| 25-6848 |
Dennis Lenin Carranza-Clavel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review deportable-alien plain-error-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-971 |
Robert Wayne Hutton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
|
child-sexual-abuse-material circuit-conflict criminal-law fourth-amendment privacy-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as a matter of law, secretly recording a minor's ordinary and routine nonsexual activity falls outside the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)? |
| 25-6817 |
Gerald Kemondre Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights firearm-regulation historical-tradition machinegun-conversion second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a handgun affixed with a machinegun conversion device constitute s an "arm" under the Se cond Amendment' s plain text, thus requiring the gove… |
| 25-6789 |
Richard Brundige v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment, either on its face or as applied. |
| 25-956 |
Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
|
covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation |
Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") to fund "payroll costs" in order that small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandem… |
| 25-6761 |
Kennan Alexis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation non-violent-drug-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals who, like Petitioner, only have felony convic… |
| 25-6760 |
Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii |
Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days? |
| 25-942 |
In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. |
|
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed "challengin… |
| 25A901 |
Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Application |
|
average-manufacturer-price false-claims-act medicaid-rebate pharmaceutical-regulation qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified.
The petition text provided is an "Application for an Extension of Time" to file a petition for certiorari, not a petition fo… |
| 25-6729 |
Antwaun O. Heaggeans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-922 |
Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
|
agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review
the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District
Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for … |
| 25A888 |
Patrick Tate Adamiak v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
|
bruen-standard criminal-possession firearm-relics national-firearms-act second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6702 |
Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25-6712 |
William Louis Armstrong v. Boyland Auto BGMC LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court-discretion frcp-service in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation statutory-interpretation |
1. I filed with an IFP motion; the court found me indigent (including for counsel recruitment). I moved for service under FRCP 4(c)(3), but the distri… |
| 25-6714 |
Ivan Granillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-crime immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation transportation |
What mens rea is required for the element that the defendant transport or move the noncitizen "in furtherance " of a violation of law ? |
| 25-6718 |
Otto Melvin Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split deportable-alien individualized-finding sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-6723 |
Victor Dema v. Jennifer Toth, Director, Arizona Department of Transportation |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-courts forum-defendant-rule immigration-jurisdiction ninth-circuit removal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
A. Whether All The Ninth Court Of Appeals ' Decisions Rendered Against
This Particular Petitioner In This Very Case, Conflict With All The Other
Fed… |
| 25-916 |
OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights |
Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re… |
| 25-917 |
Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Air Carrier Access Act, 49 U.S.C. § 41705 — which provides that "an air carrier may not discriminate " against qualified individuals wi… |
| 25-6698 |
Dalando T. Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6704 |
Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 25-900 |
Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
|
admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft |
1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso… |
| 25-913 |
Keegan L. Lovell v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction |
The relevant federal criminal statute requires that
"[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military
Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano… |
| 25A868 |
Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Application |
|
certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A866 |
Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
|
circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified.
The document provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition … |
| 25-6677 |
John Wayne Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York… |
| 25A853 |
Joseph Sullivan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
criminal-prosecution data-security jury-instruction nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6662 |
Pierre Burns v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-of-mistake first-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the District Court's prohibition against presenting a defense of mistake of age in a case arising under 18 U.S.C. § 225l(a) created a viola… |
| 25-6675 |
Paul Wright v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law disability-claims judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-jurisdiction veterans-benefits |
Is an impacted veteran entitled to judicial review of a definitive
decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assert jurisdiction under
38 U.S… |
| 25-889 |
G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families |
Pennsylvania |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when dete… |
| 25-893 |
Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower |
Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B) that a relator have "knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclos… |
| 25-6646 |
Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while
dismissing unrebutted record evidence as "unpersuasive, " without pro… |
| 25-6648 |
Nathan Bermea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exc… |
| 25-6650 |
Michael Ledon Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-6652 |
Jarmarl Thornton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6653 |
Randy Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the district court obviously err by considering the retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), in violation of Esteras v. United States,… |
| 25-879 |
American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation |
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to applia… |
| 25-6641 |
Ervin Thornton, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac… |
| 25-868 |
Brandon Hughes v. National Football League |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
consumer-rights data-disclosure personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act video-service-provider |
The Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") prohibits a "video tape service provider" from "knowingly disclos[ing], to any person, personally identifiab… |
| 25-6621 |
Lamar Reese v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
legal-procedure ohio-revised-code petition-denial post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation trial-court-error |
Did the State trial Court err in denying Petitioner's Post Conviction Petition that was filed under Ohio Revised Code 2953.23(A)(1)? |
| 25-6622 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-863 |
G'Ante Butler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in… |
| 25-6606 |
Robert Paul Rosell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-851 |
Ashley Grayson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law |
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) prohibits intentionally intercepting wire or oral communications or di… |
| 25-6594 |
William James Forbis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6597 |
Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6599 |
Harry Whitman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-resentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fact that a prisoner is serving a sentence that is significantly longer than the law would now permit, in light of the First Step Act's no… |
| 25-839 |
Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation |
Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test applied… |
| 25-843 |
Disability Rights New York v. New York State Department of Health, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing disability-rights federal-jurisdiction individual-rights protection-and-advocacy statutory-interpretation |
Whether DRNY, as a Protection & Advocacy System authorized by Congress to bring lawsuits in its own name on behalf of individuals with disabilities pu… |
| 25-6574 |
Christopher Michael Arredondo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25A819 |
Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
|
attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6558 |
Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
judicial-construction legal-hermeneutics legislative-intent plain-meaning statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the statutory language is plain, must courts enforce it according to its terms? |
| 25-6566 |
William Dahl v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law factfinder-standard federal-statute judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2252A criminalizes the receipt of child pornography. A depiction counts as child pornography if its "production . . . involves the use of … |
| 25-818 |
Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits |
Whether "[t]ime credits" under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release. |
| 25-6530 |
Terry Lee Gammage v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d… |
| 25-809 |
Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
The first question presented is whether 29 U.S.C. § 1386(b)(1)'s instruction to "reduce[]" any "withdrawal liability" of an employer in a subsequent p… |
| 25-811 |
Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence? |
| 25-817 |
Charles W. Christopher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards |
What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity? |
| 25-6517 |
Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation |
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199… |
| 25-6523 |
Dennis Martin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6513 |
Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment firearms-regulation gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits those under indictment from shipping, transporting, or receiving any firearm or ammunitio… |
| 25-782 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin… |
| 25-6468 |
Derrick Hahn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to an individual based on his past conviction for a non-violent offense.
… |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6460 |
Brad O'Neal Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner. |
| 25-6462 |
Jamaur Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery … |
| 25-763 |
PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand
this case to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did … |
| 25-6433 |
Avis Coward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-6435 |
Lenny Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-6438 |
Frankie Acosta v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits
anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a term e… |
| 25-6440 |
Juan Guajardo-Martinez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-law-enforcement immigration-authorities indictment-delay speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should recognize the "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act when federal law enforcement and immigration authorities work togethe… |
| 25-6441 |
Kamlesh Banga v. Lawrence R. Lustig |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
article-three judicial-recommendation magistrate-judge objection-standard procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court violates 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) and Article III when it adopts a magistrate judge's recommendation through complete judicia… |
| 25-6442 |
Michael Hinds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac… |
| 25-762 |
Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency |
Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC… |
| 25-6422 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800, under which Petitioner was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, enacted in… |
| 25-6427 |
Devin Joe Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-747 |
Matthew Cline v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely… |
| 25A743 |
Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
|
circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-735 |
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of the jurisdiction, recognized by this Court in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 (1974), … |
| 25-6416 |
Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con… |
| 25-731 |
Yellow Turtle Design, LLC, et al. v. Sonya Salkin Slott, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-distribution chapter-7-liquidation creditor-priority settlement-approval statutory-interpretation |
In Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 580 U.S. 451, 457, 137 S.Ct. 973, 979, 197 L.Ed.2d 398 (2017), this Court held, "The [Bankruptcy] Code makes clea… |
| 25-6397 |
Mark Dyer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t… |
| 25-707 |
Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona… |
| 25A713 |
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6406 |
Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence |
Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-6407 |
Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-6393 |
Cortez D. Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-701 |
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
critical-declining-status mass-withdrawal multiemployer-pension pension-plan-termination special-financial-assistance statutory-interpretation |
Whether a multiemployer pension plan that terminated through mass withdrawal before the 2020 plan year is eligible for Special Financial Assistance un… |
| 25A702 |
Mark Alan Deakins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-697 |
Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Pending |
|
antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en… |
| 25A700 |
Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Application |
|
circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6390 |
Busch Sereal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non… |
| 25-6363 |
Arturo Amaran v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-12-15 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law fifth-amendment judicial-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Given the United States Supreme Court's now long standing and clear 5th Amendment jurisprudence, do Florida Courts have authority to expand, or oth… |
| 25-6368 |
Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Luis Garza-Gomez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to po… |
| 25A682 |
Medical Staffing of America, LLC, dba Steadfast Medical Staffing, a Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Secretary of Labor |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Application |
|
economic-realities-test employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor statutory-interpretation worker-status |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6323 |
Donald Irving Hill, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-rights felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York… |
| 25A679 |
Matthew Lee Pelton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
criminal-statute ninth-circuit pecuniary-damages restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A680 |
MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
agency-overreach erisa multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
This document is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. It does no… |
| 25-6309 |
Melquan Thawney v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s categorial ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional. |
| 25-6311 |
Christopher Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6313 |
Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-6293 |
Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161. |
| 25-655 |
In Re Rayon Payne |
|
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violations due-process judicial-bias procedural-limbo statutory-interpretation venue-transfer |
1. Whether a United States District Court may transfer a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) to a judicial district where the Plaintiff has already demonst… |
| 25-6281 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Dubois, because it … |
| 25-6285 |
Rudy Altamirano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-6286 |
Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit |
Is the Appellate Court able to violate 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(D) arguing that this statute is not mandatory but a simple guideline?
It is incontrovert… |
| 25-6272 |
James Taylor v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa legal-standing nonjudicial-foreclosure statutory-interpretation |
I. Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692, is Freedom Mortgage Corporation a "Debt Collector" under the FDCPA's Primary Definition, when attempting to collect debt?
… |
| 25-632 |
Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4), may a court independently, and without deference to the arbitrator's determination, decide what claims are presented in a p… |
| 25-636 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
|
confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets |
1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote… |
| 25-642 |
Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 25-6266 |
George Ugochukwu Egwumba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent criminal-law identity-theft means-of-identification possession-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove a defendant possessed a means of identification without the consent of its owner – that is, stole the identity – to … |
| 25-6267 |
Alphonso Lataurean James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
application-note constitutional-review criminal-conviction firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented for review are: (1) Is whether Application Note 14(b) unreasonably interprets the text of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), such that no defer… |
| 25A636 |
Princewell Arinze Duru v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
|
criminal-enhancement fraud-conspiracy identity-theft lawful-authority statutory-interpretation victim-definition |
Question not identified. |
| 25-619 |
Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o… |
| 25-6259 |
Sam Boyd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure |
When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey… |
| 25-6251 |
Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of
right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the
opportu… |
| 25-6254 |
Jorge C. Ferretiz-Hernandez, Ignacio Felix-Salinas, and Elias Chiroy-Cac v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-6250 |
Richard Ruston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1), as well as the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), as cross-referenced in section 3583(d)(1), means "and," o… |
| 25-612 |
Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2025-11-25 |
Pending |
|
criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the word "expunged" in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or does an expungement under state law have to… |
| 25-6212 |
Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol… |
| 25-6213 |
Samuel Galbraith v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
federal-review habeas-corpus parole-board procedural-adequacy state-remedy statutory-interpretation |
When a person has no cause of action and no right of action to appeal the affirmative decision of a parole board, does the simple ability to mail and … |
| 25-6217 |
Christopher Wuchter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t… |
| 25A611 |
Paul Kenneth Cromar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Application |
|
criminal-statute pro-se-petition property-seizure statutory-interpretation tax-law tenth-circuit |
Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(b), which criminalizes forcible rescue of "property after it shall have been seized under this title," applies to property ju… |
| 25-6198 |
Steven Perez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights firearms-acquisition meaningful-constraint second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted of interstate transport and receipt of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and conspiracy to commit this offense… |
| 25-6187 |
Maurice Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-6188 |
Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6189 |
Javonte Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A601 |
Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
|
erisa multiemployer-pension pbgc-deference pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6169 |
Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who… |
| 25-6151 |
Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure medication-administration pretrial-custody sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Is a twenty-five year term of supervised release with stringent special conditions including the forced administration of medication "greater than nec… |
| 25-6153 |
Marco Antonio Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Below, Petitioner Marco Antonio Sanchez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a … |
| 25A585 |
G'Ante Butler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on "resist[ing], opposing], impeding], intimidat[ing], or interfer[ing]" with federal officers while they are "e… |
| 25A588 |
Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-public-defender first-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25A592 |
William Dahl v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6132 |
Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof congressional-intent evidence-law fundamental-rights legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a mandatory statute enacted by Congress to protect an important
fundamental right titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wir… |
| 25-6137 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
In light of United States v. Taylor , 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A),… |
| 25-6138 |
Michael Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo… |
| 25-6140 |
D. B., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families |
Vermont |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
child-welfare due-process family-reunification parental-rights reasonable-efforts statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 42 U.S.C. § 671(a)(15)(B), which mandates that reasonable efforts "shall be made" to reunify families, requires state courts to ensure that… |
| 25A581 |
Ashley Grayson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
clean-hands-doctrine congressional-intent judicial-exception privacy-protection statutory-interpretation wiretap-act |
Whether the Federal Wiretap Act's exclusionary rule in 18 U.S.C. § 2515 applies to unlawfully intercepted communications regardless of whether the gov… |
| 25-6119 |
Charvez Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio… |
| 25-6127 |
Brodrick Eugene Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violate the Fifth and Sixth amendments? |
| 25-6129 |
Paul Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearms-rights gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, on its face or as applied to Petitioner, because the Se… |
| 25-574 |
Ron K. Elfenbein v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
criminal-conviction false-representation health-care-fraud medical-billing statutory-interpretation upcoding |
When an allegedly false statement is premised on an ambiguous rule open to multiple reasonable interpretations, can the government secure a defendant'… |
| 25-6105 |
Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State… |
| 25-6106 |
Rico Gonzalez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-6107 |
Davon Amos Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6108 |
Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25A553 |
Shirley V. Remmert v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure district-court frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6086 |
Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation |
A core purpose of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is to eliminate arbitrary sentencing disparities. As part of that reform, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) r… |
| 25-6088 |
Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize… |
| 25A542 |
Deoman Reeves v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
|
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-563 |
Logan A. McLeod v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-10 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
court-of-appeals-armed-forces factual-sufficiency military-justice national-defense-authorization-act statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has statutory authority to hold that a conviction is factually insufficient under 10 U… |
| 25-6062 |
Carl Morgan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals based on their past conviction for a non-violent offense.
… |
| 25-6064 |
Marcus Gerrod Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A529 |
FemtoMetrix, Inc., et al. v. Hovik Nazaryan |
California |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
civil-liability form-1099 fraudulent-filing information-return statutory-interpretation tax-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 25A538 |
Village of Scarsdale, New York v. Scott Bessent, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
administrative-law charitable-contributions chevron-deference internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation tax-deduction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-551 |
United States v. Shaheem Johnson |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Pending |
|
criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court permissibly found "extraordinary and compelling reasons" to allow reduction of respondent's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c… |
| 25-6054 |
Clyde Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Whether, because the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts are split, a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality o… |
| 25A527 |
Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-549 |
Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
"A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction" of a United States court where "the action is brought ... to confirm an award made pursuan… |
| 25-6039 |
Allan Douglas Wilson v. Department of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-rights compensatory-damages due-process evidence-preservation mootness-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the D.C. Circuit's reliance on mootness doctrine to avoid addressing a case of first impression regarding temporary deprivation of citizens… |
| 25-6041 |
Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 25-540 |
Beyond Nuclear, Inc. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-licensing congressional-action judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do the Administrative Procedure Act and the constitutional separation of powers doctrine prohibit an agency from issuing a license conditioned on Cong… |
| 25-6026 |
Martino Antwion Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6027 |
Deondre Lamont Bain v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-535 |
Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III |
Arkansas |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power makes private conduct illegal absent a clear statement that Congress intended to do more… |
| 25-5998 |
Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024) are structural errors, or whether they are subject to harmless or plain error revi… |
| 25-5999 |
Eric Dennard Parker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-5989 |
Chian Chiu Li v. Apple, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
enablement negative-limitation patent-law specification-requirement statutory-interpretation written-description |
Section 112(a) of Title 35 requires that a patent include a specification containing "a written description of the invention ... in such full, clear, … |
| 25-5972 |
Ramiro Gomez-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-statute federal-definition realistic-probability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a federal "crime of violence" definition for… |
| 25-5976 |
Henry Leon Marrow, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A484 |
Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Application |
|
circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-515 |
Michael Kail v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation |
In Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (2010), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1346 covered only bribery and kickback schemes, expressly excludin… |
| 25-5962 |
Ismael Adan Ortiz-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize… |
| 25-5964 |
Oladayo Oladokun v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
agency-deference judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines ' commentary promulgated
without notice-and-comment rulemaking retains binding
authority after Loper Light Ente… |
| 25-5952 |
Theo M. Owens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5944 |
Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 25-5946 |
Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5924 |
Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25-5916 |
Luis Espinal v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5918 |
Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f… |
| 25-475 |
Jason Camp v. Los Angeles Unified School District |
California |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
educational-funding federal-education-law regulatory-compliance school-district-manipulation statutory-interpretation title-i-funding |
1. Whether a school district's deliberate manipulation of federal Title I enrollment counts to maximize funding allocations—while systematically diver… |
| 25-5909 |
Stevie Gomez Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights felony-conviction firearm-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-466 |
Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Granted |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm. |
| 25-468 |
Walter Rosales, et al. v. Condon-Johnson Associates, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
|
district-court federal-claims futility-exception remand statutory-interpretation supplemental-jurisdiction |
Does a District Court have supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1367 to dismiss a proffered amended complaint deleting all federal claims pursua… |
| 25-469 |
Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits
firearm possession by all unlawfully present
noncitizens, is unconstitutional on its face underth… |
| 25-470 |
Scott Cannon, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
|
derivative-claim erisa-preemption first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation wrongful-death |
Whether a claim for wrongful death under Massachusetts law is preempted by ERISA. |
| 25-5903 |
Joseph Vicarlos Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-453 |
Stephen K. Bannon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-15 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
committee-authority congressional-subpoena criminal-intent due-process statutory-interpretation willful-conduct |
Whether "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful.
Whether the proper composition of… |
| 25-457 |
Topaz Johnson, et al. v. High Desert State Prison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-procedure court-fees filing-fee in-forma-pauperis incarcerated-plaintiff statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1) require each incarcerated plaintiff filing in forma pauperis to pay the full amount of a filing fee whether or not he is f… |
| 25-459 |
Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Granted |
Relisted (2) |
audiovisual-services consumer-definition disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act |
The question here is whether the phrase "goods or services from a video tape service provider," as used in the VPPA's definition of "consumer," refers… |
| 25-447 |
Mark Schena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
compensation-scheme criminal-liability healthcare-referral kickback-statute medical-marketing statutory-interpretation |
Whether paying a healthcare marketer a commission when a physician independently makes a patient referral and receives none of the compensation qualif… |
| 25-5857 |
Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018.
Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser… |
| 25-441 |
Guardian Flight, L.L.C., et al. v. Health Care Service Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split contract-breach erisa-standing injury-in-fact no-surprises-act statutory-interpretation |
The No Surprises Act ("NSA") is Congress's solution to the problem of surprise medical bills. Under the NSA, insurers must cover services provided by … |
| 25-5860 |
Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that a phone containing child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspeci… |
| 25-5862 |
Byron Reyes-Ayala v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
This petition presents two questions.
First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled?
Second, whether th… |
| 25A415 |
Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
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. |
| 25-5842 |
Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5847 |
Charlie Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp… |
| 25-5849 |
Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. The handwritten or heavily corrupted te… |
| 25-5853 |
Clarence Santiago v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-428 |
Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
contract-award court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit interested-party procurement-law statutory-interpretation |
Congress has provided the Court of Federal Claims with exclusive jurisdiction to hear claims brought by "an interested party objecting to " 1) "a soli… |
| 25-429 |
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Granted |
|
immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu… |
| 25-5830 |
Kortney Moore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.… |
| 25A409 |
Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5812 |
Michael Barreto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion mental-competency statutory-interpretation |
If a district court orders a competency examination under § 4241(b) based upon reasonable cause to question a defendant's competency, is it mandatory … |
| 25-5820 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge conditional-pardon felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25-5825 |
Laterrence Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-411 |
John Doe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo… |
| 25-5796 |
Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "knowingly" in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) (sexual abuse) applies only to "causing another person to engage in a sexual act" or whether it ex… |
| 25-400 |
PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection |
Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra… |
| 25A392 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5802 |
Tommy Phonthalangsy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-390 |
Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
GVR |
|
circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv… |
| 25-5781 |
Michael Cobbs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c) remains valid despite the court's decision i… |
| 25-5790 |
Kyle Davey v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an "unlawful user"
of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25A382 |
United States v. Erik Matthew Harris |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
as-applied-challenge drug-users firearms-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-383 |
Mark Van Epern v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a defendant "uses" a minor to engage in "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) by surreptitiously recording the minor nude … |
| 25-5770 |
Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard |
1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 25-5772 |
Rudy Mario Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5776 |
Thomas Scott Perkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
comparative-analysis federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin… |
| 25-375 |
CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r… |
| 25-379 |
Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law article-three-standing election-integrity public-records statutory-interpretation voter-registration |
Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int… |
| 25-5758 |
Jerry Otis Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comply with the text and historical tradition of the Second Amendment in permanently disarming all felons, regardless of of… |
| 25-5762 |
Muhammad Masood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 25-5763 |
James Lee Winn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-restriction conditions-of-release deprivation-of-liberty sentencing-conditions statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether Special Condition #11 of the imposed conditions of supervised release, requiring Mr. Winn to abstain from alcohol and stay out of bars, violat… |
| 25-5769 |
Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25A371 |
Rashun Suncar v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-369 |
United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference chevron-doctrine federal-officer-removal judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo ,
603 U.S. 369 (2024), permits a court to (a) accept an
agency's reasonable construction of a statut… |
| 25-5748 |
She Ler Yer Lee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso… |
| 25-5747 |
Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5731 |
David Alexander Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
under the Second Amendment.
2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-5737 |
Antwan Elvago Coplen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
(1) WHETHER A COMBINATION OF "EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING
REASONS" THAT MAY WARRANT A DISCRETIONARY SENTENCE
REDUCTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)U) (… |
| 25-5717 |
Raul Acosta v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-342 |
Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact… |
| 25-5707 |
Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-333 |
Tangtang Zhao v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution |
What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, … |
| 25-5695 |
Frank Deonta Leopaul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5697 |
Desmond Copeland v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5699 |
In Re Mark Woods |
|
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law federal-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
1. Did the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
violate the suspension clause of the United States Constitution
Art.I, section 9,cl… |
| 25-5685 |
Anthony Lemicy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
I. CAN THE GOVERNMENT PROVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT OF "USE" "FOR THE PURPOSE" WITHOUT
THE MINORS TESTIFYING(direct evidence), OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE… |
| 25-5693 |
Yasmani Gurri Rubio v. City of Alexandria, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure rule-12b3 statutory-interpretation venue-dismissal |
QUESTION 1
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when a federal
district court dismisses an action with prejudice for imp… |
| 25A326 |
Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. National TPS Alliance, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (4) |
administrative-discretion homeland-security judicial-review statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status tps-termination |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5678 |
Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1). |
| 25-313 |
Chinook Indian Nation, et al. v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law court-recognition federal-jurisdiction indian-law statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition |
Does a federal court have jurisdiction to recognize the existence of an Indian tribe where the findings in the Indian Tribe List Act, Public Law 103-4… |
| 25-320 |
Alaska, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
alaska-lands federal-regulation land-management navigable-waters public-lands statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States can regulate fishing on Alaska's navigable waters under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, when its statut… |
| 25-5667 |
Antonio Deante Town v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5668 |
Matthew Chambliss Coleman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-303 |
Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against its employees "on the basis of disability." … |
| 25-5649 |
David Anthony Runyon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence fourth-circuit murder-for-hire postconviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
To hold that petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) conviction for conspiracy to commit murder for hire resulting in death was a valid predicate "crime of v… |
| 25-5655 |
Walter Lavelle Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5656 |
Kara Sternquist, aka Cara Sandiego, aka Kara Withersea v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Kara Sternquist's prior convictions are old and nonviolent. She has no history of being dangerous, but was herself a victim of violent c… |
| 25-5657 |
Pierre Demetrius Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5658 |
Devontae Lamont Royal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A304 |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law chevron-deference fda-regulation market-exclusivity orphan-drug-act statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-308 |
Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Pending |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
inter-partes-review patent-act patent-applications printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent applications that became publicly
accessible only after the challenged patent's critical date
are "prior art * * * printed publicatio… |
| 25-5634 |
Shawn M. Robertson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25A294 |
Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5624 |
Nathaniel J. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5627 |
Lennie Edward Coles, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-287 |
Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh… |
| 25-5607 |
Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment.
2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti… |
| 25-5610 |
Greg Gogin v. Michael Meisner, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process habeas-corpus presentence-investigation sentencing-accuracy statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant's sworn testimony while on the witness stand and under oath should be given credence as to the facts of his case and can defendant… |
| 25-5614 |
Franklin Jerome Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5617 |
Magdoulen A. Sawires v. Elizabeth Board of Education, et al. |
New Jersey |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation teacher-dismissal whistleblower-protection |
Teacher wrongfully dismissed, according to New Jersey Statutes Title 18A. Education 18A § 17-47, for school employees in New Jersey " When the dismiss… |
| 25-5597 |
Joseph Carroll Bush, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5599 |
Raymond Lamont Seward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5601 |
John Edward Mason, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5603 |
Germaine Edward Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5590 |
Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-law retroactivity second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), recognized a new right that is retroactivel… |
| 25-5577 |
Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence |
Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" … |
| 25-264 |
Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of … |
| 25-5565 |
Marcus Delars Branson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on… |
| 25-250 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
executive-orders international-emergency-economic-powers-act nondelegation-doctrine presidential-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority |
1. Whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Pub. L. No. 95-223, Tit. II, 91 Stat. 1626, authorizes the tariffs imposed by Pres… |
| 25-253 |
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Pending |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights |
Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti… |
| 25-5550 |
Jermaine Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5554 |
Marcus J. Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5535 |
Jason Daniel Carbajal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially?
2. Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment as applied to individuals with conviction… |
| 25-5514 |
Joseph Lee Betancourt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 25-5519 |
Demario D. Henderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25A244 |
Tremon Staley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5503 |
Bobby Nathaniel Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-228 |
Detrina Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc., dba FITE, dba FITE TV |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split personally-identifiable-information privacy-law reasonable-foreseeability statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act |
The Video Privacy Protection Act forbids a "video tape service provider" from disclosing without consent "personally identifiable information," which … |
| 25-5477 |
Cornell Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5482 |
Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25A227 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Global Health Council, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act executive-power impoundment separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5470 |
Hombra Lavail Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion esteras-precedent sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Esteras v. United States, 145 S. Ct. 2031 (2025) and in order to maintain uniform application of this Co… |
| 25-5471 |
Jakari Alexander Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5433 |
Jon Jesse Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5434 |
Christian Lamont Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (7)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5437 |
Sequan Anthony Fowler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5438 |
Tamonte Finney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5439 |
Naim Greene v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5441 |
Azontay Malik Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5443 |
Donovan L. Crews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5421 |
Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5423 |
Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5424 |
Kiyel Tyquello Kearney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5415 |
Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 25-5417 |
Shalik Rasheem Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A201 |
Michael Donell Glover v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Question not identified. |
| 25-201 |
Mahsa Parviz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
|
consent-requirement criminal-statute identity-theft mandatory-sentencing means-of-identification statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), titled "Aggravated identity theft," imposes a mandatory consecutive two-year prison term on one who, while committing a liste… |
| 25-5407 |
Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-possession federal-jurisdiction interstate-movement statutory-interpretation |
Apparently exercising its authority under the Commerce Clause, Congress criminally prohibited the simple possession of a firearm that was "in or affec… |
| 25-5408 |
Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-review judicial-discretion legal-error miscarriage-of-justice procedural-standard statutory-interpretation |
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Vultvxo^ on on erroneous \/ieuJ oQ \o.ui AmaunA - in~CohArov££S… |
| 25-5410 |
Kyle Syphax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi… |
| 25-193 |
Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect |
Under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n), third-party petitioners asserting an interest in property that has been forfeited to the federal government must file a veri… |
| 25-5388 |
Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5375 |
Arturs Spila v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
1. Was there "insufficient evidence" presented by the United States to convict Spila of money laundering conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i)… |
| 25-5382 |
Meleke Osborne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a ny felony violates the Second Amendme… |
| 25A190 |
United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law chevron-deference labor-law nlrb prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-178 |
Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, LLC v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
excise-tax highway-tractor safe-harbor statutory-interpretation tax-exemption taxable-article |
The term "taxable article" or its equivalent are used repeatedly as a term of art throughout the tax code, case law, and Internal Revenue Service guid… |
| 25-5357 |
Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-171 |
Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation |
In a prosecution for racketeering related offenses, does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity … |
| 25-5334 |
Billy Joe Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 25-174 |
Bart Wade Reagor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud criminal-conviction false-statement loan-application material-misrepresentation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is in direct conflict with this Court's recent holding in Thompson v. United States… |
| 25-5338 |
Avontae Guiden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-justification probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-5343 |
Kendrick Jarrell Beaird v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deferen… |
| 25-5331 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A… |
| 25-5332 |
Francisco Melgar Cabrera v. Christian Lepe, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act detention-review extradition-treaty federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER: EXTRADITION TREATY VIOLATIONS
ARE COGNIZABLE UNDER 28 USC §2241(c)(3)
RATHER THAN UNDER §2255(a); A PERSON HELD
IN CUSTODY IN VIOLATION OF A… |
| 25-157 |
Richard Hall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute burden-of-persuasion criminal-defense federal-health-care-program safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
The Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"), 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b), generally bars "remuneration" to induce referrals for health care goods and services for w… |
| 25-161 |
Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
asset-seizure criminal-law forfeiture proceeds property-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether in a forfeiture action seeking "proceeds," defined in 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(2)(A) as "property of any kind obtained directly or indirectly, as th… |
| 25-164 |
Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-law individual-right-action retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether federal whistleblowers have to prove "retaliatory intent" in an Individual Right to Action, (IRA), under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancem… |
| 25-5319 |
Timothy L. Elliott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-150 |
Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit "sex-trafficking" if the person gives unc… |
| 25-5301 |
Mario Leequan Thorne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5302 |
Cameron Edwards v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on his prior convictions violates the Second Amendment.
2. Wh… |
| 25-5303 |
Jae Michael Bernard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
firearm-prohibition gun-rights historical-tradition misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a permanent lifetime prohibition for a misdemeanor conviction, which was adopted by Congress in 1994 and codified in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) and… |
| 25-144 |
Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered government developments that post date a trademark applicant's filing to support a refusal under … |
| 25-146 |
Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri, & Zahida Aman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federalism legislative-intent plain-meaning state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation |
When applying the plain language of a broadly worded federal criminal statue would intrude on an area historically left to the states, must a court ap… |
| 25-5292 |
John Charles Volungus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
adam-walsh-act civil-commitment conditional-release district-court-authority medical-treatment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248(e) and other federal mental health statutes, which authorize the conditional release of a civilly committed persons under … |
| 25-5297 |
Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5269 |
Michael D. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Pet isioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe , Sentence in violation of& sp… |
| 25-139 |
Michele A. Cornelius v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legislative-intent sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation |
Does "any dispute " under the EFAA mean any dispute arising between the parties or just the first dispute arising between the parties? |
| 25-5276 |
David Leroy Earls v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to
18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous
language … |
| 25-5283 |
Deandre Blackman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure judicial-discretion revocation-hearing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether courts may rely on the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when determining the length and conditions of additional supervision following a supe… |
| 25A147 |
Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death |
Whether this Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, 592 U.S. 80 (2020) clarifies the test for statutory preemptio… |
| 25A149 |
Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law compensation-benefits pension-benefits statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-benefits |
1. This case concerns the interpretation of regulations governing veterans' benefits. And in particular, it concerns the construction of an important … |
| 25-5263 |
Marvin Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5258 |
James Joseph Bryant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic… |
| 25-5259 |
Antonio Marshall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5250 |
Edgardo Antonio Romero-Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-106 |
Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
|
attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the "use, attempted use, or threatened us… |
| 25-108 |
Donald Wayne Bush, et ux. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split judicial-authority non-dischargeable-debt statutory-interpretation tax-liabilities |
1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §505(a)(1) confers jurisdiction on the bankruptcy court to adjudicate the amount and legality of a debtor's tax liabilities.
2. … |
| 25-5225 |
Manuel Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure multiple-violations prison-term sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A court, in imposing sentence upon a criminal
defendant, may include as part of the sentence a term of
supervised release. If the defendant violates t… |
| 25-5226 |
Nashaun Drake v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5228 |
Geber Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) violates the Second Amendment on its face.
2. Whether the govern… |
| 25-5229 |
David Loren Waldeck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
Is a reviewing court permitted to insert a "judicial gloss" in construing an unambiguous statute when determining whether a law enforcement officer's … |
| 25-5205 |
Jesus Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-statistics sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin… |
| 25A102 |
Maryland, et al. v. 3M Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-procedure federal-officer-removal government-contractor jurisdictional-removal pfas-contamination statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5176 |
Mario Gabriel Rodgers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comport with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 25-5181 |
Samuel Adam Sanchez-Tena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been indicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding o… |
| 25-5170 |
Mark Richard Walters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud? |
| 25-81 |
Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Pending |
|
circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change… |
| 25-82 |
Malcolm Wade Pipes v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure disability-retirement inactive-duty-training military-law military-reservist statutory-interpretation |
Whether a military reservist, who was lawfully ordered to engage in remedial fitness training without pay and points, and suffered injury, was on inac… |
| 25A86 |
Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions:
1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System… |
| 25-61 |
Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the … |
| 25-5124 |
Jacob Graves v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As… |
| 25-5128 |
Albert Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release covid-19-relief due-process federal-prisoners sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. §4205(g) , the law on compassionate release, allowing only
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to file a Motion for relea… |
| 25-5099 |
Franklin Ray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeal-waiver due-process plea-agreement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
After this Court re-interpreted the Aggravated Identity Theft statute in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 132 (2023), Petitioner was factually in… |
| 25-5109 |
In Re Maria Dolores Navarro Martin |
|
2025-07-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
discretionary-power due-process federal-declaratory-judgment immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. The question presented is whether the District Court had jurisdiction of this
suit under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act.
2. Whether The Att… |
| 25-5114 |
Emiliano Nava Munoz v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-precedent legal-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-doctrine |
Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558, 558 (2019) abrogated or overruled its earlier decision in Stinson v. United States, 508… |
| 25-5090 |
Joseph Anthony Zinnerman, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-precedent probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-5091 |
Andres Burgara v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-offense drug-possession simultaneous-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Does the simultaneous possession of one type of controlled substance in two different locations constitute a single offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1… |
| 25-5087 |
Tashawn Burns v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Is Hobbs Act robbery a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after United States v. Taylor, 596 … |
| 25-5088 |
Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-innocence statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism |
This Petition seeks an order granting a certificate of appealability or. in the alternative, plenary review of the following questions:
1) Whether re… |
| 25-5072 |
Khaled Miah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat |
Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi… |
| 25-25 |
Avianca Group International Limited v. Burnham Sterling and Company LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy-code chapter-11 debt-accrual lease-obligation payment-timing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, for purposes of Section 365(d) of the Bankruptcy Code, the "obligation" of a Chapter 11 debtor under a lease "aris[es]" as soon as the obliga… |
| 25-5063 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022), is a conviction for federal bank robbery under Section 2113(a) categoric… |
| 25-5067 |
Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child… |
| 25-5049 |
DaJohn M. Hymes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5053 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-review habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation transfer-order |
The question presented is whether a circuit court errs in finding that a transfer order is not appealable, dismisses a petitioner's appeal of the dist… |
| 25A22 |
Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5034 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri… |
| 25-5038 |
Nicholas Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-deceit collateral-estoppel federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure new-york-law statutory-interpretation |
If Marrese v. Am. Acad, of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 470 U.S. 373, 380 (1985) and/or 28 U.S.C. § 1738 are controlling, should the Federal Court recognize … |
| 25-5041 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals violates- due process by declining to recall a mandate
where a petitioner demonstrates that he was convicted of a non-e… |
| 25-5009 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25-12 |
Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. |
Kansas |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
|
airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
1. Have various State and Federal Courts, when asked to apply The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, inconsistently legislated from the benc… |
| 25-5025 |
Santos Isabel Huete-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled?
Second, whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacat… |
| 25-5027 |
Gregory Stevens v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5028 |
Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1: Whether the relationships listed in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve both jurisdictional and su… |
| 25-8 |
Matthew Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness |
I.
Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible
right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is
unconstitutionally vague.
II.
Whether th… |
| 25-2 |
Deon Reese v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-conspiracy due-process judicial-precedent pinkerton-doctrine statutory-interpretation vicarious-liability |
Whether this Court should overrule Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946). |
| 25-5 |
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, a California Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Granted |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
asylum-application border-entry immigration-law immigration-officer statutory-interpretation u.s.-mexico-border |
The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be… |
| 25A5 |
Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7526 |
Dwayne Lamonica Ford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7527 |
Kh'Lajuwon Amari Murat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent judicial-construction plain-meaning revocation statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether, when a district court revokes a term of supervised release and imposes a period of imprisonment followed by a new term of supervised relea… |
| 24-7529 |
Matthew Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-7502 |
In Re Aaron Franklin Johnson, Jr. |
|
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review power-of-attorney statutory-interpretation |
The Question Presented is if Mr. Johnson is entitled to a habeas relief and extraordinary writ due to the State of Maryland pattern of abuse and negle… |
| 24-7505 |
Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1) DID THE COURT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIA REFUSING TO GRANT PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE TO WHE… |
| 24-7509 |
Jacob Mathias Rubinstein v. Eric Rardin, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody-credit detention-definition federal-statute legal-restrictions statutory-interpretation |
1. Does "official detention" under 18 U.S.C. §3585(b) include, in addition to "detention" under 18 U.S.C. §3142(e), restrictive forms of "release" und… |
| 24-1312 |
James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re… |
| 24-7501 |
Jacob Allen Judd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-prohibition nonviolent-offense prior-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual whose prior convictions for "crime[s] punishable by imprisonme… |
| 24-1309 |
East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether time spent on "integral and indispensable" activities is measured based on reasonable duration (as three circuits have held), or actual dur… |
| 24-7475 |
Samuel Mateo-Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7480 |
Otis Ray Whitehead, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis felon-prohibition firearm-possession historical-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court may uphold the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) based solely on this Court's statement in District of Columbia v. Heller, 55… |
| 24A1266 |
Kyle Syphax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7471 |
Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Seventh Circuit decided Quintin Ferguson's 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) arson conviction was a crime of violence that subjected him to United States Sentenc… |
| 24-7460 |
Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen… |
| 24-7449 |
Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating the ultimate merits of a habeas petition at the COA stage, often on prejudice grounds, violate… |
| 24-7433 |
Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "affecting commerce" element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at … |
| 24-7435 |
Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G… |
| 24-7417 |
Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7419 |
Cardari Bradley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7425 |
Joshua Sutherland v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment?
Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment? |
| 24-7398 |
Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7400 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-7402 |
Braddic Deshaun Rollerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted markedly different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s constitu… |
| 24-7403 |
Michael Stapleton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals create a split in Circuits by affirming Movant's convictions and sentences for crimes that were committed simultanously under… |
| 24-1262 |
RDFS, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-authority certificate-issuance judicial-review natural-gas-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may defer to FERC on the threshold question of FERC's authority to issue blanket certificates without determining the legal… |
| 24-7379 |
Andra G. Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Green is serving a life sentence for pleading to a single count of murder with all the facts in relation to a crime of violence, under 18 U.S.C § 924(… |
| 24-7372 |
Guy Cuomo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
computer-crime computer-fraud criminal-intent social-security-fraud statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
1. Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer "without authorization" within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-1234 |
United States v. Ali Danial Hemani |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Granted |
Amici (23)Relisted (3) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7347 |
Joshua Caleb Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment.
2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7349 |
Reymundo Arredondo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation |
When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements… |
| 24-7340 |
Jerrell Anthony Bazile v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted markedly different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s constitu… |
| 24-7342 |
Jose Gomez Quiroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-firearms-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been indicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding o… |
| 24-1220 |
Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would b… |
| 24-7331 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Article IV standing requirement. Respondent failed to establish federal question jurisdiction, which made the controversy non-justiciable. Article III… |
| 24-7334 |
Brandon Rashaad Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 24-7318 |
Wesley Eron Swick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but each has overl… |
| 24-1215 |
Miniso Depot CA, Inc., et al. v. Yongtong Liu |
California |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act piecemeal-litigation sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation |
Should claims within the scope of an arbitration agreement that are unrelated to sexual assault or sexual harassment continue to be arbitrated under t… |
| 24-7310 |
Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation |
The Appellant respectfully requests the Court to determine the applicability of Oregon Revised Statute 14.270. Appellant finds ORS 14.270 to be in vio… |
| 24-1203 |
Bernhard Jakits v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's instructions to the jury
regarding the statutory terms "sexually explicit
conduct" and "lascivious exhibition" were … |
| 24-7286 |
Christopher Glen Mason v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7291 |
John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-intent federal-crime intent-element maritime-jurisdiction property-theft statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person acts with "intent to steal or purloin" for purposes of the felony offense in 18 U.S.C. § 661 whenever he knowingly takes and carries … |
| 24A1151 |
Day Pacer LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
do-not-call-registry FTC-enforcement outbound-telephone-call plain-language statutory-interpretation telemarketing-sales-rule |
Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly interpreted the Telemarketing Sales Rule's definition of "outbound telephone call" under 16 C.F.R. § 310.2(x) by… |
| 24-7275 |
Jacob Thomas Mireles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-1187 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion drug-approval fda-regulation medical-innovation statutory-interpretation |
Congress enacted the Fast Track program to speed the development and approval of certain novel therapies. It required FDA to designate "a new drug" as… |
| 24-7260 |
Dawon Hennings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 24-7265 |
Myron Dreun Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law federal-guidelines judicial-deference precedent-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deference due to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 24-7253 |
William Danta Toney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24A1105 |
Brad Greenspan v. Google, LLC, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
crime-victims-rights-act due-process judicial-review mandamus petition statutory-interpretation |
i. Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's Crime Victims' Rights Act petition as "moot" rather than addressing it on the merits as r… |
| 24-7232 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-7234 |
In Re David Diehl |
|
2025-05-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
district-court-jurisdiction federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-successive-claims statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 24-1172 |
Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conspiracy enterprise-definition federal-criminal-law racketeering rico-statute statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), the members of an "enterprise" must share a common illegal or frau… |
| 24-7212 |
Dequarn Markeyth Bell v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 24-7218 |
Jose Alfredo Delara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
Second, whether this Court should grant certiorari, vaca… |
| 24-7202 |
Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation |
I cannot reliably extract the "Question(s) Presented" section from this document. While the OCR text contains a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header, the ha… |
| 24-7188 |
Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for being an unlawful user of marijuana in possession of a firearm, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), must be vacated be… |
| 24-7182 |
Antjoun Riddick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal government has the authority under the Commerce Clause, Art. I, § 8, cl. 3, to regulate the noncommercial, intrastate possession o… |
| 24-7168 |
Raymond Charles, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-1149 |
T. Kimberly Williams v. Elton Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coverage-provision employee-retirement erisa multiple-employer-plan pension-plan statutory-interpretation |
This petition involves three questions of exceptional importance:
Whether the pension plan at issue in this case, designed and operated for over 70 y… |
| 24-7161 |
Todd Sheffler v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation |
First, in Fowler v. United States , 563 U.S. 668 (2011), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a) required the government to prove a "reasonable likel… |
| 24-7141 |
Kerry D. Gayfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7143 |
Kelvin Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7148 |
Julia Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute document-fraud false-statement federal-criminal-law immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C.A. §1546(a) reaches "authentic" immigration documents that are generated following a false statement (as oppos… |
| 24-7153 |
Melvin Clay Blake, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7105 |
Andre Johnson v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law census civil-rights constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation |
L Does -fa,lute* of ihc (J.f,fe.nciaAf hc-foA^.Sfalr-C. of- hZ-i-a/ Ye/Ll\ fo /OKoetaC-C. ox. C A, m / V>«. i cv A Ort — t rrhe/Z<.Si'€cf C.o<*At~ m /… |
| 24-7115 |
Elroy Wilkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Does a voyeur produce or possess visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when the images recorded the minor engaged in onl… |
| 24-7098 |
Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights |
Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "significan… |
| 24-7088 |
Sam Autry Fletcher v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-claims evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Title 28 U.S.C. §2254(e)(l) or any other provision of the AEDBA, or any clearly established U.S. Supreme Court authority give frderal district… |
| 24-7095 |
Javier Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-1109 |
Karl Hansen v. Tesla, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award issue-preclusion predispute-arbitration sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-claim |
1. Whether a confirmed arbitration award on related
or overlapping claims may be given issue-preclusive
effect so as to bar a Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX")… |
| 24-7069 |
Thomas M. Adams v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals judicial-review military-justice petition-review statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the mandate under 67(a)(3) permit the CAAF to deny review where petitioner has presented a meritorious issue? |
| 24-7071 |
Raul Palacios-De Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7072 |
Du Truong Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-7062 |
Damone D. Oakley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2326 criminal-procedure double-counting sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2326(2) and Guideline enhancements implemented by the Sentencing Commission constitute double coun… |
| 24-7047 |
In Re Sefe A. Almedom |
|
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law court-jurisdiction judicial-authority legal-fraud state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation |
Does The State Supreme Court Of Ohio have More Power And Authority than The U.S. Supreme Court?
