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25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-07-01 Denied Amici (2) financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
24-798 Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f…
24-5799 Maria Navarro Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-law habeas-corpus state-statute WHETHER THE ADHERENCE TO AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE LAW IS NOT MANDATE BY A FEDERAL LAW UNDER AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE STATUTE OF CONVICTION THAT "…
23-7548 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute 1) Can a trial Court open and remove children in a "pre-adjudicative Custody" case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by State Statute and…
23-7348 Oksana Marinaro v. Cheryl Eddy Benn, PC Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-mootness civil-procedure court-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment procedural-notice retirement standing state-statute 1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a retired judge preside over the case without an appoin…
23-7322 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-04-26 Denied IFP attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute When a state has a rule that an attorney must be given an opportunity to explain his conduct before being found to have rendered ineffective assistanc…
23-5849 Bryan H. Brown v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP arbitrary-action due-process earned-time-credits government liberty-interest procedural-due-process procedural-rights state-statute WHETHER THE COURT ARBITRARILY DENIED THE PETITIONER'S STATE CREATED RIGHT TO EARNED TIME CREDITS
23-5217 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine Maine 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute Question not identified.
22-7577 Lamonte Ealy v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied IFP blockburger-test constitutional-review double-jeopardy multiplicity procedural-default same-elements same-parties state-statute Whether jurist of reason would find it debatable or wrong the District court assessment of Double Jeopardy Multiplicity counts under the same state st…
22-6648 Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-01-27 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture 1. "The Maine State Supreme Court has issued an edict in Saunders v. Tisher that conflicts with and usurps Maine Revised Statute Title 34-B § 3861 and…
22-661 David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment In accord with the Tenth Amendment, how is it determined whether a power is reserved to the people or to the State? Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amend…
22-6511 William Maskevich v. Illinois Department of Employment Security, et al. Illinois 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation notice-of-remedies precedent-analysis state-statute statutory-interpretation West-Covina-v-Perkins West Covina v. Perkins, 525 U.S. 234 (1999) addressed circumstances in which "not one State or the Federal Government has seen fit to require" a notic…
22-498 Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will?
22-206 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System, et al. New York 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process pension pension-benefits property-rights standing state-constitution state-retirement-system state-statute The word "substantial" is not found in the governing statute, CPLR 5601 (a), or the New York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals as…
22-5513 Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-09-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori…
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…
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute The Louisville Metro Planning Commission denied a developer's applications for approval of a minor plat and a related waiver after announcing their bi…
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to class of pretial detain…
21-1285 M & N Financing Corporation, et al. v. Department of Fair Employment and Housing California 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-excessiveness eighth-amendment excessive-fines gender-discrimination penalty-damages small-business small-business-liability state-statute In an action for alleged gender discrimination in violation of a state civil rights statute, is an award of more than $6 million in penalty damages ag…
21-1224 Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association Washington 2022-03-09 Denied due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as …
21-1116 Matthew Liebovich, et al. v. Diane Janice Tobin, et al. California 2022-02-11 Denied civil-procedure discretion due-process notice notice-requirement state-court-discretion state-statute supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Notice is an "elementary and fundamental requirement of due process," so where a court enters a judgment absent notice, the Due Process Clause demands…
21-6479 Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process 1) WHETHER THE MISSOURI BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BY APPLYING A NEW PAROLE STATUTE, SECTION 5…
21-5790 Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a "crime of violence," unconstitutionally vague, whe…
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut…
21-27 Arrow Highway Steel, Inc. v. Robert Dubin California 2021-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) dormant-commerce-clause former-resident interstate-commerce judicial-enforcement non-discriminatory residency-status state-statute stipulated-judgment tolling-law tolling-statute 1. Whether the dormant commerce clause may be used to invalidate the application of a state's neutral, non-discriminatory tolling statute to defeat th…
20-7799 Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds…
20-1335 A. P. v. Vermont Vermont 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute 1. Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States C…
20-7212 Kareem Davenport v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court 'f 0- p^fSOA i<$ &SSuj*\€/cl ^^dtaily. U..cit~ ,rt 'tof' tit a ( cIac| the Steps 1 t® ti/\d olefeA^t Tit Qt MAptf & flot Ctytectty adhere 4 tv^cun t…
20-1091 Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. New York 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute 1. Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minne sota State Bd. for Community Colls, v. Knight, 465 U.S. 271 (1984) in ruling Respondent Town Board …
20-6444 Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-27 Denied IFP cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement In a pre-Carpenter v. United States case, did the state appellate court err in extending the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requ…
20-137 Prescott McCurdy v. Maine Maine 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mens-rea personal-liberty seizure state-statute takings unfair-trial 1) Has the 'peoples' right to 'personal liberty' been suspended? Whereas the State; through statutes; is criminalizing 'personal liberty ' while aut…
