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25A397 Obe E. Johnson v. Harry Feliciano-Maldonado, et al. First Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
25-5221 Anna Gristina v. Juan Merchan, former New York State Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-proceedings younger-abstention I. Whether the Younge r abstention doctrine requires a federal court to abstain from a state court civil proceeding (where a party seeks to pay for, a…
24A1262 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
24A1242 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-06-16 Presumed Complete abuse-of-process administrative-agencies certiorari-review constitutional-due-process fraud state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
24-1064 John Doe v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived ada-title-ii civil-rights disability-discrimination parent-child-rights sovereign-immunity state-court-proceedings 1) Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit disability discrimination in state court proceedings? 2) What is the definition of "…
24-781 First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-01-24 Granted Amici (52)Relisted (10) constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a …
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 …
23-7281 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1446 civil-procedure discretion federal-jurisdiction remand remand-petition removal removal-statute state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction after the removal to the District Court? 2. Whether "the state court shall proceed no further u…
23-821 Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power 1. Whether the Rooker Feldman Doctrine was intended to shield Defendants; in a Title 42 section 1983 claim, in immunity for their actions of fraudulen…
22-7372 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
22-7119 Vincent Alonzo Corson v. Texas Texas 2023-03-27 Denied IFP carrier-standard cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process habeas-corpus mccleskey-abuse-of-writ preclusive-effect retroactivity state-court-proceedings 1. If a State Post-Conviction proceeding is conducted in a manner that does not afford an Applicant a full & fair hearing —Due Process —leaving the Co…
22-883 Rachel Evens v. David Gilbertson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity standing state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1: What constitutes "acts in excess of jurisdiction" versus "the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction", with the judges being subject to civil…
22-701 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal Constitutional v…
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, …
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen…
22-478 David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention 1. Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are "... flagrantly and patently violative ..." of the Fourth Amendment to t…
22-240 Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia, et al. v. Jonathan R., Minor, By Next Friend Sarah Dixon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights class-action due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism standing state-court-proceedings state-courts younger-abstention 1. Must federal courts abstain from interfering with state-court child welfare proceedings under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971)? 2. May federa…
22-5574 Gregory Lamar Blackmon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP appellate-review certified-question civil-procedure due-process standing state-court-proceedings Whether Mr. Blackmon's appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to argue the trial court erred in its treatment of Mr. Blackmon's decision to be …
22-5506 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS' DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS TO A FAIR ' TRIAL DURING HIS 2009 CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE JUDICIAL'DISTRICT OF…
22-5478 Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings Did the Ninth Circuit depart from the fourth, accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding when it ruled that clear and convincing evidence (in th…
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 …
21-1498 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional violation…
21-6818 Arron Lawson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a sentence of death violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when t…
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit In 2012, an Oklahoma jury convicted Alonzo Cortez Johnson of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced him to life in prison i…
21-6244 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-conviction state-court-proceedings IS A STATE FEDERAL HABEAS PETITIONER PURSUANT TO A PROCEEDING UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C SECTION 2241 REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A…
20-1613 John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application 1. Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a…
20-7930 Oscar Smith v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-05-05 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi…
20-7766 Lyndon Davis v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-analysis civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process standing state-court-proceedings A) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit exceed its Scope of the COA (Certificate of Appealability) analysis When the Court d…
20-7724 John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Is a state court's ruling that a criminal defendant's guilty plea was "voluntary" a constitutional question under the Fourteenth Amendment, subject to…
20-1284 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Federal Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over that claim.