Would this constitute Political Fraud Upon The Court … |
| 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… |
| 24-7051 |
Gmerrio Underwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7057 |
Earl B. Penn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24-7039 |
Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Is A-V UviifeA S%Ws of /\mex\GQ 4-Vie -V^e. U.O i'WA Si-afes ^eAeve\ 'QsAti of ho&e\\eA& 'ficoe&Aj&s ule, 40 CeXO CA>?
, SheuV^ 4-Vie Un; (W,f ha/e O… |
| 24-7040 |
Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does Jones v Hendrix , 599 U.S. 465 (2023), a recent Supreme
Court holding which only addresses "[] a prisoner asserting an
intervening change in… |
| 24-7032 |
Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24-6994 |
Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t… |
| 24-6996 |
Deonta Damon Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-1072 |
Raizel Blumberger v. Ian B. Tilley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general-removal federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption health-center-liability public-health-service statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether, as the Ninth Circuit held, but contrary to the views of three other circuits, a defendant who disagrees with the Attorney General's timel… |
| 24-6981 |
Luis Alfredo Felix-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6982 |
In Re Lawrence J. Gerrans |
|
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner being detained and imprisoned in violation of the 1.
Constitution, Statutory laws or Federal Rule(s) of Criminal Procedure?
Is Petition… |
| 24-6965 |
Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on agency guidance issued after the alleged conduct, especiall… |
| 24-1066 |
Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation |
In Black v. United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split on this question: "Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 ap… |
| 24-1062 |
The Hertz Corporation, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
absolute-priority-rule bankruptcy-code make-whole-premiums solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation unmatured-interest |
The Bankruptcy Code disallows claims for "unmatured interest," i.e., claims for interest that has not yet accrued when the bankruptcy petition is file… |
| 24-6922 |
Lorenzo Vazquez-Alba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-criminal-law illegal-entry immigration-law judicial-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court properly enter judgment under both 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2)? |
| 24-6924 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1), and post-conviction supervised release restrictions prohibiting possession of a firearm on any supervisee regardless of … |
| 24-1040 |
Elliot McGucken v. Valnet, Inc., a Canadian Corporation, dba TheTravel.com |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
copyright-infringement fair-use public-display statutory-interpretation technological-process unauthorized-use |
Whether the exclusive right to publicly display a copyrighted work, 17 U.S.C. § 106(5), is infringed when a website operator publicly shows a copyrigh… |
| 24-6913 |
Johnson Saint-Louis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the federal bank robbery statute, 18 USC §2113(a) is indivisible and thus not a qualifying "Crime of violence" under 18 USC §924(c)? |
| 24-6914 |
Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) is applicable to a case in which the state court rejected the petitioner's claim o… |
| 24-6892 |
Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6898 |
Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 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… |
| 24-6881 |
Brandon A. Rowell v. Adult Representation Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-case constitutional-provisions court-punishment criminal-action legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. Can the court punish an individual for a criminal action that resulted from a civil case. |
| 24-6858 |
Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
intrajudicial-claims judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus-relief objective-observer statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the D.C. Court of Appeals "overpowering " standard for determining the
indisputability of §455 (a) claims of appearance of bias that do not cla… |
| 24-1022 |
Susan Hutson v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction motion-to-terminate prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a State or local official who moves to terminate prospective relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(1)(A) bears any affirmative burden beyond demons… |
| 24-6854 |
Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights judicial-misconduct sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit whistleblower-protection |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in disregarding the unanimous findings of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 1514A?
… |
| 24-1016 |
RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Pending |
CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. |
| 24-6812 |
David C. Lettieri v. Broome County Humane Society, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination imminent-danger legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does discrimation count as "immidant Danger?"
2. Does an animal being killed count as "Immidant Danger?" |
| 24-6826 |
Timothy W. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In accordance with the method of statutory interpretation set forth in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110 (2023), should the term "uses" be interpre… |
| 24-6827 |
Charles Anthony Giovinco v. Caryn Flowers, Warden |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-deference concurrent-sentences first-step-act recidivism-reduction statutory-interpretation time-credits |
The First Step Act of 2018 ("FSA") provides that an eligible prisoner "shall earn" time credits if he participates in the FSA's flagship recidivism-re… |
| 24-6818 |
Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, as the Fourth, Eighth, a… |
| 24-6788 |
Shannon Lamon Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6789 |
Johnell Lavell Barber, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S.… |
| 24-6791 |
Ladarrell C. Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6794 |
Ismael Moises Haynes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6782 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6755 |
Xavier Armon Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6759 |
Paul Corey Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 24-971 |
Seafreeze Shoreside, Inc., et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference environmental-policy judicial-review offshore-energy statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit's decision conflicts
with Loper Lights Enters v. Raimondo , 603
U.S. 369 (2024), which requires courts to
independentl… |
| 24-972 |
Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of the federal … |
| 24-6731 |
Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits felon-in-possession firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 24-967 |
Grande Communications Networks, LLC v. UMG Recordings, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Pending |
Relisted (2) |
content-neutral contributory-liability copyright-infringement internet-service-provider statutory-interpretation third-party-notice |
Whether an ISP is liable for contributory copyright infringement by (i) providing content-neutral internet access to the general public and (ii) faili… |
| 24-6718 |
Juan Carlos Gamez-Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-960 |
CoinMarketCap OpCo, LLC, et al. v. Ryan Cox |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure judicial-district nationwide-service personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation venue-provision |
Whether defendants are subject to personal jurisdiction in every judicial district nationwide by virtue of the nationwide service provision, even wher… |
| 24-6703 |
Lewis Mobley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-statute physical-force statutory-interpretation VICAR |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-952 |
South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. |
Arizona |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-preemption indian-law non-indian-ownership statutory-interpretation tax-preemption trust-land |
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 provides that Indian trust "lands … shall be exempt from State and local taxation." 25 U.S.C. § 5108. It is sett… |
| 24-944 |
Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conflict-of-interest due-process investment-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation |
28 U.S.C. § 455 outlines the grounds for disqual ification of judges and magistrates due to potential biases or conflicts of interest. This Honorable … |
| 24A844 |
Elroy Wilkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-935 |
Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Granted |
Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 24-6661 |
Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand |
WHETHER THE SIXIH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR
CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY REFLECTS A DEVIATION FOR THE DIRECTIVE
SET FORTH BY THE C… |
| 24-6663 |
Darrell Turner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur |
(1) DOES A DEFENDANT MEET THE "SUBSTANTIAL DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT"
STANDARD UNDER 28 USCS § 2253(c), WHEN HE PRESENTS THE 'VACATUR'
OF HIS P… |
| 24-6666 |
Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently
prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has
been convicted of a crime punishable by impr… |
| 24-6669 |
Gregory Stump v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment serial-number-obliteration statutory-interpretation |
Stump asks this Court to determine whether 26 U.S.C. § 5861(h), which prohibits possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, violates th… |
| 24-6671 |
Isaac Doyle Koch v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement official-act resistance statutory-interpretation |
What is the difference between interfering with an official act and refusing an official crime?
What is the effect, when statute disallows all physic… |
| 24-6634 |
Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay |
When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans… |
| 24-918 |
Exclusive Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees civil-litigation court-procedure federal-removal judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order to fulfill the "large objective" of deterring unnecessary federal court removal petitions, district courts are required to expressly… |
| 24-6623 |
LaMorris Allan French v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6625 |
Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-6606 |
Willie McCoy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-6599 |
William J. Trengove, Jr. v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-circuit-split discretionary-function-exemption federal-tort-claims-act government-negligence legal-duty statutory-interpretation |
Can the Department of Justice, or any government agency, legitimately claim 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) discretionary function exemption (DFE) after being ind… |
| 24-6603 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether or not the "reduced" penalties pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553, commonly referred to as "Hazelwood" or as was amended and specified by Congres… |
| 24-6592 |
Lawrence E. Mattison v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-orders-doctrine court-transfer federal-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is required to
vacate a transfer order if transfer violated 28 U.S.C. §1631.
Whether an e… |
| 24-6582 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is… |
| 24-6584 |
Colton Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-law first-degree-murder force-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether first-degree murder, under 18 U.S.C. § 1, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 24-885 |
Rockwater, Inc., dba Peerless Manufacturing Company v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
design-features federal-excise-tax highway-transportation statutory-exception statutory-interpretation vehicle-classification |
This statutory interpretation case raises the
primary question as to the plain (best) meaning of 26
U.S.C. § 7701(a)(48)(A)(i) and, in the context of … |
| 24-6567 |
Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the four level enhancement to petitioner's sentencing range for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which… |
| 24-6569 |
Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 24-6557 |
Steve Rosado v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-enticement criminal-statute government-overreach motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation trial-court-error |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED CLEAR ERROR DENYING THE MOTTON TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT DUE TO LACK OF PERSUASION FOR THE ATTEMPTED ENTICEMENT?
WH… |
| 24-6558 |
Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-notice statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in including the Government's post-trial misinterpretation of Florida Statute § 794.05 and 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), … |
| 24-6559 |
Ignacio Leyva-Frayre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
I. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
II. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, a… |
| 24-6560 |
Tamaz Pasternak, aka Tomas Pasternak v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law federal-statute fraud-scheme property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-866 |
Converter Manufacturing, LLC v. Tekni-Plex, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law burden-of-proof patent-enablement patent-validity prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the patent challenger always has
the burden of proving that the disclosures in an
asserted prior art patent or printed publication
are enab… |
| 24-6540 |
Narey Perez-Quibus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-test constitutional-methodology gun-rights rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), as clarified in Uni… |
| 24-6544 |
Lemack Bellot v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that "aiding and abetting an attempt" and "attempting to aid and abet" are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c… |
| 24-856 |
Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act |
1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting.
2. Whether,… |
| 24-6512 |
In Re John David Stahlman |
|
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, WHEN ISSUING ITS OPINION IN UNITED STATES v. HITE, 769 F.3d 1154 (D.C. C . Cir. 2014) C… |
| 24-6516 |
Broxstonie Demichael Mitchell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6517 |
Edell Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term e… |
| 24-6525 |
Richard Stephens Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-law statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability when its appeals court made such decision off of the Circuit's wrongful eval… |
| 24-850 |
Andrew Kamal v. Femtosense, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation transfer-requirements |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the Clark v. Busey transfer requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
Whether the denial of transfer… |
| 24-6506 |
Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-843 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) provides that "Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually exp… |
| 24-845 |
Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., forecloses a qui tam FCA action or claim if "substantially the same… |
| 24-6489 |
Dzung Ahn Pham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-intent mens-rea prescription-authorization regulatory-definition statutory-interpretation |
I. Is authorization under the Controlled Substances Act defined in terms of the regulatory definition of an effective prescription or by the plain mea… |
| 24-841 |
David W. Suetholz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-liability deliberate-ignorance mens-rea physician-prosecution prescribing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a deliberate ignorance instruction in a physician prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) that incorporates an objective yet "ambiguous" standard… |
| 24-6477 |
Wilmer Yonathan Doblado-Padilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 24-6482 |
In Re Petera Micale Carlton |
|
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner still a career offender based upon the Decision of the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Simmons, 649 F.3d 247 (4th Cir. 2011?I. |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies (i) to habeas filings made after a prisoner has exhausted appellate review of his first petition, (ii) to all second-in-t… |
| 24-6462 |
Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation |
The records of the guilty plea, sentencing and probation revocation all reveal that the
judge and apparently the prosecution incorrectly believed thro… |
| 24-825 |
WC Realty Group, Inc., dba Century 21 WC Realty v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
copyright-infringement fee-motion litigation-strategy meritorious-defense statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a … |
| 24-6448 |
Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. John Ratcliffe, Director, Central Intelligence Agency |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent mandamus standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Shall this Court permit the courts of the fifth circuit to openly defy both this Court's mandates and statutes to establish their own circuit speci… |
| 24-6451 |
Devon Maurice Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
GVR |
IFP |
bruen-test constitutional-law gun-rights rahimi-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), as clarified in Uni… |
| 24-820 |
Daniel Rutherford v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
The compassionate-release statute permits courts
to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that
"extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr… |
| 24-812 |
La Dell Grizzell, on Behalf of Her Minor Children v. San Elijo Elementary School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights federal-court minor-representation ninth-circuit-rule pro-se-litigation statutory-interpretation |
Since the Judiciary Act of 1789, all natural persons suing in federal court have held the right to conduct their cases "personally," i.e., pro se. 28 … |
| 24-813 |
Chevron USA Incorporated, et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Granted |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
causal-nexus civil-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal oil-production statutory-interpretation wartime-contract |
1. Whether a causal-nexus or contractual-direction test survives the 2011 amendment to the federal-officer removal statute.
2. Whether a federal cont… |
| 24-6427 |
Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution gun-rights historical-analysis second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts must conduct a historical analysis to decide a Second Amendment challenge to a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5).
2. Whether … |
| 24-6430 |
Maurice Fleming v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-6405 |
Sidney Joseph v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process federal-enforcement property-seizure restitution separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the phrase "all other available and reasonable means" in 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A)(ii) to m… |
| 24-6398 |
Filemon Corona-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 24-6375 |
In Re John E. Drummond |
|
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii constitutional-violation habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-habeas-corpus |
If, after carefully weighing all the reasons for accepting a state court's judgment, an Article III habeas court is convinced that a prisoner's custod… |
| 24-779 |
Roger Paul Bradford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment that alleges conduct outside the reach of a criminal statute precludes a district court from exercising jurisdiction to adjudica… |
| 24-783 |
Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit |
Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(1). |
| 24A724 |
Johnny Copper, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-overreach fda-regulation procedural-due-process regulatory-burden statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6344 |
Tamir Abdullah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Section 404 of the First Step Act made retroactive the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010's changes to the cocaine-base drug-quantity thresholds in 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-6345 |
Mark Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-violation criminal-statute guilty-plea immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "in violation of law" in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) is limited to criminal immigration violations (and does not include civil immigration… |
| 24-6352 |
Juan Alberto Muria-Palacios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
When a law, such as 8 U.S.C. § 1326, was originally adopted for an impermissible discriminatory purpose, does a later silent legislative amendment or … |
| 24-6334 |
John Fredenburgh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe… |
| 24-767 |
Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference nlrb-review presidential-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. The National Labor Relations Board's
interpretations of the National Labor Relations Act are
entitled to deference if they are "reasonably defens… |
| 24-770 |
Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether a hostile work environment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) requires proof that harassment was "severe or pervasive" —a standard not foun… |
| 24-6326 |
Mark Allen Hayden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the de… |
| 24-6312 |
Tisheem Rich v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether "Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after" United States v. Taylor , 596 U.S. 845 (… |
| 24-6316 |
Antonio Ulises Barrera-Mackorty v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process immigration-law naturalization statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Is Question No. 15 on the naturalization application (N-400), when considered in conjunction with 18 U.S.C. § 1425, void for vagueness and thus a viol… |
| 24-6292 |
Shannon L. Cotton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act felony-classification first-step-act statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) requires a district court to determine the current classification of a defendant's felony by look… |
| 24-6299 |
Anthony Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction deferred-judgment felon-in-possession firearms-restriction mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in reviewing Mr. Fisher's conviction for possession of ammunition as a convicted felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 (a… |
| 24-744 |
Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. |
Iowa |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-quality statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
This case explicitly presents important questions, over which, Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals, state high, and intermediate courts are openl… |
| 24-6282 |
Dominique Kevion Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-unconstitutionality hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute of conviction, Title 18, Section 1951 (The Hobbs Act), is facially unconstitutional? |
| 24-735 |
Raymond Liddy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-criminal-law internet-crime interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation |
This case raises a fundamental question that has split the Circuits regarding the intersection between the use of the Internet and federal criminal la… |
| 24-721 |
Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
|
absurdity-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law jackson-v-virginia statutory-interpretation |
Whether Texas courts are applying the "absurdity doctrine" in a manner that violates due process?
Whether Jackson v. Virginia tolerates inferences ba… |
| 24-718 |
Blake Andrew Warner v. Hillsborough County School Board |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-court legal-standing litigation parental-representation pro-se statutory-interpretation |
In federal court, "parties may plead and conduct their
own cases personally or by counsel as, by the rules of such
courts, respectively, are permitt… |
| 24-6233 |
Dearick Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines; and
2. If so, whether a s… |
| 24-715 |
Thomas Shands v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court whistleblower-award |
I. Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction to review the IRS's denial of a mandatory whistleblower awar… |
| 24-705 |
Bud Conyers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
false-claims-act government-intervention relator-share settlement-agreement statutory-interpretation whistleblower-rights |
After the Government intervenes in a False Claims Act ("FCA") case, is the whistleblower "relator" entitled to 15%-25% of the "proceeds of the action,… |
| 24-6224 |
Armando Mena-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 24-6211 |
Roderick Wayne Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Circuit Courts of Appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) against Second Amen… |
| 24-6213 |
Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the United States Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of Hughes v. United States 263 F.3D 272,… |
| 24-686 |
Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee… |
| 24-688 |
Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a cou… |
| 24-6200 |
Carlos Guadalupe Sanchez-Felix v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Must a court considering the reenactment of a provision that was originally adopted for a racially discriminatory purpose give meaningful consideratio… |
| 24-683 |
Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
admiralty-law federal-jurisdiction military-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
The Federal Tort Claims Act waives the immunity of the United States for money-damages claims based on the negligence or wrongdoing of its employees a… |
| 24-6190 |
Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a "substantial interference with the admi… |
| 24-6192 |
Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 24-675 |
Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-innocence federal-damages legal-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unjust-conviction |
Whether a petitioner has satisfied the third element of Section 2513(a) when he did not engage in misconduct or neglect that proximately caused his pr… |
| 24-676 |
Friends of George's, Inc. v. Steven J. Mulroy, in His Official and Individual Capacity as the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing content-based-restriction first-amendment judicial-review statutory-interpretation viewpoint-discrimination |
When evaluating a constitutional challenge to a state statute, may a federal court unilaterally narrow the statute's scope in a manner that contradict… |
| 24-6186 |
Vicente Alejo Andres, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. When a defendant sells drugs from his house at the same time he has a firearm in his house, is that enough to prove that he possessed the firearm "… |
| 24-672 |
Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s… |
| 24A605 |
Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24A611 |
Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-658 |
In Re Securus Technologies, et al. |
|
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court federal-communications-commission forum-shopping statutory-interpretation venue-transfer |
Whether the First Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a) by refusing to transfer to the Fifth Circuit consolidated challenges to a Federal Communication… |
| 24-6158 |
Elden Don Brannan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-prosecution destructive-device firearms-regulation military-ordinance statutory-interpretation weapon-design |
Whether the Act's instruction that the term destructive device "shall not include any device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as a wea… |
| 24-6163 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard, et al. v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention-conditions federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2241 statutory-interpretation |
Under Jones v. Hendrix, 599 U.S. 465 (2023), may federal prisoners challenge the manner, location, or conditions of detention through a habeas corpus … |
| 24-6165 |
Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6149 |
Michael Boyer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove … |
| 24-6135 |
Chad Malone v. Frank Vanihel |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-6141 |
Martin Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply
categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me… |
| 24-6128 |
Jonathan High v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence |
Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: can a defendant be convicted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-6129 |
In Re Jason Clark |
|
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Can Petitioner be denied Categorical approach relief on his 18 USCS 924, enhanced sentence under United States v. Taylor?
2) Can the US Attorney p… |
| 24-6130 |
Eugene Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation trial-defects |
Whether a district court judge may consider due process violations, defects in the trial, and conflicts of interest from the underlying trial when dec… |
| 24A575 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6121 |
Jason Campion v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof categorical-approach federal-definition overbreadth-doctrine state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
When arguing that a state statute is overbroad under the categorical approach,
and a particular state statute plainly prohibits actions that are broad… |
| 24-6126 |
Joel S. Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split discretionary-sentence extraordinary-compelling-reasons federal-criminal-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(¢)(1)(A) ca… |
| 24-6102 |
Cleate Wilson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6107 |
Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S.__, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 18… |
| 24-6109 |
Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization |
What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application? And if a defenda… |
| 24-6092 |
Russell M. Grimes v. Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-6094 |
Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6096 |
David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a Judge give legal advise?
2. Can Title 5 United States Code be a form of habeas for Title 28 United States Code 2241?
3. Can appeals claim N… |
| 24-6089 |
Recardo Cartrell Pierce v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 24-620 |
Jaime H. Pizarro, et al. v. The Home Depot, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Dismissed |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
burden-shifting causation erisa fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation trust-law |
This case raises a long-unresolved question at the heart of ERISA's fiduciary enforcement provisions. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1… |
| 24-6077 |
Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior… |
| 24A550 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6070 |
David C. Lettieri v. James Quinn Auricchio |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-filing imminent-danger jurisdictional-threshold pro-se-litigation procedural-rules statutory-interpretation |
1. Is title 28 United States Code 19159g) designed for a government suit or any type which'includes private parties?
2. Could a forged signtaure be c… |
| 24-596 |
Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers |
The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not apply to "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in… |
| 24-599 |
United States, ex rel. Gregor Lesnik, et al. v. ISM VUZEM, d.o.o., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure false-claims-act government-obligation immigration-law statutory-interpretation visa-fraud |
Whether knowingly applying impermissibly for the less expensive B1 visas, rather than alternative petition-based visas, was knowingly and improperly "… |
| 24-6053 |
Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issue legal-petition statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
1. How can one argue their position on a matter without being argumentative?
2. How are precedents created?
3. Can evidence be materially relevant a… |
| 24-6063 |
Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6035 |
Jamel Muldrew v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019),
supports the court of appeals' determination that the Sentencing
Guidelines a… |
| 24-6041 |
Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing?
2. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Proce… |
| 24A515 |
Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-authority federal-lands land-management statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit wilderness-study-areas |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6031 |
Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-determination criminal-procedure due-process insanity-defense-reform-act jackson-v-indiana statutory-interpretation |
Whether, given the structure of § 4241(d)(1) and in light of Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972), the four-month period of 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(1) … |
| 24A509 |
Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24-571 |
Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture honeycutt-precedent property-transfer statutory-interpretation |
Under Honeycutt, can a defendant be ordered to forfeit property that was intended for and ultimately acquired by her co-conspirator, merely because th… |
| 24-6015 |
Tawanna Hilliard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute first-amendment law-enforcement-protection overbreadth-doctrine retaliation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether § 1513(e) is facially overbroad in that, as interpreted by the court of appeals, the statute can be violated by mere speech alone.
2. Whet… |
| 24-5997 |
Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. __, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 1… |
| 24-559 |
Tenneco, Inc., et al. v. Tanika Parker, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-procedure effective-vindication-exception erisa federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation |
1. The court below applied the judge-made "effective vindication" exception to the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") to invalidate an individual arbitra… |
| 24-5992 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Fulton County, Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-procedure ejectment-claim georgia-supreme-court procedural-due-process property-dispute statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Petitioner file an appeal on November 17, 2023, to the Supreme Court of Georgia pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 5-6-35(j)?
2. Should Petitioner have be… |
| 24-5996 |
Todd Norman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-6000 |
Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation |
Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. 2251(a), by … |
| 24-6002 |
Alfredo Viveros-Chavez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-556 |
Joe Fernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-18 |
Granted |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis… |
| 24-5986 |
Patrick Bernard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-537 |
Canadian Standards Association v. P.S. Knight Company, Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
copyright-law government-edicts intellectual-property legal-protection merger-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government-edicts and merger doctrines strip concededly copyrighted and copyrightable works of protection under the Copyright Act merely b… |
| 24-536 |
M&T Farms v. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference farming-activity statutory-interpretation whole-farm-revenue-protection |
Auer deference allows courts to defer to an agency's interpretation of ambiguous regulations, but only after exhausting traditional interpretive tools… |
| 24-5951 |
Manuel Moya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Because the restriction contained in 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) implicates the right to bear arms and lacks historical analog, is the lifetime ban of poss… |
| 24-5957 |
Jeramy Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1: The Circuit Courts are split over whether district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence without a showing… |
| 24A472 |
Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
but-for-cause certificate-of-innocence exoneree federal-prosecution misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-525 |
John L. Stanton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive.
If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … |
| 24-5943 |
Travyrus Jerard Stradford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24-5944 |
Nathan Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24A463 |
East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A470 |
Margaly Philippe v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Trustee |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
foreclosure judicial-review predatory-lending property-rights statutory-interpretation title-transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 24-522 |
Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo… |
| 24-5938 |
John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for the forfeiture of the contents of property, such as real property or electronic devices.
2. Whether a… |
| 24-5909 |
Bay Travon Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 24A452 |
Solar Energy Industries Association, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
import-competition presidential-power safeguard-measures statutory-interpretation trade-act trade-restrictions |
Question not identified. |
| 24-505 |
Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
|
collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a United States Supreme Court case of statutory interpretation, which was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings under circuit prec… |
| 24-5886 |
Richard A. Cantu, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-493 |
Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation |
Is an employer who terminates an employee because it honestly, but mistakenly, believed that the employee's leave was not protected by the FMLA still … |
| 24-5880 |
Eric Schmidt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 24-5883 |
Charles Victor Flint v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2252A(b)(2)'s recidivism enhancement applies to a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than the corresponding federal… |
| 24A433 |
Panoche Energy Center, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law epa-permit monitoring-well property-rights statutory-interpretation underground-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 24-475 |
Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion health-insurance non-delegation-doctrine preventive-services statutory-interpretation |
Does 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(1)–(4) violate the non-delegation doctrine by empowering agencies to unilaterally decree the preventive care that private… |
| 24-483 |
Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-action federal-tort-claims-act health-care-functions medical-immunity public-health-service statutory-interpretation |
Does "related functions" in 42 U.S.C. § 233(a)'s recitation of immunized conduct mean functions related to medical, surgical, or dental functions—as t… |
| 24-5861 |
Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
concurrent-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in not exercising their inherent authority to correct the sentence imposed unlawfully due to the ineffecti… |
| 24A423 |
Sean J. Trahan v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the "categorical approach," the Massachusetts child pornography statute is "overbroad" such that a prior conviction under that statute … |
| 24-5839 |
Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d… |
| 24-5836 |
Steven Hadley Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-authority due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1) The U.S. Constitution, through Article One, grants Congress the authority to
make or change federal laws. This includes the creation of criminal st… |
| 24A410 |
Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1446b circuit-split federal-question removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5817 |
Lassissi Afolabi v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
WHETHER § 2244(b)(1), (b)(2)'S BAR, WHICH EXPLICITLY REFERENCES ONLY §& 2254,
ALSO APPLIES TO A CLAIM RY A FEDERAL PRISONER WHO BRINGS A SUCCESSIVE C… |
| 24-455 |
Nnabugwu Eze v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-expenses cohen-rule notice-of-deficiency record-keeping statutory-interpretation tax-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Court erred in not dismissing the
case for lack of jurisdiction on the ground that
no notice of deficiency was issued to petitioner
wit… |
| 24-456 |
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Beth Bacher, Representative for Paul Bacher, Deceased, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
|
class-action-fairness-act federal-removal mass-action statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-consolidation |
Whether plaintiffs' intent matters in assessing if plaintiffs have "proposed" a joint trial of the claims of 100 or more persons pursuant to 28 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5812 |
Timothy Robert Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-451 |
Peter K. Navarro v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
documentary-materials executive-office presidential-records-act remedial-action replevin-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States may avail itself of unrelated state replevin statutes to seek the return of Presidential records. |
| 24-5803 |
Sharif A. Eltawil v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5790 |
Inmer Isai Mayorga-Jacinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5795 |
Carl Langston v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Petitioner's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment where th… |
| 24-437 |
Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
abortion-regulation administrative-law federal-agency funding-condition spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
Title X funds cannot be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning. 42 U.S.C. § 300a6. And the Weldon Amendment prohibits any Fede… |
| 24-5785 |
Bernard Ross Hansen and Diane Renee Erdmann v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-fraud federal-statute mail-fraud property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-5786 |
Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24-5774 |
Dwayne Barrett v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven ci… |
| 24A363 |
Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-428 |
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is "solely for uses reasonably related" to the federal regulatory process, when the infri… |
| 24-429 |
Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law federal-trade-commission horseracing-regulation nondelegation-doctrine private-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020, 15 U.S.C. 3051 et seq.—which allow the Horseracing Integrity a… |
| 24-5762 |
Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the First Circuit 's refusal to grant a
sentence reduction under the First Step Act,
despite intervening changes in sentencing law,
conf… |
| 24-5763 |
David Earl Boyd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252A exceed Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such a… |
| 24-5766 |
Gilberto Nicolas Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
The government prosecuted Gilberto Campos under a statute with undisputed racist origins. Congress criminalized illegal reentry into the United States… |
| 24-5767 |
Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation |
"Coyotes" (smugglers) in Mexico duped "pollos" (would-be migrants to the United States) into believing they would be snuck across the border for a neg… |
| 24A357 |
Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-investigation criminal-procedure government-forms obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
1. This case presents an important question about the scope of an obstruction-of-justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1519. Section 1519 criminalizes false sta… |
| 24-417 |
National Association of Realtors v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
|
contract-withdrawal government-rights illusory-promises party-presentation statutory-interpretation unmistakability-doctrine |
Whether the United States enjoys greater rights
than a private party to withdraw from a contract based
solely on its determination that it no longer w… |
| 24-5760 |
James Taylor v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit-precedent debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692a(6), does 15 U.S.C. § 1692 apply to McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, when McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC is attempting t… |
| 24A353 |
Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession |
Question not identified. |
| 24-412 |
George Kralik v. New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development, et al. |
New York |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action due-process statutory-interpretation tenant-rights |
1. Should an administrative agency's refusal to act on a tenant's succession application for many years and its failure to give the tenant a hearing o… |
| 24-5748 |
LaVanzel Kerr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
L. May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim?
II. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(… |
| 24-5752 |
Norman Thurber v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation |
Is there a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251, since "... criminal responsibility may not be imposed without some element of … |
| 24-401 |
Ashok Kumar Cheejati, et al. v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure agency-action immigration-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation withholding-claims |
1. Whether there is clear and convincing evidence that Congress intended 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) to preclude judicial review of unlawful withhold… |
| 24-404 |
Ji Chaoqun v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-statute federal-criminal-law foreign-agent jury-unanimity prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 951 provides that "[w]hoever, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attaché, acts in the United States as an agent of a foreign g… |
| 24-5744 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 24-392 |
Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation |
(1) whether a plan participant can only bring a lawsuit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), as a represen… |
| 24-5719 |
Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation |
The U.S. Supreme Court's holdings in Taylor, Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis have consistently required the application of the categorical-approach, or the… |
| 24A335 |
Adis Kovac, et al. v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law civil-liberties congressional-authorization major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation terrorist-watchlist |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5688 |
In Re Eric Sutherland |
|
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-regulatory jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation |
THE OSDC POLICY NOT ALLOWING ME TO DOCKET CERTIFICATES OF PUBLIC FAITH AND CREDIT 28 at §1738 TO PROVE ALL LIVING EVIDENCE OF UNDERLYING CASE.
BLANK … |
| 24-369 |
Hassell Construction Company, Inc., et al. v. Harris County Improvement District No. 18, et al. |
Texas |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay equitable-tolling state-court-litigation statutory-interpretation |
Whether state courts may retroactively refuse to apply 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) as plainly worded, as well as attendant equitable tolling principles, afte… |
| 24-5672 |
Mark Leon Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments entitled the petitioner to have a jury decide below his crimes according to AS KCaStons, under the Constitution of … |
| 24-5678 |
Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred as a matter of statutory interpretation in rejecting a "Ruse Exception" to the Speedy Trial A… |
| 24-5679 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24-5686 |
Luis Ernesto Prado-Crespo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24A310 |
Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-354 |
Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-delegation nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund |
In 47 U.S.C. 254, Congress required the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) to operate universal service subsidy programs using mandatory c… |
| 24-5661 |
Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1), which prohibits kidnapping with the use of any instrumentality of commerce, falls within Congress's power to regula… |
| 24-351 |
United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Granted |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff's claim that she and her tenants did not receive mail because Postal Service employees intentionally did not deliver it to a desig… |
| 24-5650 |
Roberto Yepez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether, as the Second and Seventh Circuits have indicated, the compassionate-release statute in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1) permits reducing supervised re… |
| 24-345 |
FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (20)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action. |
| 24-5639 |
Isaac Joel Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5623 |
Tahjair Dorsey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-disqualification non-violent-felony second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Tahjair Dorsey pleaded guilty to felon-with-a-firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). His disqualifying prior felony conviction: un… |
| 24-5624 |
Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The circuits are split on whether a request for a lower sentence preserves for review a claim that the district court has not adequately explained a s… |
| 24-5626 |
Julio Reynaldo Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 24-327 |
Pulse8, LLC, et al. v. Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split commercial-advertising fax-transmission statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement |
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") generally prohibits sending an "unsolicited advertisement" to a fax machine. An "unsolicited advertisem… |
| 24A287 |
Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law congressional-delegation federal-regulation horseracing-integrity regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5599 |
David Martins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-knowledge drug-prosecution federal-sentencing mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) prosecution, the knowingly mens rea contained in section 841(a)(1) also requires the government to prove that the … |
| 24-5574 |
Angel L. Ruiz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5576 |
Jose Antonio Campos-Esqueda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-5581 |
In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. |
|
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law fbi-jurisdiction federal-statute legal-definition statutory-interpretation vawa-interpretation |
1. Whether the term "members" as stated in the language of the indictment is sufficient to allege the essential element of a natural and specific "per… |
| 24-5560 |
Adam Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-5570 |
In Re Joseph R. Dickey |
|
2024-09-18 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 24-5557 |
Michael Avenatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a… |
| 24A269 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion indian-lands native-american-rights statutory-interpretation trust-acquisition |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5548 |
Gustavo Lazcano-Neria v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5550 |
Jarrod Eugene Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) criminal-sentencing juvenile-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation upward-departure |
Where the sentencing court disregarded mitigating evidence and upwardly departed based largely on convictions Petitioner sustained as a teenager, whet… |
| 24-294 |
Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
|
fda-approval generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act injunctive-relief patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(4)(A) requires courts to issue injunctive orders that are broader in scope than the underlying infringement, thereby delayi… |
| 24-275 |
Donte Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
appeal-period district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Ordinarily, litigants must file a notice of appeal within 30 or 60 days of an adverse judgment. 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a)-(b). Under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) and… |
| 24-286 |
Peter Bolos v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
deception federal-criminal-law mail-fraud property-interest statutory-interpretation transaction-scheme |
Does a scheme to induce a transaction through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitute a scheme to defraud under… |
| 24-5525 |
Walter L. Allen v. Civil Rights Coordinator, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5535 |
Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
If a VICAR assault is predicated on an underlying state or federal assault offense that does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s "crime of violence" defi… |
| 24-5520 |
Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
1)Whether the USCIS misinterpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) is the permissible interpretation of the statute.
2)Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) required t… |
| 24-267 |
John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the "prevailing party" under 17 U.S.C. §§ 505 and 12… |
| 24-5499 |
Donald Alfred Busch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking legislative-intent mechanical-power motor-vehicle off-road-vehicle statutory-interpretation |
The Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforcement Act of 1984 provided a definition for "motor vehicle" to mean "a vehicle driven or drawn by mechanical powers … |
| 24-5506 |
Rustam Yusupov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession |
1. Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment?
2. Whether th… |
| 24-5507 |
Taylor Hildreth v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by impri… |
| 24-264 |
Jay A. Liestman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) imposes an increased mandatory minimum and maximum sentence on a defendant who "has a prior conviction . . . under the laws of … |
| 24-5488 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-254 |
Gordon Wood v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consumer-protection consumer-rights statutory-interpretation warranty-act warranty-obligations warranty-representative |
1. Does a warrantor remain liable for its warranty obligations when it designates a representative pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 2307 to fulfill those oblig… |
| 24-5480 |
Robert James McCabe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bribery-statute campaign-contributions corrupt-intent nexus-requirement official-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), through its use of the term "in return for" requires some nexus or correlation between the un… |
| 24-5482 |
Travis Adam Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment.
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court … |
| 24-255 |
Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation |
Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar… |
| 24-5470 |
Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5474 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
judicial-discretion mandate-recall post-conviction-relief section-2255 sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
WHEIHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED HUBBARD'S MOTION TO RECALL THE MANDATE, POST -RUAN V. UNITED STATES , 142 S. CT. 2370 (… |
| 24-5446 |
Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2256(2) (A)(v) DEFINES THE TERM "LASCIVIOUS"
AS PART OF 18 U.S.C.
CONDUCT" ELEMENT AND IS A DEFINITION AND NOT.AN
ELEMENT ITSELF. THERE … |
| 24-5447 |
Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a public interest is at stake with Petitioner's Ex Post Facto Clause violation issue of Oklahoma by Repeal law forbid female and male pris… |
| 24-5453 |
Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-firearms-regulation felony-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment.
2. Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause power. |
| 24-5455 |
Nelson Alexis Colato-Gallardo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5456 |
Robert Paul Durrell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
The supervised-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), lists factors from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for a court to consider when sentencing a person for viola… |
| 24-5437 |
Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
1.) Whether a criminal defendant should be allowed to seek
judicial review of a criminal statute for constitutional
infringement if he seeks only dec… |
| 24-5438 |
Michael Bowe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24-5443 |
Antoine D. Craig v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5425 |
Shyne V. Anderson v. Cynthia Davis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5426 |
Carl Dwayne Stevenson v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-229 |
Sanjay Tripathy v. Jeff McKoy, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
constitutional-law damages-remedy government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et se… |
| 24-5410 |
Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision in Jones v Hendrix, 143 S. Ct. 1857 (2023) can be applied retroactively "rescinding habeas Corpus review of Statutory Interpretat… |
| 24-5417 |
Joshual Lamar Davis v. Ian Maxfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5419 |
Jonathan Fitzpatrick Koen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 exceeds Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such as a cell phon… |
| 24-5406 |
Michael Hoeft v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9), the statutes prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of: (1) crimes punishable by imprisonment … |
| 24-5399 |
Bruce K. Florence, III v. Eric Flowers, Sheriff, Indian River County, Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-provision judicial-review legal-issue statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
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| 24A206 |
Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-status fair-labor-standards-act inmate-labor minimum-wage statutory-interpretation work-detail |
Question not identified. |
| 24-208 |
Thomas M. Gatz v. Thomas Zupko, et ux. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deed-chain judicial-code land-rights property-transfer quiet-title statutory-interpretation |
a. Is the PA quiet title § 5527.1. Section 5527.1 of
the Judicial Code able to be executed for the
respondent, ignoring an existing deed chain execute… |
| 24-5388 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure separate-offenses statutory-interpretation |
I.IF A PERSON IS HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR AN OFFENSE,
COMMITTED BT ANOTHER, UNDER A "REASONABLE AND FORESEEABLE
ACTS" ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY STATUTE,… |
| 24-5391 |
Zavien Lenoy Canada v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24-5393 |
Taddius Tyrone Woods v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-202 |
J.G. Kern Enterprises, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-review nlrb-precedent non-acquiescence statutory-interpretation |
With this background, the questions presented here, on which the circuits are split, are:
1. Whether the NLRB is precluded from relying on precedent … |
| 24-5383 |
Samuel James Kent v. Darryl LaCounte, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure contract-law federal-procurement indian-self-determination-act statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protections |
Several provisions of the Indian Self-Determination
and Education Assistance Act 1 ("ISDEAA ") were
amended in 1988 to foreclose the United States B… |
| 24A199 |
America's Power, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-201 |
Daniel S. Fitzgerald v. United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay civil-claims civil-procedure criminal-defendant statutory-interpretation trafficking-victims-protection-act |
Whether the 18 U.S.C. § 1595(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act ("TVPRA") requires a stay of all claims brought by all pa… |
| 24-187 |
Erice Maurice Kency v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-appeal merit-systems-protection-board procedural-deadline statutory-interpretation time-limitation veterans-employment-rights |
1. The question presented is whether Congress intended for VEOA, 5 U.S.C. 3330a(d)(l)(B) "except that in no event, may any such appeal be brought — la… |
| 24-5359 |
Robert Hill v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A180 |
North Dakota, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-overreach agency-power clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A181 |
Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-168 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
|
due-process federal-removal jurisdictional-transfer remand-order statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether an endorsed remand order on a new subsequent federal removal case with new ground filed under 28 U.S.C. § 1443, without issuance of a certifie… |
| 24-170 |
Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Do the statutory terms "visual depiction" and "lascivious exhibition" refer to the same, or different things? |
| 24-5325 |
Richard Moaney, aka Richard Daniel Moaney, IV v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Under Substantive maritime law, is the only basis for State and Federal concurrent subject matter jurisdiction, pursuant to 28 USC § 1333, admiralty a… |
| 24A178 |
NACCO Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion clean-air-act epa-regulation mercury-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5328 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit felon-in-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-5329 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 24-5330 |
Xavier Daughtry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for federal carjacking, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2119, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under § 924(c)(8)(A) post-Borden. |
| 24-5333 |
Jamal Mohammad Eleidy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver deportation illegal-sentence sentencing-condition statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Where the district court in sentencing a United States citizen imposes
deportation as a supervised release condition, and 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) expressl… |
| 24-5315 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 24-5316 |
Kifano Jordan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law federal-criminal-code pastore-precedent second-circuit-review sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner's conviction on Count Two depends on whether the attempted violation of New York's second-degree murder statute, N.Y.P.L. § 125.25(1), qual… |
| 24A173 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law education-department income-contingent-repayment major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loans |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's injunction blocking the Department of Education's income-contingent repayment rule should be vacated pending appeal. |
| 24-5305 |
In Re Babubhai Patel |
|
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion district-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus second-in-time-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Mr. Patel's properly filed Second-in-Time 2255 Motion in which relied upon U.S. Suprem… |
| 24-147 |
Levi Quintana v. Jonathan Kraut |
California |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award arbitrator-misconduct judicial-review partnership-dissolution statutory-interpretation tax-regulations |
Whether the California Supreme Court erred in its ruling, given that the arbitrator not only failed to follow applicable federal statutes, codes and r… |
| 24-5286 |
Kenneth Rose v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-amendment criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review precedent-application statutory-interpretation |
In Simpson v. U-S. (435 U..S. 6), the Supreme Court held that a defendant convicted of an aggravated bank robbery under 10 U'-S.C.A., § 2113(d) could … |
| 24-5297 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction equal-protection judicial-conflict legal-claim statutory-interpretation |
1) ES TT RACTAL DTSCRTIMINATTON By THE
STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS, WHEN A WHITE
DEPENDANT RAISES A CLAIM OR ~rssueE AND
THE COURTS TELLS HTM HE 2S CORRE… |
| 24-5298 |
Jose Rosado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Rosado, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5273 |
Nicholas Frank Wilcox v. Tim Garrett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did Petitioner's APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABALLTY demonstrate that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a… |
| 24-5274 |
James Arthur Ross v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2024-08-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-of-complaint civil-procedure judicial-error oregon-revised-statutes statutory-interpretation trial-court-discretion |
Did the trial court error and/or abuse its discretion by not allowing petitioner to amend his complaint for the first time as a matter of right or cou… |
| 24A154 |
Jeffrey Prosser, et al. v. Gretchen Shappert, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-duties bankruptcy judicial-efficiency official-accountability procedural-compliance statutory-interpretation |
I.
DOES SIEGEL v. FITZGERALD PRECEDENT REQUIRE
TIMELY PERFORMANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
MEANT TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY AND EFFECIENCY OF
THE BANKRU… |
| 24-137 |
Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive.
If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … |
| 24-5255 |
Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5258 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-125 |
Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affir… |
| 24-127 |
The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor |
Alabama |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Alabama's civil wrongful death statute, codified in 1872, imposes civil liability, including punitive damages, for the "death of a minor child . . … |
| 24-5229 |
Justin Levar Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-5231 |
Dean Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 24-118 |
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Alan McClain, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
340b-drug-pricing-program administrative-enforcement administrative-law contract-pharmacies contract-pharmacy drug-pricing federal-preemption federal-regulation healthcare-policy state-preemption state-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits and this Court—that a State may strip manufacturers of th… |
| 24-119 |
Alan Safahi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in the absence of fraudulent inducement, a party who subsequently breaches the contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud. |
| 24-5215 |
Patrick Wayne Baker v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process executive-power judicial-branch judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation texas-government unconstitutional |
WHETHER TEX. GOV'T CODE 508.283(b)(c) VIOLATES DUE PROCESS
AND SHOULD BE DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
WHETHER THE TEXAS LEGISLATIVE BRANCH IS AUTHORIZE… |
| 24A123 |
James H. Roane v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense |
Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) (VICAR) offense constitutes the "crime of violence" predicate necessary to support a § 924(c) conviction following this… |
| 24-112 |
Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5202 |
James B. Jordan v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights common-carrier constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure liability passenger-safety statutory-interpretation transportation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5211 |
Jerod Askew v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jury instruction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, requires reference to "mere p… |
| 24A117 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-action clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5184 |
Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability.
