| 25-725 |
Edward Weinhaus v. Regina A. Scannicchio, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
district-court-jurisdiction federal-lawsuit jurisdictional-challenge merits-dismissal rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-decision |
1. Whether the District Court is precluded from exercising jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine when Petitioner's injury occurred prior to t… |
| 25-5876 |
William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision |
Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer… |
| 25-5073 |
William Menter v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cronic-standard due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance state-court-decision strickland-standard |
1. Whether the state court's decision on Appellant's Illegal Sentence claims contrary to State v. Yarbough, 100 N.J. 627 (1985) and whether the Appell… |
| 24-7049 |
Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit step outside the bounds of § 2254(d) by considering reasons not found in the CCA's reasoned opinion to determine the reasonablen… |
| 23-7465 |
Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit |
Does a federal habeas court's failure to review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) the last reasoned state court decision adjudicating a federal claim's merits… |
| 23-6894 |
Tyler A. Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel professional-norms state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
1. Did the Seventh Circuit err when it reviewed the merits of Gonzales's claim de novo, did not analyze the particular reasons the Wisconsin court pro… |
| 23-6650 |
Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent |
Does Lockhart v. Fretwell, 506 U.S. 364, 113 S. Ct. 838, 122 L. Ed. 2d 180
(1993), prevent federal habeas corpus relief regardless of substantive prej… |
| 23A496 |
Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6146 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 23-31 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
|
aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction
of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)—under which a state prisoner is ineligible for federal habeas relief even … |
| 22-7722 |
Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection
22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision |
Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr… |
| 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… |
| 22-7274 |
Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7244 |
Jose Ramon Cruz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment state-court-decision state-court-deference strickland strickland-standard |
When a State court's summary denial assumed the truth of the facts plead in a State habeas writ application and a Federal habeas court, pursuant to 28… |
| 22-6629 |
Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference federal-constitutional-claim habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision state-court-review state-law-evidentiary-rule strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (""AEDPA")
provides that habeas relief "shall not be granted with respect to any claim that … |
| 22-6509 |
Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers |
1. Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err when it interpreted your holding in Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S.Ct. 1188 (2018) to mean that "in assessing the rea… |
| 22-6119 |
Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion attorney-abandonment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in its application of the constitutional standard for the denial of a motion for reconsideration based on the pe… |
| 22-282 |
Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings |
1. Whether a "judicial taking" under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action.
2. Whether a property owner who is deprived… |
| 22-5339 |
Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law |
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| 21-6776 |
Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision |
Has the State of Illinois entered a decision in conflict with the decision in a United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, Violati… |
| 21-6138 |
Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision |
Should the Court hold this petition pending disposition of Brown v. Davenport, No. 20-826, which will likely address how 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) and Brecht… |
| 21-5837 |
Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision |
Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th… |
| 21-5526 |
Duane Kelly v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing inconsistent-verdict inconsistent-verdicts post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurist state-court-decision |
1.) WAS THE DISTRICT COURTS FINDINGS THAT THE STATE COURT REASONABLY APPLIED THE INCONSISTENT VERDICT LAW IN THIS CASE CORRECT?
2.) WOULD A REASONABL… |
| 21-5460 |
Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi… |
| 20-7847 |
Phillip Minor v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-law habeas-corpus new-intervening-judgment state-court-decision statute-of-limitations |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by not "second guessing" the decision of the state court as to the timing of Mr. Minor's petition, when the state court d… |
| 20-7487 |
Rodarius Grimes v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federalism jurisdictional-issue legal-conflict preemption standing state-court-decision supreme-court-law |
I. WHETHER THE STATE COURT DECISIONS WAS/IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH CLEARLY ESTABLISH LAW AS DETERMINED FROM THE U.S. SUPREME COURT? |
| 20-7336 |
Donovan Jonathan Tillman v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing pretrial-hearing public-trial-clause sixth-amendment state-court-decision witness-exclusion |
Did the state court, contrary to rulings of this Court and of the supreme and intermediate appellate courts of other states, violate the Public Trial … |
| 20-6972 |
Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given … |
| 20-913 |
Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
During opening statements at Petitioner's murder trial, his counsel promised the jury that it would hear from the only eyewitness. Counsel later reneg… |
| 20-15 |
Pennymac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Erich Heidrich, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1738 enforcement-of-agreement fair-labor-standards-act federal-arbitration-act federal-substantive-law individualized-arbitration state-court-decision state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of an arbitration agreement as applied to Fair Labor Standards Act claims where the parties' … |
| 19-8451 |
Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record |
Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for … |
| 19-8413 |
Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8042 |
Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi… |
| 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… |
| 19-7192 |
Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations |
DOES THE READING OF 28 U.S.C. § 2244(A) CREATE AMBIGUITY IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(D)(A) READ IN PART "A ONE YEAR PERIOD OF LIMITATION SHALL APPLY TO AN APP… |
| 19-6412 |
Dennis Jones v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure |
The State's Court of last resort decided an important Federal Question in a way that conflicts with the right to counsel in a criminal case, where (a)… |
| 19-6203 |
Eric Christopher Barrass v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-review green-v-georgia habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts third-party-confession |
1. In light of Wilson v. Sellers, 584 U.S. __, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), did the Eleventh Circuit err in applying 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the state appel… |
| 19-6102 |
Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision |
GRANTED PETITSONER A CERTI FICATE of APPEAlAbIty PORSUANT TO MILlER -EL V.COCKER, 537 U.S.3a2 ON. QUESTIONS OF HIS THE U.S. CONSTITUIONAl RIGHTS? PERT… |
| 19-5438 |
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i… |
| 18-8419 |
Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test |
1. Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the spec… |
| 18-8341 |
Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications |
Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a… |
| 18-1021 |
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… |
| 18-7632 |
Abraham Grant v. Wendy Kelly, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion speedy-trial standing state-court-decision |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7326 |
Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's "plain statement… |
| 18-656 |
Johnathan Hall, Director, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole v. William O. Ayers |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2254 experienced-criminal-defense-attorney experienced-criminal-trial-attorney federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-decision uncounseled-defendant waiver |
Was federal habeas relief improperly granted when, without basis in this Court's clearly established precedent, the federal court disregarded the dete… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6643 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision |
Sobhy Iskander, a state prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis r extraordinary circumstance moves this motion on a writ of certi- orari that a state co… |
| 18-5687 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar |
1.) Whether ding he tiaevieoce gertd by federal proedural and substantive de proces of law preseribed particubarly by the 7rotected liberty interest i… |
| 18-5274 |
Manuel Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision |
A prior drug conviction, if it is a federal "controlled substance offense," can increase a federal criminal sentence or result in an alien's deportati… |
| 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… |