20-7367 Sherwood Laran Bostic v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel state-court-proceedings state-proceeding DID THE U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERR WHEN IT DENIED (COA) S B B P B B B Y PS WHEN IT SUSTAINED THAT PETITIONER HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUN…
20-592 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-action state-court-proceedings 1. Does the RookerFeldman doctrine bar federal constitutional claims arising from a government action in the state trial court in before a final rulin…
20-421 Progressive Lawn Managers, Inc. v. Lawn Managers, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived divorce-orders lanham-act mark-abandonment naked-licensing parallel-state-court-proceedings state-court-proceedings trademark-infringement unclean-hands 1. Whether in a trademark infringement case in which it is necessary for the federal court to construe state-court divorce orders governing the rights…
20-5802 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied IFP due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi…
20-5383 Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su…
20-5089 William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat…
19-8901 Fabian Fuentes Rosas v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-exception federal-habeas habeas-corpus material-misrepresentation ninth-circuit plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to consider and decide one of the certified claims raised in Rosas's appeal, namely an exhausted argument that Ros…
19-8419 Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure 1) HOW CAN ANY PARTY OR MEMBER OF THE COURT, FROM A QUESTION OF HABEAS CORPUS (FEDERAL), UTILIZE WHEN STATE COURTS, NOT ALSO A CROWN IN A USTED, WHEN …
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Absent relief from this Court, James North will forfeit federal appellate review of his conviction and life sentence because his lawyers forgot to put…
19-7742 Derrick Lamark Lewis, Sr. v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-courts federal-remedies habeas judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-error standing state-court-proceedings state-courts What remedies are available for Petetioner when the State Courts habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of dustice? How is it poss…
19-7738 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adoption civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus standing state-court-proceedings QUESTION ONE Is a case involving a state habeas proceeding by a parent, on behalf of their child, who attacks the validity of the custody of his or he…
19-7710 George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings On the record in this case, the District Court erred in denying a writ of habeas corpus without a plenary hearing. When an application by a state pri…
19-7683 Marlon Blacher v. California California 2020-02-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal arbitrarily-denied civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion resentencing standing state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation carse /evidantiary haaring af a fetition fon a writ of habaas corpus wherein the prasanted faets include : Marlon Blacher, hereinafter "Patitioner ", …
19-7406 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…
19-919 Joseph Becker, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act equitable-receivership in-aid-of-jurisdiction in-rem-claims ponzi-scheme securities-claim securities-litigation settlement-bar-order state-court-litigation state-court-proceedings 1. Whether the Anti-Injunction Act ("AIA"), 28 U.S.C. §2283, allows for the issuance of bar order by the equitable receiver appointed by the SEC that …
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings New evidence establishes Petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust.
19-615 Elaine Ward v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-liability service-of-process state-court-proceedings transparency 1. Is there a violation of due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments as related to 42 U.S.C. 1983, when a municipality, fails…
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…
19-6213 Marcus Bartholomew Booker v. Texas Texas 2019-10-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-habeas post-conviction-habeas-corpus right-to-access state-court-proceedings trial-ineffectiveness trial-records Does an indigent defendant have a right to access to a free Clerk's and Reporter's Records in a state post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding when th…
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings 1. Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution. 2. Whether …
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…
19-5675 Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-5628 Charles Rochester v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power administrative-law anti-injunction-act civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction investigative-misconduct state-court-proceedings tampering-with-evidence I. Does the United State District Court as well as the United States Second Circuit of Appeals have a duty to protect jurisdiction and join, a State c…
19-5233 Martin Leyva Valdez, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-timeliness rule-4 section-2254 state-court-proceedings state-court-records state-court-review timeliness ylst-v-nunnemaker (1) Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Ylst v Nunnemaker because it failed to presume that the silent denial of his …
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
19-5074 Forge Dennis Mileham v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
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…
18-9228 David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat…
18-9073 Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party Question not identified.
18-8682 Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review The evidence in the state court record suggested that Sean Carter suffers from organic brain damage. Carter's trial attorneys performed deficiently, t…
18-1194 Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), is categor…
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. 2019-03-14 Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Whether this court should reverse the decision of the Sixth Circuit, and direct the District Court: To apply the doctrine of Equitable Tolling and re…
18-7867 Meria James Bradley v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-rights due-process evidence-withholding federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-findings state-court-proceedings state-court-review (1) Whether defense counsel withheld evidence for the jury that shown that the petitioner was actually innocent, but for a reasonable probability that…
18-7813 Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure (1.) At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become so inadequate as to render that process "ineffective" as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. § 2…
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…
18-6988 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…
18-572 Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation Fifth Circuit 2018-11-01 Dismissed abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings 1. Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver? 2. Shoul…
18-510 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-law free-speech hobbs-act judicial-discretion professional-speech state-court-proceedings vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez, debtor …
18-455 Aaron Joseph Emineth v. Oregon Oregon 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment photo-radar standard-of-proof state-court-proceedings traffic-enforcement trial-court 1. Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18-6079 Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings Rowan Brooks was 65 years old on th e night in 2004 when his 68-year-old wife of eighteen years passed away. Neit her the police officer on the scene …
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…
18-5635 Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court-proceedings strickland-standard [1] DID THE DISTRICT COURT SIDE STEP THE COA DETERMINATION UNDER §2253(c) WHEN IT DENIED JACKSONS APPEAL AND HIS COA AND JUSTIFIED IT'S DENIAL OF HIS …
18-5512 George Clinton Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
18-5479 Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty 1) When a State Trial Court neglects it's duty to make findings after controverted and unresloved issues have been shown, is it resonable when conside…
18-5379 Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel Whether reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived appellant of due process and a fair trial? Whether trial or appellate counsel rende…