Whether this court's ruling in … |
| 24-5190 |
Matthew Aaron Safrit v. Mike Slagle, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5194 |
George Henry Purdy, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sente… |
| 24-5176 |
Antonio Santonastaso v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
Section 1001(a)(2) of title 18 only criminalizes the making of material false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States gove… |
| 24-98 |
Norman Abood, et al. v. James P. Carroll, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
|
article-iii-courts article-three bankruptcy bankruptcy-court congress-power constitutional-authority judicial-council jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
This case questions the Third Circuit's appropriation of Congress' exclusive power to create courts under Article III, § 1 of the United States Consti… |
| 24A107 |
Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1443 civil-rights remand removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5159 |
Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status |
I. Whether Congress' authority to "define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas," U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the "Felonies Clause"), i… |
| 24-87 |
Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat… |
| 24A102 |
Valley Health System, LLC, dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-authority chevron-deference judicial-review nlrb-decision statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A104 |
Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split federal-immunity healthcare-litigation medical-center public-health-service statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5152 |
Leland J. Hebert v. Allied Rubber & Gasket Co. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-procedure constitutional-law legal-issues standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the district court's grant of summary judgment without an opinion under Rule 36 is permissible when the de… |
| 24A96 |
National Rural Electric Cooperative v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-overreach agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A98 |
Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-action environmental-law epa-regulation natural-resources statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5156 |
Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 24-5142 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 24-5146 |
Mike Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5129 |
Sergio Estrada-Maduena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5131 |
John William Thomas Flechs v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sexual-enticement statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
When proving a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) (attempted sexual enticement of a minor), must the government establish that the defendant either made… |
| 24-5117 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing |
A. Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the general verdict required that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U… |
| 24-63 |
Kalvin Schanz v. City of Otsego, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights degree-of-aid fair-housing-act interference intimidation protected-activity standing statutory-interpretation |
Under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3617, when a plaintiff claims that a defendant has intimidated or interfered with him "on account of his havin… |
| 24-5119 |
Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Mr. Williams's Count 1 conviction and corresponding life sentence violate his right to due process?
II. Whether application of a 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5101 |
Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession
of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the
indefinite past… |
| 24-5103 |
David Thomas Overman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5109 |
Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe… |
| 24-5114 |
Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 24-56 |
Janelle R. Polk v. California Franchise Tax Board |
California |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-income-tax federal-taxation gross-income income-definition labor labor-compensation source-of-income statutory-interpretation taxation united-states |
Whether all gross receipts paid to an individual in exchange for his or her labor or services performed in the United States of America are necessaril… |
| 24-50 |
Marlo Helmstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant who has exhausted his administrative remedies is allowed to file his own motion to reduce his prison sente… |
| 24-5095 |
Moises Gamboa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
DID THE LOWER COURTS IMPROPERLY INTERPRET UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE § 4C1.1 THAT VIOLATED THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE EIGH… |
| 24-5098 |
Gerald Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-37 |
Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
GVR |
|
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 24-5082 |
Adam Sprenger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-in-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute legal-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
[Brief explanation of question] A defendant who him
or herself alone engages in sexually explicit
conduct without a minor's engagement is indicted
… |
| 24-5088 |
In Re Gavin B. Davis |
|
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… |
| 24-5089 |
Devonte Antonio Veasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process facial-challenge firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which restricts the Second Amendment rights of all users of controlled substances, facially unconstitutional? |
| 24-5091 |
Linda J. Feaser v. George L. Landress |
Connecticut |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5094 |
Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit and Fifth District Court apply all necessary and properly applicable elements to the petitioner's 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim?
… |
| 24-5076 |
Chi Meng Yang v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder |
Whether this court should Grant certiorari, vacate and remand, because the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of br… |
| 24A43 |
Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
declaratory-judgment jones-v-hendrix section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-collateral-attack |
Question not identified. |
| 24-34 |
Ricky-Dean Horton v. PG&E Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
9th-circuit bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-discretion procedural-fairness statutory-interpretation substantive-rights |
1. Whether the proceedings in the U. S. Bankruptcy
Court N.D. Cal. failed to follow the rules and procedures for a fair and just determination of Peti… |
| 24-5061 |
Joshua Isaac Martinez v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law evidence public-policy religion statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-5064 |
Rona Johnson Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-arrest judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
12. If an Act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it Notwithstanding its invalidity, blind the Courts and oblige them to gi… |
| 24A36 |
International Business Machines Corporation & Combined Affiliates v. Tax Appeals Tribunal of the State of New York, et al. |
New York |
2024-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-tribunal |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5050 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Following this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2020) does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of … |
| 24-5043 |
Cortlin Reese v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen constitutional-law criminal-statutes due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)( 9) and (n) violate the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022)… |
| 24-5045 |
Charles N. Belssner v. Casablanca Homeowners Association, et al. |
Nevada |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-procedure nrs-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation |
1) 6/21/ 2$:
SHOULD ACT(S). OP WILFULL NEGLLIGEENfCE SHOULD BE
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STRICKEN! WHEN THE PRESIDING JUDGE STATED ON RECORD:
"HARMFUL ENFINOMENT TO BELIVING … |
| 24-5048 |
Bernard Celestine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40… |
| 24-17 |
Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Judgment Issued |
|
civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, "[p]ersonal jurisdiction over a foreign state shall exist as to
every claim for relief over which the dist… |
| 24-20 |
Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment. |
| 24-5022 |
Angela J. Wells v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights |
1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A… |
| 24-5026 |
Claudio Alvarez Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 constitutional-law discriminatory-effect discriminatory-purpose equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether the illegal re-entry statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1326, violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment because the law was enacted with… |
| 24-5031 |
Keith White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 |
Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24A11 |
Alaska, et al. v. Department of Education, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law executive-power heroes-act major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loan-forgiveness |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5016 |
Michael Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the
mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug
and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 24-4 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure distinction due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation petitioner standing statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner a distinction without a difference? |
| 24-5006 |
Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-u.s.c-2250 34-u.s.c-20913 change-of-residence chevron-deference criminal-procedure jury-instructions rule-of-lenity sex-offender-registration smart-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury regarding a crucial element of the criminal offense of failure to register as a sex offende… |
| 24-5007 |
David Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5008 |
Glynzo Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass |
I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed
by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic
"burglary" under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A1 |
Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
1. This case presents an important issue concerning the interpretation of the child pornography statutes that has caused a circuit split. At issue is … |
| 23-7846 |
Yair Ramirez-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights due-process equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-origins statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7836 |
Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23A1174 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1358 |
George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clearly-established-federal-law federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-28-usc-2254 ineffective-assistance plurality-opinion plurality-opinions state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court-holding unreasonable-application |
1. Does a rule announced in a four-Justice plurality opinion constitute a holding of this Court, and therefore "clearly established Federal law" under… |
| 23A1167 |
Jay A. Liestman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7813 |
John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7815 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr. v. BronxCare HealthCare System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-action child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7818 |
Mark Jordan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisibility general-intent mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach, a federal offense that incorporates by reference the commission of an underlying offense is divisibl… |
| 23-1352 |
Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
1. Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action.
2. Whether the… |
| 23-7793 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate |
Has the Lower Federal Trial Court known as U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit Court i… |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7796 |
Stewart Bitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction whereas, although the Petitioner actually committed, the acts stipulated in… |
| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23A1129 |
Stephen K. Bannon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
contempt-of-congress criminal-statute knowledge-of-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfully |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1132 |
Thomas Osadzinski v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
advocacy first-amendment free-speech material-support statutory-interpretation terrorist-organization |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7767 |
In Re Jogaak Jogaak |
|
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Is a Wif\ire ~Rcof +Ke c\ 'ocTious bodily injury as defined m c?0i>fh DaKofa (2drft ed Low 2-TrL-7_(^)?
Does 12 0o£)°C' ^>l2>6b Qex^O Ujba-V i<b A Se… |
| 23-7770 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-procedure qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1326 |
Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-appeals administrative-law cms-policies cms-policy federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-review medical-products-manufacturer medicare-act-42-usc-1395ii medicare-administrative-appeals notice-and-comment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 42 U.S.C. 405(h), incorporated into the Medicare Act by 42 U.S.C. 1395ii, prohibits a medical products manufacturer who cannot pursue the Medi… |
| 23-1319 |
B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as- applied when it contradicts … |
| 23-7747 |
Keith Hager v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rule-60b6 conviction conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process judicial-correction legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Federal Civil Rule 60(b)(6) empower the judiciary to correct a conviction and ensuing sentence for conduct not criminalized by the statute in … |
| 23-7754 |
Alejandro Carrasco v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation |
I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh… |
| 23-1306 |
Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. |
Michigan |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty |
1. Whether the Michigan Courts committed
plain legal error construing and applying
§700.7604(l)(b) by declining to apply the
relevant statutory defi… |
| 23-1310 |
Dean Gross v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape. |
| 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… |
| 23-7728 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), prohibiting an unlawful user from possessing a firearm, is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 23-7737 |
Raul Gardea, Jr. v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exhaustion ineffective-counsel jurisdictional-statement prosecution-costs state-habeas statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Petitioner Raised Two Claims Of Ineffectiveness Of Trial Counsel For His Performance In Failing Ask A Pivotal Question And Not Providing Corrected Wit… |
| 23A1111 |
Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari-extension federal-circuit patent-law statutory-interpretation technology-dispute trade-commission |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7705 |
Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sohnson's SenTencé 18 improperly Calculated--and Should be celev[aTe! under The $,4Ty
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of im … |
| 23-7715 |
Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-1305 |
Jade Schiewe, et al. v. Cessna Aircraft Company |
Oklahoma |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
aircraft-manufacturer-liability aviation-law general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act maintenance-manual manufacturer-liability negligence product-liability statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a maintenance manual prepared by a
manufacturer of a general aviation aircraft is a part
of an aircraft for the purposes of the General Avi… |
| 23-1296 |
Randstad Inhouse Services, LLC, et al. v. Adan Ortiz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
commerce-clause contract-exemption employment-law exemption federal-arbitration-act foreign-commerce interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Are employees who handle goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport those goods across borders and whose work does not directly… |
| 23-1298 |
United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron chevron-deference civil-procedure inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 312, a petition for inter partes review (IPR) of a patent must "identif[y]" "with particularity" the "srounds on which the challenge… |
| 23-7690 |
Wendell Johnson, aka Lamar Hill v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7691 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924c-offense attempt-offense attempt-offenses crime-of-violence criminal-law predicate-crimes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent taylor-decision taylor-v-united-states |
Illinois' Attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit a specific offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. Neither… |
| 23-7693 |
Jonathan Jamal Bangash v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ev… |
| 23-7696 |
Rit Tran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-7682 |
Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen |
I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att… |
| 23-7688 |
Chaves Hodges v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23A1105 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law cms-regulation drug-pricing line-extension medicaid-drug-rebate statutory-interpretation |
1. This case concerns the scope of "line extension" drugs for purposes of the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, which Congress enacted to control the cost… |
| 23-1290 |
Michael Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or… |
| 23-1293 |
United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct |
To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 23-1288 |
Nicholas Newman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with anothe… |
| 23-1289 |
Machele L. Goetz v. Victor Felix Weber, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-348 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 chapter-7 legislative-history legislative-intent post-petition-interests statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the language in 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(1) creates a bifurcation of interests in the assets of a bankruptcy estate into pre-petition (i.e., "as … |
| 23-7675 |
Darren Deon Johnson v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7677 |
Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation |
It is a public record that petitioner is the only taxpayer in New Mexico who was deprived of property but denied due process evidentiary hearing when … |
| 23-7679 |
Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
The circuits uniformly hold that Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence and therefore can support a related conviction under 18 US.C. … |
| 23-7660 |
Michael Steven Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7668 |
Roylee Richardson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
arthur-andersen-llp-v-united-states criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute foreseeability official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subjective-intent witness-tampering |
This Court has held that the federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, requires proof that the defendant "contemplate [d] a[] particular of… |
| 23-7670 |
James Edward Young v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a f… |
| 23-7653 |
Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that
has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7656 |
Carl Monroe Gordon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-act |
Was defendants Speedy Trial Rights Act Violated? |
| 23-7638 |
In Re Dean C. Boyd |
|
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
barbara-dunnam civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hinds-county-circuit-court judicial-review legal-precedent merit-health-group statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7642 |
John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Is McCarthy V United States, 394 U.S. 459(1969); Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2(1866); Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, 442 U.S. 1 (1979); Oregon… |
| 23-7643 |
Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism |
Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-7646 |
Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1275 |
Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (48)Relisted (9) |
circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right |
More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a pr… |
| 23-7634 |
Claudio Salas-Bautista v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination-analysis due-process equal-protection immigration judicial-review legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-1261 |
Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been… |
| 23-1263 |
Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure complaint-screening dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure screening standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the language of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(b)(ii) allow screening or dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints before service of process … |
| 23-7587 |
Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-7599 |
Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A1067 |
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment free-exercise ministerial-exception religious-exemption statutory-interpretation unemployment-compensation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7568 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-7570 |
Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F… |
| 23-7560 |
David Darnell Whitehead v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. IN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING CASE, WHAT CONSTITUTES
BRINGING TO OR ENTERING THE UNITED STATES "AT A PLACE
OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED PORT OF ENTRY", … |
| 23-7554 |
Rawtavious Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7532 |
In Re Keith Hager |
|
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
WHETHER THIS COURT MUST ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS WHERE A FEDERAL COURT LACKED AUTHORITY TO SENTENCE PETITIONER UPON AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH CONGRESS DID … |
| 23-7542 |
Anthony Obute v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights appellate-waiver controlled-substance criminal-procedure pharmacy-operations plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement, which explicitly reserves the right to challenge the constitutionality of a statute… |
| 23-7546 |
Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7547 |
Branden Tyler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION CAN A DEFENDANT BE CHARGED WITH AIDING AND ABETTING UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 2 WHEN THE A… |
| 23-1229 |
Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction |
Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit because the agency's denial actions are "nationally applicable" or, … |
| 23-1230 |
Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (4) |
administrative-law centralized-review environmental-protection-agency epa-action nationwide-scope renewable-fuel-program small-refinery-exemption small-refinery-exemptions statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
Whether an action by the Environmental Protection Agency is "nationally applicable" or "based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect" for pu… |
| 23-1231 |
Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (11) |
equitable-doctrine good-faith-procurement investment-backed-expectations judicial-doctrine obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-invalidation patent-term-adjustment statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether a patent procured in good faith can be invalidated on the ground that statutory Patent Term Adjustment, which requires lengthening a patent's … |
| 23-1226 |
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure district-court fcc fcc-interpretation hobbs-act legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. |
| 23-7522 |
Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7527 |
Larry Williams v. Warden Kelly, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1037 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1026 |
Cynthia Ballenger v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capitol-building disruptive-conduct fourth-amendment january-6 restricted-area statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7501 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922 bruen-standard constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is un constitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol … |
| 23-7483 |
Edgardo Esteras v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric… |
| 23-1217 |
Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2). |
| 23-7468 |
Joe Ernest Robinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-review scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7478 |
Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging all the elements necessary for conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and punishment up to 120 … |
| 23A1010 |
Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1209 |
M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-13 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) |
actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the… |
| 23-1208 |
David Do v. County of Santa Clara, California |
California |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process fraud judicial-estoppel labor-dispute labor-relations statutory-interpretation |
Does rule of law exist in California, where the U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper, statutes are ignored and MOU/CBA/contract is not contract,… |
| 23-7451 |
Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment on its face or as applied in this case?
2. Does the mere movement of a firearm from one st… |
| 23-7453 |
William Garrido v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
10-20-life-statute criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation trial-court-authority |
What authority does the trial court have to sentence beyond the selected mandatory minimum of 25 years under § 775.087 (2), (the 10-20-life Statute)? |
| 23-7456 |
Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1252b compelling-circumstances deportation deportation-order immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding minority-status noncitizen-status presumption-of-regularity statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether the minority status of a noncitizen at the time an in absentia deportation order is issued falls among the compelling circumstances suffici… |
| 23-7439 |
Basil Loud Hawk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-7440 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
"Balancing Justice and Compassion: A Case for Revisiting Compassionate Release under the First Step Act" |
| 23-7441 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
This court determined many times throughout history, legislative history is not law, and it is wrong to use legislative history as law and as a means … |
| 23-1203 |
Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation |
1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, do minors have pro se rights that can be asserted by their parents on their behalf based on a parent's fundamental right to… |
| 23-7415 |
Carlos Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability |
1. Whether, following this Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019), a jury instruction permitting a finding of guilt on an 18 … |
| 23-7419 |
Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1). |
| 23-7421 |
Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Mr. Staples pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a… |
| 23-7395 |
Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California |
California |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Because His Case resettle. onimpotaal guedtion 03 Lau) andéhe porharak night. og he peonle "summary dismissal ixtheloae.og paliZirnerk., serious gl… |
| 23-7402 |
Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23A993 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 23-7386 |
Jose Caban v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-7374 |
David Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent |
I.
Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause
gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a… |
| 23-7376 |
Rajesh P. Budhabhatti v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1346 collateral-order-doctrine criminal-prosecution honest-services-fraud interlocutory-appeal judicial-resources judicial-review public-official self-dealing statutory-interpretation |
1. Skilling v. United States , 561 U.S. 358 (2010), holds that fraudulent self-dealing by a public official is not honest services fraud under 18 U.S.… |
| 23A982 |
Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services, a South Carolina Corporation v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-services statutory-interpretation tcpa |
Whether the Fourth Circuit properly imposed an "administrative feasibility" requirement for class certification that conflicts with the approach of si… |
| 23A985 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7352 |
Christopher R. Johnson v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7354 |
Warren Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a predicate "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 23-7365 |
Cory Jermaine White v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3142 bail-reform-act flight-risk judicial-finding judicial-hearing pretrial-detention release-conditions serious-flight-risk statutory-interpretation |
Under the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142, must a judicial finding of serious flight risk, §3142(f)(2)(A), precede imposition of release conditions … |
| 23-1187 |
Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation |
Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place … |
| 23-1175 |
Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-iii-court-power brokerage-account clawback-funds customer-net-equity madoff-fraud net-equity net-investment-method securities-law sipa sipc-trustee statutory-interpretation |
1. Does an Article III Court have the power to reject the statutory definition of "net equity" as set forth in 15 U.S.C. Section 78aaa et seq. by empl… |
| 23-1177 |
Eric Fisher v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law |
Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli… |
| 23-7357 |
Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-7362 |
Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7338 |
Damon Sean Bellis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
The Court held in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019),
that before a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its
regulation, the court mu… |
| 23-7347 |
J. Guadalupe Figueroa-Juarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-1171 |
Terrance Guinn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-review constitutional-law due-process factual-innocence federal-habeas firearm-possession firearms rehaif retroactive-application statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), petitioner can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review,… |
| 23-1164 |
Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof circuit-split civil-forfeiture ownership-interest ownership-standing property-claim standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Where a claimant asserts an ownership interest, does the claimant's standing at summary judgment require only some evidence of ownership, as six circu… |
| 23-7317 |
Michael A. Maggio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute nunc-pro-tunc plea-bargaining plea-modification post-conviction-relief property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-limitation supreme-court-ruling |
Should Michael A. Maggio benefit from subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court that 18 U.S.C § 666(a)(1)(B) was limited to property right… |
| 23-7280 |
Dontrell Lavell Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
2. Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pend… |
| 23-7305 |
Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession
of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the
indefinite past… |
| 23-7307 |
Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7293 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State… |
| 23A949 |
Capital Cartridge, LLC, et al. v. J. Michael Issa, as Trustee of the HMT Liquidating Trust |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
avoidance-claims bankruptcy-code creditors-committee derivative-standing statutory-interpretation trustee-powers |
1. This "significant" and "important" question (In re Baltimore Emergency Servs. II, Corp., 432 F.3d 557, 560-561 (4th Cir. 2005)), has sharply divide… |
| 23-1149 |
Stephen M. Calk, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
|
bank-bribery commercial-value corrupt-intent criminal-intent due-process felony felony-statute statutory-interpretation thing-of-value |
1. Whether something with no commercial or objective value can constitute a "thing of value" that "exceed[s] $1,000," the receipt of which is punishab… |
| 23-1150 |
Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23-1143 |
Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Given the judicial unwillingness in other circuits to permit the United States to stand on technicalities and this Court's guidance in Arbaugh v Y&… |
| 23-7288 |
Jorge Bartolomei v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute prohibiting the possession of a firearm by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a te… |
| 23-7290 |
Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the district court properly "committ[ed] [Appellant] to the custody and care of the Attorney General " pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246, given … |
| 23-7260 |
Mark R. Zana v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces… |
| 23-7267 |
Vincent Dewayne Gaylord v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7268 |
Pikerson Mentor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural
default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un… |
| 23-7240 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
1. When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanct… |
| 23-7241 |
Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates
The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by … |
| 23-7242 |
Juan Avendano v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
Whether a defendant's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment are violated when the prosecution brings multiple, factually iden… |
| 23-7220 |
Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1153 congressional-amendment federal-jurisdiction felony-assault indian-country major-crimes-act minor statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal government have jurisdiction to prosecute a state felony assault on a minor under the Major Crimes Act (MCA), after Congress amended … |
| 23-7222 |
Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), the Government must–in order to separate wrongful acts from innocent acts–offer direct evidence … |
| 23-7229 |
Fredarius D. Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7235 |
Troy Dontae Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7210 |
Marqese Lynn Payne v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-jurisdiction civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-civil-rights-act indian-law reservation-boundaries self-governance statutory-interpretation territorial-law |
1. Old Congress pass the Organic ad-of fflaY 2^1890, for Slate lauJS In OK(ahoim,ortlid Congress pass thelerntorY Certain qeneral loins of ArKansas ' … |
| 23-7211 |
Andrew Burke v. Lieutenant Scott Soland |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure retaliation sexual-assault standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7217 |
Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the "private financial gain" involved is a d… |
| 23-7219 |
Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7199 |
In Re Joseph R. Dickey |
|
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence federal-prisoners habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. 2241(b)(1)'s requirement that "a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under 2254 [28 U.S.C. 2254] that w… |
| 23-7202 |
Craig Alford v. Lea Baylor, Director, Monroe County Correctional Facility, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7205 |
Luke Joselin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including "Intended Loss," Should Be Given Deference Aft… |
| 23-7193 |
Jared Domei Maloid v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23A908 |
Alejandro Carrasco v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a legal services contract between a private-practice attorney and a municipality automatically transform the private practitioner into a go… |
| 23A909 |
Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bail-conditions criminal-intent criminal-procedure intentional-violation no-contact-order statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7179 |
Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7181 |
Austin Drake Day v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7184 |
Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an indeterminate juvenile commitment is properly counted as a period of confinement of at least sixty days under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-1095 |
Patrick D. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits making a "false statement" for the purpose of influencing certain financial institutions and federal agencie… |
| 23-7157 |
Roy R. Dixon v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection precedents statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7158 |
Russell Dean Alford v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness |
In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of … |
| 23-7160 |
John Michael Carrasco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7163 |
Kyle Melkonian v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation |
The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government … |
| 23-7165 |
Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-… |
| 23-1086 |
Megan Marie Teter v. United States Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-action equal-access-to-justice-act remedial-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a contested matter initiated by the
United States in a bankruptcy case is a "civil action"
within the ambit of the Equal Access to Justice Act… |
| 23-1081 |
Joseph Stafiniak, et al. v. Marc Kirschner, as Trustee of the NWHI Litigation Trust, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-546e avoidance avoidance-action bankruptcy-code contract-interpretation financial-institution section-546e statutory-interpretation transfer-exemption transfer-interpretation |
Whether Section 101(22)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, which defines a "financial institution," should be interpreted on a contract-by-contract basis or a… |
| 23-7135 |
Antonio Benjamin Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compelled-testimony constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7139 |
Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. |
Texas |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
2. How does the court apply WHO issued Admi… |
| 23-7144 |
Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-7145 |
Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
L. What is the proper standard of review for evaluating supervised release revocation sentences on appeal?
I. May a district court imposing sentence … |
| 23-7129 |
Cedric Jones v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction petition public-health rehearing standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1072 |
Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation |
The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig… |
| 23-1066 |
Continuing Care Risk Retention Group, Inc. v. Jacob Benson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-rights civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-preemption insurance-business insurance-regulation liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act preemption risk-retention-groups statutory-interpretation |
Can Arizona's anti-arbitration garnishment statute A.R.S. § 12-1584, which itself violates the Federal Arbitration Act, reverse preempt the Liability … |
| 23-1069 |
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity |
Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C… |
| 23-7106 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis |
Do the United States Sentencing Commission application note 4B1.4 cmt.n,(1) that states: "nor are the time periods for the counting of prior sentences… |
| 23-7107 |
Brock Melancon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission |
(1) Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing… |
| 23-7096 |
Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Fifth Circuit's gas failed to follow this Court's decision in Ruan v. United States , 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) by holding that a registered m… |
| 23-7086 |
Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1059 |
Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-petition administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act due-process environmental-protection-agency epa-action petition-for-review standing statutory-interpretation timeliness |
1. Whether Williams could have petitioned for review using non-record rebuttal evidence within 60 days of EPA's initial action.
2. Whether the Act re… |
| 23-1050 |
Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation |
When a person is convicted of a drug crime, 21 U.S.C. § 853 calls for bifurcated proceedings to ascertain what property may be forfeited as a result o… |
| 23-7055 |
Jacob Lyon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver |
1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth… |
| 23-7061 |
Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation |
1. Proximate causation. This Court has opined that holding possessors of illegal pornography liable for the conduct of many other independent actors m… |
| 23-7046 |
Pamela Kathryn Conley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft bank-fraud circuit-court concurring-opinion criminal-law criminal-procedure loan-documentation signature-forgery statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's forging of a signature of a bank employee on a lien release, used as supporting documentation for a bank loan in the defendant's… |
| 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… |
| 23-1041 |
Flying Crown Subdivision Addition No. 1 and Addition No. 2 Property Owners Association v. Alaska Railroad Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
1871-land-grants alaska-railroad alaska-railroad-act easement exclusive-use-easement land-grant property-law property-rights railroad-rights-of-way statutory-interpretation |
When interpreting railroad rights-of-way granted by federal statutes, courts look to the condition of the country when the statutes were enacted, as w… |
| 23-1042 |
Sean Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-law-powers district-court-powers district-of-columbia-court-reorganization-act federal-actors federal-tort-claims-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation westfall-amendment |
1. Whether FTCA's 1988 "Westfall" amendment created immunity that did not previously exist, thus displacing non-FTCA actions that do not rely on the F… |
| 23-1028 |
Shannon Poe v. Idaho Conservation League |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
addition-of-pollutant chevron-deference clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutant navigable-waters ninth-circuit-ruling pollutant-discharge statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a "discharge of a pollutant" under the Clean Water Act when material already within a regulated waterbody is merely moved or resuspen… |
| 23-1037 |
Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Isobel Berry Culp, et vir |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
|
26-usc-6213 internal-revenue-service judicial-review petition-timeliness statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency tax-procedure untimely-petition |
1. Whether 26 U.S.C. 6213(a) grants the Tax Court jurisdiction to review an untimely petition for redetermination of a tax deficiency?
2. Even assumi… |
| 23-7026 |
Pedro Valencia-Ayala v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7014 |
Stanley Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act mandatory-minimum physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), are categorically crimes of violence under the elements clau… |
| 23-1009 |
Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation |
Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S… |
| 23-1007 |
Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci… |
| 23-6969 |
James Paul Antonio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23-6979 |
Kyston Ivory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6981 |
Ezekiel Davis v. Shadid Ansari, Individually and in His Official Capacity as GEO/LCF Medical Director, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure legal-issue medical-injury standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23A839 |
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-deference fcc-ruling hobbs-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. |
| 23-999 |
Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko |
Virginia |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience,
like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be
raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38
U.S.… |
| 23A835 |
Alif Jan Adil v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1000 |
Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference benefit-coverage disability-discrimination enteral-nutrition medical-necessity medicare-act medicare-coverage organ-dysfunction prosthetic-devices secretary statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is the Secretary statutorily authorized, or entitled to deference, to deny benefit coverage for an entire group of benefits (here, enteral nutriti… |
| 23-1002 |
Tony R. Hewitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-6934 |
Calvin C. Freeman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1.) Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of, children "OR®' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative M… |
| 23-6949 |
Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach.
2. Whether conspiracy and attempt are m… |
| 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… |
| 23-6939 |
Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the
court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and
excul… |
| 23-6942 |
Paulino Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi… |
| 23-6926 |
Pidy T. Tiger v. Tommy Williams, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-precedent federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-law jurisdictional-dispute native-american-rights statutory-interpretation treaty-abrogation treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
1. Can the Kansas Act 18 U.S.C. 3243 be read to abrogate the
Creek Nation Treaty of 1856?
2. Does Oklahoma .v. McGirt,2020 represent clearly establi… |
| 23-6903 |
Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. |
Florida |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat… |
| 23-6907 |
Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6910 |
Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction |
I. Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject matter jurisdiction?
II. Do bedrock ple… |
| 23-966 |
Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether or not 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges, with apparent intent to issue new cross-designations each year, in pe… |
| 23-6895 |
Bradley Lane Croft v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law fraud identity-theft qualifications statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dubin |
Whether aggravated identity theft convictions must be reversed when the real "crux" of the fraud turns, not on any person's name, but on their qualifi… |
| 23-6896 |
Anthony Rimas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2256 28-usc-994 congressional-authority law-enforcement-undercover minor minor-definition sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-interpretation undercover-law-enforcement |
Has the Sentencing Commission overstepped its congressional authority granted it under 28 U.S.C. § 994 when, with no specific congressional directive … |
| 23-959 |
Colin Montague v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation |
The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23-6876 |
Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1504(1)(C) (Omnibus Crime Control Act) applied to Bronson's Metaphysical attempt to attempt "Louefl)rco,c|j uayi w" unconstitutionally?… |
| 23-6869 |
Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending Un… |
| 23-948 |
Texas Aromatics, L.P., et al. v. Intercontinental Terminals Company, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absurd-consequences administrative-claim environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction hazardous-substance maritime-law mixed-spill oil-pollution-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., applies to a spill that is 91% oil and 9% a "hazardous substance." |
| 23-6845 |
Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6850 |
Eric Michael Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-933 |
Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation |
Congress has determined that individuals should
not be denied access to federal court based on their
economic circumstances. To effectuate that impo… |
| 23-918 |
Ranito Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an offense that can be committed
through omission or inaction can "ha[ve] as an element
the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical
… |
| 23-919 |
Kristin DiCroce v. McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buckman-ruling buckman-v-plaintiffs-legal-committee circuit-court-interpretation federal-food-drug-cosmetic-act federal-preemption implied-preemption medtronic-precedent medtronic-v-lohr state-law-causes-of-action state-law-claims statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits' holdings that state law claims based on violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act are impliedly… |
| 23A777 |
Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6828 |
Warren J. Levering v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chevron-deference child-support economic-impact-payments federal-statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-refund treasury-offset-program |
Did the Nebraska Supreme Court violate the U.S. Supreme Court's rules of Federal statutory construction by construing 26 U.S.C. §6428A to NOT exempt t… |
| 23A770 |
Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6808 |
Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —… |
| 23-6786 |
Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6794 |
Isaac Cardona v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the promotional money laundering provision of Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), violates the due proce… |
| 23-6799 |
Leon King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 23-892 |
Jason Antoine Brock v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equal-employment-opportunity federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2) is fair in allowing 30'days for judicial review in comparison to 60-day rule within 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) and 5 U.S.C… |
| 23-894 |
Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
The petitioner brought a breach of contract action in Nevada state court against the law firm which represented him in a bankruptcy filed by his ex-wi… |
| 23-900 |
Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure corporate-form corporate-separateness lanham-act profits-disgorgement standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether an award of the "defendant's profits" under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distin… |
| 23-6790 |
James Hamilton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the … |
| 23-6769 |
Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm
that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-6770 |
Juan Carlos Burns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)? |
| 23-6771 |
Wild Chang, et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contract-rewriting due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-fraud RICO rico-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
Q1. Whether national insurance companies can continue committing the RICO frauds in concert with other members of the RICO Enterprise with impunity by… |
| 23-6747 |
Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6757 |
Bryan Alan Kennert v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss deference economic-offenses guideline-interpretation intended-loss judicial-deference loss-calculation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
This case involves the proper application of this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 1389 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), in interpreting the United States Sent… |
| 23-6745 |
Raymond Wilson, III v. Fairhaven Police Department, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection interstate-crime jurisdictional-issues legal-elements malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Why some cases can be successful and prosecute, whereas others cannot, having the same elements yet to be interpreted, and whereas a bias of a certain… |
| 23-6746 |
Alexander Isaiah Perez v. Sandra Hijar, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion civil-rights due-process judicial-review notice-and-comment procedural-due-process regulatory-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
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^rejod.'ce 4ViC 'Pe-K-l'to/iers § 39*41 -peli-Ron, w.-Hioot
°fPor a»Aw 4u amend vtotate … |
| 23-6750 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable b… |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur… |
| 23-876 |
KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-14 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron-deference circuit-split federal-mine-safety-and-health-act federal-regulation mine-safety mining statutory-interpretation transportation |
1. Whether a truck or a truck repair shop that is not located at nor is adjacent to an extraction or processing site or an appurtenant road is a "coal… |
| 23-870 |
Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
When an aggrieved party petitions for judicial review of the Department of Transportation's final action under the Hazardous Materials Transportation … |
| 23-6732 |
Seth Conner Wells v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration pursuant to Section 960.293 Florida Statutes is an unconstitutionally excessive fine as app… |
| 23-6733 |
Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision on equitable
tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based … |
| 23-6724 |
Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
In Blackledge v. Perry, 417 U.S. 21 (1974), and Menna v. New York, 423 U.S. 61 (1975), this Court held that a defendant who pleads guilty can still ra… |
| 23-861 |
Nick Feliciano v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
active-duty armed-services-reserve differential-pay due-process federal-civilian-employee federal-civilian-employees national-emergency reserve-component statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential … |
| 23-866 |
Evan H. Nordby v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
active-duty civil-rights differential-pay due-process federal-employee federal-employment military-reserve military-reserves national-emergency pay-differential statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential … |
| 23-868 |
Charles Flynn v. Department of State |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
active-duty civil-service civilian-employee differential-pay federal-employment national-emergency statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential … |
| 23-859 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en… |
| 23-6709 |
Martin Akerman v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard, appointed under 44 U.S.C. § 3520, with standing under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1) and (c)(2), and det… |
| 23-6699 |
In Re Derlon Crain |
|
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6686 |
Clarence Lee Davis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2255(f)(3) armed-career-criminal attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-violence davis-v-united-states federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
In a proceeding timely filed under 28 U.S.C. 2255(f)(3) does Attempted Armed Bank Robbery qualify as a crime of violence under 924(c)'s residual claus… |
| 23-852 |
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Jennifer VanDerStok, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (28)Relisted (2) |
5th-circuit-decision administrative-law atf-regulation atf-regulations firearm-definition gun-control-act regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation weapon-parts-kit |
In the Gun Control Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. 921 et seq., Congress imposed licensing, background-check, recordkeeping, and serialization requirements on … |
| 23-845 |
Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation |
Does quid pro quo bribery, in the context of an honest services fraud prosecution, permit conviction on the basis that a public official received a be… |
| 23-6668 |
Roosevelt L. Lincoln, aka Roosevelt L. Linicomn v. Harris County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness legal-procedure section-242 statutory-interpretation |
1) DOES THE 14th AMENDMENT ; [AND SECTION 242 OF TITLE 18]
CONSTITUTE A MAN JUSTICE?
2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HAVE ANY RULES TO GO BY UNDER … |
| 23-6656 |
Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-6659 |
Edward Logan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Wow con a Gioke enack and use an Ack, that by 45 oon Vagu ness, Com tae Werpretated te deny . Any. Criminal defendant the vight te.a spealy triol unde… |
| 23-6661 |
Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias.
2. Whether the Un… |
| 23-6662 |
Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law digital-files due-process statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the portion of the Illinois child pornography statute allowing for the termination of possession, 720 ILLS 5/11-20.1(b)(5) (2016), is unconsti… |
| 23-832 |
Moshe Porat v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i… |
| 23-829 |
City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Deer Creek Water Corporation |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1926(b) 82-o.s.-1324.35 civil-procedure federal-obligations oklahoma-law private-corporation standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a private corporation may waive State sovereignty without the permission of the State.
2. Whether Oklahoma has authorized private corporat… |
| 23-6642 |
David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6645 |
Arthur Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6647 |
Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6630 |
Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony |
Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi… |
| 23-6635 |
Leslie Fulwiler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-6637 |
Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
3. If the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the defendants with the right to assistance of counsel, it is fair to not include i… |
| 23-825 |
Salvatore Delligatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-819 |
Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law article-i commerce-clause constitutional-limits delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power major-questions-doctrine osha statutory-interpretation workplace-safety |
Whether Congress's delegation of authority to write "reasonably necessary or appropriate" workplace-safety standards violates Article I of the U.S. Co… |
| 23-6612 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso… |
| 23-6615 |
Jason James Veal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
After this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022) which held that attempted Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence und… |
| 23-6624 |
In Re Johnny Jones |
|
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process florida-statutes jurisdiction legislative-process legislative-validity statutory-interpretation statutory-revision subject-matter-jurisdiction |
DOES THE LAW AS ENACTED BY THE 1974, LEGISLATURE IN CHAPTER 74-121 APPEAR IN THE 1974 SUPPLEMENT TO FLORIDA STATES 1973?
Does Statute 794.011(2) exis… |
| 23-6590 |
Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence |
1) Was Petitioner Deprived of His Due Process Clause of His Fourteenth Amendment fights and Equal Protection of the Law in Violation of His Rights Pro… |
| 23-6602 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie… |
| 23-6605 |
In Re Darius Lake |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection legal-procedure precedent racial-discrimination sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6606 |
In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL
SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS
-ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE
FOR ADII.WHE… |
| 23-813 |
Brutus Trading, LLC v. Standard Chartered Bank, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure deferred-prosecution-agreement due-process evidentiary-hearing false-claims-act government-dismissal procedural-rights qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Due Process Clause and 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(2)(A) and (B) require an evidentiary hearing when the evidence for and against dismissal is sha… |
| 23A699 |
Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-enforcement due-process federal-trade-commission ftc-act monetary-penalties statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6584 |
David E. Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech nlrb-sanctions standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IS INCONSISTENT WITH NLRB v. BECK CONSTRUCTION CO., 536 U.S. 516 (2002) AND CEMETERY v. MARBURY, 536 U.S. 903 (2… |
| 23-6596 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6577 |
Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23-6578 |
Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-post-conviction due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure precedential-effect statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A689 |
Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction federal-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60(b) statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A682 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A687 |
Danilo Arturo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal federal-sentencing ninth-circuit rico-conspiracy sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6552 |
In Re Vincent Pisciotta |
|
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation |
Can a conviction for "using fire to commit a federal felony", under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a "con… |
| 23-6555 |
Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 23-6531 |
Terrance Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
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| 23-6542 |
Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment 6th-amendment-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6546 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23-6520 |
Gary Von Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power federal-authority federal-criminal-law firearm-regulation firearms-regulation interstate-commerce scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) should be construed to require a more substantial connection to interstate commerce than the mere passage of a firearm acros… |
| 23-6526 |
Larry Coates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa… |
| 23-788 |
Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the… |
| 23-779 |
David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
To ensure that veterans' claims are presented to agency decisionmakers with all available support, Congress has directed the Department of Veterans Af… |
| 23A661 |
Andrew Tablack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-indictment federal-crime scheduling statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6514 |
Tiffany Janis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law federal-murder-statute force-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-6485 |
Keaton Lamar Shaw v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie policy-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6489 |
Robert E. Harrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen… |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 23-6493 |
Shannon Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6501 |
Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-the-writ aedpa brady-claim brady-rule federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation |
Are Brady claims "second or successive" under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) when the suppressed evidence comes to light only after the dismissal of an initia… |
| 23-760 |
John Baker, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining disciplinary-process due-process employment employment-rights family-medical-leave-act fmla-compliance labor-law medical-certification statutory-interpretation statutory-protections |
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) sets forth a medical certification process, including the ability to obtain a second and third opinion, if an … |
| 23-6481 |
Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation |
Did this impermissible expansion of the scope of the federal child pornography statutes, in direct contravention of both the holdings of this Court an… |
| 23-6452 |
Shannon R. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6440 |
Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the U.S.S.G Commentary being issued on a High in § 2L1.1 is unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to notice and comment to the … |
| 23-737 |
Roman Melikov v. Ghilotti Bros., Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automobile-accident federal-aid-highway-act federal-funds highway-construction highway-renovation private-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, 23 U.S.C. § 101-179, grant an express or implied private cause of action for an automobile accident at an… |
| 23-743 |
Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law constitutional-law federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund |
(1) Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine by imposing no limit on the FCC's power to raise revenue for the USF.
(2) Whether the… |
| 23-734 |
Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation |
Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea… |
| 23-736 |
Bernard Gadson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG § 2B1.1, cmt. n.3(A), expanding the meaning of "loss" to include "intended loss," vio… |
| 23-6426 |
Leonard Nyamusevya v. CitiMortgage, Inc., et al. |
Ohio |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-violation discharged-debt due-process judicial-report mortgage-foreclosure property-taking public-interest statutory-interpretation takings |
i) In violation of § 524(a) and § 1326(c) and Rule 9011 and O.R.C. § 2329, whether a Supplemental Final Judicial Report violates the Ohio and U.S. Con… |
| 23-6432 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6433 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6419 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
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| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente… |
| 23-6424 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h… |
| 23-6409 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-720 |
Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
Plea agreements often include a general waiver of the right to appeal. Circuits are divided over whether the inclusion of such a term bars a defendant… |
| 23-721 |
Gayle Killilea v. Richard M. Coan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
avoidance-action bankruptcy-law civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence jury property-transfer rules-of-evidence statutory-interpretation trust |
This case arises out of a fraudulent conveyance action. It concerns whether certain real estate located in Ireland was held in trust—a question of fac… |
| 23-711 |
James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits |
1. Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets … |
| 23-713 |
Joshua E. Bufkin v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
38-usc-7261 benefit-of-doubt benefit-of-the-doubt-rule claims-process federal-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits veterans-benefits-act-of-2002 veterans-court |
Must the Veterans Court ensure that the benefit-of-the-doubt rule was properly applied during the claims process in order to satisfy 38 U.S.C. § 7261(… |
| 23-715 |
Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
agency-deference agency-interpretation benefits-eligibility disproportionate-share-hospital hospital-payments low-income-patients medicare-part-a medicare-reimbursement ssi-benefits statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase "entitled … to benefits," used twice in the same sentence of the Medicare Act, mean the same thing for Medicare part A and SSI, such t… |
| 23-716 |
Shawn Mark Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent federal-benefits federal-healthcare-benefits healthcare-fraud interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation travel-act |
I. Does the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(1), require the government to prove that the defendant received remuneration for referring p… |
| 23A601 |
Shannon Donoho v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether surreptitiously recorded videos and images of minors in a bathroom depict those minors engaging in "sexually explicit conduct"—namely, the "la… |
| 23A606 |
Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-deference medical-food medicare-coverage metabolic-disorder prosthetic-device statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6396 |
Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 23-6397 |
Jaime Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime of physical inaction ever "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert… |
| 23-6382 |
Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6384 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-justice-system due-process extraordinary-reasons prosecutorial-misconduct sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ca… |
| 23-6394 |
Andrew Tablack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation |
Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. §811(2)(G) that requires the "drug named" in the indictment to be listed as the controlled substance analogues?
… |
| 23-6357 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-for-relief sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the denial of the Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) Motion is contrary to this Court's ruling in CONCEPCION? see infra. |
| 23-6361 |
Victor Grant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t… |
| 23-6364 |
Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-687 |
MRP Properties Company, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cercla cercla-liability corporate-disclosure environmental-regulation environmental-regulations facility-operator operator-liability pollution-producing-activities statutory-interpretation waste-disposal waste-disposal-activities |
Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), an "owner"
or "operator" of a "facility" at the time hazardo… |
| 23-685 |
Devaughn Dorsey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-use firearms sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation witness-tampering |
A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tamperi… |
| 23-6347 |
Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019). |
| 23-679 |
Gene Rechtzigel v. Green Valley Development, LLP, et al. |
Minnesota |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
|
boundary-determination constitutional-rights due-process full-and-fair-trial judicial-procedure land-boundary property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
I. Did the State Courts of Minnesota deprive Petitioner of Liberty, Due Process of Law, United States Constitutional Rights, Minnesota Constitutional … |
| 23-681 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure corporate-liability individual-liability knowing-violation lanham-act mark-misuse statutory-interpretation threshold-of-significance trademark-infringement |
The Lanham Act sets up a two-tiered penalty regime for cases involving counterfeit marks depending on whether the use of those marks was knowing. Whil… |
| 23-670 |
Marc S. Kirschner, Solely in His Capacity as Trustee of the Millennium Lender Claim Trust v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
financial-regulation investment-instrument junk-bonds reves-standard reves-v-ernst-young secondary-markets securities-law statutory-interpretation syndicated-loans |
1. Whether notes issued as part of a syndicated loan are "securities" under the securities laws.
2. Whether the Court should revisit the Reves standa… |
| 23-6312 |
Andre Reese v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a
violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-668 |
Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (13) |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on "an unreasonable determination" of the facts. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2).
