigation continued through to suspension, notwithstanding Attorney David C. Cottingham's opposition to unlawf…
18-6730 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. California 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
18-6625 Darnell Bernard Blagmon v. Virginia Virginia 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitution recantation state-court state-court-procedure witness-recantation writ-of-innocence Virginia law provides for filing of a Petition for Writ of Actual Innocence (Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-327.10 (West)) in Virginia state court. Petitioner f…
18-6627 David Timothy Curry v. Florida Florida 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts Where A State Appellate Court Takes Up An Issue A "Well Opin" Should "They Be Required "To Address Every Issue That Was Presented When they Decline to…
18-6578 Elebert Fox v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Question not identified.
18-594 Robert R. Snyder v. California California 2018-11-06 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation constitutional-deprivations due-process grievance-system prison prisoner-rights standing state-court state-court-procedure state-prison unsupervised-determinations Should this court grant review to remedy the conspicuous violations of due process, specifically those that elicit important questions concerning the …
18-586 Jack R. Koch v. Adam Estrella, et al. California 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-judgment jurisdiction state-court statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Is it lawful for the state courts to create a final judgment from within the federal court files when there is no entry of a final judgment and then h…
18-6493 Steven D. Burke v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standard-of-proof state-court DOES CHANGING THE STANDARD OF PROOF IN THE STATE COURT DENY A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW?
18-6410 Michael McKinzy v. Carletha Gaston (McKinzy) Missouri 2018-10-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-notice notice procedural-fairness service service-of-process state-action state-court The Missouri Division of Child Support Enforcement (DcsE) was required under sections 464.4705 and 454.475.5 RSMo(2000) +omall a copy of its final Ord…
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…
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Question not identified.
18-6076 Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights Question not identified.
18-6085 Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation 1. WHETHER A FEDERAL HABEAS COURT MAY REEXAMINE A STATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF STATE LAW WHEN IT IS AN OBVIOUS SUBTERFUGE TO EVADE CONSIDERATION OF…
18-335 Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its "sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter"…
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review (1) In a federal habeas corpus proceeding where the state court did not hold a hearing or receive evidence to adjudicate facts on a claim, has the hab…
18-5971 Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62…
18-5857 Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel state-attorney-office state-court state-courts trial-court WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY DENYING PETITIONER LATIMORE A COMPETENCY HEARING BEFORE A PLEA AGREEMENT WHETHER THE STATE ATTORNEY OFF…
18-227 Justin Michael Wolfe v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-review class-precedent class-v-united-states constitutional-authority constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining state-court state-court-appeals vindictive-prosecution Whether, in light of Class, a guilty plea in state court waives the right to raise on appeal the constitutional authority of the State to prosecute ba…
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…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Question 1: Whether The Court Erred Finding Claim One - Three where not Exhausted To The State's Highest Court In Violation Of The Fourteenth Questio…
18-5499 Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT FAILED TO HOLD AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON HABEAS CORPUS IF,AMONG OTHER FACTORS,TO DEVELOP THE FACTUAL BASIS FOR THE CLAIM IN ST…
18-5492 In Re David Louis Colson 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court 1. Is case which the State was party to, there was a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction in the superior court of Arizona who usurped the power of the…
18-5283 David McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus releif on an unlitig…
18-5229 Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion, which determined that it could not review a state court decision that interpreted federal law because the stat…
18-87 Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. Minnesota 2018-07-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute 1) Is a litigant denied due process in the primary sense of having an opportunity to present his case when a state's highest court overrules a consist…
18-5185 Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2018-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service 1. Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied to a person when the evidence prese…
18-5172 Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding 1. This Court in Brumfield granted federal habeas corpus relief, despite a lack of clearly established federal law, because the state-court decision r…
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations 1. In 198 7 petitioner Guy Rowland was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the State of California . In 1994 he exhausted his state remedies…
18-5060 Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
24A255 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Denied circuit-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus petition-routing procedural-irregularity state-court Question not identified.
24A419 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit Denied criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court Question not identified.
24A531 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California Denied Relisted (2) due-process judicial-review mandamus petition-denial pro-se state-court Question not identified.