19-1354 Tan Phan v. Minh Van Truong, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-liquidation chapter-7-bankruptcy creditor-claims homestead homestead-exemption lien property-liens secured-debt state-constitution state-constitution-vs-statute state-constitutional-law state-statute unsecured-creditor unsecured-debt Does Chapter 7 bankruptcy require the nonexempt debt to be secured as a lien in order to liquidate debtors' homestead? And if state statute conflicts …
19-8595 Brandon Williams v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process federalism judicial-review negligence standing state-statute takings Does statutes of the State of Maryland supersede and/or override the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights? Is the Constitution of…
19-1278 Hunter Fussell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived automatic-transfer child-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer liberty-interest state-statute 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires that a child receive an individualized hearing before being placed in criminal court to be tried as an adul…
19-7731 Michael Herrold v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation 1. Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element …
19-7646 Davion Fitzgerald v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub…
19-7538 Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Minnesota 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute medicaid medicaid-coverage medical-assistance medicare state-statute statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the applicable "plain and unambiguous " language in light of Hauser v. IdahoDWP and of Congress 's federal statute 42 U.S.C. 1396a(aa) and…
19-6989 George Calvin Belt v. Florida Florida 2019-12-18 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits QUESTION 1. A. How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (hereinafter referred to as DOR CSP) can enf…
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments 1. Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute? 2. D…
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521 (2011), this Court held that a prisoner who has been denied access to DNA testing under a state statute may bring …
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
19-339 Eugene J. Sonnier, II v. Catholic Foundation of The Diocese of Lafayette, et al. Louisiana 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) armed-forces congressional-intent dis-internment federal-law federal-preemption military-benefits military-remains preemption remains-disposition service-member-rights state-statute Whether Louisiana's dis-internment statute, La. R.S. 8:659, is preempted by Title 10 U.S.C. § 1482, and whether the state statute is in direct conflic…
19-5751 Charles Massengill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of…
19-5732 Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of t…
19-5441 Louis Mercado v. Jacob Sorey, Warden, et al. Florida 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process property-rights standing state-statute takings 1. WERE THE FETITIDNER'S RIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES AND FLURIDA CONSTITUTIONS EGREGIOUSLY VIOLATED BY FLORIDA CIRCUIT ANS APPEUATE COURTS? 2. SHOULD …
19-5253 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order I. Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a St…
19-13 Tennessee v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention certification diversity-jurisdiction federal-court first-impression judicial-procedure state-constitution state-constitutional-issue state-law state-statute Whether a federal court exercising its diversity jurisdiction should certify an important state constitutional issue of first impression to the State'…
18-1480 Jason Caissie, aka Jason Cullen Caissie v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment cheek-v-us constitutional-rights due-process right-to-counsel state-prosecution state-statute state-statutes traffic-ticket traffic-violation uniform-traffic-ticket Whether the State of Mississippi is in direct conflict of the due process protections provided in the 14th, 5th, and 6th Amendments when they use a Un…
18-9183 Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a…
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…
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-553, …
18-8339 Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co…
18-7968 Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute WHETHER A STATE STATUTE THAT GIVES SENTENCING JUDGES UNLIMITED, UNCHALLENGEABLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION TO IMPOSE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES, VIOLATE T…
18-7966 Desmond Smith v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights drug-offense generic-federal-offense generic-offense sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-law-definition state-statute Whether the ACCA's definition-of a "serious drug offense" imposes a sentence enhancement or make an exception when a state's definition of "delivery a…
18-7915 Arthur Sean Warner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-locational-elements categorical-approach categorical-match categorical-matching criminal-statute-interpretation descamps descamps-v-united-states federal-statute mathis mathis-descamps-standard mathis-v-united-states school-property state-criminal-statute state-statute Did the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals findings result in a decision that was(1) Unreasonable in light of the evidence present…
18-986 Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child Tenth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response Waived child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation An Oklahoma social worker and two law enforcement officers investigating child abuse allegations contributed to the brief removal of a minor child fro…
18-7263 Gerald Patmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation The question presented by this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2…
18-7126 Ishmael Abdullah v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New …
18-6671 Jimmy David Malone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta…
18-6398 Deon Pittman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen…
18-463 Bernard Morello v. Texas Texas 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution if the state applies…
18-6025 Rene Borrero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is catego…
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties 1. WHETHER THE STATE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER -42 PA. CONS. STAT.6501-6505, WHERE THE VALIDITY OF THE STATE STATUTES ON THE GROUNDS ITS BEING REPUG…
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…
18-5229 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…