2. Whether the Geo… |
| 23-6282 |
Clay Chastain v. Bedford Regional Water Authority |
Virginia |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure public-utility rate-regulation statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Can a Locality practice uniformly and selectively charge K Lucho mecs J: Lhe ant fove © Marian he susan all the Custome zc use ¢
2. Does sudan av … |
| 23-6285 |
Kenneth Paiva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 23-6278 |
Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6241 |
Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Proposed Recusal - Adv. Ookten cack; ercscad 6 Cen mre inn Giece. of erence hel of Uahtdn S0kFii ne. prSena face ar Ment tabPon Ceqwire ne… |
| 23-6259 |
Bryan Lee Ogle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction most-innocent-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tennessee-statute violent-felony |
Whether the district court erred in applying an enhanced sentence, pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to Mr. Ogle at sente… |
| 23-6263 |
Freddy Abad v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis |
1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based
on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that
they were; un… |
| 23-6244 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,… |
| 23-6252 |
Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6253 |
Larry D. Ford v. American Homes 4 Rent, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent due-process fair-housing-act housing housing-providers statutory-interpretation tenant-discrimination tenant-liability third-party-liability |
1. By making it unlawful to discriminate because of a protected trait, did Congress require an FHA plaintiff to plead and prove discriminatory intent … |
| 23-6240 |
Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a … |
| 23A529 |
Ranito Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari professional-obligations statutory-interpretation supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A531 |
Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A534 |
Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of Interior |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-litigation court-fees filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. This case presents a significant question of law—namely, whether, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1), district courts may impose a partial filing f… |
| 23A536 |
Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6218 |
Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6219 |
Manuel Rodrigues-Barios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-criminal-law immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-6220 |
Daniel Thomason Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violations corporate-liability discriminatory-practices due-process federal-prosecution fraud medical-billing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 23-6221 |
Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-6223 |
Christopher Louis Sindone v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-habeas-corpus harassment legal-standing retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-625 |
Tel James Boam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct,… |
| 23-6199 |
Trayvon Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6206 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
DOES THE DORMANT COMMERCE CLAUSE IN SECTION 12(C) ALLOW THE COURT JURISDICTION OVER A PERSON'S GOODS, PATENT, CUSTOM AUTHORITY, SINCE 22 U.S.C. SECTIO… |
| 23-621 |
Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a party must obtain a ruling
that conclusively decides the merits
in its favor, as opposed to merely
predicting a likelihood of later
succe… |
| 23-6189 |
Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions bankruptcy-procedure collateral-estoppel creditor-rights due-process judicial-immunity res-judicata stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the intent of Congress in enacting 11 U.S.C. §522(1)
and Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4003(b) as interpreted by this Court 's
precedential and controll… |
| 23-6191 |
In Re Colby Jerome Hale |
|
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation |
8) What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an Appeal from the U.S. District Court. If you do exactly what the rule… |
| 23-6197 |
Daniel Joseph Teed v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Low |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-aggregation due-process equal-protection first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation time-credits |
Is the ineligibility provision of 18 USC §3632(d)(4)(D) First Step Act Time Credits constitutional?
II. Can the Federal Bureau of Prisons determine F… |
| 23-605 |
Erich M. Martin v. Raina L. Martin |
Nevada |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
collateral-estoppel due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-convenience preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.… |
| 23-6170 |
Edell Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 23-6167 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6157 |
Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
1. The circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the decisio… |
| 23-6150 |
Quindell Tyree Maloid v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-6152 |
In Re Michael Alonza Rufus |
|
2023-12-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review preemption statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6129 |
Jarmaine Carter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of "extortion" under United States Sentencin… |
| 23-6131 |
Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement |
I. Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the "Use of a Minor" sentencing enhan… |
| 23-6134 |
Rajon Jamison v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-offender base-level base-level-calculation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-conviction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND ADDRESS TWO SENTENCING ERROR OF SIGNIFICANCE WHEN THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WH… |
| 23-6135 |
Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6136 |
Shawn C. Leftwich v. State Farm Insurance Company, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process pleadings pro-se procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6118 |
T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review |
In the absence of an explicit definition, is the definition of "controlled substance" in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or st… |
| 23-6119 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague |
1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th… |
| 23-570 |
Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance |
Under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1133, employee benefit plans must, in accordance with th… |
| 23-571 |
Madeleine Pickens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
6324(a)(2) decedent-property estate-tax estate-taxes higley-v-commissioner iRS-authority personal-liability statutory-interpretation tax-lien trust-beneficiaries |
When an individual passes away, the executor of his estate must pay estate taxes. If the executor fails to pay, the Internal Revenue Service may enfor… |
| 23-551 |
GMS Mine Repair v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law auer-deference chevron-deference chevron-doctrine circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure judicial-review regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
In Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) ("Kisor"), this Court sought to limit Auer deference and provided specific guidance for courts to interpret… |
| 23-553 |
William Clark Turner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction flight-attendant free-speech intimidation jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the inclusion of multiple alternative definitions of "intimidate" within the jury instructions for the charged violation of 49 U.S.C. section 4… |
| 23-558 |
United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc. and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure definite-term federal-office federal-officer nlrb-procedure removal removal-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether statutes that prescribe a definite
term for a federal office, without providing for removal
of the officer during the prescribed term, impl… |
| 23-6076 |
Timothy Ricardo Pedraza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility statutory-interpretation texas |
1. The question is whether a .State or US Court of Appeals abused
its discretion and/or committed plain error for a misapplication
of state law (stat… |
| 23-6091 |
Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th… |
| 23-6092 |
Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder |
Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of "maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6098 |
Ricardo Dinnall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the parties in … |
| 23-6100 |
Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation |
(1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess ... affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.C.… |
| 23-6103 |
Alvin Celius Andre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government
substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18
U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv… |
| 23-6104 |
Michael Venetez McRae v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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of Appeals Pinds hetodisteick cock 'incorrect, " determine d
thot to of the thee required pr… |
| 23-6069 |
Jeremie Saintvil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
bank-fraud constitutional-law constitutional-permissibility criminal-charging criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-constitutional-rights statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether the two bank fraud
subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 are
separate and distinct offenses that
require charging in separate counts?
2. Whether… |
| 23-6087 |
Ronell Whitehead v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled
substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 23-543 |
Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims |
When the VA fails to adjudicate the disposition of a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, wi… |
| 23-548 |
Jenny Schieber, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion dispute-resolution executive-agreement international-executive-agreements judicial-review statutory-interpretation substantive-statute |
1. Whether agency adjudication rendered pursuant to an international executive agreement is subject to judicial review under the APA where: (a) Congre… |
| 23-6057 |
Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S… |
| 23-6061 |
George Oscar Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause of "or otherwise " of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process cl… |
| 23-6065 |
Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § … |
| 23-6039 |
Selbourne Waite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force, see 18 U.… |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6042 |
Joel Flores v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm "in furtherance of" a drug offense as opposed to possession… |
| 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. |
| 23-6048 |
Elvis Redzepagic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-525 |
Murphy Company, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
antiquities-act federal-land-management federal-lands land-use-restrictions national-monument national-monuments oregon-and-california-railroad-and-coos-bay-wagon- presidential-authority presidential-power statutory-interpretation sustained-yield-timber-production |
The question presented is whether the Antiquities Act authorizes the President to declare federal lands part of a national monument where a separate f… |
| 23-527 |
Raji Rab v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. |
California |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-integrity election-law judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vote-counting |
1. Whether the lower courts failed to address the important question of law to prevent the violation of constitutional rights and the greatest miscarr… |
| 23-531 |
Timothy I. Carpenter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-firearm-offense first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Do the sentencing reforms in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply when a district court sentences an individual whose offense was committed before … |
| 23-6019 |
Luis Olivares v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion exceptional-circumstances fair-sentencing-act sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FAIR SENTENCING ACT, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), PERMITS A DISTRICT COURT TO MODIFY MR. OLIVARES UNUSUALLY LONG SENTENCE IN THIS EXCEPTIONA… |
| 23-6029 |
Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 23A442 |
Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ada-retaliation disability-accommodations employment-discrimination jury-trial monetary-damages statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A432 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-court federal-jurisdiction final-judgment statutory-interpretation unpublished-opinion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6003 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-history reconstruction-era removal-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Should an important federal law from the Reconstruction Era—
the removal act for criminal cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1)—be given
its original public m… |
| 23-6011 |
Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
To the exception to the rule termed in 28 U.S.C. §2255(e), the "escape hatch" or "saving clause" - does it permit a federal prisoner to "file a habeas… |
| 23-6012 |
Rafael Espinal-Mieses v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960(b) criminal-sentencing federal-statute maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The First Circuit affirmed the denial of Mr. Espinal-Mieses's motion for safety-valve relief under the former version of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), which di… |
| 23-6013 |
Calvin Cogdill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment indictment jury reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-512 |
Steven M. Greenbaum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-freezing asset-seizure blocked-assets federal-law federal-sovereign-immunity judgment-enforcement sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation terrorism-based-judgments terrorism-risk-insurance-act |
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1610 (note), provides that "blocked assets"—assets that have been "seized or frozen by the United States… |
| 23-6002 |
Justin Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation |
This appeal concerns a challenge to the enforceability of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014. Petitioner, JUSTIN DEL RIO, submits the Fifth Circuit … |
| 23-6004 |
Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder, a greater and lesser included offense under Pennsylvania law, constitute the "same offense" under the Double… |
| 23-495 |
Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Does the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ("TCPA") definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") at 47 U.S.C. … |
| 23-489 |
Office of the United States Trustee v. USA Sales, Inc., dba Statewide Distributors, a California Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustees constitutional-uniformity judicial-remedy retrospective-refunds statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel, supra, is to require the United States Trust… |
| 23A415 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-discretion family-law legal-interpretation legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-479 |
Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers |
Does the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but … |
| 23-483 |
Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion.
Whether the E… |
| 23-5954 |
Arthur Picklo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-5960 |
Brandon Keith Wright v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-5962 |
Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation |
Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate … |
| 23-5951 |
Rodney L. Love v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 23-5939 |
Brett Northington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation |
Should the definition of "aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?" be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea… |
| 23-5942 |
Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-5929 |
Anthony Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(¢)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional in light of This Court's opinions in Dimaya and Johnson?
2. Whether Florida's… |
| 23-5934 |
Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-459 |
Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder… |
| 23-460 |
C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers |
The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not "apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged i… |
| 23-461 |
Maria Navarro Carrillo, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights cooperative-federalism disability-rights due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court should intervene to reverse the policy, ratified by the Second Circuit, of blatantly violating binding State statutes and regula… |
| 23-455 |
United States v. Litsson Antonio Perez-Gallan |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge domestic-violence due-process firearms firearms-possession protective-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence protective orders, violates the Second… |
| 23-456 |
Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law constitutional-law fcc-authority federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund |
(1) Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine by imposing no limit on the FCC's power to raise revenue for the USF.
(2) Whether the… |
| 23-5917 |
Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A390 |
Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, to prevail "on the merits" under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as oppo… |
| 23A385 |
Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-rights court-access judicial-review pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5908 |
Michael James Choulat v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23-5876 |
Christian Lamar Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5887 |
Arthur Vasquez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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tou/K 'So lJusyi// -Aris uDr^/^ru. Sr A… |
| 23-432 |
Oman Fasteners, LLC v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
chevron-deference delegation-of-power judicial-deference national-security presidential-tariffs procedural-requirements statutory-interpretation tariffs trade-expansion-act |
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 delegates Congress's constitutional power to set duties on foreign imports into the United States (or t… |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. In a Federal criminal case, whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is a petition in the Mitigation in the Residual can challenge the subj… |
| 23-5859 |
Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-424 |
Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f… |
| 23-427 |
Domino’s Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-procedure commerce-clause delivery-drivers federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery standing statutory-interpretation transportation-law workers |
Whether local delivery drivers—i.e., workers who make in-state deliveries of goods in response to instate orders, and play no role in transporting tho… |
| 23-421 |
Alfonso Cioffi, et al. v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-251 embodiment-standard federal-circuit original-patent patent patent-disclosure patent-law patent-reissue reissue statutory-interpretation u.s.-industrial-chemicals |
1. Should the Antares Pharma, Inc. v. Medac Pharma Inc., 771 F.3d 1354, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2014) "exact embodiment" standard for "original patent" disclo… |
| 23-422 |
Shirley T. Sherrod, et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-defenses amendment civil-procedure erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duties rule-15 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the underlying rulings contradict the plain text of the applicable ERISA provisions in finding a breach of Petitioners' fiduciary duties and d… |
| 23-5841 |
James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation |
1. Qcl«\ Vdoko txac. ,5oo udh S OV\d TerwkwfiJpg. OOr "Wbkfcs \ckjA l ^OrcJrveA do ^iep l n md^-S trav'O cfakg kjd A^A TideiL cWvy' SeWias, tVdjfmws m… |
| 23-5847 |
Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review right-to-vote standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5852 |
Kareem Davis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation |
Is murder in aid of racketeering ("VICAR murder'), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis bas… |
| 23-5839 |
Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-413 |
Michael Lissack v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-19 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-action administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference discretion internal-revenue-service statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 7623 of Title 26 governs the Internal Revenue Service's (hereinafter the "IRS") ability to pay awards to whistleblowers. Prior to 2006, awards… |
| 23-5834 |
Herbert Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-waiver categorical-analysis criminal-procedure illegal-conviction illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
For convictions and sentences to stand, they must not violate the Constitution. Challenges to illegal 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions necessarily encom… |
| 23A349 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-overreach clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A350 |
Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A351 |
American Forest & Paper Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act emissions-standards epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23A343 |
David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure agency-regulation notice-requirement statutory-interpretation veterans-claims veterans-disability-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-401 |
Michael Carey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
|
circuit-conflict federal-courts judge-made-exceptions judicial-exceptions legal-remedy state-courts statutory-interpretation suppression-provisions wiretap-act |
Whether courts lack power to fashion judge-made exceptions to the exceptionless suppression provisions of the Wiretap Act. |
| 23-5795 |
Benjamin D. Morrow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1746 civil-procedure declaration declaration-requirements fourth-amendment oath-clause oath-or-affirmation perjury perjury-standard statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-section-1746 |
I.
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires, in writing, an affirmative statement
that the declaration's contents are "true" to support, establish, or prove… |
| 23-5782 |
Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the meaning of the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-5786 |
Mark Andre Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines in light of this Court's… |
| 23-390 |
Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements |
Whether, to establish a "direct effect in the United States" under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), a plaintiff must make an extratextual showing that either the… |
| 23-5777 |
Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5781 |
Troy George Skinner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
One of the statutes addressing the sexual exploitation of children, 18 U.S.C. § 2251, prohibits (a) the employment, enticement, or coercion of a minor… |
| 23-5749 |
Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE
ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT
ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D… |
| 23-5756 |
David Davalos, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property |
Whether Honeycutt v. United States, 581 U.S. 443 (2017) and its progeny require the Fifth Circuit to limit forfeiture to tainted property the defendan… |
| 23-5758 |
Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
WHETHER OR NOT/WHEN ONE HAS EXCERSIZED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL AND
RF. FOUND GUILTY OF A COUNT IN HIS INDICTMENT THAT WOULD LATER
RF. FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONA… |
| 23-5733 |
Donald D. Higgs v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review legal-issue standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was the district court's dismissal with prejudice of defendant's lack of standing improper?
2. Did the United States Court of Appeals fail to have… |
| 23-5742 |
Joseph Michael Easton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that
has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-374 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process felons felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by … |
| 23-376 |
United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substanc… |
| 23A311 |
Madeleine Pickens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
estate-tax-liability last-antecedent-canon personal-liability section-6324 statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary |
Whether Section 6324(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code imposes personal liability for unpaid estate taxes on individuals who received estate property… |
| 23-371 |
D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon |
I. 28 U.S.C. § 1259(3) states that this Court may review "[c]ases in which the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces granted a petition for review." D… |
| 23-5730 |
Blaise Caroleo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 23-364 |
Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender reg… |
| 23-365 |
Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to "business or property by reason of" the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 23-5713 |
Delvarez Long v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states |
In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act bars federal courts from imposing or lengthening a pris… |
| 23-5704 |
Gregory D. Jones v. Dustin Bayler |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-354 |
Wolfgang Von Vader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 changes-in-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider changes in the law in assessing whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under section … |
| 23-345 |
In Re Jeffry Thul |
|
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-employee federal-employee-rights mandamus regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation takings |
I am a partially recovered federal employee classified under 5 C.F.R. § 353.301(d); yet, I remain unre- -
stored. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Si… |
| 23-5680 |
Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any … |
| 23-5691 |
Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5693 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5673 |
Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
8-usc-1226 discretionary-determination due-process habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review mixed-question-of-law-and-fact statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether an agency's determination that undisputed or established facts
demonstrate an immigration detainee is a "danger to the community" is a
dis… |
| 23-334 |
Department of State, et al. v. Sandra Muñoz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights consular-nonreviewability consular-officer due-process immigration-law immigration-nationality-act standing statutory-interpretation visa-application visa-denial |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., the decision to grant or deny a visa application rests with a consular officer… |
| 23-311 |
Keith Michael Connole v. David W. Garbarino, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
arizona-revised-statutes codis-database criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-access reliability-of-conviction reliability-of-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial court must interpret Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13, Section 4240, to maximize a defendant's due process rights to access evidence … |
| 23-313 |
Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida, Board of Trustees, et al. |
Florida |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process ex-post-facto injunction-order small-claims standing standing-to-appeal statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant |
(1) Whether an Injunction Order rendered under Florida
Vexatious Litigant Law, Florida Statute § 68.093(2)(a),
requires reversal where it is:
(a) ap… |
| 23-299 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-300 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-5645 |
Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18
U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int… |
| 23-5652 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter… |
| 23-5655 |
Christopher T. Mallett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause. |
| 23A265 |
Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether rideshare drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any o… |
| 23-5640 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether attempted bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and
attempted armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), are "crimes of
violence" as defined in 18 … |
| 23-278 |
United States Trustee Region 21 v. Bast Amron LLP |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
bankruptcy-administration bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees constitutional-law constitutional-uniformity judicial-districts remedial-relief statutory-interpretation uniform-laws |
Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel, supra, is to require the United States Trust… |
| 23-275 |
Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as th… |
| 23-5631 |
Jason M. Moriarty v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t… |
| 23-5632 |
Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5619 |
Jordan Winczuk v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-5629 |
Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n). |
| 23-268 |
Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation |
Whether an FHAA reasonable-accommodation disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reas… |
| 23-271 |
Ryan Lynch v. Condominiums of Buena Vista, Inc. |
Minnesota |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review arbitrability-clause arbitration-clause arbitration-standards contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review procedural-rights state-courts statutory-interpretation |
(1) When state courts misconstrue or ignore a written agreement controlling an arbitrability clause governed by the FAA, if the provisions under §2 an… |
| 23-5612 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law copyright due-process judicial-review legal-precedent patent property-rights statutory-interpretation trademark |
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| 23-258 |
Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power |
When determining whether a state insurance statute preempts a federal law of general application under the McCarran Ferguson Act, are the three statut… |
| 23-249 |
Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
|
anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as Ti… |
| 23-250 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. San Carlos Apache Tribe |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
contract-support-costs federal-funding federal-health-care indian-health-service indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-contracts tribal-sovereignty |
Whether IHS must pay "contract support costs" not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect… |
| 23-253 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Northern Arapaho Tribe |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
contract-support-costs federal-funding health-care-services indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-sovereignty |
Whether IHS must pay "contract support costs" not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect… |
| 23-5591 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage |
For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-5593 |
Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under
which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and
incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5601 |
In Re Michael Kenny Carter |
|
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5602 |
Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an "attempted transfer" of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an "attempted distribution" of drugs… |
| 23-5578 |
April Paw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5581 |
Matthew R. Osuba v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 23-5587 |
Daniel Carrington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. BURRAGE, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), CREATED A BRIGHT LINE RULE ESTABLISHING A RIGHT OF THE DEFENDANT TO PR… |
| 23-5589 |
Sara Elyas v. Edward Johnston, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1257 certiorari civil-procedure federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction judicial-review judiciary-act-1789 jurisdiction standing state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Petition for writ certiorari to United State Court of Appeals. Motion for certiorari to US COURT OF KCLERK
I am Petition to US SUPREM Court to review… |
| 23-5566 |
Scott A. Anthony v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter… |
| 23-5572 |
Joseph W. Fischer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i… |
| 23-5553 |
Randy Haight v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-retardation statutory-interpretation |
1. Where a state trial court resolves disputed issues of material fact without an evidentiary hearing and ignores relevant expert opinion, is the stat… |
| 23-5556 |
William L. Gladney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23-226 |
Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
covered-offense criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act recalculation sentence-reduction sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must recalculate a movant's sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the … |
| 23-237 |
Winfred Wairimu Wamai, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Adam Titus Wamai, et al. v. Industrial Bank of Korea |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure embassy-bombing foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-litigation judgment-enforcement separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation u.s.-resident-plaintiffs |
1. Whether the choice of a U.S. forum by U.S.-resident
plaintiffs is entitled to "less deference" under the doctrine
of forum non conveniens , rathe… |
| 23-238 |
Roger Dale Anderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
|
comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), of the Controlled Sub… |
| 23-5551 |
Kristian G. Little, nka Kristian G. Childers v. Jamie A. Little |
Kentucky |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
This case presents issues of first impression for this Court arising under UCCJEA.
Did the Madison County Family Court ever have jurisdiction to make… |
| 23-5546 |
Richard Sansbury v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement |
The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec… |
| 23-219 |
Sherman Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… |
| 23-5542 |
Stephen James Hood v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation |
In Virginia, anyone who was convicted of a felony has the right to demonstrate their innocence with new evidence through a petition for a writ of actu… |
| 23-5519 |
Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5532 |
Basil Warren Lewis, Jr. v. Phil Knight, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5535 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether The Circuit Courts Have Decided An Important Question Of Federal Law That Should Be Definitively Settled By This Court?
II. Whether 28 U.S… |
| 23-208 |
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. v. Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process facial-plausibility foreign-policy foreign-terrorist-organizations jurisdiction pro-palestinian-organizations standing statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-liability |
1. Whether "facial plausibility" of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard… |
| 23-5502 |
Juan Antonio Hernandez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amendmen… |
| 23-5506 |
Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce, such as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)'s requirement that a prohibit… |
| 23-5496 |
Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5498 |
Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5482 |
Timothy Allan Dunlap v. Idaho Maximum Security Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5484 |
Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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| 23-5469 |
Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
1) Whether this court's wae fo as - a rele? be ion fir Concdusron that fe: t made _-+he eat showin of dea na, tot het Hae eli Tia —_———i prsceducal cu… |
| 23-190 |
Probir K. Bondyopadhyay v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment government-liability jurisdictional-conflict patent patent-claim perjury sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings |
A serious legal conflict has developed between the
USCFC and U.S. District Court involving Title 28
U.S.C. Section 1338(a) and Title 28 U.S.C. Section… |
| 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. |
| 23-5458 |
Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Jason Wells, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5449 |
Antonio Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5451 |
Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-178 |
Peter Van Dermark v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
emergency-medical-treatment federal-circuit-review geographic-limitation presumption-against-implied-repeals reimbursement reimbursement-rights statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Whether eligible veterans are entitled to reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs incurred while receiving emergency treatment abroad based on the specif… |
| 23-5426 |
Christopher Robertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A 4(c) OFFENSE IF DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED HOBBS ACT ROBBERY?
2) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A OFF… |
| 23-5429 |
Tywan Sykes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity as held by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States… |
| 23-5403 |
Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5397 |
Emanuel Beach v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23-5387 |
James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5388 |
Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application |
DOES McHAM V. STATE /404 S.C. 465/746 S.E.2d 41(2013), REQUIRE
THAT PETITIONER BE ALLOWED TO FILE A SUBSEQUENT PCR APPLICATION? |
| 23-5390 |
Neeraj Chopra v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-interpretation |
A jury instruction constructively amends the indictment if it modifies the essential elements of the offense charged in the indictment. Chopra's indic… |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5395 |
In Re Justin Lewis |
|
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-160 |
Francisco Dario Mora v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2461 criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process government-seizure property-rights statutory-interpretation substitute-property temporary-possession |
Whether the Government may require criminal defendants under 28 U.S.C. § 2461 to forfeit their own property as a substitute for objects they temporari… |
| 23-5376 |
Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION VIOLATES PRINCIPLES OF FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS BY HAVING GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE BASED UPON A PRO SE PLEADING … |
| 23-5377 |
Anthony Seides Gaines v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 23-5369 |
Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation |
In the Eleventh Circuit, in a prosecution for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922… |
| 23-5372 |
Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5360 |
Gregory Lynn McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition individual-rights lifetime-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the felon-in-possession of a firearm statute, which did not exist in 1791, and which applies to all felonies and provides for a life-time ban,… |
| 23-132 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation |
Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju… |
| 23-133 |
Arlen Foster v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-review agriculture chevron-deference environmental-law statutory-interpretation swampbuster-provision wetlands wetlands-certification |
1. Whether a statute that provides that a wetlands certification "remain[s] valid and in effect ... until such time as the person affected by the cert… |
| 23-135 |
Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), which bars judicial review of "[t]he determination ... whether to institute an inter partes review," applies even when no … |
| 23-137 |
Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits |
When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant was its intent clear that a substituted appellant cou… |
| 23-139 |
United States, ex rel. Shannon Martin, M.D., et al. v. Darren Hathaway, M.D., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute false-claims-act federal-health-care-program government-claims healthcare-fraud liability remuneration statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the term "remuneration" under the Anti-Kickback Statute encompass solicitation or receipt of any kind of reward or compensation, or is it limi… |
| 23-5356 |
Trequan Devonte James v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection identification judicial-review police-procedures statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5338 |
Keith A. Penn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5339 |
Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an unprecedented legal theory of receipt that relies on file name of unauthenticated screen shots as relevant unit of prosecution under Sec… |
| 23-5340 |
Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MAY PROHIBIT
CONSIDERATION OF SENTENCING ERRORS UNDER 18 USC §3582 (c)(1)(A). |
| 23-5341 |
Regina Nachael Howell Foster v. Areya Holder Aurzada, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process removal removal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Does the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' memorandum opinion directly conflict with an opinion by other Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court… |
| 23-5345 |
Henry Robledo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation |
Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim? |
| 23-5324 |
Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3006a court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process forced-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation waiver |
This case presents an important issue concerning what constitutes "the right to have the assistance of counsel" under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. … |
| 23-5327 |
In Re Titus Lee Radcliff |
|
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5331 |
Al Douglas Wordly v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 23-130 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
agency-regulation authorization controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction drug-dealer drug-dealing jury-instruction physician physician-prescription statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement |
The question presented here is whether, in a jury instruction under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., language taken from an age… |
| 23-125 |
Seaview Trading, LLC, AGK Investments, LLC, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure delinquent-returns filing-requirements legal-definition statutory-interpretation tax-code treasury-regulations |
Whether the word "file" in 26 U.S.C. § 6229 (2000) and as used throughout the Tax Code carries its ordinary meaning for delinquent tax returns when no… |
| 23-5304 |
Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
The Safety Valve provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), instructs district courts to sentence under the guidelines without regard to any statutory mandatory … |
| 23-5309 |
Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.… |
| 23-5322 |
Tommie Doward Weathers, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fault-determination pretrial-confinement pretrial-detention release-from-confinement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns the meaning of the word "fault" in 18 U.S.C. § 3164(c), which says that if a defendant is not brought to trial within 90 days follo… |
| 23-5301 |
Mack A. West, Jr. v. F. Ulloa, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-122 |
Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation |
The question presented in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), prohibits individual arbitra… |
| 23-5293 |
Alonzo G. Davison v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure judgments motions sentences statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's Appeal Of The Denial Of The Motion To Alter Or Amend Judgment And Sentences Properly Fell As Required By Section |
| 23A106 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5290 |
Littleton William Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(c) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-112 |
Ian A. McElroy v. City of Corvallis, Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review municipal-law municipal-ordinance statutory-interpretation |
Ian McElroy was secretly, unconstitutionally convicted July 26, 1999 on three separate criminal citations by a City of Corvallis Municipal Judge who l… |
| 23-113 |
Michael G. Pohl v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act |
Is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record 10 U.S.C. § 1552 as stated in both the statute and Respondents DD Form 149… |
| 23-107 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Federal courts "shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court … |
| 23-108 |
James E. Snyder v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation |
Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any… |
| 23-5274 |
Wicahpe George Milk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression |
I. Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment.
II. Whether 18 U.… |
| 23-5275 |
Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act |
1. When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amend… |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5258 |
Octavius McLendon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 grants convicted federal inmates the right, in lieu of
common law habeas corpus, to "move the court which imposed the sentence"… |
| 23-5261 |
Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5263 |
Steven Dewayne Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process felon-in-possession felons gun-rights individual-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 Unites States Code section 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on
its face because it infringes on a felon's individual right to keep and bear
ar… |
| 23-5265 |
Mark Alan Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to
produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-93 |
Kevion Rogers v. Jeffrey Jarrett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights codification common-law-immunity congressional-intent due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 statutory-interpretation traditional-common-law |
This Court's qualified-immunity precedent derives from the premise that there is "no evidence that Congress intended to abrogate the traditional commo… |
| 23-94 |
Garret Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-08-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether the obstruction-of-justice offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether t… |
| 23-5245 |
Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5237 |
Jordan Cole Laws v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30… |
| 23-5242 |
Rebecca Wu v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. |
California |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-classification constitutional-challenge constitutional-law employee-classification employee-misclassification equal-protection labor-law statutory-interpretation |
Is it unconstitutional to have an interpretation of a statute that creates an Arbitrary classification in violation of the constitution of the 14th Am… |
| 23-5220 |
Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5222 |
Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition?
2. Whether the Trial C… |
| 23-5223 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review legal-remedy limitations-period procedural-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT MR. RIOS WAS NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING |
| 23-5229 |
Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-80 |
Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to decide if a claim involves a domestic application of a statute, courts may consider factors other than whether the conduct relevant to the… |
| 23-5198 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
First Question
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the
statutory penalty for petitioner's offense,
so that petitioner is eligible for a sentenc… |
| 23-5202 |
Aaron Abadi, et al. v. Transportation Security Administration |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority air-carrier-access-act congressional-intent covid-19 health-regulations major-questions-doctrine pandemic-response statutory-interpretation transportation-security tsa-authority |
The Transportation Security Administration "TSA " was created by 1)
Congress after the terrorist attacks on September 11 to protect the
American peopl… |
| 23-5205 |
Steven Lesane v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it
denied appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea
where 1) there was an insufficient… |
| 23-5207 |
Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness
has, "as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened
use of physical force against the… |
| 23-5210 |
Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5214 |
Cody J. Key v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
codification constitutional-provisions due-process federal-judicial-canon judicial-canon legislative-power notice rule-of-law rule-of-strict-construction state-legislature statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS/NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF A FEDERAL
JUDICIAL CANON (RULE OF STRICT CONSTRUCTION) CAN BE
ABROGATED BY A STATE LEGISLATURE BY CODIF… |
| 23-5219 |
Jerry Wilson, aka Steve Vic Parker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a United States Citizen Wrongfully Imprisoned "LIFE INDANGER" ?
2. What is Permission Granted by a United States Distrist Judge?
3. Can (1) On… |
| 23-5188 |
Mark Anthony Roy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct, nor any offense more s… |
| 23-5189 |
Tyree Steele v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts imprisonment judicial-discretion rehabilitation rehabilitative-purpose sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court violates the Sentencing Reform Act's ban on imprisonment as a rehabilitative measure when, as here, the court explains it is … |
| 23-5194 |
Andra Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Mr. Green is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of using a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). H… |
| 23-5179 |
Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ |
Question not identified. |
| 23A62 |
Michael Carey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plain-text statutory-interpretation suppression-provision wiretap-act |
Question not identified. |
| 23-66 |
Norbert A. King, II v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation |
1. The lower court endorsed the Government's
supplementation of the "record" with new documents
mid-appeal. Does the lower Court's decision, which
dem… |
| 23-62 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Scott A. Hardin |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law atf-rule automatic-weapon bump-stock due-process firearms-regulation machinegun-definition mass-shootings second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a… |
| 23-5161 |
Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Are Oklahoma statute(s) 21 O.S. § 1040.12(a), 21 O.S. 1040.8 (a), and 21 O.S. § 1024.1 in conformity with the United States Constitution, Amendment(s)… |
| 23-5166 |
Antwoyn Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of "serious drug offense," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules in… |
| 23-5168 |
Isaac Silversmith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 8-usc-1 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that Second-degree Murder,… |
| 23-5169 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s… |
| 23-5170 |
Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23-5149 |
Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5154 |
Justin Christopher Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense |
1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence?
2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting … |
| 23-51 |
Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14) |
circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry |
To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a com… |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-5138 |
Martin Ramos-Urias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure claim-processing immigration-removal in-absentia-removal judicial-review notice-to-appear separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place |
If the government serves an initial notice document that does not include the "time and place" of proceedings, followed by an additional document cont… |
| 23-5139 |
Jacinto Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Does the "attempted use of force" clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an "intent" to use force against another? |
| 23-5143 |
Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California |
California |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process gun-control high-seas international-treaties prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the State of California lacked territorial subject matter jurisdiction over an alleged homicide on a foreign-flagged ship on the high seas, bo… |
| 23-5116 |
Jeremy David Adams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(I). Is the Sixth Circuit's new rule, in opposition to 7 other Courts of Appeals - that the protections of Speedy Trial Act 18 USC § 3161(h)(l)(H)'s 3… |
| 23-46 |
United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 23-48 |
Indiana Municipal Power Agency, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law contract contractual-intent government-contract government-obligations money-mandating money-mandating-statute payment-obligation sequestration statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a payment obligation imposed by
Congress on the federal government under a moneymandating statute and specifically exempted from
later redu… |
| 23-42 |
Lawrence Pascal v. Concentra, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
|
autodialer automatic-telephone-dialing-system borden database-applications facebook-v-duguid random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act |
47 U.S.C. § 227(a)(1) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") defines an automatic telephone dialing system ("autodialer") as equipment whic… |
| 23-5102 |
Taiwo K. Onamuti v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a 18-usc-287 aggravated-identity-theft counsel-advice criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plenary-resentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Can an original guilty plea be completely knowing and voluntary, when
the government, and the district court wrongly advised defendant about couns… |
| 23-5107 |
Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
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| 23-5079 |
Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5099 |
Dustin Jolly v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. … |
| 23-5072 |
Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-30 |
Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation |
The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel… |
| 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 … |
| 23-32 |
Edward Jacob Lang v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-11 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence-tampering official-proceedings police-violence public-demonstrations riot-context statutory-interpretation van-buren-v-united-states |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that application of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c)(2), a statute crafted to prevent tampering with evidenc… |
| 23-5070 |
Samuel Tobin McKaig v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-issue precedent prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5064 |
Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5066 |
Juan Reyes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines incorporation judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-23 |
Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity public-health-service removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tort-immunity |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 233()(2) permits a deemed
Public Health Service employee to remove a civil action or proceeding against him to federal district
co… |
| 23-5058 |
Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5060 |
Donald Edward McCord v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-21 |
Stuart R. Harrow v. Department of Defense |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law federal-circuit federal-employee filing-deadline judicial-review jurisdictional jurisdictional-deadline merit-systems-protection-board nonjurisdictional statutory-interpretation |
When a federal employee petitions the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, … |
| 23-22 |
Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation |
1. Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien i… |
| 23-16 |
Axel Rietschin v. Dominika Rietschin |
Washington |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-court civil-procedure due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-status marriage-proceedings non-immigrant-aliens state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Can a State civil Court assert jurisdiction in private matters over non-immigrant aliens admitted temporarily under 8 U.S.C. § 1184? |
| 23-17 |
Wisam R. Rizk v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness |
1. This court has ruled that "conflict of interest " and
"undisclosed self-dealing " by a private individual
is not in the preview of §1346 (Percoco… |
| 23-5031 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law?
If yes, are the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other circuits applying Apprendi incorrectly which viola… |
| 23-5036 |
Brandon Mason v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 23-5046 |
Kashard O. Brown v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5027 |
Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-4 |
John Thomas Minemyer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-code irs-penalties legislative-history legislative-intent penalty-assessment statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-code tax-court |
Does the legislative history and intent combined with the Tax Court Judicial history, the internal revenue manual instructions, and the Supreme Courts… |
| 23-5001 |
Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech individual-rights judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 22-7890 |
Christopher Ochoa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in th … |
| 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 |
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| 22-7894 |
Frankie Shearry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc… |
| 22-7896 |
Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7900 |
David Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7906 |
Lamar McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness |
1)Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw?
Are the Lower Courts (Appeals Courts included)
misapplying Apprendi and Mr. McDonald Fifth and Sixth … |
| 22-7875 |
J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-1246 |
Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-28 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron-deference energy-regulation federal-energy-regulatory-commission megawatts power-generation power-production-capacity qualifying-facility solar-energy-project statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "power production capacity" refers to a facility's maximum net output to the grid at any one time, or whether that term instead refers to t… |
| 22-1240 |
Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts |
42 U.S.C. § 1981 guarantees that "[a]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to… |
| 22-7871 |
In Re Michael Bowe |
|
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (6)IFP |
28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court-procedure federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-or-successive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7878 |
Kenny Eugene Smart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g) criminal-procedure evidence-standard evidentiary-rulings federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions rule-404b rule-of-inclusion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. WHAT IS THE PROPER STANDARD OF REVIEW OF EVIDENTIARY RULINGS UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) AND IS RULE 404(b) A RULE OF INCLUSION WHICH ALW… |
| 22-7869 |
Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Refusing To Reverse Wysinger's
Conviction On Count One For Conspiracy To Violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
(Lawy… |
| 22-7870 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1239 |
Michael Jerome Files v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Does § 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses that are … |
| 22-1234 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit defy this Court's remand instruction and circumvent 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court authority by findi… |
| 22-7851 |
George Poulo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7855 |
Edgar Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7856 |
Annice Hale v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
1. Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's assertion of violations as are asserted herein against the Defendant-Appellee(s) are waivers of sovereign immunity pu… |
| 22-7832 |
David Troy, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-7841 |
Bruce A. Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. After reviewing the 6 written objections filed as Bills of Proscription in the 49 page Brief For Petitioner filed with the Habeas Corpus, would a j… |
| 22-7843 |
George John Maslovar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact |
Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte… |
| 22-7847 |
Colum Patrick Moran v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on point, … |
| 22-7814 |
Joshua E. Preece v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-7817 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process internal-revenue-service jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation takings takings-clause tax tax-refund |
1. Whether claimed pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (a) (1) United States Constitutional Article III, Section 2, Amendment 5, due process of law Takings, wit… |
| 22-7818 |
Marshall M. Cohen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2256 child-pornography circuit-split creator's-intent federal-criminal-law four-corners-of-image intent-context lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation |
Whether lasciviousness under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) may be found by examining the context in which the image was produced or the creator's intent, … |
| 22-7806 |
Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains… |
| 22-7807 |
Chayna Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 22-1216 |
Dwayne Ferguson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 22-1218 |
Wendy Smith, et al. v. Keith Spizzirri, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
arbitration-agreement circuit-conflict circuit-split dismiss district-court-procedure federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion section-3 statutory-interpretation stay |
Whether Section 3 of the FAA requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss whe… |
| 22-1219 |
Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-power chevron chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management magnuson-stevens-act marine-fisheries regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
The Magnus on-Stevens Act ("MSA") governs fishery management in federal waters. It states that, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, the Na… |
| 22-7783 |
Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at… |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7775 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did yo… |
| 22-1206 |
Kyung Chang Industry USA, Inc., dba KCI USA v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine commerce-clause component-part firearm-components firearms-law gun-regulation interlocutory-review legislative-intent protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a magazine is a "component part of a firearm" under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. |
| 22-7754 |
Maurice Hunt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power |
I. Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under the Commerce Clause (1505 U.S.C.) To Enact Statutes With the Intent That A Ton Page In Convic… |
| 22-7756 |
Andre Zeno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7757 |
Samuel Lee Morrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen bruen-standard constitutional-law federal-criminal-statutes federal-statute gun-rights historical-tradition jurisdiction second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). |
| 22-7760 |
Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force |
I. Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor , is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be c… |
| 22-7763 |
Michael Aaron Stuker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force witness-tampering |
Whether witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(2)(A) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where no eleme… |
| 22-7766 |
Ramon Ramirez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. HAS THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERRED IN ITS CONCLUSION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION BASED ON EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE INTERSTATE… |
| 22-7742 |
Kent Taylor v. California |
California |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
HOW CAN tHE dIRECT APPAL bE hEId INTO JUBMISAON FOR APPROXIIMATELY (3) MHRE YEARS, PRaM SEPTEMbA 27, ZO17, UNITIL JANUMRY 17, ZOZO, WHEN tHhE PITONER … |
| 22-7750 |
Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7751 |
David Paul Bickford v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
1. If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for "all legislation in [the] sensit… |
| 22-7734 |
Christopher Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Reduction of Sentence, Pursuant to Section 404 of the
First Step Act of 2018, requires a Plenary Resentencing to provide
procedural and substantial Du… |
| 22-7738 |
Michael Alexander Rivera v. California |
California |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1189 |
Patricia A. Bogan v. Denton County District Attorney Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) In 2019, the issue arose whether a court could dismiss for want of prosecution at a time after the statute of limitations had run. The state's argu… |
| 22-1182 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER … |
| 22-1183 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER … |
| 22-7716 |
Minnela Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that … |
| 22-7723 |
Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7702 |
Antonio Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A defendant is entitled to the safety-valve sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) unless he violates all three subsections of the statute: (1) m… |
| 22-7707 |
Kelvun Montrail Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). |
| 22-7709 |
Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-1172 |
Dejuan Andre Worthen v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting attempted-hobbs-act-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause. |
| 22-1175 |
Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) (App., infra, 19a-54a), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)… |
| 22-7682 |
Tyrin Gayle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity |
I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief?
II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-7690 |
Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
§4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7697 |
Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Constitution and/or the … |
| 22-7680 |
Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec… |
| 22-7683 |
Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation |
When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails… |
| 22-7684 |
Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to
produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 22-7685 |
Satish Kartan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-testimony-withdrawal court-precedent due-process forced-labor griffin-v-california prosecutor-comments right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. whether the district court violated Kartan's Might to testify and the subsequent prosecitor's comments, "These defendants don't like answering ques… |
| 22-7687 |
James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7670 |
Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
In Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960) and Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), this Court held that it is a violation of due process to … |
| 22-7659 |
Darrien D. Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months?
2. Di… |
| 22-7664 |
Forest Mitchell Kirst v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-investigation congressional-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
The question presented here addresses the extent to which 18 U.S.C § 1505 applies to accident investigations by the National Transportation and Safety… |
| 22-1158 |
Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process |
Does agency rulemaking itself, like the STA Redress Process, constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110, therefore stripping the district court … |
| 22-7650 |
Nolan Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the
mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d … |
| 22-7653 |
Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7655 |
Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
1. Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time §2255 motion was "second [or] successive?" |
| 22-7635 |
Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 22-7636 |
Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7638 |
Jesus Mendez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-enhancement hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" capable of sustaining a conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7644 |
Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7645 |
Bryan O'Brien v. Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arbitrability civil-procedure court-jurisdiction exemption-doctrine federal-arbitration-act mandatory-language statutory-interpretation threshold-question wholly-grounded-exemption |
1. Whether federal courts resolving the threshold question of arbitrability under some type of "wholly grounded" exemption is consistent with the Fede… |
| 22-7616 |
Milton Mendoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-proceedings separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place ultra-vires |
Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr… |
| 22-7622 |
Anthony Bogarin v. Luis Martinez, Acting Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7606 |
Yvette Crystal Wade v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 22-1136 |
In Re Robert Steven Mawhinney |
|
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process employment-contract federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judicial-review labor-law nondiscretionary-duty statutory-interpretation |
"Does 49 U.S.C. § 42121 provide
the United States Department of Labor,
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit, or
the United… |
| 22-7601 |
Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Was recusal mandatory under § 455(b)(1) where the trial judge's administrative activities had involved her in "disputed evidentiary facts?
Was recusa… |
| 22-7588 |
Eric Lee Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7590 |
Jesse Shane Owens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law domestic-violence due-process federal-courts firearm-restrictions second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether courts must assess the elements 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) and, if so, whether federal courts must consider a state's own… |
| 22-7591 |
In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. |
|
2023-05-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
28-usc-1361 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge violate Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4(c)(3), and 28 U.S.C. §1915(d)?
2. Did the U.S… |
| 22-7582 |
Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
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| 22-7585 |
Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-1121 |
Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power |
1. Whether Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has jurisdiction to enforce Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act?
2. Whether Food and Drug Administrat… |
| 22-1118 |
Cody Adams, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process federal-employees federal-employment hazardous-duty-pay proximity-exposure regulatory-interpretation statutory-entitlement statutory-interpretation virulent-biologicals |
Under the regulation requiring hazardous duty pay for federal employees who work "with or in close proximity to" virulent biologicals, are federal emp… |
| 22-7567 |
Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness
is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an
extraordinary and compelling reason… |
| 22-7574 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment mental-illness notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion separate-document-rule separate-judgment statutory-interpretation timely-appeal |
The entire erroneous reliance of the court of appeal in Ahmed v. Shoop, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 31469 (6th Cir., Nov. 14, 2022), is upon 28 U.S.C. § 2101… |
| 22-7576 |
Crystal Maye v. Ocean Tax Deed Investment, LLC |
Florida |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law beneficiary-rights civil-rights due-process jurisdiction legislative-authority property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-regulation trust-income |
1) whether tax appraiser has the authority to create a tax regulate private property not sanction by legislature or congress ~
2) whether agency proc… |
| 22-1111 |
Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the implied certification theory of
liability under the False Claims Act is viable,
and if so, whether it requires that the
Defendant(s)… |
| 22-1110 |
Justin Paul Dreiling v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitution court-of-federal-claims equitable-jurisdiction equitable-relief executive-department executive-regulation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction monetary-claims statutory-interpretation united-states |
1. Shall the Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded upon any regulation of an e… |
| 22-7537 |
Jacqueline Anderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-115 criminal-liability federal-activities federal-officials ninth-circuit-interpretation private-contractors protective-security-officer statutory-interpretation |
Are private contractors federal "official[s]" for purposes of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 115? |
| 22-7541 |
Luis Nunez-Romero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 administrative-law due-process immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr… |
| 22-7524 |
Larry Carl Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7527 |
Adam Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-1102 |
Acquisition 362, LLC, dba Strategic Import Supply v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure court-of-international-trade customs-law federal-circuit import-protests jurisdictional-remedies standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that Petitioner's protests concerning rate and refund determinations were untimely and the Cour… |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7519 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from.
II. When the Circuit Cou… |
| 22-7520 |
Levaughn Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping |
Whether the District Court erred in its two decisions, on August 16, 2018, R. 546 and Hrg. Tr. I; and January 22, 2019, R. 625 and Hrg. Tr. II, denyin… |
| 22-7488 |
Alex Adams v. Lorie Davis, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 22-7500 |
Safara Echo Shortman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permit the Government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance base… |
| 22-7485 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 22-1077 |
Sheryl Pereira v. Terrial O'Neal |
Georgia |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion precedent property-rights stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers |
Whether Supreme Court of Georgia and Court of Appeals of Georgia erred by violating their own longstanding precedent setting Case decisions and well-e… |
| 22-1071 |
Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
8-usc-1101 administrative-law department-of-homeland-security due-process employment-authorization immigration immigration-law immigration-procedure nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation |
1. Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien i… |
| 22-7455 |
Vernon Lee Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim divisibility federal-appeals-court federal-court-of-appeals juror-unanimity means-versus-elements state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. When deciding whether "state law" provides
"clear answers" about divisibility and juror unanimity,
Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500, 517-18 (2… |
| 22-7458 |
Roger Wayne Battle v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death,
"has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7464 |
Montez Hall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7465 |
Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden |
South Dakota |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony |
Is a Section 1983 action involved in SDC 22-1-2(WA)? Serious, why does the Eighth Amendment protect the right to life with what is SDC 22-1-2(B)? Does… |
| 22-7439 |
Julio Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in
on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals
important question of … |
| 22-7449 |
Robert Richard Spurling, III v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law jury-instructions retroactive-application sexual-abuse state-courts statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does a state court's decision that a state statute prevents the state courts from conducting analysis pursuant to the United States Supreme Court prec… |
| 22-7451 |
Bennie C. Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP … |
| 22-7452 |
Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code |
In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) —bank robbery and entry i… |
| 22-7454 |
In Re Reginald Swinton |
|
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Is the Circuit Court's order in deciding sua sponte to issue its Mandate denying relief without first having afforded petitioner prior notification an… |
| 22-1066 |
CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 medical-diagnostics method-patent natural-phenomenon patent-eligibility patent-infringement prior-art scientific-innovation section-101 statutory-interpretation |
Congress has provided that any "new and useful process" is eligible for patent protection, and that "any new and useful improvement thereof" is also e… |
| 22-7422 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OR LEGISLATURE DID NOT EXPRESSLY SWEEP WITHIN NEW
UNLAWFULLY YORK PENAL LAW § 125.27 ALL KILLINGS IN WHICH THE MURDERER
ENTERED THE … |
| 22-7436 |
Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7420 |
Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7398 |
Michael A. Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 appellate-jurisdiction ayestas-v-davis clemency-case collateral-order-doctrine eighth-circuit harbison-v-bell mcfarland medical-testing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether extending the narrowly construed collateral order doctrine of Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp. 337 U.S. 541 (1949), to all district co… |
| 22-7408 |
Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction |
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Should Not Have EX PARTE discriminatively continued with the 2018-ongoing DENIALS OF the UNHEARD PETITIONS FILED FOR JUDIC… |
| 22-7386 |
Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)IFP |
appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.?
2. Is the theft… |
| 22-7392 |
Moses Clark v. Glen E. Pratt |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law jurisdiction justiciability standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7383 |
Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution |
Can the Court Oua front Substitute the Underlying under the Pertinent §§ of the Contract & Discrimination Regarding State of Employment?
Can the Cour… |
| 22-7359 |
Devin Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 22-1027 |
The Dutra Group, Inc., et al. v. Kelly Zaradnik, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-review appellate-jurisdiction benefits-review-board judicial-review longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
1. Whether appellate courts can restrict the limited jurisdiction of the Benefits Review Board under 33 U.S.C. § 921(b)(3), in accord with its impleme… |
| 22-1020 |
H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s "knowledge" element requires "actual knowledge," as this Court held, or "intent to defraud," as the Ninth Circuit held on rem… |
| 22-1021 |
John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a federal inmate can collaterally attack his sentence on any ground cognizable on collateral review, and in a "second or succe… |
| 22-1022 |
Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation |
"When confronted with two Acts of Congress allegedly touching on the same topic, this Court is not at 'liberty to pick and choose among congressional … |
| 22-7316 |
Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-7319 |
Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7320 |
Mary Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm or ammunition solely because they crossed state lines at some point before they… |
| 22-1006 |
Prime Insurance Company v. Darnell Wright |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split federal-preemption financial-responsibility interstate-transportation intrastate-journey motor-carriers statutory-interpretation transportation |
Whether a trip of an empty truck between two locations in the same state qualifies as "transportation of property … between a place in a State and … a… |
| 22-1009 |
Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation |
Ohio has a public employee statutory scheme for collective bargaining. In this statutory scheme, the Ohio Legislature took care to create an individua… |
| 22-7284 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Should this Court grant the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C.
§2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative … |
| 22-7289 |
Terrick Bishoff v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone … |
| 22-7296 |
Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition |
Did the government breach the plea agreement by giving Petitioner a substantive sentence that was inconsistent with the plea agreement?
Double Jeopar… |
| 22-7297 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Allred Unit |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-998 |
Alt’s Dairy Farm, LLC v. Nau Country Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-dispute contract-terms crop-insurance federal-arbitration-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-period |
Is the timeliness of petitioners' district court actions governed by the one-year period provided in the Common Crop Insurance Policy or by §12 of the… |
| 22-7266 |
Levar Lee Spence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-04-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appeal-rights appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus self-representation statutory-authorization statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision provide the necessary warrant of authority to Subsume the Constitutional Writ of Habeas Corpus ad sobti… |
| 22-7268 |
Derek Sloane v. Robert L. Langley, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules imminent-danger imminent-danger-exception in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation pro-se-appeal standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule |
THAT THIS ACTION SHOULDN'T HAD BEEN DISMISS BECAUSE APPELLANT HAS THREE STRIKES AND IF SO, WHETHER HE IS ENTITLED TO IN-VOKE THE IMMINENT DANGER EXCEP… |
| 22-7276 |
Antonio Demond Baker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits felon-in-possession police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act?
I. Whet… |
| 22-7279 |
Robert J. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure compassionate-release compassionate-relief concepcion-v-united-states due-process first-step-act in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
In forma pauperis status and review his request for compassionate relief under the First Step Act based on its decision in Concepcion v. United States… |
| 22-7258 |
Brian Marc Fraser v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-robbery amendment commission-amendment criminal-classification due-process enumerated-offense robbery robbery-definition sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result if
the court of appeals were permitted to consider the Commission's
Proposed Amendm… |
| 22-7259 |
Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7261 |
Susan Elise Prophet v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio… |
| 22-7263 |
Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-991 |
George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-adjudication circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review jurisdiction securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under special review statute 15 U.S.C. § 78y, circuit courts on a petition for review of a Securities and Exchange Commission final order res… |
| 22-7251 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue |
#1. When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in erro… |
| 22-7237 |
Eric Grzywinski v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether a statutory rape offense that criminalizes sexual activity solely on the basis
of the ages of the parties requires a 16-year-old age of consen… |
| 22-7241 |
Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-974 |
Charles J. Weiss v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals certiorari collection-due-process due-process internal-revenue-code levy-actions limitations-period statutory-interpretation tax-law writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") provision providing for the suspension of levy actions and the running of any period of limitations "for the… |
| 22-976 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Michael Cargill |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Relisted (4) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law atf atf-rule bump-stock firearms firearms-regulation machinegun-definition national-firearms-act statutory-interpretation trigger-mechanism |
Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a… |
| 22-969 |
City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights |
1. Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's "and other purposes" clause to inv… |
| 22-7227 |
Jared B. Goudy v. Jennifer E. Caluori |
Florida |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-action civil-immunity constitutional-rights criminal-activity driving-under-the-influence due-process immunity self-defense stand-your-ground statutory-interpretation |
Florida's Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the Twelfth Judicial Circuit's dismissal of Petitioner's case. Following an evidentiary hearing, th… |
| 22-7223 |
Raymond Charles Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
142-s-ct-2389-2022 case-compliance civil-procedure concepcion-v-united-states due-process judicial-review legal-remand remand standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THIS CASE SHOULD BE REMANDED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CONCEPCION V UNITED STATES, 142 S.T. 2389 (2022) |
| 22-7224 |
Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7205 |
Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7207 |
Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7209 |
Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-962 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1443 anti-injunction-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal finality jurisdictional-challenge remand removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review when finality is
not reached in the District case as there is no formal written remand order i… |
| 22-961 |
Dean Allen Steeves v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
church-status church-tax-exemption federal-excise-tax federal-income-tax integrated-auxiliary labor-as-commodity peonage peonage-prohibition statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
1. Whether Congresses ' Mandatory Exceptions,
found in Public Law 91-172 at 508(c)(1)(A), 83 Stat 494-
495 & 6033(a)(2)A)(i), 83 Stat 519-520 for "c… |
| 22-7179 |
Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7183 |
Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-956 |
Paul Johnson v. Bastrop Central Appraisal District |
Texas |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-justice civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus-writ pro-se public-information standard-of-proof standing statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Should the State of Texas create a separate standard of proof in statutory Writ of Mandamus cases that denies the poor and pro se requesters access to… |
| 22-957 |
Laurie A. Dermody v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1396p annuity annuity-rules asset-transfer medicaid-eligibility medical-assistance remainder-beneficiary spousal-impoverishment statutory-interpretation transfer-penalty |
Whether an annuity that satisfies the condition in Section 1396p(c)(2)(B)(i) must name the State as the first remainder beneficiary in order to avoid … |
| 22-953 |
Pablo Calderon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law |
Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated … |
| 22-955 |
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Is the court-created "futility" doctrine, which
allows a United States court to decide a case removed
from state court even though it lacks jurisdi… |
| 22-7157 |
Andreqio Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 922(g) criminalizes three different offenses relating to a firearm for "prohibited persons": transporting a firearm, possessing a firearm,… |
| 22-945 |
Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud |
1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were… |
| 22-7123 |
Kenneth Chambers v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
The issue before this Court is whether the Seventh Circuit of the Southern District of Indiana had subject matter jurisdiction over the case. The Plai… |
| 22-7129 |
Thomas P. Thayer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation |
This Court has held that, where Congress makes the application of federal law turn on a prior "conviction" that, "by its nature," "involves" certain "… |
| 22-7117 |
Noel Macapagal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation |
The government convicted petitioner-defendant Noel Macapagal of violating 18 U.S.C. §2422(b). As the government invoked it to convict Macapagal, this … |
| 22-7088 |
James Duane Grzeslo v. Raythel Fisher, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7095 |
Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende… |
| 22-7100 |
Felipe Nevarez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver |
Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p… |
| 22-7109 |
In Re Freddie A. Land |
|
2023-03-24 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law asylum due-process equal-protection immigration statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-929 |
BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con… |
| 22-7066 |
Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DEFENDANT CAN BE FOUND GUILTY FOR A PAROLE VIOLATION AND A CRIMINAL VIOLATION FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IF IT IS ILLEGAL TO TRAN… |
| 22-7079 |
Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-7061 |
Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t… |
| 22-7065 |
Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
i.
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially?
ii.
Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a criminal defendant's senten… |
| 22-7052 |
Colby Todd Dubose v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability generic-burglary non-permanent-structures oregon-first-degree-burglary overnight-accommodation reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation stitt-decision stitt-v-united-states |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether, after Stitt, Oregon first-degree burglary remains categorically broader than generic burglary because the sta… |
| 22-7053 |
Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is … |
| 22-7059 |
Aaron M. Haynes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-915 |
United States v. Zackey Rahimi |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (69)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders, violates the Secon… |
| 22-916 |
Priscilla McManus v. NBS Default Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation time-limits |
1. When Did the Importance of Deadlines Cease to Exist? |
| 22-919 |
Stephen Thaler v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
artificial-intelligence innovation-rights invention inventor inventor-definition patent patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term "inventor" to human beings alone? |
| 22-912 |
James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-… |
| 22-7040 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. Doe, Designation Sentence Computation Center Official, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-review bias civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure recusal standing statutory-interpretation witness |
I) whether the district court erred in denying Appellant's motion for the judge recusal based upon the Judge being called upon in the instant case as … |
| 22-7024 |
In Re Kevin Ogden |
|
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process insufficient-evidence jury-instructions legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
There was insufficient evidence to convict. The N.M. Embezzlement Statute clearly says the owner's name must be used in the Criminal Complaint and Inf… |
| 22-7030 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7015 |
Timothy Reaves v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-888 |
James R. Rudisill v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure education-benefits montgomery-gi-bill post-9/11-gi-bill qualifying-service statutory-interpretation veterans veterans-benefits |
Whether a veteran who has served two separate
and distinct periods of qualifying service under the
Montgomery GI Bill, 38 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., and
u… |
| 22-878 |
Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 |
First Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. §1930(a)(6)(A) applies to a case
under Chapter 11 of Title 11, United States Code, upon
reopening, where the chapter 11 case was … |
| 22-884 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Varinder Singh |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law due-process immigration-law in-absentia-order notice-requirement notice-requirements removal-proceeding removal-proceedings rescission statutory-interpretation |
Under 8 U.S.C. 1229a(b)(5), a noncitizen may be ordered removed in absentia when he "does not attend a [removal] proceeding" "after written notice req… |
| 22-7006 |
Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7011 |
Charles Matthew Waters v. Anita Marie Waters |
Minnesota |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-offspring civil-procedure consent consent-withdrawal due-process family-law order-for-protection order-of-protection standing statutory-interpretation withdrawal |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process when the trial court would not allow Petitioner's withdrawal of consent to an Order for Protection, pri… |
| 22-6998 |
David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6999 |
Allen Maki v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law |
Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a).(1)
(2) Whether it fair to regard Maki 's gentle… |
| 22-7002 |
J. T. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness |
1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard
when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir… |
| 22-873 |
Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
america-invents-act estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-law statutory-interpretation |
This case is the sister case to the inter partes review ("IPR") considered by this Court in Thryv, Inc v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, 140 S. Ct. 1… |
| 22-849 |
Rickie Foy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement |
Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-851 |
United States v. Julian Garcon |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 22-853 |
Donald V. Watkins, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accredited-investors conspiracy corporate-governance intent-to-defraud ongoing-business risk-disclosure statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred, as a matter of law, in sustaining a conviction for wire fraud conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. §1349 (in Count One of… |
| 22-6965 |
Seth Grant Huntington v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law-battery eighth-circuit-interpretation johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states state-assault-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether treating a state assault statute as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act when that statute requires no more than the intent … |
| 22-6971 |
Joseph Dingler v. Terry Garrett, Sheriff, Rockwall County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-evidence preservation-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings tax |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6956 |
Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT CORRECTLY DETERMINED
THAT THE ORDERS APPEALED WERE NEITHER FINAL NOR
WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION UNDER
THE ALL-WRITS ACT
18 USC … |
| 22-845 |
Robert Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process duty-to-assist judicial-notice judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
In the veterans-benefits system, Congress has
provided that an otherwise-final agency decision is sub
ject to one review on appeal to the Secretary. … |
| 22-846 |
Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i… |
| 22-6933 |
John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
SHOUD THE=SIXTH CIRCUTT BE to COVERUP JWDGE CRENSHALLS VIOLATIONS OP SICTH CRCUIT $ SUPREME COURT STANDINPRECIDENTS OF EXLEPTIONS TO THE YOUNFER & MID… |
| 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 |
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| 22-6947 |
Alexander Samuel Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 due-process entrapment false-statements fbi-investigation government-fabrication materiality statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statement made to FBI agents can be material and knowingly false under 18 U.S.C. §1001(a) when the criminal enterprise underlying the statem… |
| 22-6918 |
Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND SENTENCE REVIEW OF PRO-SE PLEADINGS WERE SELECTIVE RATHER THAN THE REQUIR… |
| 22-6902 |
Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6903 |
William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation |
"The Petitioner respectfully ask '* When the [Fjramers of the Oklahoma State Constitution, created and enacted Article I. £ 3. [Unappropriatedpublic l… |
| 22-6905 |
Francisco Nunez Carrillo v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6914 |
David B. Morgan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-6915 |
Leon H. McCormick v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-821 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Hoboken, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights climate-change federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-injury |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused… |
| 22-828 |
Roger E. Pace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Courts interpret statutes by applying Congress's plain language. In the First Step Act, Congress modified the federal sentencing statute to say that a… |
| 22-812 |
Isaac D. Koch v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal protection-order standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the government's interpretation of an order against all contact and communication and presence?
If the Court agrees that the power of the peo… |
| 22-814 |
William R. Tinnerman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction flora-rule internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite standing statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
1. Under the language of 28 U.S.C. §1346(a)(1), is full payment of tax alleged to be owed for an entire taxable period a jurisdictional prerequisite f… |
| 22-819 |
Franz Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard magistrate-judge markman-test patent patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
35 U.S.C. § 282(a) provides that "[a] patent shall be presumed valid." This Court has ruled that when a court reviews validity of a patent, the presum… |
| 22-6879 |
Bobby O. Williams v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District |
Illinois |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-factors due-process fair-warning judicial-expansion jury-determination jury-findings retroactivity sentencing-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
On Petitioner's second direct appeal, in resolving Petitioner's sufficiency of evidence claim regarding the existence of a single statutory aggravatin… |
| 22-6881 |
James Clark, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-808 |
Joe Alfred Izen, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charitable-deduction deadlines equitable-tolling hardship-exemption I.R.C.-170(f)(12) internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantiation-deadline substantiation-evidence summary-judgment tax-law |
1. Whether equitable tolling may extend substantiation evidence gathering deadlines under I.R.C. § 170(f)(12).
2. Whether Congress lacks the power to… |
| 22-806 |
John Doe v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin… |
| 22-6866 |
Antonio Rosello v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-6846 |
Christopher L. Corn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-6854 |
Xavier Sims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 5… |
| 22-6829 |
Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6834 |
Michael Laury v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 |
21 U.S.C. § 856 (A)(2) makes it unlawful to manage or control any place, whether permanently or temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employ… |
| 22-6836 |
Robert Speed v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether RICO is a § 924(c)(3)(A) "crime of violence," is the statutory definition of "racketeering activity" divisible, such that a court… |
| 22-6843 |
Edgar Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to … |
| 22-790 |
Vanessa Wereko v. Lori Rosen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-1292 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure congressional-intent discretionary-appeal district-court interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion status-quo statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress ' intent for an interlocutory appeal as of
right, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), can be unilaterally
converted into a discretionary ap… |
| 22-6816 |
Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-6823 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6825 |
Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6814 |
Juan M. Vazquez-Pedrosa v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-indian-law federal-land-policy indian-land jurisdictional-dispute land-rights native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood property-transfer statutory-interpretation treaty tribal-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6817 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial jury-trial-denial retaliation statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
1. Why wasn't plaintiff Curry given an opportunity to become a plant Operator?
2. Defendants submitted a bad faith affidavit under Perjury, Fraud, an… |
| 22-779 |
Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation |
Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discrim
inatory intent other than racial bias be actionable un
der 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), the possibility o… |
| 22-783 |
Victor J. Orena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
In Concepcion v. United States, — U.S. -, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (June 27, 2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows dis… |
| 22-772 |
Ultra Petroleum Corporation, et al. v. Ad Hoc Committee of OpCo Unsecured Creditors, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy-code creditor-recovery judicial-exception lower-court-confusion post-petition-interest solvent-debtor-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-text unmatured-interest |
Whether an unwritten "solvent-debtor exception" overrides the Bankruptcy Code's statutory text and allows creditors in solvent-debtor cases to recover… |
| 22-773 |
Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a "prevailing party" elig… |
| 22-6803 |
Mario C. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini… |
| 22-6804 |
Joseph Mark Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-procedure appellate-procedure civil-procedure criminal-statute due-process legal-timeline minor-protection motion-to-withdraw standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Whether the 90 days under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 and Supreme Court
Rule 13 applies to an order granting a motion to withdraw an
appeal .
2. Whether the… |
| 22-6805 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection precedent-analysis statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant Certiorari to determine whether the Appellate Court's construction of a statute pursuant to People v. Rineland, 2015 Ill App (… |
| 22-6784 |
Jerry Don South v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18
U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence
imposed?
… |
| 22-6780 |
Anthony LeMarcus Larkins v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6764 |
Michael Ray Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether United States v. Granados , 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Co… |
| 22-759 |
Michael Gramins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms |
Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter… |
| 22-762 |
Robert Kreb v. Department of Labor |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious employee-protection employee-protection-rights evidentiary-burden standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. What is the appropriate standard of review when an agency administrative law judge abuses their discretion, is arbitrary and capricious or otherwis… |
| 22-6755 |
Lecedric Prentice Harris v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-specific-justification constitutional-law constitutional-requirement courtroom-closure criminal-procedure judicial-discretion public-trial-clause split-of-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state court correctly held — in conflict with
holdings of this Court, the supreme courts of other states, and
federal courts of appeal — t… |
| 22-6756 |
Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 145 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s "crime of violence" d… |
| 22-6758 |
In Re Mark Marvin |
|
2023-02-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
I, WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO ADJUDICATE LAYMAN'S PETITION FOR HAB… |
| 22-6761 |
Joshua David Lambert v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel |
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| 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 … |
| 22-6730 |
Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres U. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6715 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6717 |
Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without
this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6720 |
Angela Bakos v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits-suit civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa limitation-period notice notice-requirement procedural-requirement statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether Respondent UNUM was required under the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et. seq., to provide Petitioner BAKOS with
a… |
| 22-736 |
Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-6710 |
David Wekesa v. United States Attorney, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8-usc-1226c civil-rights due-process immigration-detention judicial-review mandatory-detention procedural-protections reasonableness-of-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether due process mandates procedural protections during lengthy periods of mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c).
2. How long does deten… |
| 22-733 |
Pacific Gas & Electric Company v. Ad Hoc Committee of Holders of Trade Claims |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-practice equitable-considerations federal-rate post-petition-interest solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a clear statement is required for the Bankruptcy Code to depart from past bankruptcy practice.
2. Whether an uncodified "solvent debtor" e… |
| 22-6699 |
Marquita Leigh Meredith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing policy-statement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented here is whether 2007 statement is an "applicable" policy Statement that binds a district court when deciding whether to grant … |
| 22-727 |
Izzac Christopher Weister v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency psychiatric-custody statutory-interpretation vagueness violence violence-definition west-virginia |
1. Izzac Weister was criminally charged with sexual offenses as a result of electronic messages that he sent to his half sister. The trial court found… |
| 22-6673 |
Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED
IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
AFTER THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO MAKE
AN INQUIRY INTO A TITLE 18 U… |
| 22-6682 |
Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to conclude that a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different fro… |
| 22-6685 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
A defendant sued in a State Court can timely remove the action to the local federal District Court where the party alleges federal question jurisdicti… |
| 22-714 |
Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80 (1943)
and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the
case to the agency after determining that… |
| 22-715 |
Chevron USA, Inc., et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure federal-officer-removal federal-preemption national-emergency oil-production statutory-interpretation war-powers wwii |
1. Whether a private entity is "acting under" a federal officer for purposes of removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 when federal officials, through orders … |
| 22-717 |
Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees to Plaintiffs-Respondents pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b), where Plaintiffs' Petition sol… |
| 22-720 |
Dakota Finance LLC, dba Arabella Farm, et al. v. Naturaland Trust, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-penalty circuit-split citizen-suits clean-water-act diligent-prosecution-bar enforcement-regime statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper test for determining whether the "diligent prosecution bar" under 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(6)(A)(i) precludes citizen suits brought unde… |
| 22-6666 |
Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution |
The Victim and Witness Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663 ("VWPA"), permits a district court to order restitution to victims of an offense under Title 1… |
| 22-6637 |
Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6638 |
James Ralph Dawson, Jr. v. Jeff Archambeau, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure remedies standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6640 |
Eugene Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-695 |
Jane Does No. 1–6, et al. v. Reddit, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-pornography civil-action civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-immunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation third-party-liability |
Whether the exception to CDA immunity contained in 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5)(A)—which states "Nothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) sh… |
| 22-6614 |
Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a |
1) Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of… |
| 22-6617 |
Winsloe Duhaney v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
After a defendant on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence under the subsection of the criminal statute under which he was convicted, and,… |
| 22-6618 |
Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding |
Did the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One Err by affirming the Termination of Paternal Parental rights over his two biological Children in a Maric… |
| 22-6620 |
Alex Adams v. Sergeant Beusch, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law costs due-process fees judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6599 |
Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. When the State of Ohio Legislatures/The Ohio General Assembly had failed to drafted with reasonably clarity the precise number of years that equals… |
| 22-6600 |
Eric Banks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Several federal criminal statutes only apply within the United States's "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction," including the assault statute… |
| 22-6604 |
In Re Daniel Sheehan |
|
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation |
The Third Circuit has reduced the 2241 Gateway to qualify via 2255(e) to an impassable size through abuses of discretion in the creation of Dicta, tha… |
| 22-6586 |
Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A… |
| 22-6587 |
Vernon White v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of "special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t… |
| 22-6590 |
In Re Harry Sharod James |
|
2023-01-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 22-671 |
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
28-usc-46 appellate-procedure case-law judicial-administration judicial-review panel-composition patent-law statutory-interpretation written-description |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 46 and principles of sound judicial administration preclude a court of appeals from adding a new judge to form a new panel and … |
| 22-6568 |
Duraid Hussein v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
1. In Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court clarified that the word knowingly under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) applies to both defendan… |
| 22-6569 |
Charles Heard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a VICAR murder conviction, which is in turn based upon a
second-degree murder under California law, constitute a categorical
crime of violence… |
| 22-6573 |
Delamon A. Marshall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Does a prior conviction for domestic violence under Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2919.25(A) qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 22-6578 |
Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 22-6560 |
Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In light of its nuanced, holistic approach to federal sentencing, whether a district court may, consistent with § 3553(a)'s plain text, treat the dura… |
| 22-663 |
Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-regulation consumer-financial-protection consumer-protection due-process financial-regulation removal-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Rule should be vacated because it was promulgated by Director Cordray while shielded from removal by President Trump under a statutory … |
| 22-6545 |
Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation |
THE DISTRICT COURT WAS WITHOUT JURISDICTION TO IMPOSE A "TERM OF YEARS" SENTENCE WHEN THE STATUTE CONTAINED ONLY TWO SENTENCING OPTIONS, DEATH, OR LIF… |
| 22-6548 |
United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation |
A CASE OF FIRST IMPRESSION
LINCOLN LAW PRO SE FILING REQUIREMENT
QUESTION: WHETHER A PRO SE IS ALLOWED TO INITIALLY FILE A FALSE
CLAIMS ACT (FCA) C… |
| 22-652 |
Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property |
Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted.
Whether untaint… |
| 22-6536 |
Antoine D. Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-6540 |
Brandon Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6541 |
Garrett Statler v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because… |
| 22-6527 |
William Langley, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a… |
| 22-6508 |
Joseph M. Evans v. Amy Helene Zubrensky |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law court-precedent due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 22-629 |
David Holbrook v. Tennessee Valley Authority, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion congressional-intent government-corporation judicial-review public-utilities rate-setting statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have authority to review TVA's fidelity to its enabling statute, or is TVA's rate-setting excepted from all judicial review even whe… |
| 22-631 |
Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases |
Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code states that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the … |
| 22-633 |
Stacey A. Kincaid, Sheriff, Fairfax County, Virginia v. Kesha T. Williams |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
42-usc-12211 ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition disability-rights dsm-5 fourth-circuit gender-dysphoria statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, found in the DSM-5, is excluded from the ADA's definition of disability under 42 U.S.C. § 12211(b). |
| 22-6481 |
Courtney J. v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. |
North Carolina |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
child-welfare civil-death-penalty due-process equal-protection payment-obligation statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina's interpretation of a termination of parental rights statute, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-1111(a)(3), deprives pa… |
| 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. |
| 22-6466 |
Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the
application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-6468 |
Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6471 |
Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether Mr. PARKS improperly WAS DENIED A REVIEW IN EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE of COUNSEL AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT 24p District Court UNDER. J 28 U.… |
| 22-6479 |
Felix Agustin Dominguez-Bido, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Felix Dominguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a "notice to appear" that does not specify the date, time, and pl… |
| 22-6459 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct government-review procedural-motion section-2255 section-3504 statutory-interpretation wiretapping |
I. Whether the Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 procedure qualifies proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 3504(a)(1) to merit an affirmance or denial by the Government prior to… |
| 22-609 |
Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
In the context of electronic communications, a series of statutes give companies permission to access their users' private correspondence, remove impe… |
| 22-6443 |
Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF… |
| 22-6444 |
Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a conviction for federal "second degree murder" under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 22-6450 |
Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings i… |
| 22-607 |
Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue… |
| 22-598 |
Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness |
Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an… |
| 22-6418 |
Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree
Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose… |
| 22-6420 |
Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-593 |
United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (5) |
civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-6400 |
José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether my claim is propperly presented under 28 USC § 1331 which is jurisdiction on all civil actions.
2. Whether 42 U S. Code § 2000dd is still … |
| 22-583 |
Evan Greebel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as "earnings" subject to the CCPA's… |
| 22-6391 |
Nonami Palomares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 22-578 |
Richard Behar v. Department of Homeland Security |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-records appellate-procedure confidentiality foia-exemption-7c freedom-of-information-act party-presentation-principle presidential-administration privacy-interests statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether documents obtained and used by a federal agency in the legitimate conduct of its official duties are not "agency records" and thus never su… |
| 22-582 |
United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) an… |
| 22-6379 |
Leetavious Gaines v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 22-6380 |
Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1.) Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the
rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
(a) The C… |
| 22-6388 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether a defendant's fundamental right to equal protection of the laws was infringed where the appellate courts' construction of a statute contravene… |
| 22-572 |
Robert M. Glen v. Trip Advisor LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims |
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, 22 U.S.C. § 6081 et seq., is a broad remedial statute that authorizes U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated… |
| 22-6347 |
Manuel Alejandro Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 bastide-hernandez-v-united-states due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law nix-chaves-v-barr notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of… |
| 22-6337 |
Lonnie Charles Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-559 |
Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's "intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]" of CMI… |
| 22-6317 |
Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6318 |
Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6323 |
Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of … |
| 22-6324 |
Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion and misconstrue the law in determining that the Bureau of Prisons' failure to manage Mr. Hernandez's sever… |
| 22-6307 |
John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I.
W… |
| 22-6314 |
Ramiro Leal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6300 |
Edman Castro-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure due-process indictment recidivism recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
L. Whether the government's failure to allege a prior conviction necessary to support a statutory recidivism enhancement violated Mr. Castro's right "… |
| 22-6303 |
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed a… |
| 22-542 |
Tavaris Betts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act. |
| 22-538 |
William F. Nored, et ux., as Conservators, Parents, and Next Friends of William F. Nored, Jr. v. Tennessee Department of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights developmental-disabilities government-liability intellectual-disabilities medicaid-act nondelegable-duty statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities has a nondelegable duty to enforce The Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.C. §1396, … |
| 22-6288 |
Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max |
Whether in a RICO conspiracy case the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the sta… |
| 22-6281 |
Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of th… |
| 22-6262 |
Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
by Summarily Affirmance of Petitioner Patel's 2241 Writ of Hab… |
| 22-6264 |
Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1998), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now Auer deference, applies to interpretive or explanat… |
| 22-6266 |
Earl Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6256 |
Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in
2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing
law and also created a new cri… |
| 22-6267 |
Mack Doak v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c), which criminalizes "cross[ing]a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who… |
| 22-6234 |
Rex Gainey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-law covid-19 covid-19-impact district-court-discretion habeas-corpus prison-law-library pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Should district courts adopt an approach that allows for the holistic consideration of all the circumstances accompanying a petitioner's late filing w… |
| 22-6237 |
Orlando Dean Hobbs v. Clinton Bryant |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearm-rights habeas-corpus restoration-of-rights statutory-interpretation |
Was the Habeas Corpus in this case Effectively Suspended in this case? when the officers of the courts knew the petitioner's civil rights were restore… |
| 22-6225 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 18USC 10), apply to 18USC 722(c)(G)?
(2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Con… |
| 22-6226 |
James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court |
Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion petitioner habeas corpus petition on "Presumption Of Correctness" an mandate… |
| 22-6228 |
Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 22-523 |
Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
circuit-conflict climate-change climate-change-litigation federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal federal-preemption greenhouse-gas-emissions jurisdictional-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation transboundary-pollution |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442 precludes removal by federal officers and persons acting under them unless the … |
| 22-6218 |
Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-512 |
Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p… |
| 22-6188 |
Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. Bo Thorpe, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6194 |
Jordan Huff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
1. Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is a double-barreled crime that, at least in the
context of aiding and abetting, requires proof both of a defendant's acti… |
| 22-6201 |
In Re Arthur James Lomax |
|
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws |
Is it true that the Colorado Constitution specifies that the General Assembly of the State of Colorado? Colo. Const. art.V.8 18.
Is the Colorado Cour… |
| 22-6182 |
Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion liberty-interest procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) An important Question in the Administration of Justice, which has the potential to effect a large number of american citizens, is: "Does the U.S. … |
| 22-508 |
John O. Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-371 conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud criminal-law criminal-prosecution defraud-the-united-states federal-agency internal-revenue-service jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
In a series of decisions from this Court, the reach and scope of conspiracies to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 were define… |
| 22-6168 |
Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-495 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change climate-injury federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-impact |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused… |
| 22-6148 |
Larry James Bradley v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
(1) WHETHER PETITIONER IS PROPERLY DETAILED AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO?
(2) WHETHER FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION §775.0… |
| 22-6151 |
Demon Reese v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6130 |
Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-6132 |
Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-6137 |
Bryan Thornton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1.) The question presented here is the same as that presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court granted certiorari on S… |
| 22-484 |
Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law administrative-review board-determination civil-rights due-process federalism fiscal-plan legislative-oversight promesa puerto-rico-sovereignty statutory-interpretation territorial-self-rule |
1. What standard of review governs a district court's evaluation of the Board's determination that Puerto Rican legislation "would impair or defeat th… |
| 22-485 |
Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v… |
| 22-6115 |
Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in… |
| 22-6117 |
Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are … |
| 22-6125 |
Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6109 |
Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit… |
| 22-6110 |
Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration… |
| 22-6111 |
In Re Katrese Nickelson |
|
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-sealing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard motion-to-quash service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandate |
1. Whether Assembly Bill No.2819 's mandatory automatic and permanent case
sealing requirements in limited unlawful detainer cases extends to sealing… |
| 22-471 |
Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards |
Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws "relating to" the "subject matters" expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state… |
| 22-463 |
Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in suits against foreign sovereign defendants under the FSIA, courts may dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds when a statutory exception t… |
| 22-466 |
Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde… |
| 22-6062 |
Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of "organize" within the context of … |
| 22-6072 |
Randy Belcher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-6076 |
Joseph Rauber v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation |
The federal sentencing statute contains a "safety valve" that protects defendants from mandatory minimum sentences if they meet certain criteria. 18 U… |
| 22-6082 |
In Re George W. Buford, III |
|
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
adjudication civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-crisis due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions voting-rights |
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| 22-447 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California |
California |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law |
1. Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq., and False Advertising… |
| 22-451 |
Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (83)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law agency-power chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management maritime-regulation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-silence |
1. Whether, under a proper application of Chevron, the MSA implicitly grants NMFS the power to force domestic vessels to pay the salaries of the monit… |
| 22-453 |
Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation |
Article 6 of the United States -South Korea
Extradition Trea ty ("Treaty") provides that
"[e]xtradition may be denied under this Treaty when
the pr… |
| 22-448 |
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (30)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-funding constitutional-law consumer-financial-protection-bureau judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-funding statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 12 U.S.C. 5497, v… |
| 22-6047 |
Juan Teran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6048 |
Martin Robinson v. Tom Schweitzer, Warden |
Ohio |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-decision property-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6038 |
Gabriel Mangum v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-751 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy escape-from-custody fifth-amendment residential-reentry-center statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether Petitioner's 5" Amendment Double Jeopardy rights were violated when he was punished twice for the same conduct, to wit: Escape from Custody… |
| 22-439 |
Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th… |
| 22-6013 |
Damian Robert Guthary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error arising from his guilty plea under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) where the… |
| 22-6020 |
John M. Esposito v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federalism legal-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
IS THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PROSECUTING AND CONVICTING U.S. CITIZENS UNDER § 794.011, FLORIDA STATUTES, A VOID… |
| 22-6022 |
Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 22-6028 |
John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In 1992, the elderly parents created a Trust. Controversy arose when the
petitioner had a child which extended the life of the trust to the year 2036.… |
| 22-6002 |
Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are "grievously" ambiguous.
2. Whether the full C… |
| 22-6004 |
Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clemency clemency-services court-order due-process habeas habeas-petition indigent-capital-defendants mental-health mental-health-crisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts are required by McFarland v. Scott, 512 U.S. 848 (1994), to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of… |
| 22-425 |
Robin Carnahan, Administrator of the General Services Administration v. Carolyn Maloney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (7) |
5-usc-2954 article-iii-standing civil-procedure congress-members congressional-oversight disclosure-request executive-agency information-disclosure separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether individual Members of Congress have Article III standing to sue an executive agency to compel it to disclose information that the Members have… |
| 22-5981 |
Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5982 |
Richard Allen Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), which includes
felony murder, a crime of violence within the meaning of the force
clause of 18 U.… |
| 22-5987 |
Anessa R. Fierro and Willie T. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-arson-statute lopez-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Is the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), unconstitutional? |
| 22-5970 |
David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a … |
| 22-415 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
(1) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment?
(2) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is unconstitutiona… |
| 22-5958 |
Raul Tovar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5962 |
Marquis Donte Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review post-booker-hearing safety-valve sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRIC T COURT ERRED BY IMPOSING AN
UNLAW FUL SEN TENCE CONTRARY TO THE MANDATES OF § 3553(a)
AND §3553(f)(5) WHICH PRECLUDE USE OF IN… |
| 22-5949 |
Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-401 |
Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management |
Does ANILCA, which sought to preserve the
State's traditional police powers over wildlife, grant
federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state
l… |
| 22-402 |
James Vorley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "… |
| 22-5934 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-due-process covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act health-conditions judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-modification sentencing-reform sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5942 |
David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As reasonable jurors would have disagreed that the Felony Murder Statute as applied to this Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying this Petitioner hi… |
| 22-5929 |
Juan Salvador Cordova-Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing immigration minor standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unaccompanied-minor |
I. Did the district court abuse its discretion in applying the 4-level enhancement
for transporting an unaccompanied minor under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(4… |
| 22-5930 |
Davon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni… |
| 22-5911 |
Clark Wesley Betts, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review merits merits-review procedural-order statutory-interpretation |
Is a certificate of appealability needed to appeal an order unrelated to the merits of a habeas proceeding if that order is part of an order on the me… |
| 22-5912 |
William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5914 |
Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5918 |
Tommy Allen Dickenson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute
(18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5920 |
Jesse Brewer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5895 |
Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits |
Where a state structured-sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the structured-sentencing ra… |
| 22-5875 |
Bryan Protho v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3509 child-victim closed-circuit-testimony criminal-procedure district-court district-court-procedure statutory-interpretation testimony two-way-closed-circuit-television witness-testimony |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3509 requires a district court to question a child victim
on the record before to introducing the child victim 's testimony at tri… |
| 22-5886 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-chapter-5 article-iii balzac-v-porto-rico court-jurisdiction district-court judicial-power mookini-v-united-states statutory-interpretation territorial-court |
United States Supreme Court in two cases: Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1921) and Mookini v. United States, 303 U.S. 201 (1938) made it clear th… |
| 22-5887 |
Joseph Michael DeGraw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-construction section-2254 section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Courts should, sua sponte, construe a state prisoner's pro se filed pleadings, in 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 proceedings, citing the w… |
| 22-374 |
Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (5) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard |
Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to
have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law
can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 22-5876 |
Surprise Emmanuel Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-authority felon-in-possession felon-possession national-federation-v-sebelius police-power statutory-interpretation substantial-effect |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5878 |
William D. King v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
When, whether deciding if a defendant has presented an "extraordinary and
compelling" reason for a sentence modification under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(… |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 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. |
| 22-5847 |
Lindsey Orr v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
WHEN ARE THE SECTION 3553 (d) FACTORS SATISFIED?
THE 3553 OPINION JUSTIFIED BASED UPON?
THE COMPLETION OF THE TERM OF IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFIED FROM … |
| 22-5859 |
Marcal Fraction v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 22-360 |
Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
1. Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permi… |
| 22-361 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate gre… |
| 22-5836 |
Laquan Kyle Duane Shakespeare v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583k consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy due-process mandatory-minimum marks-doctrine marks-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
1. Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment imposed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) is valid in light of … |
| 22-5832 |
Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-sentencing cumulation due-process legislative-intent sentence-cumulation statutory-interpretation texas-law texas-legislature trial-court |
Was respondent denied due process of law when the trial court cumulated
respondent 's two twenty year sentences when the law in effect enacted by the
… |
| 22-348 |
Floyd Tayler v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity |
Must the jury, in deciding whether a defendant has committed the domestic violence pattern aggravator, RCW 9.94A.535 (3) (h) (i), be instructed that t… |
| 22-339 |
Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the AKS is violated only if the person offering the "remuneration * * * to induce" the purchase of federally reimbursed healthcare intends to … |
| 22-340 |
Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-333 |
U.S. Well Services, Inc. v. Scott Easom, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causal-connection covid-19 employment-law mass-layoff natural-disaster plant-closing statutory-interpretation warn-act |
(1) Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception, 29 U.S.C. § 2102(b)(2)(B)?
(2) What causal connectio… |
| 22-331 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion |
Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice," 8 U.S.C. 1101… |
| 22-5793 |
Thomas A. Forrest, et ux. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code judicial-precedent military-benefits military-retirees statutory-interpretation tax tax-recovery |
1. Whether the Supreme Court erred in their interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code in United States v. Brockamp, 519 U.S. 347 (1997) by disallowi… |
| 22-5782 |
Matthew Tassin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may … |
| 22-327 |
Confederación Hípica de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. v. Confederación de Jinetes Puertorriqueños, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law concerted-action employer-employee-relationship employment employment-relationship independent-contractors labor-dispute labor-exemption statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory labor exemption from the operation of the antitrust laws, which exempts "labor dispute[s]" that "concern[] terms or conditions o… |
| 22-319 |
Saloojas, Inc. v. Aetna Health of California, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cares-act congressional-intent diagnostic-testing healthcare-reimbursement private-remedy private-right-of-action reimbursement statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress have an implicit intent to create a private remedy in favor of diagnostic testing providers for full reimbursement under the CARES Act? |
| 22-320 |
Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-666 circuit-court-interpretation federal-program-fraud intentional-misapplication kelly-v-united-states property-deprivation prosecutorial-scope regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the elements of the offense of federal program fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A) differ under a theory of intentional misapplication and st… |
| 22-5765 |
Ryanne Parker, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, N. P. v. West Carroll Special School District |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights damages disabilities-education-act exhaustion-of-remedies rehabilitation-act remedies statutory-interpretation |
In the Handicapped Children 's Protection Act of 1986 (HCPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1415(1), it requires the exhaustion of state administrative remedies under t… |
| 22-5768 |
Issa Battle v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
1) What is the Supreme Court's interpretation of the "knowingly" element required under 18 U.S.C. §924(a)(2) in felon in possession of a firearm cases… |
| 22-5769 |
Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5762 |
Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved
from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T? |
| 22-5751 |
Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE KNOWINGLY ELEMENT APPLY TO U.S.C. $921 (a)(20)?
DOES A STIPULATION AT THE TIME OF TRIAL THAT A DEFENDANT HAD AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST CQMIT… |
| 22-5758 |
Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2022-10-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5734 |
Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from … |
| 22-5743 |
Timothy Love v. California |
California |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
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| 22-5712 |
Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appeal to the Petitioner [Edmond Morgan]?
2. Should … |
| 22-286 |
Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. May the court of appeals override the parties' factual
stipulation crucial to petitioners' right to recover,
contrary to this Court's precedents as… |
| 22-5693 |
Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a
controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced
punishment o… |
| 22-281 |
Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation |
1. Under Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law
("SDNL"), a parent-child relationship can be
permanently severed (1) with less notice than is
requir… |
| 22-5677 |
Michael Louis McCarron v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen… |
| 22-5664 |
Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-modification medical-records mental-health statutory-interpretation |
DID THE ALTERATION OF THE RECEIVING HOSPTIAL REPORT BY JUDGE BURKE AS MANDATED BY MINN. STAT. § 253B.12 (1990) VIOLATE SUBSTANTIVE LAW? |
| 22-5669 |
Robert Carrasco Gamez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5659 |
Donovan Moenell Williams v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-process case-jurisdiction civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-filing scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5660 |
Jon Anthony Terry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
1. May a District Court at sentencing, find a defendant "non-indigent" for the purposes of 18 USC 3014(e), based upon past income and a hypothetical "… |
| 22-5665 |
Geoffrie Dill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does "controlled substance offense", as that term is used in U.S.S.G. §4B1.1 and defined by U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(b), refer only to those controlled substan… |
| 22-272 |
Livingston County Road Commission v. Gould Electronics, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
|
cercla cercla-liability due-care environmental-law groundwater-contamination innocent-landowner property-liability reasonable-steps statutory-defense statutory-interpretation third-party-defense |
The questions for this Court are:
1. How is the term "due care" defined for purposes of the 42 U.S.C. §9607(b)(3) "third-party defense" in relation t… |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word "established," as used in FACA, be construed in accord with its "plain" meaning (as the Eleventh Circuit held) or should be it constru… |
| 22-5637 |
Dwayne Stone v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether crimes of physical inaction have "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of … |
| 22-5638 |
Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5639 |
Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-5612 |
Luis F. Gomez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility |
Does improper vouching by a prosecutor to the jury rise to a level of reversal in accordance with the 5th Amendment and unduly prejudice the defendant… |
| 22-5614 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision retroactive-application standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5621 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat |
Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by
the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker
subjectively k… |
| 22-5625 |
Orville Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary … |
| 22-5626 |
James Earl Jones v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
1: (A) WHETHER THE TERM "ON ANOTHER" AS UTILIZED IN N.J.S.A.
2C:14-2(a)(3) APPLY or (B) WHETHER N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(6)
CONTROL IN PETITIONER 'S CASE… |
| 22-5628 |
In Re Tony Walker |
|
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether The April 24, 2004 Standings Order of The Court of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. § 1503(b) and 28 U.S.C. § 1658?
2. W… |
| 22-5634 |
Nelson Jean Dion v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262, which c… |
| 22-262 |
Berkley V. Walker v. BOKF, National Association, dba Bank of Albuquerque, N.A. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12-cfr-7.4001 administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review national-bank-act overdraft-fees regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
When an account holder at Respondent BOKF, N.A. ("the Bank") overdraws their account and the Bank covers the shortfall by extending its own money, the… |
| 22-265 |
Christopher N. Caputo v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitral-awards arbitration-law contractual-forfeiture contractual-provisions federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-violations |
1. Whether this Court's public policy exception is inapplicable to an arbitral award enforcing contractual provisions that are expressly illegal, void… |
| 22-5603 |
Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5607 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. Mr. Hansen, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine federal-rules-civil-procedure filing houston-v-lack notice notice-of-judgment pro-se pro-se-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Houston v. Lack — was based on equity or the interpretation of the word filed?
2. Whether district courts may pres… |
| 22-5610 |
Andre Thompson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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Jicab crime ad i/ioknce fpplymj jit Catz^ … |
| 22-5598 |
Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-5599 |
Denzell Russell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
2. Have the courts … |
| 22-5601 |
Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-claims-act free-speech healthcare-liability medicaid-reimbursement ninth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5585 |
Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE STATE AGENCY CAN REQUIRE THAT FUTURE SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS PREMATURELY APPLY FOR REDUCED… |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 22-5557 |
David Laurence Hodges v. William Bolin, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 22-5566 |
Randly Irvin Begay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force |
As this Court held in Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), an offense must necessarily entail the targeted use of force against another to… |
| 22-5576 |
Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-5577 |
Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
(2) WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-5551 |
Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5553 |
Rafael Villagomez-Troche v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 administrative-law court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction |
Whether service of a "notice to appear" that complies with
8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1) is required to vest jurisdiction in an
immigration court over removal… |
| 22-5558 |
Vince Edward LaSane v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that Jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a minor w… |
| 22-225 |
Leopoldo Mendoza-Gomez v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Individually and Successor-in-Interest to Southern Pacific Transportation Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Dismissed |
|
asbestos-exposure cancer disease-claims existing-controversy federal-employers-liability-act fela future-liability railroad-liability release statutory-interpretation |
Whether a release of an "existing controversy" that also purports to exempt a railroad from future liability for legally distinct claims for diseases … |
| 22-227 |
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin |
First Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 22-220 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives |
The Railway Labor Act ("RLA") prohibits carriers from interfering with their employees' "choice of representatives." 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third. Union Paci… |
| 22-208 |
Benoit Brookens v. LaRhonda Gamble, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-regulation labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act labor-union-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the DC Circuit is bound by the Federal Regulation 29 CFR 458.1 General Subpart A-Substantive Requirements interpreting 29 U.S.C. Sec. 411 Conc… |
| 22-209 |
Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
|
cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase "an event or occurrence" in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—"a single happening"—as the Ninth Circuit holds,… |
| 22-214 |
Allana Baroni v. David Seror, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-property-title chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 conversion debtor-rights estate-property ninth-circuit-interpretation property statutory-interpretation title |
Because Congress stated in clear language that a confirmed Chapter 11 debtor retains title to property after her plan is confirmed, did the Ninth Circ… |
| 22-5532 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether "generic robbery" is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition? |
| 22-5534 |
Glenn A. Chin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 |
1. Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a… |
| 22-5538 |
Kepa Maumau v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation |
Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" … |
| 22-5515 |
Jose Agapito Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
At The Federal Level After The District Court Receives An Ordered Response From The Government To A Federal Prisoner's Petition For Habeas Corpus Reli… |
| 22-203 |
Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended
IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) to all grounds
that reasonably could have been raised in the… |
| 22-5511 |
Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5514 |
Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Supreme Cort overturn it's own precedent
in Rehaf v. United States 139 S. Ct 2191, 20t L. Ed 594
2o1g), where this Cort decided … |
| 22-5489 |
Under Seal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven… |
| 22-5491 |
John Michael Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-195 |
Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation |
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers may be subject to civil liability if they interfere with their employees' exercise of the ri… |
| 22-193 |
Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer … |
| 22-185 |
Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award |
1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro… |
| 22-5468 |
Benjamin Lawrence Petty v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5470 |
Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5472 |
Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation |
In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which provided for a mandatory life without parole sentence for drug offenders who distributed very … |
| 22-5454 |
Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 22-5456 |
Min Jeong Kim v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5459 |
Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-179 |
United States v. Helaman Hansen |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against
encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v… |
| 22-5449 |
Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5437 |
Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5440 |
Joseph Griego v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor |
Petitioners Griego and Romero ask this Court to address whether Hobbs Act robbery is a qualifying crime of violence under § 924(c). The statutory elem… |
| 22-5441 |
Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 22-5443 |
Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation |
Reason For Question #1
There exist a ConFliat Among United States Circuit Counts
On Whether the Immenent Danger oF 28 U.S.C. 3 1915(g) aPPly
to at the… |
| 22-5427 |
Jade Christian Nichols v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-163 |
Lenair Moses v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 22-161 |
Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Nieto's and Mr. Vallodolid's convictions should be reversed because the Government's peremptory striking of qualified Hispanic prospect… |
| 22-5418 |
Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad… |
| 22-5419 |
Erika Jacobs v. Geisinger Wyoming Medical Center |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5394 |
Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as
relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is
imperm… |
| 22-5396 |
Timothy J. Hill v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law mcgirt-case native-american-rights oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-ruling |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling. |
| 22-5399 |
John Afriyie v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation |
Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act ("MVRA") requires a criminal defendant convicted of a wide variety of offenses to:
reimburse … |
| 22-5401 |
Ivan R. Begay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Did U.S. District Court of Arizona, Judge Rosemblath have authority to impose a 302 month Sentence, under 5K2.3 without evidence and 5K2.8. to support… |
| 22-5404 |
Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5387 |
Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5389 |
Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5391 |
Lin Ouyang v. Mark A. Borenstein, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process final-judgment mandamus procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
District Court dismissed petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claim finding no violations of judgment debtors' procedural Due Process right under the Fourteen… |
| 22-5361 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory Construction case.
Whether a Plea of Jurisdiction extends to Respondents ' f… |
| 22-5347 |
In Re Charles Edward Jones, Sr. |
|
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5355 |
Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age |
I. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422(b) or 1591(a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim giv… |
| 22-5342 |
Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5328 |
Justin Michael Tyson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5316 |
Antwan Criswell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 18-usc-3262 court-congestion dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-delay speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Since the presimption of prejudice exists in a Speedy Trial Violation under 18 U.S.C. §3262, and the Sanction is Dismissal with Prejudice for said vio… |
| 22-5318 |
Samuel Francis White Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
1) Does a conviction for Tampering with Evidence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(1) require a jury to find that the natural and probable effect of… |
| 22-5321 |
William S. Divine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19
safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of
§2… |
| 22-5325 |
Malcolm Bernard Benson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-registry due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5261 |
Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5303 |
George Daniel McGavitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A). |
| 22-111 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-5292 |
Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
State sentencing law determines the statutory maximum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a) for a RICO conviction based on a racketeering activity that i… |
| 22-5270 |
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
What is "inadequate or ineffective" to file a Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s Savings Clause? |
| 22-5278 |
Jordan Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of an-other person by force or by intimidat… |
| 22-110 |
Julian D. Schmidt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the ambiguous phrase "in the presence of a child" require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of phy… |
| 22-99 |
Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
In 2012, the Government expropriated the net worth of private companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by arrogating for itself the Companies' earnings … |
| 22-96 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea… |
| 22-5237 |
Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of "controlled substance offe… |
| 22-5239 |
Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two seperate roffenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-5242 |
Tavaras Etone Warren v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-indictment due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exclusion statutory-interpretation |
In an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), where the underlying conviction is for possession, use or carrying a firearm during and in… |
| 22-5226 |
Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted … |
| 22-5231 |
Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad due to the statute's use of the phrase "any sexual activity for which any person can be… |
| 22-86 |
Charles Chavez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
|
atm bank-robbery criminal-law custody customer federal-statute force-and-coercion property property-theft statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person violates this provision by forcing a bank customer to withdraw the customer's money from an ATM in order to take the money from the c… |
| 22-88 |
Kenneth Hawkins, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-discretion due-process housing housing-assistance judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-relief tenant-rights |
This case concerns the right to judicial review of agency discretion to grant or deny relief that is:
specifically set out in a federal statute,
for w… |
| 22-90 |
NGL Supply Wholesale, L.L.C. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference chevron-deference federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review precedent-analysis regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in deferring to FERC's "interpretation of its own precedent" in the absence of a reasoned explanation for departing from the … |
| 22-84 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
GVR |
|
controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) where the jury was… |
| 22-85 |
Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris |
Oregon |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegatio… |
| 22-5214 |
Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-5196 |
Malik Holloway v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession |
Isn't 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) which criminalizes the mere possession in a federal courthouse of practically any item unconstitutionally vague? |
| 22-5206 |
Shain Duka v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction. |
| 22-5185 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
#1 When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Feder… |
| 22-76 |
Keith L. Carnes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user |
Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 22-5176 |
John Thomas Vine, II v. Martin Frink, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Why is the Petitioner's charge of Ineffective Counsel against Attorney Newton Holiday not being addressed by any of the (lower) courts?
When will com… |
| 22-5156 |
Wilbert McKreith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A), as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, based on a c… |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity. |
| 22-5159 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-5161 |
Antonio M. Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider nonretroactive changes in sentencing law in determining whether a defendant has shown "extraordinary and compell… |
| 22-5167 |
Regis Storm Ervin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-49 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth… |
| 22-5130 |
Timothy J. Mazique v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrears child-support civil-procedure due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-review obligor-rights statutory-interpretation |
1. The district court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Louisiana Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner responsible for paying arrears in t… |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 22-5119 |
Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as… |
| 22-38 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Federal Circuit, a court with limited jurisdiction that includes cases "arising under" patent law, also has subject matter jurisdiction ov… |
| 22-5092 |
James Eric Moore v. Jason Koenigsfeld, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure discrimination-claims dismissal due-process expedited-funds-availability federal-rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation sua-sponte-dismissal |
(1) Did the district court sua sponte dismissal of complaint prior to service of complaint and summons on defendants violate Federal Rules of Civil Pr… |
| 22-5098 |
Arthur Torlucci v. California |
California |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5102 |
Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an… |
| 22-33 |
Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a pandemic related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
… |
| 22-5075 |
Courtney Newman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
21 U.S.C. §856(a)(1), the "crack house statute", requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant, "except as authorized by… |
| 22-5076 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Because this Court's recent pronouncement in Ruan v. United States, 20-1410
applies to 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) prosecutions involving health care profes… |
| 22-30 |
David Ritter v. Linda Migliori, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
Amici (9) |
civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process election election-law mail-in-voting materiality-provision mootness mootness-doctrine standing statutory-interpretation third-circuit-decision |
Should this Court vacate the Third Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)? |
| 22-5059 |
Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5062 |
Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a … |
| 22-5049 |
Percy Love, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation |
Whether an extension to file a 2255 petition is "properly filed" under Artuz v. Bennet?
Where petitioner was pursuing his rights diligently during th… |
| 22-5057 |
Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus |
I. In a prosecution for possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), the government must prove that the possession was in or affected interstate … |
| 22-23 |
Jean Francois Pugin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
aggravated-felony board-of-immigration-appeals chevron-deference immigration-law immigration-nationality-act obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a noncitizen who is convicted of an "aggravated felony" is subject to mandatory removal and faces enh… |
| 22-17 |
Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners Vaxima, Inc. and GenPhar, Inc. (collectively "Petitioners") under 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), i… |
| 22-5042 |
Phillip Shiel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), following this Court's d… |
| 22-5043 |
Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920) was broadened in 2006 to include crimes of "indecent acts." Article 120 was ream… |
| 22-5026 |
Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-enforcement air-carrier-access-act circuit-courts civil-rights judicial-review private-action private-right-of-action standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Is there a right to a private action on violations of the Air Carrier Access Act, considering that the Department of Transportation refuses to enfo… |
| 22-10 |
David Fox Dubin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 22-11 |
SawStop Holding LLC v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 judicial-authority non-statutory-double-patenting patent patent-eligibility patent-law statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
The Patent Act adopted by Congress provides that a person shall be entitled to a patent if an invention meets three conditions: the eligibility condit… |
| 22-9 |
Whirlpool Financial Corporation, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code regulations sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-law treasury-regulations |
Whether the divided Sixth Circuit properly held—in conflict with precedent of this Court and settled administrative-law principles—that a statute that… |
| 22-1 |
Lynn Brown, as Appointed Successor and Representative of Now Deceased Howard M. Berry v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-review civil-procedure deference government-procedure judicial-review military military-deference standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") incorporates a presumption of "unusual deference" in all cases involving the military. |
| 22-3 |
Save Coral Bay, Inc. v. Albert Bryan, Jr., Governor of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Virgin Islands |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coastal-zone-management environmental-protection federal-duty federal-territorial-power judicial-review public-review statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-law trust-obligation |
When a territory enacts a law that contravenes a duty imposed by federal law, must the territory's judiciary look beyond whether the law was properly … |
| 22-5 |
Peter Cooks v. Contra Costa County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute rehabilitation-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C § 1658 supplying a 4 uniform year statute of limitations apply to claims made under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended? |
| 22-5002 |
Richard Winn v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-925 armed-career-criminal constructive-possession criminal-firearms sentencing-enhancement shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
The first question presented is whether or not the Petitioner, RICHARD WINN,
should have been sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACCA) requiring t… |
| 21-8265 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8272 |
Robert Edward Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8278 |
Glen Hunsberger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the other, strict liability, 21 U.S.C. § 860, requires a … |
| 21-8285 |
Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty |
1.) Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule?
2.) Should McGirt be applied retroactively? |
| 21-1608 |
McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities |
Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 21-1600 |
Jian-Yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2461c asset-seizure breach-of-contract contract-breach criminal-forfeiture federal-criminal-law honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states ownership-interest personal-gain statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioner Jian-Yun Dong ("Petitioner") under 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), is permitted under this Court's d… |
| 21-8247 |
Johnathan Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The four-level abduction enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2B 1.3(b)(4)(A) was applied
to Appellant's bank robbery conviction based on moving victims… |
| 21-8249 |
Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the principle of party presentation by adjudicating a habeas corpus petition under § 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-8253 |
Silas Lee Sneed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) appellate-review attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence hobbs-act statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states-v-taylor |
An attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because no element of the offense requires pro… |
| 21-8256 |
Ortaz Sharp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by permi… |
| 21-8257 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(l) when the government by locking down the defend… |
| 21-8234 |
Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency-restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) once the director of a Bur… |
| 21-8238 |
James Seeley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8229 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-8230 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. In Texas, a thief is guilty of robbery if he "intentionally or knowingly
threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death." T… |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment. |
| 21-8217 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language |
Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s "any sexual activity for… |
| 21-8221 |
Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson |
WHETHER OR NOT THE NORTH CAROLINA CRIME OF BREAKING AND ENTERING (N.C. GEN STAT. §14-54), AS DEFINED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA SUPRME COURT, CAN BE UTILIZ… |
| 21-8225 |
Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8195 |
Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
The Armed Career Criminal Act provides an enhanced penalty for felons in possession of a firearm with three prior qualifying convictions, including fo… |
| 21-8199 |
Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur |
Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-1577 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit |
1) When a person requests records from a federal agency
under the Freedom of Information Act, may the
agency redact the requester 's own name from t… |
| 21-8191 |
Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten… |
| 21-8182 |
Reuben Conway v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
After Petitioner Reuben Conway was charged, convicted, and sentenced for prohibited person in possession of a firearm, this Court overturned near-unan… |
| 21-1572 |
Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
class-of-workers commerce-clause federal-arbitration-act goods-transportation in-state-delivery interstate-commerce intrastate-deliveries preemption statutory-interpretation workers-classification |
Whether drivers making solely in-state deliveries of goods ordered by in-state customers from an in-state warehouse are nevertheless a "class of worke… |
| 21-1570 |
Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-review exclusive-liability federal-employees-compensation-act labor-secretary-decision statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction work-related-injuries |
Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to address what injuries fall within the scope of FECA's statutory scheme. |
| 21-8149 |
Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8153 |
Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of
appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti… |
| 21-8158 |
Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8159 |
Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8161 |
Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation |
1. Does berg derled equol civl Rights on the basis
fOR REMOU pRSANt tO 28 USC & 1443(1)?
2. CaN A CRimIrAl stote cASE be RemovEd puRsJANt tO
28 USC &… |
| 21-8162 |
Darnell Pearson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation |
Whether a charge of drug distribution resulting in "death or serious bodily injury" under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(4)(c) requires the government… |
| 21-8163 |
Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8142 |
Major Mike Webb, aka Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, et al. |
Virginia |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law due-process first-amendment necessity-defense prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unrepresented-litigant writ-of-mandamus |
"Globally, as of 6:09pm CEST, 10 June 2022, there have been 532,201,219 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,305,358 deaths, reported to WHO ", St… |
| 21-8146 |
Gregory Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by… |
| 21-1564 |
Chancellor Senior Management, Ltd. v. Louise McGraw, By and Through Her Daughter, Nancy Reuschel as Power of Attorney, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement contract-enforcement court-appointment federal-arbitration-act forum-unavailability judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether the West Virginia Court's determination
that the parties' arbitration agreement is invalid and
unenforceable because "it fails to 'comply … |
| 21-1565 |
State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al. |
North Carolina |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim… |
| 21-1566 |
Juno Therapeutics, Inc., et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (6) |
35-usc-112(a) enablement federal-circuit invention-scope inventor-possession patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Section 112(a) of Title 35, United States Code, requires that a patent include a "specification," which "shall contain a written description of the in… |
| 21-1567 |
Biogen International GmbH, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-112 effective-dose efficacy-requirement federal-circuit multiple-sclerosis patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Is 35 U.S.C. § 112's requirement that a patent specification "contain a written description of the invention" met when the specification describes the… |
| 21-1555 |
Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation |
The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 makes it "unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or disclose personal information, from a motor vehic… |
| 21-1556 |
Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Zhang Jingrong, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause congress-authority congressional-power federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act intimidation lopez-morrison-test places-of-worship religious-worship statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2), the section of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that prohibits intimidation and other wrongful acts agains… |
| 21-8129 |
Radu Miclaus v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 21-8130 |
Monica Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud |
IS THE INTERSTATE NEXUS REQUIRED IN § 1343 A SUBSTANTIVE
ELEMENT OF THE CRIME OF WIRE FRAUD ?
WAS THE FACTUAL BASIS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT MS. RUIZ'S
… |
| 21-8131 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does a silent Plea foreclose a defendant
From filing a Motion for Newls Discovered
Evidence. Pursuant to Rule
33.
Where:
a)
the statute is ambigous. A… |
| 21-1551 |
Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
|
ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor. |
| 21-8116 |
Demarco Tempo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition
to but-for causation for the "death results" enhancement in 21 U.S.C.
§ 841?… |
| 21-8121 |
Leila Varetta Hector, aka Leila Varretta Hector, aka Leila Varetta Hector-Dykes, aka Rita Hector v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 circuit-court-decision constitutional-law criminal-forfeiture forfeiture forfeiture-award honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the imposition of joint and several liability on a forfeiture award under 21 U.S.C. § 853(a) violates the Court's holding in Honeycutt v. Unit… |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ANALYSIS CONFLICTS WITH THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S COA ANALYSIS.
WHETHER THE DIFFERING PENALT… |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8103 |
Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation |
Federal law defines a firearm silencer as "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm."
Does the word "for" … |
| 21-8109 |
Eric Ray Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether … |
| 21-8110 |
In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury |
|
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap |
1. Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a rig… |
| 21-1537 |
Donnie T. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1447 appellate-review civil-rights civil-rights-removal federal-officer-statute jurisdictional-review pari-materia removal removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 1447(d) of Title 28 of the United States Code expressly provides that an order remanding a case that was removed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §144… |
| 21-1538 |
Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
agency-interpretation fair-labor-standards-act minimum-wage overtime-pay skidmore-deference skidmore-v-swift statutory-interpretation straight-time-wages |
1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act
allows an employee, who has been paid at least the
required minimum wage and overtime pay at a rate
that is at… |
| 21-1539 |
Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine |
First Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation |
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 generally prohibits states from "regulat[ing] the rates for the provision of cable service" by cable compa… |
| 21-8074 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8075 |
Ricky Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) |
Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8082 |
Arthur Houze v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8060 |
Darrell Cordell Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits federal-power felon-in-possession firearms-regulation police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 21-8062 |
Bryant Love v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a states statutory definition df it's elements… |
| 21-1527 |
CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark |
1. Whether the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) violated the statutory text and legislative intent of the America Invents Act (AIA) by delegating the… |
| 21-1521 |
New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arm's-length-transaction circuit-split erisa erisa-compliance fair-market-value multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation successor-liability withdrawal-liability |
"Congress enacted the [Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980] MPPAA to protect the financial solvency of multiemployer pension plans." Bay… |
| 21-8051 |
Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule in Villavicencio-Burruel, which requires that a prior conviction under California Penal Code § 245(a)(1) constitute a… |
| 21-8034 |
Robert Lawrence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United… |
| 21-8035 |
Charlie John Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis. 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-1513 |
Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection |
1. Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an appli
cable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an
exemption under said statute?
2. May a … |
| 21-1517 |
Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.… |
| 21-8009 |
Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey |
At a sporting goods store Petitioner was considering the purchase of a firearm. The store clerk asked Petitioner to identify himself and fill out the … |
| 21-8013 |
In Re Mark Stinson |
|
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361. |
| 21-8014 |
Reginald Woods v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-8015 |
Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether, under § 2254(d), a federal court may "look through" to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoni… |
| 21-8025 |
Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela |
1.) Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0). which allows a sentencing court to consider motions to "adjust" a restitution order without anv time limits. perm… |
| 21-8026 |
William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law constitutional-vagueness due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings vagueness |
Is the statute 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8) void for vagueness therefore unconstitutional? |
| 21-7992 |
Reginald Andre Molette v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7994 |
Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Does Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t… |
| 21-7967 |
Jairo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan… |
| 21-7971 |
Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7974 |
Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7949 |
John D. Horton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the courts below improperly construe the "notice " to the debtor
requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.1 1(e)(1)
when th… |
| 21-7959 |
Salito Marques Good v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release |
(1) Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction when a sentence for violating … |
| 21-1476 |
Stephen Loftis White v. Nicholas B. Cox, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
|
birth-certificate-trust civil-rights commercial-law corporate-fiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-authority redemption secured-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
The Lower State Judicial Circuit Court proceeding
against this Petitioner lacks subject matter and
personal jurisdiction for the reasons below:
1. … |
| 21-7933 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-determination civil-rights criminal-adjudication criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation recidivism-calculation sentencing sentencing-containment statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-offense |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7921 |
Jesus Eduardo Wirichaga-Landavazo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process property-rights public-health statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-1462 |
Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions under terms entitling plaintiffs attorneys to reasonable fees and costs as… |
| 21-7897 |
Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
interpretation and application of an ex post facto violation within the context of parole eligibility statutes, such as in initial parole eligibility,… |
| 21-7910 |
Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-1446 |
Simin Nouritajer, et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action immigrant-petition immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether considering the strong presumption of
jurisdiction to review agency action repeatedly recognized
by this Court, 8 U.S.C. §1155 and 8 U.S.C. §1… |
| 21-1450 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie… |
| 21-1453 |
Joe A. Lynch v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
administrative-law legislative-history pro-claimant pro-veteran-canon standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation va-claims veterans-benefits |
Are the many millions of disabled veterans, their survivors and dependents entitled to have the VA meet a higher threshold of proof to deny their clai… |
| 21-1447 |
Estate of Gabriel Miranda, Jr., et al. v. Navistar, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-exit federal-preemption legislative-history legislative-intent motor-vehicle-safety school-bus-safety state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 217 ("FMVSS 217") prohibit a greater level of safety by statutorily making it physically impossible for… |
| 21-1438 |
Tamia Banks, et al. v. Cotter Corporation, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction atomic-energy-act claim-severance federal-jurisdiction final-decision nuclear-incident price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is whether there has
been a "nuclear incident" such that the Price Anderson Act is applicable and provides original juris… |
| 21-7859 |
Brandis Nicole Fish v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-review first-time-offender medical-records non-violent-offender sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation ussg-guidelines |
1. ) DID DISTRICT COURT THOROUGHLY REVIEW PETITIONER FISH'S REQUEST FOR " COMPASSIONATE
RELEASE',' PURSUANT TO POLICY USSG 1B1.13?
2. ) DID THE DISTR… |
| 21-7863 |
Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7851 |
Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions |
Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 21-7857 |
Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling. |
| 21-1434 |
VSP Labs, Incorporated v. Hillair Capital Investments L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1334(b) anticipated-outcome-test bankruptcy-jurisdiction celotex-corp-v-edwards conceivable-effect-test court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-test related-to-jurisdiction significant-connection-test statutory-interpretation |
What test determines whether a bankruptcy court has "related to" jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(b)? |
| 21-1436 |
Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited.
… |
| 21-1431 |
Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Spending Clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983, and if so, what is the proper framework for deciding … |
| 21-7835 |
Michael Perryman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mere possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to "use" of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7831 |
Gerry Ranson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7832 |
Daniel Casamayor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), if Casamayor 's indictment charg… |
| 21-1429 |
Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory text and First Amendment
permit FACEA's protections from violence at a "place
of religious worship" to apply only to places reli… |
| 21-7801 |
Richard E. Shreves v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-authority document-access due-process e-filing e-filing-program inmate-rights prison-litigation pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the District Court exceed its authority when it determined Pro-Se Inmate Litigants, forced to participate in the Montana State Prison E-Filing … |
| 21-7804 |
Charles Austin Alger, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deprivation deprivation-of-liberty financial-conditions liberty policy-statements sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) when it imposed special financial conditions of supervised release that do not reasonably rela… |
| 21-7813 |
Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7816 |
John Ragin v. Timothy Fisher, Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Newport News |
Virginia |
2022-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7791 |
Aaron Ramirez-Almader v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7797 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1426 |
Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Dismissed |
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ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability |
Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., as three courts of appeals … |
| 21-7781 |
Jorge Palacios v. Kevin Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-assistance legal-procedure medical-care standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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was legal my ssstive devise contisration by respondent despite my comple… |
| 21-7784 |
Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18… |
| 21-7787 |
Faith M. Hibbard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure claim-filing due-process procedural-law service-connected-disability standing statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
QUESTION: 1. Whether the court erred in denying benefits based on a theory, called "hypothetical entitlement theory " that has no section or definitio… |
| 21-7792 |
John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness |
whetheR the Application of M.C.A. 97-3-2 IAs Applred] eRentes A" Slgnificant Risk of prolonging The petitioneR's StAYin pRison.
whetheR the RetroActi… |
| 21-7776 |
Kelvin Wrenn v. Deborah Toney, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-1414 |
Barton Ray Crandall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(A) 18-usc-924(c) criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018
amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has
shown … |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-7748 |
Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) (2018) triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendant… |
| 21-7733 |
Rashod Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) conviction-validity crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-offense united-states-v-davis vagueness-doctrine |
1) Can a conviction and punishment stand on a non-existent stat utory offense, based on it being dismissed?
2) Was Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (1)(… |
| 21-7738 |
Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1389 |
Jeremy Bates v. Donald J. Trump, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing attorney-general citizen-taxpayer-suit civil-rights derivative-standing due-process executive-power presidential-misconduct separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States.
2. Whether, in light of 28 U.S.C. § 516, thi… |
| 21-7715 |
Lacy E. Lewis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Framework as Explained in Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 120 S.Ct. 1495, 146 L.Ed 2d 389 (2000), For Review For 28 USC 2254, applicable to t… |
| 21-7691 |
Larry Eugene Fuller v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower courts err denying Fuller an Evidentiary Hearing to hear and rule on the merits of his claims, violating his Due Process Constitution… |
| 21-7700 |
Ronald Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court may "reduce [a] term of imprisonment" upon "motion of the defendant" if it finds that "extraordin… |
| 21-7701 |
Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand
21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti |
When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7714 |
Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to "look through" the … |
| 21-1380 |
Seun Banjo Ojedokun v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-cases congressional-intent criminal-statute extraterritorial-application presumption-against-extraterritoriality statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
The question presented is: Whether, as in civil cases, a clear indication of congressional intent is required to rebut the presumption against extrate… |
| 21-1384 |
Florida v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii |
Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which grants any "person alleging discrimination" certain "remedies, procedures, and rights,"… |
| 21-7671 |
Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness |
How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,… |
| 21-7673 |
Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets |
Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed?
21 U.S.C. § 853(p) authorizes f… |
| 21-7674 |
Jamie Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO… |
| 21-7661 |
Antron Adon Tucker v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment barker-v-wingo constitutional-right due-process prosecutorial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation statutory-right virginia-constitution |
1. Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right toa speedy trial
has been violated,also his statutory right to a speedy trial .
Pursuant to U.S. Constitu… |
| 21-7638 |
Carlos Jimenez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7639 |
Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the
1) Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues, AND
2) Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues
Herein were correctly interpr… |
| 21-7643 |
Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Treso was convicted in large Part vPON evidence made up bu the victim mother and manipulated by her Mr. Treso respectfully petitions this court Fo… |
| 21-1356 |
M. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
best-interest-analysis best-interests child-welfare due-process due-process-clause foster-care foster-child-bill-of-rights grandparents statutory-interpretation west-virginia-law |
Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Foster Child Bill of Rights under West Virginia statutory law to the detriment of the child in… |
| 21-7632 |
Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal history points for his … |
| 21-7623 |
Mary Ann Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7624 |
Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted
enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any
person can be charged … |
| 21-7609 |
Desmond Deleon Carviel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender-guideline district-court-discretion guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) May a district court defer to the Sentencing Guideline commentary without first determining if the guideline is genuinely ambiguous. Kisor v. Wilk… |
| 21-7614 |
Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-rights gender gender-discrimination legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Does 'all persons' as stated in 42 U.S.C. 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law also include the female gender? All person's does not specifically state gen… |
| 21-1348 |
Claudia A. Barber v. District of Columbia Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges |
District of Columbia |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process government-employment judicial-review presumption-of-review statutory-interpretation tenure |
Whether only an expressed prohibition against judicial review can clearly and conclusively overcome the presumption in favor of judicial review of an … |
| 21-1349 |
Ignis Development, Inc., et al. v. Long Island College Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion new-york-law statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
1. Did the Second Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York (the "Second Department") so far depart from the accepted and … |
| 21-1345 |
Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
1)
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 grant lawyers the statutory right to appeal a final order of a district
court suspending a lawyer from the practice
of law?
… |
| 21-7593 |
David T. Young v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty judicial-review state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
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| 21-7599 |
Neil Timothy Aho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment |
Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code ("Section 2252"
or the "Statute") forming the gravamen of the charges in the Indictment
l… |
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 21-7586 |
Jaako Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-1342 |
Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-law circuit-split drug-exclusivity fda fda-regulation lambert-eaton-myasthenic-syndrome orphan-drug-act rare-disease statutory-interpretation |
Does the ODA unambiguously foreclose FDA's decades-long, consistent interpretation that the scope of orphan-drug exclusivity is tied to a drug's appro… |
| 21-7569 |
Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution |
What is the allowable unit of prosecution for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)?
2. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by not remanding to th… |
| 21-7557 |
Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance |
Does the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, require federal district courts to make specific findings of fact from those factors enumerated in § 3161… |
| 21-7562 |
Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
1. whether, the fifth Circuit Court appling Moore,534 f3d 4les Conflict with the decisian of this Court Hancock. 139 sct2714
2. whether the fifth Cir… |
| 21-7535 |
Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Oregon Department of Corrections, the U.S. District Court of Oregon, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, be allowed to collect 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-7545 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-7549 |
Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 21-7554 |
William Burke v. Rosa Childs, et al. |
Georgia |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge court-access due-process incarcerated-litigants necessary-state-interest procedural-fairness statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Preface : The first eight questions were presented to the Georgia Supreme Court in an
application for writ of certiorari, which was denied without co… |
| 21-1326 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-7529 |
Jesse Dean Mince v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7530 |
Paul M. Weadick v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering |
The federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, permits conviction of any individual who "prevent[s] the communication by any person to a [Fe… |
| 21-7531 |
Michael G. Peters v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights court-review due-process federal-tax-code free-speech legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings tax-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7510 |
Ramon Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Criminal Defendants may use the "recently amended"
Compassionate Release Statute [18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A)]'to
reduce or correct an exce… |
| 21-7520 |
Isaiah Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the court exercise it's Power to resolve a
split amongst the sister Circuits regarding New Jersey
Third degree burglary designation as a cri… |
| 21-7521 |
Paul E. Pieczynski v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
arbitration arbitration-award civil-action civil-procedure confirmation federal-arbitration-act miscellaneous-filing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
The Federal Arbitration Act Title 9 section 12 bars vacating or modifying award after three months. Is the petition or motion, when seeking confirmati… |
| 21-1313 |
Martin Gottesfeld v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding an important statutory question under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et se… |
| 21-1314 |
United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A) when neither the common law nor the text of the statute support such a… |
| 21-7503 |
Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7495 |
Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court |
I. Does the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qua… |
| 21-7488 |
Maria Andrea Gonzalez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241(a) aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-proceedings detention-facility federal-inmates federal-jurisdiction judicial-custody judicial-officer non-federal-detention-facility statutory-interpretation |
Is federal jurisdiction established under the first jurisdictional prong in § 2241(a) when an aggravated sexual abuse offense is allegedly committed i… |
| 21-1305 |
Melchor Munoz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the revocation of a criminal defendant's citizenship is mandatory as a result of a plea to a criminal conviction but (2)… |
| 21-7477 |
Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code |
Conflict
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding, citing 338 U.S. 338 (1950), that the Due Process requirement of United States v. Vasquez is no… |
| 21-7471 |
Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
In the course of a "New Judgment " under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA2018) new imposed sentence, what truly excess the reset clock for habeas corpu… |
| 21-1296 |
City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
|
federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation |
When trains block traffic at road intersections, they impose numerous safety risks. Oklahoma enacted a statute prohibiting trains from stopping where … |
| 21-7446 |
Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
1. The plain reading of the statute indicates that counsel must be appointed to learn if biological evidence exists, yet Texas courts have specificall… |
| 21-7451 |
Michael Shawn Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7459 |
Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). |
| 21-7432 |
Magdaly Suleydy Perez-Velasquez and Jenifer Miladis Alvarado-Diaz v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-security criminal-law due-process immigration statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Whether entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) requires freedom from official restraint; and
Whether continuous surveillance by means of visual observation c… |
| 21-7433 |
Donnell Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that
has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7450 |
Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-1283 |
Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case… |
| 21-1287 |
In Re W. A. Griffin |
|
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty georgia-law health-benefits healthcare-provider mandamus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"), a Georgia provider, who obtained a writte… |
| 21-1279 |
Klavdia Thomas, et al. v. Valentin Belevich |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process fair-justice judicial-intent jurisdiction legal-misalignment legal-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a serious misalignment of courts on statute intent, interpretation and jurisdiction.
Whether the fair justice was served. |
| 21-7438 |
Tramone Horne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion judicial-review preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court require proof by more than a preponderance of the evidence of facts that significantly increase the defendant's sentence range under … |
| 21-1270 |
MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed "integral" to a sale order, such … |
| 21-1274 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-1267 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-procedure damages egregious-conduct federal-circuit halo-electronics judicial-discretion patent patent-damages statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
(1) Whether enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 may be awarded absent a finding of egregious infringement behavior; and
(2) Whether the court of a… |
| 21-7405 |
Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I, Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Would a person of ordinary intelligence have had fair notice that he was subject to the aggravated penalties for mandated reporters? |
| 21-7386 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "Applicable" policy statement that binds a district court when considering "ex… |
| 21-7391 |
Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-7393 |
Travis Ryan Skaggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802 21-usc-841 concurrent-sentences first-step-act sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by holding that Mr. Skaggs' conviction in Wise County, Virginia on July 27, 2… |
| 21-7398 |
Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the public-welfare/regulatory exception to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve "dan… |
| 21-1256 |
Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t… |
| 21-1245 |
O'Donnell & Sons, Inc. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. |
New York |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
|
exemption federal-credit-union federal-credit-union-act federal-preemption mortgage-recording mortgage-recording-tax preemption state-tax statutory-interpretation taxation |
Whether the Federal Credit Union Act—which
exempts federal credit unions "from all taxation" other
than taxes on credit unions' real property and tang… |
| 21-7365 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the … |
| 21-7368 |
Antwan Boyd v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence"
on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a
district court … |
| 21-7369 |
Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
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| 21-7359 |
Kaleb Gattis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the in definite past, … |
| 21-7340 |
Joseph Louis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT CAN RELY SOLELY ON A DEFENDANT'S ORIGINAL SENTENCING FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C.3553(A) AND WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S POST-… |
| 21-7347 |
Anthony Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1.) WHerAer rde peiwciples of egutaBle rouing spply 40 G8USC 22S(), DUEN MAE gLOBAL CORONAVRUS THT A HA BEN pURSiNg RAgNS DIgE OND SOME EXTROORDINARY … |
| 21-1239 |
Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati… |
| 21-1235 |
Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator |
1. Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statue, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards?
Is it subject to abuse … |
| 21-7330 |
Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an
imaginary, non-existent victim.
Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-7331 |
Darregus T. Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION?
5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS!
CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE… |
| 21-7325 |
Michael T. Braxton v. Tonya James, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review parole statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
1). dtinat AFT and in CoN to a lafl state Court of Appets ORDER?
2. Can an state agency parsue ony other Laciful Apptlte Proces, on "UNFAVORABE " oR … |
| 21-7284 |
Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to … |
| 21-7301 |
Bogdan Nicolescu v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-devices congressional-intent criminal-enhancement criminal-sentencing guideline-commentary identity-theft sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access-device wireless-telephone-protection-act |
1. Whether Application Note 2 of the Commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2B1.6 bars the
application of the U.S.S.G. § 2Bl.l(b)(ll)(B)(i) 2-level enhancement for … |
| 21-1215 |
Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the definition of "machinegun" found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition?
2. Whet… |
| 21-1217 |
Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. v. Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
architectural-works copyright copyright-law infringement marketing marketing-materials pictorial-representation pictorial-representations real-estate real-estate-industry statutory-interpretation |
Whether floor plans constitute "pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations" of an architectural work within the meaning of 1… |
| 21-1219 |
Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is … |
| 21-1214 |
Oklahoma v. Emmitt G. Sam |
Oklahoma |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
18-usc-1153 criminal-defendant federal-jurisdiction indian indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-law |
What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an "Indian" under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-1208 |
Eric Andrews v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018
amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has
shown … |
| 21-7270 |
Karo Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-7283 |
Earnest J. Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7268 |
Ross Anthony Farca v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in "damage to or loss or d… |
| 21-7230 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7259 |
Keith Prescott Gace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation |
As a matter of statutory interpretation, should a jury or court consider the so-called Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a m… |
| 21-1193 |
Oklahoma v. Robert Eric Wadkins |
Oklahoma |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-membership |
What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an "Indian" under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-7238 |
Holli Wrice v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 3553(a)-factors compassionate-release congressional-intent criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) allows district courts to reduce a defendant's sentence, based on a finding of extraordinary and compelling reasons, afte… |
| 21-7219 |
Lorenzo Suttles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a pre-FSA (First Step Act) defendant's circumstances, changed
by Congress's clarification of §924(c), and the resultant disparity
thereof… |
| 21-7222 |
Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the term "involved" under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through t… |
| 21-7226 |
Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
() Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7227 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 21-7229 |
Steven A. Taliani v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing involuntary-intoxication prescription-medication state-prisoner statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1) Does the Illinois Supreme Court's opinion and analysis constitute an
unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Illinois Supreme
Cour… |
| 21-1189 |
Arthur Dale Lothringer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alter-ego circuit-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-law due-process legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Whether Texas statutory law supersedes Fifth Circuit precedent regarding alter-ego determinations. |
| 21-1191 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires |
Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal "counts as a 'strike' within… |
| 21-7211 |
Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Petitioner's (Plaintiff's) Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to Due Process of the Law by permitting such egregi… |
| 21-7216 |
Cory Mendrell Welch v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the state courts rely solely on a procedural bar? Also, the basis of this petition challenges the Wisconsin court of appeals jurisprudence pursuan… |
| 21-7204 |
Corey Louis Hines v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 21-7195 |
James Leon Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-1169 |
Alain Kaloyeros v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Is the deprivation of accurate information
regarding a transaction, without more, "property"
under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as
the S… |
| 21-1161 |
Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U… |
| 21-1162 |
Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation |
Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec… |
| 21-7176 |
Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness |
I. Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United… |
| 21-7170 |
Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not
pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial… |
| 21-7174 |
Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7156 |
Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 21-7157 |
Richard Lucas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of
"cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta… |
| 21-7158 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach?
II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
| 21-7159 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold merit-injury money-mandating standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund |
1. Whether merit injury claims suffice in the undecided proceedings; titled open thereunder; "Williams v. U.S.," 1:21-CV01632-EMR; thereof United Stat… |
| 21-7163 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
II. When def… |
| 21-7151 |
Quentin Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force |
QUESTION ONE:
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained
even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7136 |
Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISCONSTRUED 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) TO FIND THAT AN ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY IMPOSED "BY VIRTUE OF . . . CONVICTION" INCLUDES PLACEM… |
| 21-1134 |
Bryan Adams v. Department of Homeland Security |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
active-duty cross-reference differential-pay federal-employees military-reserves national-guard statutory-interpretation |
Whether 10 U.S.C. § 12301(d) is "a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10." |
| 21-1135 |
Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
| 21-1140 |
UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
actuarial-equivalence administrative-law cms cms-rule healthcare-insurance medicare medicare-advantage overpayment-rule same-methodology statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Overpayment Rule violates the statute's "actuarial equivalence" and "same methodology" mandates.
2. Whether the Overpayment Rule is ot… |
| 21-7115 |
Robert Stahlnecker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech, as it was in this case? |
| 21-7121 |
Joseph Lamont Wilson v. Phoenix Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1122 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal |
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss a ballot challenge for failure to state a claim without ever having construed it in the light most favorabl… |
| 21-1117 |
Reginald Watkins, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process mortgage-foreclosure quiet-title sheriff-sale standing statutory-interpretation statutory-redemption takings |
A. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN RULING THAT THE PETITIONERS DO NOT HAVE STANDING SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH STANDING.
i. Petitioners answer: "Yes… |
| 21-1119 |
Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee |
First Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B… |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7097 |
Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases |
In Gall v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 586 (2007), this Court held that appellate courts must review the substantive reasonableness of all sentences und… |
| 21-7086 |
William L. Whitefield v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c compassionate-release criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7077 |
Catherine Kurkjian v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-obligations bad-faith-doctrine civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law contract-reprisal government-contracts lost-profits statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Question 1: Whether a Court can neglect the legal and statutory obligations of an agency to adhere to a signed contract and the referenced clauses; by… |
| 21-7069 |
Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
May Bank robbery apply as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) when Bank robbery does not match the elements of section 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-7053 |
Iramm Wright v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-7055 |
Eugene Willis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
I.
In compliance with Holloway V. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1991),
is an attorney ineffective for failing to argue before the
jury the Government f… |
| 21-7021 |
John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7035 |
Seville Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7037 |
Robert Breest v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal dna-testing expert-testimony favorable-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus new-hampshire retrial statutory-interpretation |
1. Issue One: Whether the DNA tests were favorable under New Hampshire RSA 651-D-2, VI (b) and warrant dismissal of the charge because a different res… |
| 21-1063 |
Elaine Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy criminal-acquittal due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud presumption-of-innocence statutory-interpretation unjust-compensation unjust-conviction-and-imprisonment |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2513's requirement that a defendant acquitted because of insufficient evidence must affirmatively disprove the factual allegati… |
| 21-1052 |
United States, ex rel. Jesse Polansky, M.D., M.P.H. v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure false-claims-act federal-procedure government-dismissal judicial-conflict qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and what standard applies if the gov… |
| 21-1059 |
Citibank, N.A., et al. v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
11-usc-550 avoided-transfer bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee burden-of-proof good-faith statutory-interpretation subsequent-transferee |
Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover an
avoided transfer from a subsequent transferee under 11
U.S.C. 550 bears the burden of pleading and … |
| 21-6969 |
Alton Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines booker circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing guideline-enhancement lapsed-statute legal-interpretation mandatory-guidelines sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's enhancement of Defendant's sentence under a provision of U.S.S.G. § 2K… |
| 21-6972 |
Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-6973 |
Larry Lee Jacks v. Warden Lynch |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland case-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6956 |
Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), the district court is limited to the "extraordinary and compelling reasons" given in application note 1 of the com… |
| 21-1037 |
Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, by disregarding properly established U.S. authorities (Corpus Juris Secundum, C.J.S.), to surreptitiously create its own copyright law sys… |
| 21-6934 |
Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an instruction on the Dost factors authorizes a conviction for production of child pornography on broader grounds th… |
| 21-6941 |
Tracy Vaughn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act sentencing-factors sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act, a district court mus… |
| 21-6942 |
Alison Gu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether making false statements on a passport application form as to which the mandatory oath was never administered, the statements were never sworn … |
| 21-6921 |
Sedale Pervis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The touchstone statu te for criminal sentencing, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), provides that a sentence must promote respect for the law. However, "respect for… |
| 21-6925 |
Chong Su Yi v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-deference judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-fit statutory-interpretation |
Could the court apply rules that do not fit the person? |
| 21-6926 |
Willie Wilcher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
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Few fro^ por veriifW- Hef Pekb^,%/fav he… |
| 21-6929 |
Rozelle Summerise v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Can reasonable jurists debate whether Hobbs Act robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) … |
| 21-1025 |
Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach, such as re… |
| 21-6903 |
Michel Thomas v. Grundfos, CBS, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, and/o… |
| 21-6894 |
Arnoldo Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-924c borden-v-united-states constitutional-review criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111 (a) AND (b) QUALIFIE… |
| 21-6898 |
Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration |
Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i… |
| 21-6900 |
Patrice E. Brown v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Arizona |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Does a court render no judgment which violates the law of its veld when it renders its judgment 2 Compliance with the mandatory provisions of an uncon… |
| 21-6829 |
Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process litigation-reform neitzke-v-williams non-prisoner-complaints prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights screening-standard section-1915 standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the language of 28 U.S.C. § 1915 allow screening or dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints and claims for failure to state a claim… |
| 21-6844 |
Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr… |
| 21-998 |
Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee… |
| 21-6825 |
Diana Bustamante v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6826 |
Todd Stands Alone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is common-law simple assault an essential element of § 111(b)? |
| 21-6814 |
Eleazar Flores-Mora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-jurisdiction niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear (NTA) that… |
| 21-985 |
Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6786 |
Semaji Warren v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6787 |
Rondale Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but… |
| 21-6767 |
Bryce Clair Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the court in applying point eroe enhanciment for having 3 altered with an numbers re chary read? |
| 21-6768 |
Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
(1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess . . . affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.… |
| 21-6769 |
Luke Joseph Burning Breast v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921(a)(20) 18-usc-922(g) civil-rights-restoration criminal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm firearm-components interstate-commerce rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution by showing that a single interchangeable part of a firearm trav… |
| 21-972 |
Thomas H. Buffington v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (12) |
administrative-law chevron-deference chevron-doctrine deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Chevron doctrine permits courts to defer to VA's construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the … |
| 21-6753 |
Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
"Whether, when deciding if it should 'impose a reduced sentence' on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 . . . a district … |
| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-961 |
Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-954 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (24) |
administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy due-process homeland-security immigration-law immigration-policy judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP.
2. Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the Secretary's new deci… |
| 21-6739 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli… |
| 21-6743 |
Juan Carlos Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intentional-force statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation, under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), is a crime of violence under the elements… |
| 21-6736 |
Steven R. Henson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness |
1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie… |
| 21-6737 |
James P. Donoghue, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
First Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
general-intent judicial-oath judicial-regulation judicial-remand judicial-review objective-review perjury specific-intent statutory-interpretation tax-court |
1. Pursuant to 26 C.F.R. § 1.183, whether the lower courts' errored when framing decision under the doctrine of general-intent; using subjective deduc… |
| 21-6723 |
Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018) where the Supreme Co… |
| 21-6696 |
L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure |
1. Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401
2. Did an agreed Recess of trial to allow Respondent to conti… |
| 21-6697 |
Melvin Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-terrorism-and-death-penalty-act civil-procedure court-jurisdiction district-court-authority docket-modification due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Concerning procedures of the District and Courts of Appeals regarding due process in federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motions as well as a … |
| 21-920 |
Kalab D. Willman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete… |
| 21-924 |
Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping |
Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |
| 21-925 |
Adolfo Sandor Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-limitations due-process fraud government-fraud government-overreach standing statutory-interpretation tax-regulations |
1. Whether the US government can circumvent constitutional limitations 1 and defraud ~320 million American citizens through hidden legal provisos, spe… |
| 21-908 |
Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation |
May an individual be subject to liability for the fraud of another that is barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. (the "Bankruptcy Code")… |
| 21-917 |
Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT… |
| 21-6687 |
Rory Lee Zirkelbach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-error sentencing-guideline statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed an extratextual limitation on its statutory authority to determine what amounts to an "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-6692 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-903 |
Robert M. Glen v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims |
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, 22 U.S.C. § 6081 et seq., is a broad remedial statute that authorizes U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated… |
| 21-905 |
Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-906 |
Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
boundary-dispute congressional-act congressional-authority indian-reservation land-disposition ninth-circuit-error statutory-interpretation treaty-interpretation |
1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may override an Act of Congress adopting a boundary for an Indian reservation, and set its own boundary.… |
| 21-6658 |
Donald Ray Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary? |
| 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… |
| 21-6642 |
Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the application note defining "dangerous weapon" overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) by defining "possession" of a "dangerou… |
| 21-6646 |
Pedro Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111(a) AND (b) QUALIF… |
| 21-895 |
John Rodrigues, Jr. v. County of Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process federal-preemption firearms firearms-law law-enforcement leosa preemption qualified-retired-officer statutory-interpretation |
Does LEOSA (18 U.S.C. Sec. 966C) preempt
State firearms laws that prohibit the transport,
carrying and possession of firearms by a Qualified
Retired L… |
| 21-884 |
Blake Fields v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 21-887 |
Miguel Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
administrative-proceedings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights exhaustion-requirement futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act money-damages statutory-interpretation |
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) preserves the rights of children with disabilities to bring claims under the Constitution and o… |
| 21-6594 |
James A. Hald, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process extraordinary-reasons federal-prisoner-rights federal-prisons sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court must first determine whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduct… |
| 21-6622 |
Rufus Lawson, Jr. v. Officer West, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines statutory-interpretation tax-evasion |
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| 21-6625 |
Derrick Harrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-6579 |
Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 21-6589 |
Lamont Guinyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes a defendant's possession of a firearm or ammunition, is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's … |
| 21-6592 |
Donald Stanley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6601 |
Austin Woods v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c co-conspirator conspiracy crime-of-violence pinkerton-liability statutory-interpretation substantive-offense |
In 1946, this Court enunciated the Pinkerton theory of liability, which permits a defendant to be held liable for a substantive offense committed by a… |
| 21-6602 |
Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
In petitioner §2254 petition, Petitioner raises this question of error?
The plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court fa… |
| 21-6605 |
Jermaine Jackson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 21-6610 |
Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction |
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| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6572 |
Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6584 |
Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re… |
| 21-6575 |
Nathaniel Fields v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-861 |
First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity fr… |
| 21-864 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Garland "Andy" Barr |
Kentucky |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
|
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process judicial-review kentucky-law kentucky-revised-statutes motion-to-dismiss motion-to-set-aside standing statutory-interpretation |
On June 22, 2020, 1 filed a ballot challenge
against U.S. Representative Andy Barr pursuant to
KRS (Kentucky Revised Statutes) 118.176. It was
never d… |
| 21-866 |
Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v… |
| 21-867 |
Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. v. Jessica T. Badilla, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights combatant-activities due-process federal-preemption federal-tort-claims-act military military-operations preemption statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
Whether state-law tort claims that arise out of the
uniquely federal sphere of the military's combat operations are preempted by the interests embodie… |
| 21-868 |
Oklahoma v. Kevin Tyler Foster |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-857 |
Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at… |
| 21-6508 |
Daniel Jones v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-for-counsel pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT. OF APPEALS
DECISION ERR AS A MATTER OF LAWIN DISMISSAL
OF APPEAL PURSUANT TO 25 U.S.C.§ 1915(e),
BASED SOLELY ON DEN… |
| 21-6560 |
Carlo Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-6534 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a conviction obtained in reliance on an unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained based on a revie… |
| 21-6540 |
Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 |
When Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98 473, Tit. II, ch. II, 98 Sta. 1987; 18 U.S.C. §3551, et seq.) , it provided a … |
| 21-838 |
Penobscot Nation v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
alaska-pacific-fisheries indian-canons indian-canons-of-construction indian-settlement-acts maine-indian-settlement-acts penobscot-nation reservation reservation-boundaries statutory-interpretation tribal-rights |
Whether the Maine Indian Settlement Acts—
consistent with this Court's precedents on statutory
interpretation and the Indian canons of construction—
… |
| 21-840 |
United States v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
indian-reservation land-claims maine-indian-claims-settlement-act native-american-rights natural-resources penobscot-nation settlement-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction tribal-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Penobscot Indian Reservation includes only the uplands of the islands in the main stem of the Penobscot River or also includes the surroun… |
| 21-831 |
Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case?
2. Must a District Court find f… |
| 21-6512 |
Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict |
Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6524 |
Joshua James Mjoness v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-6525 |
George Patrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release is governed by the class of felony determined at the time of the original sentence. 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-6527 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mandatory-minimums sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6501 |
Luke D. Patterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6503 |
Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6507 |
Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether or not Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 no retroactivity decision conflicts with the holding in Sharp v. Murphy, U.S. 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020… |
| 21-823 |
Abdulla Nagi Naser Daifullah v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship-revocation civil-procedure congressional-power denaturalization due-process good-cause-affidavit jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement naturalization naturalization-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a)'s requirement that the United States Attorney for the respective district institute proceedings is a jurisdictional require… |
| 21-826 |
K. John Corrigan, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference bureau-of-land-management chevron-doctrine federal-land-policy-and-management-act grazing-preference judicial-review statutory-interpretation taylor-grazing-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held that statutory silence on the issue before the court can be unambiguous for purposes of the Chevron doctrine … |
| 21-829 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 21-818 |
EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. In 12 U.S.C. § 1735f-15( e), Congress authorized
federal Courts of Appeals to take direct review of the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development'… |
| 21-819 |
Baxter Corporation Englewood v. Becton, Dickinson and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act expert-testimony inter-partes-review ordinary-remand-rule patent patent-challenge prior-art remand-rule statutory-interpretation |
A petitioner may challenge an issued patent in an inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an agency tribunal, but "only on… |
| 21-6474 |
Kristie Leanne Sluder v. R. Patrick Bentancourt, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adoption-and-safe-families-act civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-statute ku-klux-klan-act liberty-interest notice-and-hearing standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Macon County Department of Social Services Violate Conducted two weeks prior to my Foster daughter's placement in a group home?
2. Do foster P… |
| 21-6453 |
Duane Nishiie, aka Suh Jae Hon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
fraud-offenses legal-interpretation precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation war-nexus wartime-suspension-act wartime-suspension-of-limitations-act |
I. Whether the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act suspends the statute of limitations for fraud offenses that have no nexus to the war or armed con… |
| 21-6467 |
John D. Glenn, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud bank-fraud-statute circuit-court-split common-fraud definitional-term fraud-enforcement fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act mortgage-lending-business statutory-interpretation third-circuit-ruling venture-capitalist-firms |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's overbroad interpretation of what is a "mortgage lending business," a definitional term added by the Fraud Enforcement a… |
| 21-6471 |
Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner is eligible for a Title 18 U.S.C. Section 358a(c)(1)(A)(i), bd on the modiiction of Secon 35 C)A), through the First Step Act of J0… |
| 21-6482 |
Calvin Wayne Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6485 |
R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code |
Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(o) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it is unconstit… |
| 21-6486 |
Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation |
1. In Deck v. Missouri , 544 U.S. 622 (2005), this Court held that shackling a defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates d… |
| 21-806 |
Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries |
1. Whether, in light of compelling historical evidence to the contrary, the Court should reexamine its holding that Spending Clause legislation gives … |
| 21-813 |
Michael Peck v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congressional-intent energy-reorganization-act nrc-employment nuclear-regulatory-commission sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
In 2005, Congress amended the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ("ERA") to expressly include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") as an employer … |
| 21-816 |
Melvyn Gear v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
This case presents two questions for review.
1. In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-796 |
Marchand & Rossi, L.L.P., nka Marchand Law, L.L.P. v. Bryan K. White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
false-claims-act first-to-file-rule fraud fraud-prosecution jurisdictional-bar parallel-state-laws qui-tam statutory-interpretation whistleblower |
The federal False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C.
§ 3730, includes an interrelated series of provisions
intended to incentivize, through monetary awards… |
| 21-798 |
Oklahoma v. Stephen Tanner Vineyard |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-799 |
Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
protects employees from retaliation occurring
after the provi… |
| 21-6448 |
Joseph D. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis |
1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "… |
| 21-6460 |
Truman Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy Trial Act violation and to consider the government's district wid… |
| 21-6461 |
Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose |
The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6445 |
Ruben Vazquez-Ovalle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Vazquez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 21-6406 |
Damoni Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6418 |
Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-6427 |
Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Should this Court resolve a division among the circuit courts regarding whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the… |
| 21-773 |
Oklahoma v. Harold Denton McCurtain |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-767 |
Clinton Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-768 |
Lil’ Man in the Boat, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 commerce-clause fees-and-obligations navigable-waters rivers-and-harbors-act statutory-interpretation tonnage-clause |
Pursuant to the Rivers and Harbors Act, Congress provided that "No taxes, tolls, operating charges, fees, or any other impositions whatever shall be l… |
| 21-769 |
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
allotment congressional-intent federal-reservation indian-land-rights indian-law sixth-circuit-ruling statutory-interpretation superintendence treaty-interpretation treaty-of-detroit treaty-rights |
Whether the 1855 Treaty of Detroit established a federal reservation for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians? |
| 21-6376 |
Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6383 |
Harinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation |
Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to "conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6389 |
Thamud Eldridge v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery categorical-crime-of-violence crime-of-violence hobbs-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-right statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a categorical crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A). This Cour… |
| 21-6391 |
Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6347 |
Justin Dwight Sholley-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process intimate-partner-violence plain-error rehaif-error restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a new trial based on plain error is required where the defendant maintained at all times during his pre-Rehaif prosecution that the state cour… |
| 21-757 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (33)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-scope enablement enablement-requirement invention-disclosure judicial-review patent patent-law statutory-interpretation undue-experimentation written-description |
1. Whether enablement is "a question of fact to be determined by the jury," Wood v. Underhill, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 1, 4 (1846), as this Court has held, o… |
| 21-751 |
Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System |
Louisiana |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay |
Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State
Employees' Retirement System ("LASERS") violate
the Equal Protection Clause by defining earned compen… |
| 21-6327 |
Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Should this matter been allowed to progress to a civil commitment trial since the Respondent incarcerated the Petitioner for exercising his Constit… |
| 21-6349 |
Victor Hurns v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN THE MISSISSIPPI TRIAL COURT BY THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT WAS CLEARLY ERRONEOUS AND CO… |
| 21-6355 |
Everett Earl Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Whether, under the Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 shou… |
| 21-6361 |
Marcus Crawley, aka Holyfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
If a defendant pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) charge and a predicate crime of violence that is no longer valid after Davis, may a reviewing court search… |
| 21-6335 |
Chi Mak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its direction and acted unreasonably in denying Mak's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c), by … |
| 21-6318 |
Michael Aaron Aldridge v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court exceeded the statutory maximum sentence of 24 months imprisonment when it imposed five separate sentences of imprisonmen… |
| 21-729 |
Shirene Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
The Court avoided a "vagueness shoal" in Skilling by holding that 18 U.S.C. § 1346's prohibition on schemes targeting "the intangible right of honest … |
| 21-734 |
Oklahoma v. Justin Dale Little |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-721 |
Transpacific Steel LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
delegation-of-legislative-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng national-security presidential-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-regulation |
1. Whether the President acted outside of the scope of the statutory authority Congress granted under section 232 by doubling the tariff on steel impo… |
| 21-728 |
Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
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circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality |
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7… |
| 21-6295 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 21-6297 |
Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As to both petitioners,
1. Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be … |
| 21-6278 |
Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attempted-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach clean-vehicle crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether an attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which may be completed even if it is abandoned before anyone knows… |
| 21-6280 |
Johnny Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-704 |
Oklahoma v. Samantha Ann Perales |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-710 |
Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
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28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s… |
| 21-711 |
Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. v. Hasbro, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1909-act 1976-act copyright copyright-law copyright-ownership employer-employee independent-contractor statutory-interpretation work-for-hire |
Whether a party that commissions a work from an independent contractor qualifies as the creator's "employer" within the meaning of the Copyright Act o… |
| 21-6232 |
Jason Stallcup v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does completed Hobbs Act robbery qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 21-6234 |
Edward Stain v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
| 21-6249 |
Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl… |
| 21-6224 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-6228 |
Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Urena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
When a notice to appear fails to include information required by statute and/or regulation, does the immigration court lack jurisdiction over the matt… |
| 21-6231 |
Christopher Lee Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this case should be remanded for the Fourth Circuit to decide the issue presented below, which is whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-… |
| 21-6247 |
Andrew Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Does an inordinate delay of almost six years -- as a matter of law -- render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the … |
| 21-6248 |
Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
1/Whether federal court U.S. judge bias abuse discretion. Or error over look 28 USC 1441
2/Whether IV-D agency may deprive a parent, daughter of fit … |
| 21-683 |
John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation |
Under the Class Action Fairness Act's "local controversy" exception, a federal district court must decline jurisdiction over a class action in which, … |
| 21-6212 |
Anthony De La Torriente v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation |
The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i… |
| 21-6217 |
Alberto Grajales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the
unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B)
may be sustained b… |
| 21-6218 |
Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation |
In this case of first impression, Colorado Supreme Court denied certiorari affirmed a conviction upheld by the Court of Appeals stating that an employ… |
| 21-6197 |
Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 21-672 |
Steven B. Barger v. First Data Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
cost-savings employee-rights employer-obligations employment-rights fmla fmla-restoration leave-of-absence restoration-entitlement statutory-interpretation termination |
The statutory language of the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. ("FMLA") provides that employees are "entitled to be restored" to… |
| 21-673 |
Robert Allen Austin v. James McCann, Judge, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
What Statute grants Federal and State Judges the use of Defamation 18 U.S.C. § 4101(1) in part or as a whole to deprive a United States Citizen of a P… |
| 21-674 |
North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment civil-rights discrimination-waiver eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Section 1003 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 provides that a State "shall not be immune under the Eleventh Amendment . . . from suit in F… |
| 21-675 |
Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Sons, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-support congressional-intent director-standing federal-review-jurisdiction jurisdictional-review labor-director longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act private-fund statutory-interpretation wage-loss-claims workers-compensation |
If the First Circuit had jurisdiction to review Petitioners' wage-loss claims, did its finding that a US Labor Director could oppose their claims to p… |
| 21-6192 |
Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson |
Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his "three strikes" mandatory life sentence, pursuant to United States v. John… |
| 21-664 |
Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or… |
| 21-6174 |
Antonio Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6176 |
Dwaine Collymore, aka Twin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery crime-of-violence exceptional-importance federal-criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), falls outside the definition o… |
| 21-6179 |
Leoncio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6161 |
Adam Rene Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION IS IN VIOLATION OF THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, AND THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEE… |
| 21-6166 |
Ángel De la Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-658 |
Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite … |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
For at least a decade, the petitioner has been using the registered and now-incontestable trademark "Freelancer" in commerce with various goods and se… |
| 21-644 |
Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-state-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) , should be over ruled. |
| 21-645 |
Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-646 |
Oklahoma v. Dameon Lamar Leathers |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-jurisdiction precedent-challenge stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6136 |
Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation |
Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute, as three … |
| 21-6144 |
Johnnie Sims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-6113 |
Clinton Rayshawn Grayson v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6127 |
In Re Howard Griffith |
|
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-rules habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
What was the reason for not making application for writ of habeas corpus to the district court of the district in which I am being held? (Rule 20.4[a]… |
| 21-6139 |
Yency Nuñez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Yency Nuñez and the government agree that, although the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act makes proof of jurisdictional facts indispensable… |
| 21-6131 |
Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-627 |
Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation |
The Airline Deregulation Act ("ADA") expressly preempts any state law "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(… |
| 21-631 |
Emily S. Wilson, as Executrix of the Estate of Joseph A. Wilson, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law chevron-deference foreign-trust irs-policy irs-reporting statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-penalty |
Beginning in 1997, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") required the owners of foreign trusts to file an annual Form 3520, disclosing the trust's fina… |
| 21-6109 |
Jackie Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-authority probable-cause reasons-for-granting search-warrant statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. When a lower Court removes a waiver and assigns counsel for appeal, then
by asserting the waiver, they had removed, covers under its scope the deni… |
| 21-6115 |
Jaime Mayorga v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack … |
| 21-6118 |
Kevin Folse v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime |
New Mexico courts have held that the state's aggravated battery statute can be violated by unlawful touching alone. Unlawful touch that results in bod… |
| 21-6121 |
Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an
unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes … |
| 21-6076 |
Lukeen Gerald v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C § 1951 (a) remains a predicate crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C § 924(c) under the elements clause after… |
| 21-6107 |
Thomas Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6071 |
Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-6077 |
Torri McCray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
| 21-6078 |
Melvin Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-608 |
Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6068 |
Ronald Tingle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First
Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6054 |
Benjamin Koziol v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
A. The Ninth Circuit has placed itself in conflict with several other circuits by criminalizing any baseless threat to sue as Hobbs Act extortion. Thi… |
| 21-6056 |
Terrance V. Frelix v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6062 |
Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED… |
| 21-584 |
Agendia, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure delegation-of-authority local-coverage-determination medicare-act medicare-administrative-contractor medicare-coverage-policy medicare-policy rulemaking-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rulemaking requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 1395hh(a)(2) apply to a Medicare policy deeming all molecular diagnostic laboratory tests "investig… |
| 21-6046 |
Jacques Lisbey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face and as-applied because Congress lacks the power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize… |
| 21-6049 |
Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-6010 |
Robert D. Sutton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres… |
| 21-6020 |
Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.… |
| 21-6027 |
Fidel Anguiano Gallardo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6028 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-568 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-5998 |
In Re Anthony Terry |
|
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… |
| 21-6002 |
Mario Bachiller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
"It has long been settled that when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories the unconstitutionality of any of the theories requires th… |
| 21-6005 |
Terrell Hunter v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-statute drug-proceeds drug-robbery federal-jurisdiction federal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Did the decisions of the district court and the court of appeals, that the commerce element of the Hobbs Act is satisfied by the robbery of moneys int… |
| 21-6007 |
Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6009 |
Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing
factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to
"impose a reduced sent… |
| 21-5982 |
Marcus Matthews v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a conviction under Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA") § 1613-30 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of enhancing a … |
| 21-552 |
Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., et al. v. Edward Anderson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
chadbourne-v-troice circuit-split covered-securities in-connection-with merrill-lynch-v-dabit securities-exchange-act securities-litigation slusa statutory-interpretation uniform-standards-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with other Courts of Appeals, erred in concluding that Troice narrowed Dabit's interpretation of SLUSA's "in co… |
| 21-5984 |
Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force |
(1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of t… |
| 21-551 |
John J. Watford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018
amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has
shown … |
| 21-546 |
Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-548 |
David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict… |
| 21-5958 |
Aaron Christopher Pleasant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-regulation federal-power firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-531 |
Jerome D. Lee, Stephen E. Brown-Bennett, and Taylor Lee & Associates LLC v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
available-funds civil-procedure cja-vouchers contempt contract-authority due-process fee-inquiry judicial-discretion reimbursement standing statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
I. DID THE LOWER COURT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO, SUA SPONTE, SET ASIDE THE PETITIONERS' CONTRACTS, AND CONDUCT AN FEE INQUIRY INTO WHETHER OR NOT FUNDS W… |
| 21-5940 |
Jovani Jacobo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-courts federal-prisoners judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
The federal compassionate-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits sentencing courts to release federal prisoners for "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-528 |
Willie H. Goffney, Jr., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review medicare medicare-claims regulatory-deference regulatory-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the regulatory deference test set forth in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Kisor v. Wilkie, --- U.S. ---, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019), s… |
| 21-5930 |
Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa |
1) Is the VWPA the controlling law regarding payment of the
Order of Restitution in the underlying criminal action and is the
Ex Post Facto Clause of … |
| 21-516 |
Justin Haggerty v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
I. Whether the "interracial" nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense, and th… |
| 21-518 |
AlixPartners, LLP, et al. v. The Fund for Protection of Investors' Rights in Foreign States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1782 arbitration-proceeding commercial-dispute discovery discovery-authorization foreign-tribunal international-tribunal investor-state-arbitration investor-state-dispute section-1782 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a n ad hoc arbitration to resolve a commercial dispute between two parties is a "foreign or international tribunal" under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) … |
| 21-519 |
Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit |
Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends… |
| 21-5922 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice that occurred when lower Court unc… |
| 21-5927 |
In Re Lindsey Orr |
|
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-authorization detention-authority due-process federal-law first-time-offender legislative-intent patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
I. TVa Following &uUtUnIs Based UP5n THt Fait [ Hat Fxuptional
ti U'umshrun Vlarrant TKt txmiH Of The tourU Biuret unary Powers
Baud Upon ThU*Extrcw… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-511 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (3) |
all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation |
1. 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) allows federal courts to issue a writ of habeas corpus ordering the transportation of a state prisoner only when necessary to br… |
| 21-502 |
Oklahoma v. Terrance Lucas Cottingham |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5886 |
Sasha Trieste McGarity v. Birmingham Public Schools, dba West Maple Elementary - Bloomfield Hills |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1652 28-usc-8004 civil-procedure court-rules due-process electronic-filing federal-procedure legal-service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Does filing an answer with the court via electronic means but failing to serve the plaintiff satisfy service of process in accordance with 28 U.S. Cod… |
| 21-5891 |
Archie Ned Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation |
1. Must the "use of physical force" required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant co… |
| 21-5872 |
Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 21-5874 |
Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "as if" language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti… |
| 21-5875 |
Kenneth J. Jackson, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-sentencing de-novo-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the sentencing amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) enacted by the First Step Act of 2018 (the "First Step Act", "FSA", or "Act"), Pub. L. No. … |
| 21-5881 |
In Re Marjorie Creamer |
|
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statutory-interpretation workplace-policies writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 21-495 |
Dennis Black, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process erisa judicial-oversight pbgc pension-plan pension-termination statutory-interpretation |
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") carefully spells out the process to terminate a distressed pension plan insured by the Pension B… |
| 21-496 |
Martez L. Smith v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a… |
| 21-484 |
Oklahoma v. Sonny Raye McCombs |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty standing statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-486 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-487 |
Oklahoma v. David Deval Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5843 |
Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
1. The federal sex trafficking statute requires that the government prove the defendant knew his/her own actions would cause the victim to engage in a… |
| 21-5827 |
Jerry Ray Craine v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5829 |
Amar Taylor v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United … |
| 21-482 |
Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis |
Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o… |
| 21-5815 |
Jose Antonio Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5822 |
Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-465 |
James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the term "relevant official service department records" in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s "reconsideration" provision encompasses all records that … |
| 21-470 |
Eric Lee Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er… |
| 21-462 |
Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal… |
| 21-5789 |
KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation |
It is a federal offense for a person who is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to knowing… |
| 21-5787 |
In Re Randall Thomas McArty |
|
2021-09-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion
enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio
of nelease or paude.
2). Whether 28 usc 246 … |
| 21-5769 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
1. In light of the fact that actual innocence supported by newly discovered evidence acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus by applying 2244(b… |
| 21-5772 |
Charles Eason v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation |
I.
When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of
A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as
a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ?
II.
If… |
| 21-5731 |
Sheridan Sisk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-5743 |
Rafael Fernandez Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is it appropriate for a court to apply old policy statements, specifically reserved for agencies to follow, to new statutory constructions that eli… |
| 21-5746 |
In Re Conghau Huu To |
|
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5758 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause invalidated in Unit… |
| 21-443 |
William Beaumont Hospital v. United States, ex rel. David Felten |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure employee employment-status false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) protects an "employee" against retaliation for trying to stop a violation of the False Claims Act. The question presented is wh… |
| 21-445 |
Floyd Calhoun Dent, III v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute federal-healthcare-programs healthcare-fraud independent-contractor independent-contractors marketing medical-referral referral remuneration sales-commission statutory-interpretation |
Whether the AKS prohibits the payment of sales commissions to independent contractors who make marketing presentations to physicians but who are not m… |
| 21-5738 |
Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5717 |
Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5725 |
Sergio Amaya-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-u.s.c.s.-991(b) 5th-circuit circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing role-adjustment sentencing-fairness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court has qualified the minor and minimal role adjustment commentary under U.S.S.G. §3 B1.2 such that the sentences in cons… |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5699 |
Al-Kareem Rasool-Rachmaan Collier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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| 21-5710 |
Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
A Criminal Defendant's initial Habeas Corpus action, filed for the purpose determining the validty of the statutes convicted and sentence under, as be… |
| 21-5673 |
Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 18 USC 2251(a) is overbroad in that it provides punishment
for constitutionally protected activity in the inducement of consensual
pro… |
| 21-5664 |
Maurice L. Ross v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 24(c), since the elements of Hobbs Act robbery, especially atte… |
| 21-5671 |
Vicente Corona v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons sentencing-disparities sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether "Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons" to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-400 |
Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether it violates the separation of powers for executive branch officials to keep a person in civil detention on the basis of factual findings th… |
| 21-401 |
ZF Automotive US, Inc., et al. v. Luxshare, Ltd. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (3) |
arbitration-law civil-procedure evidence-gathering federal-jurisdiction foreign-tribunal international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a), which permits litigants to invoke the authority of United States courts to render assistance in gathering evidence for us… |
| 21-404 |
United States v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation |
Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers who perform services at a specified federal facility is… |
| 21-5650 |
Carl Richard Samson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-5657 |
Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This petition presents a straightforward case for certiorari review. The question presented is whether, under the categorical approach of the elements… |
| 21-5633 |
Roland J. McLain v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5627 |
William Brinson Ball v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States. |
| 21-5631 |
Elton Vallare v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to
28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5604 |
Daniel Chase Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military install… |
| 21-369 |
Oklahoma v. Bea Ann Epperson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-370 |
Oklahoma v. Travis Dray Stewart |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-371 |
Oklahoma v. Jeffery Arch Jones |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-372 |
Oklahoma v. Charles Michael Cooper |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-373 |
Oklahoma v. Joses Ric-E Beck |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5584 |
Guerly Alexis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5586 |
Tyrone Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act motion-to-vacate sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery meets the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-348 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. In Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, this Court held that courts should "not invoke any presumption against pre-emption" when a "s… |
| 21-339 |
Ali Hamza Suliman Al Bahlul v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion agency-head appointments-clause binding-upon-all executive-power final-and-conclusive judicial-review principal-officer sole-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Is an agency head, who is statutorily given the
"sole discretion and prerogative" to make "final and
conclusive" decisions in adjudications that ar… |
| 21-5563 |
William Ferguson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-242 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense section-924c statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether a defendant's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) should be vacated, where each § 924(c) charge had, as an underlying predicate, a vi… |
| 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… |
| 21-319 |
Oklahoma v. Nacole Ryan Bain |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-320 |
Oklahoma v. Robert William Perry, II |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-321 |
Oklahoma v. Ryan Cortlan Johnson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-322 |
Oklahoma v. Joseph Harjo |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-323 |
Oklahoma v. Michael Eugene Spears |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-324 |
Oklahoma v. Kadetrix Devon Grayson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-325 |
Oklahoma v. Matthew Steven Janson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-law due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-326 |
Oklahoma v. Devin Warren Sizemore |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-327 |
Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-332 |
William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, is relief available under 28 USC §2241 and 28 USC. §2255 (e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existant… |
| 21-309 |
Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are … |
| 21-316 |
Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
This Petition seeks to resolve a circuit conflict.
Persons convicted of a federal offense can file a petition to challenge their convictions pursuant … |
| 21-5520 |
Brunson Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-liberty judicial-review legal-precedent patent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-296 |
AMN Services, LLC v. Verna Clarke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
employee-reimbursement fair-labor-standards-act overtime overtime-compensation per-diem-allowance per-diem-allowances regular-rate statutory-interpretation traveling-expenses |
Whether, under the FLSA, per-diem allowances for traveling expenses, which are reduced when the employee fails to work a contractually required shift,… |
| 21-297 |
Travis Croft v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding
that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking, S.C.
Code § 16-3-1075, is categorically a crime of … |
| 21-299 |
Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a "prevailing party" entitled to attorney's fees. |
| 21-5508 |
Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Upon 8/04/15 (9) Court's Denial of Petitioner's Constitutional Violation of Petitioner's USC Fourteenth Amendment due process Clause, equal protection… |
| 21-5503 |
Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5479 |
Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the plain meaning of "properly filed" in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j… |
| 21-5480 |
Charles Bryant v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man… |
| 21-271 |
Raymond Benitez v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-immunity civil-procedure fourth-circuit governmental-unit hospital-authority local-government private-hospitals statutory-interpretation |
Can a multibillion-dollar "hospital authority"
that operates in multiple States in a manner
indistinguishable from private hospitals be a
"local go… |
| 21-267 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge cullen-v-pinholster evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011), a federal habeas petitioner may present evidence of a prosecutor's r… |
| 21-269 |
Anthony Carter v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements |
In a sufficiency analysis under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), may a reviewing court uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by te… |
| 21-5455 |
Emmanuel Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power firearms firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a fire arm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5457 |
Brian Fierro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 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… |
| 21-5461 |
Tyrone Felder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) cell-site-evidence crime-of-violence hobbs-act intangible-asset new-york-robbery physical-force property statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Hobbs Act violence a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? Under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), an offense quali… |
| 21-5462 |
James Michael Kerns v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Question I. If Count 3 charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 is without legal, constitutional foundation as it alleges a crime of violence in Count … |
| 21-257 |
Oklahoma v. Jimmie Dewayne Starr |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-258 |
Oklahoma v. Donta Keith Davis |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-procedure due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-259 |
Oklahoma v. Arnold Dean Howell |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-251 |
Oklahoma v. William Clayton Brown |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law indian-law judicial-review mcgirt-precedent oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-252 |
Oklahoma v. Shannon James Kepler |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-case criminal-law federal-indian-law legal-precedent mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-253 |
Oklahoma v. Christopher Jason Hathcoat |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-procedure federal-indian-law judicial-review jurisdiction McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-254 |
Oklahoma v. Jordan Batice Mitchell |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-procedure federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-255 |
Oklahoma v. Grant N. Jackson, IV |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5423 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk, aka James Cabbagestalk v. William Berley, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5431 |
Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR… |
| 21-5432 |
Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to support Rehaif's knowledge-of-status element in a prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a misdemeanor … |
| 21-5436 |
William D. Dickerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-5387 |
Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment |
1. Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h), where Petitioner was not charged with nor engaged in "f… |
| 21-5413 |
Antoine L. Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict… |
| 21-5414 |
Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN IT VIEWED THE EVIDENCE AT SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THE LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO PETITIONER AND DENIED H… |
| 21-5401 |
Shawn R. Wilson v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-234 |
Kevin R. George v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error disability-claim plain-meaning pro-veteran-system statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denies a veteran's claim for benefits in reliance on an agency interpretation that is later deemed invali… |
| 21-206 |
Mourice Neal v. City of Detroit, Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-compliance constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-oath judicial-power legal-jurisdiction standing state-law-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. United States constitution is the supreme law governing this land correct?
2. All judges in every state is bound by oath or affirmation federal an… |
| 21-5353 |
Michael Napper v. Artis Singleton, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5365 |
Mark Lee Wilkinson v. Siobhan Burtlow, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction conviction-challenge habeas-corpus new-judgment petition-filing sentence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation successive-petitions time-limitation |
Whether, consistent with this Court's holdings in Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147 (2007), an intervening new judgment between two habeas petitions res… |
| 21-5348 |
James H. Bates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation section-404 sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-5350 |
Bobby Earl Keys v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED THE WRONGED APPELLATE
STANDARD OF REVIEW TO CLAIM THAT DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STATUTORY ERROR
UNDER 1… |
| 21-202 |
Mylan Laboratories Ltd. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction inter-partes-review judicial-review nhk-fintiv-rule patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) categorically preclude appeal of all decisions not to institute inter partes review?
2. Is the NHK-Fintiv Rule substantive… |
| 21-203 |
John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the "savings clause" of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e).
2… |
| 21-194 |
California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (3) |
federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law |
The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act ("FA") expressly preempts state laws "related to a price, route, or service, of any motor carrie… |
| 21-5332 |
Efrain Hidalgo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitute… |
| 21-5345 |
Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Leonard Thurman filed suit against Respondent Medical Transportation Management, Inc. for failure to provide transportation, which is guara… |
| 21-5346 |
Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-5335 |
Omar Israel-Griffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-provisions contract-law cooperation criminal-procedure due-process federal-procurement government-contract government-discretion plea-agreement statutory-interpretation withdrawal |
When a defendant enters a plea agreement (guilty/nolo contendere), providing that the government is allowed to withdraw if the government believes the… |
| 21-5336 |
Theodore Howard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Theodore Howard/ was denied his United States Constitutional fourteenth/ and Sixth amendment due-process rights/ to fair notice of the … |
| 21-5314 |
Thomas Brantley Jenkins, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing district-court-review judicial-discretion motion-analysis primary-contentions sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation written-findings |
WHEN RULING ON A MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), DOES A DISTRICT COURT FULLY CONSIDER THE FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.… |
| 21-5326 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 attempted-crime attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a). |
| 21-5310 |
Marcus Daniel Silver v. Bertram Siegel, et al. |
California |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
30-day-rule civil-procedure federal-court-procedure filing-deadlines jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-removal receipt-of-complaint service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
I. NOTICE OF REMOVAL:
According to the plain language meaning of 28 U.S. Code §1446, the notice of
removal of a civil action or proceeding shall be fi… |
| 21-5311 |
Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5319 |
John Louis Devencenzi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation |
By its plain language, federal carjacking can be committed by "intimidation." 18 U.S.C. § 2119. This Court recognizes carjacking by intimidation is sa… |
| 21-5308 |
Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony |
1. Is PETITIDNER ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREM COURTS CLARIFYING
INTERPRETATION OF THE WITNESS INTIMIDATION
STATUTE, PA.C.S.A.S49… |
| 21-169 |
James Gatto, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-1843 criminal-law federal-statute incidental-harms jury-instructions property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-text united-states-v-kelly wire-fraud |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1343—the federal wire fraud statute—requires the Government to prove, consistent with section 1343's statutory text, that the "… |
| 21-170 |
Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness only if, under 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 2 (now subsection 112(b)) as construed by Nautilus,… |
| 21-171 |
Joel Zupnik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (21) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Since this Court's 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), federal courts have deferred… |
| 21-165 |
In Re Gracie E. McBroom |
|
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision in their agreem… |
| 21-5296 |
Patrick C. Lynn v. Debra Lundry |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-144 administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection physical-injury recusal reverse-error statutory-duty statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5299 |
John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing… |
| 21-5279 |
Ernest Francis v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-172 |
Melvin G. Perry v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C., dba North Central Baptist Hospital |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
|
circuit-conflict civil-rights contract-enforcement contract-rights contractual-relationships racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation third-party-interference |
Does section 1981 prohibit a third party from interfering, on the basis of race, with the right of an individual to make or enforce a contract? |
| 21-133 |
Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit, in a sharply divided en banc decision, erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that "intra-agency memorandum… |
| 21-134 |
Jesus Vasquez, Jr., et ux. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Trust F |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-code debtor-rights dewsnup-v-timm judicial-precedent lien lien-valuation secured-claim secured-claims statutory-interpretation unsecured-claim |
Section 506(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code states that "[a]n allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien * * * is a secured claim to the extent of the… |
| 21-126 |
Lucio A. Barroga v. Board of Administration of California Public Employees' Retirement System |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation |
A) DID the refusal or denial of the MEMORANDUM of Feb. 23, 2021 and the
ORDER of May 26, 2021 to interpret the issues of questions of laws, ISSUES I, … |
| 21-5266 |
Alla V. Stepanets v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1) Whether a defendant "dispenses" drugs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(l)(B) when they are shipped to a medical facility where a physician will write… |
| 21-5231 |
Shaun J. Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of… |
| 21-5248 |
Davion L. Jefferson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the
Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 21-5250 |
Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller |
Whether this Court should grant Certiorari because the Eighth Circuit opinion overlooked the binding precedent set forth in U.S. v. Miller when determ… |
| 21-5253 |
John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR… |
| 21-5264 |
In Re Melvin Dinkins |
|
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
What are the "usages and principles" of law, in this case 28 USC 3730 (b)(1) - when legislature proclaims "A person may bring a civil action for the p… |
| 21-124 |
Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation |
Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation. |
| 21-5234 |
Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5241 |
Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5221 |
Andre M. Adams v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding petition standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ |
Question not identified. |
| 21-102 |
Marcus Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-104 |
Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can there be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the protection… |
| 21-94 |
Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation |
The definition of "child" in Section 1101(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act includes "a child legitimated under the law of the child's [or … |
| 21-95 |
David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii |
Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui… |
| 21-91 |
Wesley Perkins v. Whitney Brewster, Executive Director, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelled-arbitration constitutional-challenge criminal-sanctions due-process pleading-standard standing statutory-challenge statutory-interpretation transportation-code vehicle-definition |
Statutory Challenge
1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional," as applied?
2. Are sanctions abusive?
Pleading standard
3. Was it abusive to orde… |
| 21-5173 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit Split and decide if a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U. S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper ex… |
| 21-5175 |
Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5179 |
Stanford R. Coleman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-avoidance court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-state-conflict judicial-review legal-interpretation standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court is required to consider the doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance in any case involving either validity or extension of Almendarez-T… |
| 21-5186 |
Mihran Melkonyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1.)
Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in
conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 21-5145 |
Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED.ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING AND/OR DECLINING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY UPON THE CONTENTION … |
| 21-5157 |
Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is the appeals court correct? Does 28 U.S.C. § 2106 or any federal statute authorize "a lesser included offense" of an unconstitutional statute, taken… |
| 21-5158 |
Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-82 |
Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department |
In enacting and amending the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Congress vested the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to administer, interpret, and en… |
| 21-83 |
William H. Sorkpor v. The Harlo Fenway |
First Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination minority-rights section-1982 spending-power statutory-interpretation title-viii |
Whether Congress intended the Fair Housing Act to be construed — technically and broadly —to ensure that the Title VIII protection of a minority home-… |
| 21-5144 |
Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015… |
| 21-5147 |
Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena |
held in United State v. Cardena 842 F.3d997 h Ci. 2016)
Soastomae ts Sections [a(), a), a(3 Seprate Crimes
with their Own elemerts?
#2: was the jury … |
| 21-5132 |
Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 21-5136 |
Ledaniel Vernell Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10-1-provision civil-rights drug-laws due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation markup-provision metric-calculation mixture-metric opportunity-gain sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5138 |
In Re Willie S. Smith |
|
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acquittal aedpa-review exceptional-circumstances finality-of-verdict habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review jury-verdict non-capital-case statutory-interpretation |
Whether transfer to the District Court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional non-capita… |
| 21-5114 |
Mario Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights |
Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da… |
| 21-5128 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud |
Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 21-5097 |
Johann Brito v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation |
A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-5112 |
David Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-5122 |
Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines where Mr. Velasquez-Can… |
| 21-5125 |
Reginald Lamont Thomas v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-consideration civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-council judicial-suspension retroactive-application sentencing-limits statutory-interpretation suspension time-limits |
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| 21-58 |
Sassine Razzouk v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA? |
| 21-5100 |
Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First Step Act § 404 relief from his mandatory life sentence under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), where the distr… |
| 21-5104 |
John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether "Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons" to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5105 |
Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999) that during a carjacking, a person's intent to seriously harm or ki… |
| 21-5107 |
Willie C. Walker v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
berkovitz-test civil-rights discretionary-function-exception due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judicial-review policy-considerations statutory-interpretation |
Exceptions pursuant to which the government is not subject to suit, even if a private employer could be liable under the same circumstances. These exc… |
| 21-5109 |
Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals was required to answer or resolve the legal questions presented to it, or if it may instead "overlook " or "evade " the … |
| 21-5077 |
Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5072 |
Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5057 |
Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Should this Court mend the circuit split about whether a Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent as the Ninth and eight other circuits have held, or … |
| 21-5060 |
Kevin Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr… |
| 21-5064 |
Brandi Channon and Matthew Channon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-981 criminal-forfeiture forfeiture in-personam in-personam-order joint-and-several-liability joint-liability money-judgment rewards-fraud statutory-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
1) Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit the entry of an in personam money judgment in lieu of tainted property?
2) Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit joint and several… |
| 21-5065 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry… |
| 21-5069 |
William Paul Burch v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process judicial-overreach jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
Is a Circuit court allowed to establish new precedence by disregarding and/or overruling twenty-four statutes written by the Congress of the United St… |
| 21-5043 |
Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh… |
| 21-5047 |
Michael Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-5026 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure procedural-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5028 |
David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 21-5030 |
Jonathan Mark Brinda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence sentencing sentencing-considerations statutory-considerations statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A. AFTER DETERMINING MR. BRINDA HAD VIOLATED THE TERMS OF HIS SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY SENTENCING MR. BRINDA EXCESSIVELY BASED … |
| 21-5011 |
Anthony Farmer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing among de… |
| 21-5013 |
Arnold Council v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law direct-liability elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as to either direct or accomplice l… |
| 21-5017 |
Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-7 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Leymis Carolina Velasquez, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
adjustment-of-status administrative-law admission-criteria immigration immigration-law lawful-permanent-resident permanent-residency statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether, under 8 U.S.C. 1254a(f)(4), a grant of temporary protected status must be treated as an admission into the United States for purposes of a fo… |
| 21-2 |
K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference chevron-deference erisa fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-benefits plan-termination statutory-interpretation |
Has the D.C. Circuit improperly extended Chevron deference to PBGC's construction of ambiguous statutory provisions in informal, non-binding adjudicat… |
| 21-5001 |
Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in Section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) amended by Public Act 91-404 that was declared unc… |
| 21-5008 |
Brittany Crownhart v. Anne Magill Collins |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-review property-rights search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8465 |
Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not… |
| 20-8469 |
Lamont Benedict Nelson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8452 |
Keith Lamar Lott, aka Kevin Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8460 |
Marcus Snipes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC… |
| 20-8448 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, … |
| 20-1809 |
VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two-st… |
| 20-1801 |
Darrel Mendez v. NRZ REO X LLC |
Arizona |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consumer-protection deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-waiver takings trustee-sale |
Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability? |
| 20-1803 |
Evelyn Sineneng-Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alien-status constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process first-amendment immigration-law standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Do the terms "encouraging" and "inducing" an alien to reside in the
United States, within the meaning of 8 U. S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), extend to t… |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied?
2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the
district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from
the Fourth Circu… |
| 20-8398 |
Jonathan Jerome Hills v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-justice criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion procedural-opportunity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether differences in procedural opportunity arising from the fact that a defendant is statutorily eligible for relief under the First Step Act, such… |
| 20-8402 |
Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi… |
| 20-1778 |
Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the "hazardou… |
| 20-1789 |
Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 |
Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar… |
| 20-1763 |
Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
Should disability-related interference claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 12203(b) be analyzed as retaliation claims susceptible to a burden-shift… |
| 20-8373 |
Kevin Herriott v. Associate Warden Ford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements legal-mail mail-room procedural-law standing state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS MISUNDERSTOOD THE GOVERNING RULE OF LAW THAT THE RIGHT TO DISCOVERY WAS PREDICATED UPON? |
| 20-8386 |
Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE … |
| 20-8349 |
Thomas Gordon v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8351 |
Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY REVERSED THE DISTRICT COURT ON THE ISSUE OF LAW OF WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD VALID SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDIC… |
| 20-8359 |
James Christopher Castle v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Relief is sought from void ab initio emergency judicial order which void issued are dedicated upon an operation by Eastern District of California Chie… |
| 20-8361 |
Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 1201 (the federal kidnapping statute) requires, as an element, a nexus between the kidnapping and interstate commerce, Does a purely local… |
| 20-8364 |
David Gilmartin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-sentencing earnings-definition economic-circumstances probation-conditions restitution restitution-order sentencing social-security social-security-benefits statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an increase in a defendant's monthly receipts and revenue from $0 (zero) at time of sentencing to $3000 after release from prison and award… |
| 20-8369 |
Clarence Clark v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c… |
| 20-8370 |
Loranzo Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of Borden v. United States, -- U.S. --, -- S. Ct. -, 2021 WL 2367312 (U.S. June 10, 2021), aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery by … |
| 20-8372 |
Martez Howard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 20-8346 |
Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191
(2019) — when it omitted the knowledge of immigration status… |
| 20-8325 |
Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8300 |
Lonnie Norton v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
(N) Do this Court's rulings in Apprend: v. New Jersey,530U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States 577 U.S.99 (2013) require that when a state stat… |
| 20-8310 |
Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 20-8320 |
James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Should the Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted for the lack of Jurisdiction? Suggested answer: Yes. Respondents |
| 20-8323 |
Clint Raymond Webb v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-created statutory-interpretation |
If a state creates a liberty interest by providing a procedural mechanism to enforce and ensure a defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial, … |
| 20-1726 |
Roy J. Meidinger v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure contract contractual-relationship federal-claims-court iRS-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-relief-and-healthcare-act-of-2006 tax-whistleblower whistleblower whistleblower-claims |
The questions presented for review, deal with aspects of a single subject matter reference, The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, Pub. L. 109 —4… |
| 20-1732 |
Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-8284 |
Harold Gashe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Is it fair and equal justice for defendants who present under that the previously harsh 924(c) stacking is an extraordinary and compelling reason dese… |
| 20-8295 |
Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-8296 |
Carrington Sturgis v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the memos of the remire were boad against apelent cut or Austaticr
Dathe court abue Hs discretion in 4ailing to addess apellants reguest to d… |
| 20-8304 |
Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as… |
| 20-8285 |
Enrique Hurtado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force statutory-interpretation |
L. By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The p… |
| 20-8286 |
Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent, where… |
| 20-8292 |
Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa |
Does the government have the authority to dictate sovereign particular state, federal trial will be prosecuted other than the state according to the D… |
| 20-8273 |
Roger G. Babcock v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion state-law statutory-interpretation |
My name is Roger G. Babcock, and, in 1997 a Florida jury found me guilty of the crime of sexual battery, a capital felony not punishable by death. At … |
| 20-8275 |
Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 20-8257 |
Oscar Daniel Rios Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16a bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law federal-statute legal-definition recklessness statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §16(a) includes offenses that may be committed by the reckless infliction of bodily injury? |
| 20-1697 |
Alice Kimble v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness |
1. Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted
willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had
knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR… |
| 20-1701 |
Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer |
The question presented in this appeal is whether
28 U.S.C. §1631 means what it says: that "when a
court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, th… |
| 20-1702 |
Jimmy Cobb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation |
1. Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and … |
| 20-1692 |
Henry Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution expert-testimony health-care-fraud healthcare-fraud medicaid medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation |
1.) Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies "controlling" in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347; i.e. is evidence of compliance o… |
| 20-8238 |
Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "con… |
| 20-8241 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
139 S.ct.2369 (2019) Abrogate crcnit precedest 1n U.5. v. Ward, 770 F.3d 1069 (4+h (i2.2014) Gupy +54 Supercised Belease under 18 USC Bevocation Procc… |
| 20-8232 |
Barbara A. Stuart Robinson v. Greater Lakes Recovery Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-ruling procedural-due-process res-judicata standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8201 |
Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation |
Does a "found in" violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, as the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have held, … |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8222 |
In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams |
|
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1680 |
ACI Information Group v. MidlevelU, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-infringement copyright-registration fair-use fraud implied-license internet-publication internet-publications statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
1. A party who uses a copyrightable work with the implied license of a copyright owner is not liable for infringement. Such a license can arise from i… |
| 20-1671 |
Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon, recently reaffirmed by this Court in Jam v. Int Fin. Corp., --- U.S. ---, 139 S. … |
| 20-8189 |
Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
| 20-8192 |
Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 20-8194 |
Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the BOP violate the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of a non… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8206 |
Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al… |
| 20-8186 |
Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
| 20-8190 |
Rickey Leon Scott v. California |
California |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Does Senate Bill 43, M37 likely conflicts with Article II of the Constitution?
2. May requiring Courts to overrule their odd. A MAIC preceded simp… |
| 20-8161 |
Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-8175 |
Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Honorable Court when the lower court… |
| 20-1653 |
Lazelle Maxwell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1650 |
Carlos Concepcion v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1651 |
Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu… |
| 20-8124 |
Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl… |
| 20-8138 |
Eddy Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
| 20-8100 |
Thomas McGill v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection-clause ex-post-facto-clause florida-department-of-corrections gain-time statutory-interpretation |
(A) Did the Florida Department of Corrections award Me. McGill approximately 4148 days of gainstime before changing their interpretation of s.944.275 … |
| 20-1625 |
David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute |
The case involves issues regarding two whistleblower statutes, one federal and a California whistleblower statute. The California whistleblower retali… |
| 20-1634 |
Nicole Johnson-Gellineau v. Stiene & Associates, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
15-usc-1692a(4) 15-usc-1692c(b) creditor creditor-definition debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act fiduciary fiduciary-duty litigation-communication statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a fiduciary that obtains a defaulted debt, and is owed the debt, may qualify as a person facilitating collection "for another" within the e… |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8094 |
Corey L. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-8071 |
Delson Marc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation |
In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov… |
| 20-8072 |
Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation |
1. The enticement of minors over the internet is criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The First Circuit upheld the § 2422(b) conviction below based… |
| 20-8074 |
Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns a methodological problem in applying the categorical approach. The categorical approach compares the elements of a state crime with… |
| 20-8077 |
Kavoris Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1617 |
Matthew Earley v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Can the "burden of proof" regarding inherency shift if the Court (US Court of Appeals / Federal Circuit) and Board (US Patent Trial and Appeal Board) … |
| 20-1620 |
Joy McShan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of
appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe… |
| 20-1593 |
Devon E. Sanders v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to two counts under federal statutes relating to possession of child pornography. One count charged knowing receipt of th… |
| 20-1594 |
Murray Rojas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
GVR |
Amici (1) |
criminal-statute drug-dispensing drug-regulation fdca federal-criminal-law federal-state-balance federalism lenity medical-practitioner statutory-interpretation young-v-united-states |
Whether the FDCA's felony prohibitions on "dispensing" drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local… |
| 20-8064 |
Derrick Grant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits assaulting any person "designated in section 1114 of this title." Section § 1114 designate… |
| 20-8066 |
James Hill v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
The federal government has committed petitioner James Hill to prison for a term of years based on testimony he briefly possessed a handgun on the fron… |
| 20-8039 |
Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the "relating to" language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8033 |
Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8034 |
George Poole v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8011 |
Troy Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 20-8016 |
Rico Blackwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel… |
| 20-8017 |
Subrina Brenham v. Joseph Kemp, et al. |
Texas |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
i.
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas case no. 20-0246 denial on November 13,
2020 of my (1) right to a rehearing and the (2) Supreme Court failure to… |
| 20-8019 |
Roberto Torner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline
purposes. |
| 20-8020 |
Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) |
I
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies
to the determination of a "controlled substance offense"
under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)?
II
Whe… |
| 20-7972 |
Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 20-7987 |
Gregory K. Clinton v. Cheryl Dean Riley |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law endangered-species-act environmental-law national-environmental-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7991 |
Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-7969 |
Refugio Agustin-Pineda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a "notice to appear" that fails to specify the hearing's time … |
| 20-7958 |
Anderson Jean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-7961 |
Antonio Olmeda v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Judgment and Conviction oh two counts,
§ 2K2.1.(a)., for unlawful "receipt", of a firearm and "Possession"
of that firearm is multiplicitou… |
| 20-7956 |
Bryan Montalvo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure? |
| 20-1552 |
Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing |
1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that
respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel
petitioner's trademark registration even … |
| 20-7946 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits |
The First Circuit held that Fed. R. App P. 4la) is jurisdictronal under Bowles v.Russell, 551 4.s. 205, 214(2007),
and dismissed Ms. Birons 2255-proce… |
| 20-7948 |
Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7950 |
Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-7943 |
Tyquez Ursery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-gloss violent-felony |
1. Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burgl… |
| 20-1545 |
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation |
This Court's precedent in Markman requires that the construction of a patent "is exclusively within the province of the court." Markman v. Westview In… |
| 20-1532 |
Diana Garvey v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference agency-regulation chevron-deference judicial-review plain-meaning statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits willful-misconduct |
Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842 (1984), held, the first question when interpreting a statute is "whether Congr… |
| 20-1535 |
Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson |
First Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act |
1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
| 20-1537 |
Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Truth-in-Lending-Act, passed by Congress into law, to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts. |
| 20-7909 |
Juan Pablo Price v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense, such that the government must prove both that the def… |
| 20-7901 |
Chalin Merrihew v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-1522 |
United States v. Malik Nasir |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-7887 |
Ronnie Spells v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… |
| 20-7891 |
Hasan Shareef v. Butler County Public Newspaper, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
US. M& (y i |
| 20-7863 |
Martin G. Lewis v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 burrage-v-united-states detention-legality habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-bar retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government should be foreclosed from relying on prior litigation that it concedes incorrectly invoked a procedural bar to review on the me… |
| 20-1502 |
Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law |
1. Is 49 US.C. § 44092(b) inapplicable to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 cases?
2. Should the "cat's paw" analysis of Staub v. Proctor Hosp., 562 U.S. 411 (2011) b… |
| 20-1499 |
American Civil Liberties Union v. United States |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (3) |
article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation |
Congress created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC") in 1978 to oversee electronic surveillance conducted for foreign intelligence pu… |
| 20-7853 |
Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
But for the errors of the trial court which allowed modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements, defendant would not have… |
| 20-7855 |
James Ayers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7860 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation |
Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v… |
| 20-7866 |
Paul Demetrius Lamar Gray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause physical-force pinkerton-conspiracy pinkerton-liability postal-robbery residual-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Before United States U. Johnson, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), the federal courts routinely relied on the residual clause to hold that convictions sustained un… |
| 20-7841 |
Sylvia J. Manor v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation date-of-accrual insurance-law legal-interpretation life-insurance statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
The Defendant, (Respondent), life insurance company maintains that they are free
to choose a Date Of Accrual which is in flagrant violation of the con… |
| 20-7845 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states |
1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the… |
| 20-7829 |
Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7832 |
Chadwick Marvin Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
What qualifies as 'extraordinary and compelling circumstances under a Motion for Compassionate release, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)?
(2) Does the lower c… |
| 20-1480 |
George P. Naum, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (6) |
21-cfr-1306-04 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice opioid-prescription professional-standards statutory-interpretation united-states-v-moore |
Can the elements of 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(l) as defined in United States v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975) requiring the Government to prove unlawful distribu… |
| 20-1479 |
Eddie Houston, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-21 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion reduced-sentence retroactive-sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sente… |
| 20-1467 |
Michael Varco v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights crime-victims-rights crime-victims-rights-act dc-code district-court due-process federal-law metropolitan-police-department mpd standing statutory-interpretation victims-rights |
1. Whether a person harmed by a D.C. Code offense, who qualifies as a "crime victim" under 18 U.S.C. § 3771(e)(2)(A), may assert rights under subsecti… |
| 20-1468 |
Robert David Dupuch-Carron, et ux. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
|
compensation compensation-eligibility foreign-vaccination residency-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vaccine-act vaccine-injury |
1. Does the ordinary meaning of the words of section 11(c)(1)(B)(i)(III) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the NCVIA or "Vaccine Act"), 42… |
| 20-7792 |
Ralph Stephen Gambina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7802 |
Michael Green v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there exist a Fivadde mee fe (
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| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 20-1453 |
Cal Cartage Transportation Express, LLC, et al. v. California, et al. |
California |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
commercial-ramifications federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-statute independent-contractor independent-contractors motor-carrier preemption pricing-regulation statutory-interpretation worker-classification |
Does the Federal Aviation Administration
Authorization Act, which expressly preempts state
laws "related to a price, route, or service of any motor
ca… |
| 20-1454 |
Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1455 |
Deborah Cheng v. Mary Raleigh, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2016-obama's-snt-law 21st-century-cures-act congressional-intent healthcare-law implementation-scope planned-national-implementation probate-exception special-needs-trust statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Congress intend the probate exception to include the 2016 Obama's SNT law in the 21st Century Cures Act?
2. What is the scope of the probate e… |
| 20-1459 |
United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(¢)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 20-7778 |
Gerald Scott v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7785 |
Kevino Graham v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
(A.) "WHETHER PETITIONER GRAHAM WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO CHALLENGE; "WHETHER 18 … |
| 20-7737 |
Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-7742 |
Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7749 |
Eric Kamahele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property reckless reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation |
1. Model jury instructions define Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, to include takings caused by fear of future economic harm to "intangible proper… |
| 20-7761 |
Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a
defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant
knew his status P… |
| 20-7765 |
Jared Andrew Martin v. California |
California |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7730 |
Fendi Brooks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointments-clause attorney-general constitutional-law constitutional-violation federal-vacancies-reform-act prejudice standing statutory-interpretation structural-violation |
When colorably alleging a structural, constitutional violation, specifically, that an individual illegally exercised the powers of the office of the A… |
| 20-1424 |
ACE American Insurance Company, et al. v. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
conditional-payment double-damages eleventh-circuit federal-election-commission lexmark-international liability-allocation medicare-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer policy-considerations statutory-interpretation statutory-standing |
When Medicare has made a conditional payment for healthcare services on behalf of a Medicare beneficiary, 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)(3)(A) provides a cause … |
| 20-1429 |
Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration |
The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S… |
| 20-1432 |
United States v. Maine Community Health Options, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
|
affordable-care-act appropriations cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reductions government-liability implied-damages implied-right-of-action premium-tax-credits statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Congress intended to afford insurers an implied money damages remedy as compensation for CSR pay… |
| 20-1425 |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. v. Allen Miller |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights common-law-negligence due-process federal-preemption motor-carrier safety-regulation statutory-interpretation transportation transportation-law |
The question presented is whether a common-law negligence claim against a freight broker is preempted because it does not constitute an exercise of th… |
| 20-1427 |
Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Congress has made it a crime to engage in certain sexual acts with detainees who are "pending deportation." 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(… |
| 20-7707 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. LEDFORD'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENTS DUE TO THE APPELLATE WAIVER LANGUAGE OF THE PLEA A… |
| 20-7726 |
James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7701 |
Samuel Alex Gann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass |
An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-1421 |
Paul Ballerstein, et ux. v. Penelope McHatten, et al. |
Maine |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-bias property property-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
In this civil case, Maine courts deprived the defendants of their property, after concluding that the facts "foreclose " doing so. The trial court fou… |
| 20-7678 |
Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause |
Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 20-7694 |
Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri… |
| 20-7695 |
Gregory D. Jones v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7680 |
Jonathan Beasley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec… |
| 20-1410 |
Xiulu Ruan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (5) |
controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
A physician otherwise authorized to prescribe controlled substances may be convicted of unlawful distribution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) if his presc… |
| 20-7670 |
Faizah Dean v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
California |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-employment-action civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process labor-discrimination prima-facie-case procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Question One: In Franco v. MV Transportation, Inc., 2019 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 120 the panel held that injured workers may make a prima facie sho… |
| 20-7671 |
Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p… |
| 20-7659 |
Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act civil-detention criminal-defendant homeland-security pretrial-release statutory-interpretation statutory-time-period |
Whether section 3142 (d)(2) of the Bail Reform Act (BRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq. prevents the United States Department of Homeland Security from civ… |
| 20-7660 |
In Re Justin Paul Sulzner |
|
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used "special care" when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S… |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 20-1385 |
Tarek Obaid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation |
Does the Due Process Clause, as construed by Shaffer v. Heitner, require application of the "minimum contacts" test to true in rem proceedings?; and
… |
| 20-1382 |
Emanuel Gettinger, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code for-value good-faith good-faith-transfer ponzi-scheme securities-investor-protection-act sipa-liquidation statutory-interpretation transfer-avoidance value-transfer |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions operate differently in the context of a SIPA liquidation proceeding, notwithstanding that a transfe… |
| 20-7625 |
James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-error prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation property-exemption standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Did the District Court error by ignoring Oregon's Wildcard Exemption Rule announced in ORS 18.345(l)(o)(2011) and in Schlunt v. Nooth, 261 Or. App. 86… |
| 20-7609 |
Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, "the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7617 |
Willie Lee Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
One: Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for "felony drug offense" to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, al… |
| 20-1370 |
Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concealment-money-laundering criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-money-judgment honeycutt-limitation honeycutt-v-united-states mirror-image-transactions money-laundering no-loss-to-bank return-of-tainted-property statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property |
Whether a criminal defendant's legitimate, untainted property is subject to an extra-statutory forfeiture money judgment or substitute property forfei… |
| 20-1373 |
Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl… |
| 20-1368 |
Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. §2675(a), is the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative cl… |
| 20-7610 |
Jose Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) because… |
| 20-7590 |
Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7593 |
Fernando Clarke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute |
Fernando Clarke was charged with, inter alia, two counts of transporting child pornography. At trial, the government witnesses testified that Mr. Clar… |
| 20-7594 |
Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7570 |
David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment |
When a Court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat… |
| 20-1357 |
Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
|
ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff asserting a failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), must show that t… |
| 20-1354 |
City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation |
1. Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of "effect of prohibiting" in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting sta… |
| 20-7548 |
David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1337 |
APC Investment Co., et al. v. Howmet Aerospace Inc., fka Arconic, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cercla civil-procedure common-law contribution contribution-claim environmental-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation superfund |
Is the statutory claim for contribution in section 113 of CERCLA, including the statute of limitations found in section 113(g)(3), governed exclusivel… |
| 20-1325 |
Wesley Perkins v. John Lipscombe, Judge, County Court at Law No. 3, Travis County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration consent-doctrine due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation transportation-code |
Statutory Challenge
1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional, " as
applied? /
Pleading standard
2. Was dismissal abusive?
Compelled Arbitration
… |
| 20-7533 |
Preston James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7502 |
Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1301 |
Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief |
1.
Whether, and to what extent, United States v. Morgan, 346 U.S. 502 (1954) fashioned the writ of coram nobis to incorporate the former federal equit… |
| 20-1309 |
Corcamore, LLC v. SFM, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process lanham-act lexmark-test standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-trial-and-appeal-board |
1st Question.
Whether this Court's Lexmark test is the sole
determinant of the statutory power of the Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board to adjudicat… |
| 20-1312 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
health-and-human-services hospital-adjustment low-income-patients medicaid-fraction medicare-fraction medicare-statute statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income |
Whether the Secretary has permissibly included in a hospital's Medicare fraction all of the hospital's patient days of individuals who satisfy the req… |
| 20-7486 |
Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeals can, and should, order an indictment that omits an element of the crime dismissed as part of the appellate remedy given the… |
| 20-7488 |
William Douglas Hampton v. Mark Williams, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-fraud free-speech plea-agreement standing statutory-interpretation |
1) DOES 28 UNITED STATES CODE SERUICE $2LHI's.
SPECIFIC WORDING PERMIT THE JUDICIAL SUBMISSION AND CONSIDERATION
OFA HABEAS CORPUS IFTHE STATUTE'S SUB… |
| 20-7496 |
Maurice Spriggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7497 |
Kevin Reid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage |
1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at… |
| 20-7501 |
Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to… |
| 20-7507 |
Christopher Faella v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver |
Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence -- unless it exceeds the statutory maximum penalty or violated … |
| 20-7471 |
Christian Joseph Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation |
-Can the Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's application for Certificate of Appedlability ("coA") withoct any analysis of whether the District Courts d… |
| 20-7477 |
Hakimah Jabbar v. James L. Graham, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-law circuit-conflict conflict-of-laws due-process fiduciary-duty forfeited-property property-law statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary trust-law |
1) The U.S Court of Appeals 6th Cir. Affirming of District Court decision directly conflicts
with the Appeals Court 's opinion, In re Adams, 302 B.R.… |
| 20-1292 |
Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation |
Congress in 2008 amended the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, expanding some key sections and admonishing courts to const… |
| 20-1295 |
United States v. Timothy Zachary Green |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-1288 |
Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-violations third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (hereinafter "AOPC"), wh… |
| 20-7465 |
Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The District Court Judge sentenced the Petitioner to life in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine , 21 U.S.C. Sect. 841(a)(… |
| 20-7447 |
Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause |
Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7453 |
Douglas D. Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7454 |
Delwyn Manuel v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
WHETHER PETTTIONER IS ENTTTEO TO bE RESENTENED
TO 30 YEARS
The MAximum PoNishmeNT Allowed
STATUTE
794.011 PRIOR TO ThE NEW
UNDER
The
PROJISION ANd PEN… |
| 20-1278 |
Johlen Johnson, et ux. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Arizona |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights severability statutory-interpretation takings |
Does the prevailing Opinions of the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme produce a constitutional violation, and therefore provide this Court with good cause … |
| 20-1271 |
Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive? |
| 20-7445 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7408 |
Trystan Keun Napper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden… |
| 20-7417 |
Allen Pace, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7420 |
Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving time-credits toward the service of his sentence, when said credits are mandated by statute and … |
| 20-7427 |
Leefatinie Tirosh Cole v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
34-U.S.C.-§-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
Whether this Court should revisit nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 20-7430 |
Carlos Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 categorically qualifies as a predicate "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)… |
| 20-1261 |
Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-1263 |
Gianinna Gallardo, an Incapacitated Person, By and Through Her Parents and Co-Guardians Pilar Vassallo and Walter Gallardo v. Simone Marstiller, In Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
beneficiary-rights federal-statute future-medical-expenses healthcare-reimbursement medicaid-act medicaid-recovery medical-expenses preemption reimbursement statutory-interpretation tort-recovery tort-settlement |
Whether the federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid's payment of a beneficiary's past medical… |
| 20-1253 |
Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
|
chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1
DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPRME COURT BREAK STATE LAW
WHEN IT WOULD NOT APPLY THE MANDATORY
LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE WORD OF SHALL IN
MISSISSIPPI CO… |
| 20-7402 |
Sylas Glenn Brownridge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7412 |
Anthony W. Gardner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7413 |
Zelos Fields v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951
is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18
U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 20-7382 |
Calvin Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 20-7383 |
Jorge Zamora-Suarez, aka Pedro Moncada v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7386 |
Andrew Chapnick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7387 |
Vaughn Lewis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp… |
| 20-7393 |
Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7394 |
Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho… |
| 20-1241 |
Michael Paul Miselis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment.
2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-1229 |
James W. Robertson, Sr. v. Intratek Computer, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
administrative-scheme arbitration-enforcement employment-rights federal-contract government-subcontractor mandatory-arbitration non-waiver-provision statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Under 41 U.S.C. § 4712, employees of government
subcontractors may not be retaliated against for reporting
violations of laws, rules, or regulations… |
| 20-7359 |
Karen Gagarin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 20-7360 |
Emmanuel Feaster v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate… |
| 20-7370 |
Avery Bradford v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7333 |
Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017)(en banc),… |
| 20-7345 |
Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation |
I) Whether Trial counsel's failune to inwestigate interview, or loss-examine thealleged Victims, Pretrial, Whenshe was inossession of a resantationtaf… |
| 20-7277 |
Niles O'Neil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to $ U.S. Sentencing… |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the … |
| 20-1222 |
Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
1. Does a "comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right " under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 e… |
| 20-1209 |
In Re Raymond L. Rogers |
|
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. … |
| 20-7294 |
James Peter Sabatino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL AS MOOT, IN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUBSEQUENT RULING REAUTHOR… |
| 20-7299 |
Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con… |
| 20-7305 |
Larry Daniel Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation |
1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in… |
| 20-7280 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether a federal court analyzing a prior state-court conviction to determine whether the offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed C… |
| 20-7282 |
Earl Malloy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7284 |
Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7285 |
Cedric Durand Collins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7286 |
Kashus Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7287 |
Viguens Cius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1200 |
Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation |
May the United States invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Aff… |
| 20-1205 |
Gazelle Craig v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation |
When Dr. Craig wrote a prescription for a controlled substance that was not medically necessary, did her conduct constitute "dispensing," "distributin… |
| 20-1178 |
Pacific Choice Seafood Company, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference commerce-secretary fishery-management quota-limits quota-shares statutory-interpretation |
The Ninth Circuit below applied deference under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), to a statutory … |
| 20-7243 |
David Linehan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… |
| 20-7244 |
Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a "crime of violence" within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(a). |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7253 |
Nancy Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 20-7235 |
Michael Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 20-7237 |
Clyde E. Bradley v. Teri Kennedy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus petition pro-se rebuttal statutory-interpretation |
I.) WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PRO SE PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WITHOUT PERMITTING THE PETITIONER A FAIR OPPORTUN… |
| 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… |
| 20-7213 |
Nathan Ray Dent v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924… |
| 20-7215 |
Sunni Askari Newell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS MISCONSTRUED
U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER
CIRCUIT, RESULTING IN DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF
FIREARMS … |
| 20-7217 |
Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine |
1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7218 |
Crystal Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-856 congressional-intent double-counting drug-involved-premise drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act precedent sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress intended The Fair Sentencing Act to more severely punish persons sentenced under 21 U.S.C. §856 in what is a departure from over 20 y… |
| 20-7223 |
Angelo C. Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence davis-precedent federal-criminal-law force-and-violence intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-1162 |
Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua… |
| 20-1142 |
Atlantic Richfield Company v. Asarco LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
bankruptcy cercla contribution contribution-claim environmental-liability judicial-settlement liability response-action settlement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a judicially approved settlement that conclusively determines a party's obligation to perform response actions "resolves its liability" for "s… |
| 20-1144 |
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. 1447(d), courts of appeals generally may not review orders remanding removed cases to state court. But Section 1447(d) also states tha… |
| 20-1148 |
Robert M. Sellers v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights claim-scope disability-compensation due-process pro-veteran-canon service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
When a veteran has submitted an application for disability benefits, does the veteran's claim encompass all reasonably identifiable conditions within … |
| 20-7204 |
Shane Faithful v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |
| 20-7207 |
Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing |
1. Did the district court err when it failed to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act ("STA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 3161-3174, when the trial did … |
| 20-7181 |
Quincy O'Neill Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm firearm-possession government-burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dye united-states-v-frady |
The Statute 18 U.S.C.924 (c)(1)(A) which states:
Except to the extent that'a -greater minimumsentence is otherwise
provided by this subsection or by… |
| 20-7167 |
Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-1124 |
Michael Don Leatherwood v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
|
affidavit criminal-procedure due-process fair-warning ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion probation probation-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Was Petitioner subject to the release conditions of probation while he was in prison?
Does the statute which defines probation as "a procedure by whi… |
| 20-1131 |
James C. Dimora v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a McDonnell error—i.e., defining the element of "official act" overbroadly in bribery counts and thereby enabling a jury to wrongly conclude t… |
| 20-1122 |
Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L, providing enhanced penalties for different types of firearms, is unconstitutionally va… |
| 20-7123 |
Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. When was my conviction final?
2. When did the limitations period under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1)(D) actually start?
3. Did the Caddo County District C… |
| 20-7150 |
Creadell Hubbard v. Charles Ratledge, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7155 |
James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation |
Does the Petitioner have the right to Due Process Equal Law lanse And Jury Trial as guarecd the Cthaudrth b Vou.d Count abuse ifs dxenetod or Sensiaic… |
| 20-7159 |
Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether oa not the lower Covrts' "decision"to "timebar Petitioner' Claims of "Statutory tolling" was in "conflict" with Btatutory Congressional ist… |
| 20-7138 |
Patrick Begay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist… |
| 20-7140 |
Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry |
18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prohibits individuals falling into particular status categories from possessing firearms or ammunition. Rehaif v. United States, 58… |
| 20-7144 |
Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue |
New York |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation |
Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
1. The petitioner does not owe the statement an… |
| 20-7146 |
Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits. |
| 20-1114 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law chevron-deference healthcare-regulation hospital-acquisition-cost medicare medicare-reimbursement reimbursement-rates statutory-interpretation survey-data |
Under federal law, the reimbursement rate paid by Medicare for specified covered outpatient drugs is set based on one of two alternative payment metho… |
| 20-1116 |
Anthony Seward v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction |
A registered sex offender who changes residence from one state to another must register in the new state within three business days of arrival. 34 U.S… |
| 20-1113 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic… |
| 20-1092 |
Brandon Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 514(a) prohibits the use of "any false or fictitious instrument, document, or other item appearing, representing, purporting, or contrivin… |
| 20-1090 |
Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Ci… |
| 20-7101 |
Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Is a conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) if, acco… |
| 20-7107 |
Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
1. Whether NELSON V. COLORADO 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that ha… |
| 20-7069 |
Martell Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7087 |
Brian James Holland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility |
i) What is the definition of the term force Under Statute 18. USCS. 2241? What is the proper Criminal law and procedure used to determine sufficient e… |
| 20-1077 |
Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka |
First Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption
for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate
commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli… |
| 20-7067 |
Wilma Pennington-Thurman v. Sansone Group DDR LLC |
Missouri |
2021-02-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction state-courts state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971 stated: "In the event of conflicting proceedings during the interim, federal jurisdiction prevails over st… |
| 20-7068 |
Jerry Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District
Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und… |
| 20-7024 |
Randy Macario Ancheta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing due-process hobbs-act mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent force. Hobs Act robbery's p… |
| 20-7041 |
Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7043 |
Kevin Hall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-decision criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dominguez |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under United States v. Dominguez, 954 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2020… |
| 20-7021 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons |
Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-7016 |
Andrew David Bruins, II v. Michele Whitman, Associate Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-provisions civil-procedure civil-rights court-proceeding due-process mandate relief remedies standing statutory-interpretation undue-burden |
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remedies of a Pubhc mfresflI- The
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| 20-6996 |
Delroy T. Booth v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law disability due-process judicial-review legal-precedent social-security standing statutory-interpretation |
Did that Defendant's criminal Trial Violate the Confrontation Clause when a Court Reporter Reading the out-of-court Certified Social Security letter D… |
| 20-6964 |
Dallas Ray Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-6967 |
Justin Loper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE
APPEAL WHERE THE CONVICTION AND SENTENCE WERE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IS NOT A… |
| 20-6977 |
Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6978 |
Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-1017 |
Lawrence Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-1031 |
Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) Filing Deadline jurisdictional (such that it is not subject to equitable tolling) under current … |
| 20-1010 |
Ded Rranxburgaj v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law agency-discretion immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6962 |
Misael Herrera-Fuentes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did n… |
| 20-6955 |
Theresa Skillings v. City of New York, New York |
New York |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act child-services civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law immigration-law social-services-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the respondent, in denying the petitioner's request for services by occupation at the petitioner's home in accordance with New York State Law,… |
| 20-6930 |
Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6932 |
Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6938 |
Muhammad E. Milhouse v. Camba Inc. Staff Members, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-statute freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6946 |
Barry Cashin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-6948 |
Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6949 |
Neally Cunningham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 20-1000 |
Monico Dominguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 20-986 |
Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretatio… |
| 20-987 |
Spielbauer Law Office v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. |
California |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
|
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process entry-of-judgment judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
1. If a statute appears to reasonably permit the
filing of a notice of appeal upon entry of order or
entry of judgment, is it a denial of due process … |
| 20-979 |
Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a non-discretionary determination that a noncitizen is i… |
| 20-962 |
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-21 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-procedure administrative-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment public-charge standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility contained in 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)(A), and which seek to expand ben… |
| 20-967 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "Notice to Appear" that did not tell Mr. Rodri… |
| 20-6897 |
In Re Lee Charles Bradford |
|
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ABDICATE ITS CLEAR LEGAL DUTY TO EXERCISE ANCILLARY JURISDICTION OVER CLAIMS OF FRAUD ON THE COURT, ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 20-6909 |
Brian Gale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
"WHETHER HOBBS ACT ROBBERY QUALIFIES AS A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE"?, WHERE THE DISTRICT
COURT FAILED TO ADVANCE ANY THEORY (i.e. "residual clause, force c… |
| 20-6910 |
El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6876 |
Leon Tollette v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d) eleventh-circuit federal-habeas-review harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Whether, on federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), a federal court may refuse to "look through" to the last reasoned state court decision, a… |
| 20-6878 |
Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6882 |
Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-courts injunctive-relief jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
1. How did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit make its decision on injunctive reliefs in conflict with not only the U.S. Supreme… |
| 20-6888 |
Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-949 |
Angelica Christina Limcaco v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-455 court-impartiality court-payments extrajudicial-source judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics liljeberg-v-health-services liteky-v-us procedural-standards statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is whether the language "might reasonably be questioned" under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) can be judicially restricted to require… |
| 20-959 |
Angela Thigpen v. Board of Trustees of the Local 807 Labor-Management Pension Fund |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6865 |
William Rouser v. Unknown |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6867 |
Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense. |
| 20-6840 |
Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of "intimidation" of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), when the offense does n… |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6788 |
Brian Gene McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) prohibits the use of a firearm during and in relation to a federal "crime of violence." "Crime of violence" is defined in § 9… |
| 20-6807 |
Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 |
1. Whether sentencing courts are required by Title 18, United States Code section 3553(a)(6) and Supreme Court precedent interpreting unambiguous stat… |
| 20-6809 |
Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 20-915 |
Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-procedure circuit-court-precedent civil-procedure copyright-law copyright-office copyright-registration ninth-circuit publication-standard registration-requirements standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in breaking with its own prior precedent and the findings of other circuits and the Copyright Office in holding that 17 U… |
| 20-895 |
Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-01-07 |
Denied |
|
actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur |
1. Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy.
2. W… |
| 20-900 |
Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-880 |
Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax tax-assessment |
1. Is the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act available to debtors who want to avoid paying a tax for reasons unrelated to th… |
| 20-884 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447d appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-issue remand-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-6759 |
Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum |
Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t… |
| 20-6761 |
Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 20-6730 |
Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan… |
| 20-6736 |
Salvador Diaz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to remedy the District Court's improper venue selection conflicts with this Court's decisions in Nichols v. U… |
| 20-6738 |
Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us… |
| 20-6739 |
Larun E. Miller v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6742 |
Edward Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis violent-crime |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-6743 |
Neil Dussard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6744 |
Sinclair Ellis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Where as the District Court has 30 days on the Speedy Trial Clock to make a ruling on a pre-trial motion under §3161 (H)(l)(J). If the Distrcit Court … |
| 20-871 |
In Re Bryant Moore |
|
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 2… |
| 20-862 |
Hui Feng, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antifraud-provisions broker-registration capital-raising investment-advisers-act-of-1940 sec-authority secondary-market secondary-market-transactions securities-act securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented are:
1. Whether the SEC exceeded its statutory authority under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which regulates secondary… |
| 20-6732 |
Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand. |
| 20-6713 |
Danielle Devona Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation |
IS THERE AN ACKNOWLEDGED CONFLICT AMONG THE SISTER CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER SECTION 924(c) CRIMINALIZES TWO SEPARATE OFFENSES (1) "CARRY OR USE" A FIREA… |
| 20-6715 |
Michael Adair Mankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6722 |
Eddie A. Poindexter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6710 |
Marlon Iron Crow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "reckless" mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for "malice aforethought" for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1. |
| 20-852 |
Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act ("… |
| 20-6689 |
Matthew J. Kwong v. Cheswold (TL), LLC, et al. |
Connecticut |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-principles due-process foreclosure judicial-order legal-precedent property-rights republic-design statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Connecticut Superior Court's Order of Judgment of Foreclosure by Sale on September 14, 2018 in favor of the respondent against the petitio… |
| 20-6699 |
Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6694 |
Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6671 |
Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d… |
| 20-818 |
Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim |
Airbnb —a prominent tech company —did not report to the defendant IRS its 2017 payments of $4 billion to its USA hosts, and I informed the IRS Whistle… |
| 20-6640 |
James David Perryman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-6641 |
Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce claus… |
| 20-6578 |
Rickey White v. Gary L. Lumpkin, Presiding Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-6622 |
Devon Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-robbery bank-robbery crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in implicitly holding that Bank Robbe… |
| 20-6635 |
Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. |
Nebraska |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review |
1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ANDREW R. JACOBSEN ERROR, In denying the Petitioner's
Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §… |
| 20-807 |
Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Two questions are presented:
1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train … |
| 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… |
| 20-6606 |
Paul W. Miller v. B. Von Blankensee |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process remedies standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Can Congress Statutorily limit the Subject-matter Jurisdiction of Courts Created by Act of Congress?
II. Is there a limitation of time based on pr… |
| 20-6609 |
Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-794 |
Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split district-court-discretion evidence-gathering foreign-tribunal international-arbitration international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation tribunal-definition |
Whether the discretion granted to district courts in 28 U.S.C. §1782(a) to render assistance in gathering evidence for use in "a foreign or internatio… |
| 20-795 |
New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne JAG funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements? |
| 20-796 |
City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
In 2006, Congress enacted the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant ("Byrne JAG") statute, requiring the Department of Justice to provide gra… |
| 20-6594 |
Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines |
WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E… |
| 20-6596 |
Kevin S. Abney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 20-6601 |
Savannah Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits th… |
| 20-6582 |
Curtis Ward v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery force-clause mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation . . . or . . . by extortion."… |
| 20-6552 |
Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6556 |
Harvey Bass v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED BASS' SENTENCE WHERE BASS' SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE IN LIGHT OF THE S… |
| 20-6561 |
Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT INVITED ERROR RESULTING IN FUNDAMENTAL PLEADING DEFECT BY PERMITTING "INCORPORATED GROUNDS " NOT EXPLAINED IN THE PETITION … |
| 20-6565 |
Simon Quinn v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-investigation criminal-procedure homicide-investigation obstruction-of-justice reasonable-doubt specific-intent statutory-interpretation underlying-conviction |
Reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Quinn is guilty of the offense … |
| 20-6566 |
Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6571 |
Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits where his misclassification as a career of… |
| 20-782 |
Raymond Holloway, Jr. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process firearms-prohibition gun-ownership individual-liberty misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does a lifetime firearms prohibition based on a nonviolent misdemeanor conviction violate the Second Amendment? |
| 20-783 |
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 20-6541 |
Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6549 |
Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler |
COUNSEL ON AN INITIAL STATE POST-CONVICTION HABEAS CORPUS APPLICATION, CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT OF MARTINEZ v. RYAN, 56… |
| 20-6555 |
Solomon Manamela v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-uscs-1347 18-uscs-24(b) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care-fraud jurisdiction pennsylvania-public-welfare-code standing state-created-danger statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether affirmative evidence exists to establish Congress' intention
under 18 USCS §24(b) to find City of Philadelphia-contracted non
medical fami… |
| 20-6539 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6521 |
Hector Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6529 |
Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met… |
| 20-6508 |
Jesse Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-758 |
Audie Jay Reynolds v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Arizona |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights severability statutory-interpretation takings |
Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability? |
| 20-753 |
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect… |
| 20-754 |
Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification-to-state-court civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction estate-administration federal-court independent-cause-of-action legal-certification maladministration state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Title 14 Vermont Statutes Annotated Section 1208 provide for an independent cause of action for maladministration of an estate, which can be b… |
| 20-6469 |
Hector Valentine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's Erred
in not addressingconduct has been
rendered non-criminal byanintervening
Whether the Third Cirauit's Erred
in not ad… |
| 20-6482 |
Derrick Moffite v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
WheTher itis a violaTion of due process
where The evidence is insufficient To Support The jury
Verdict of a greater offense; here
AggravaTed AssaulT,
… |
| 20-6485 |
Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken
baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co… |
| 20-6486 |
Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
When determining whether a defendant's substantial rights were affected by an indictment and jury instructions that omitted an essential element of a … |
| 20-6492 |
Calvin James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-6476 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim |
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's dismissal of petitioner's claim of "tortious interferenc… |
| 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… |
| 20-6459 |
David Lee Garrett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony |
I. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)?
II. Whether the Texas offense of burglary cons… |
| 20-6462 |
Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notic… |
| 20-6463 |
Alex Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6464 |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to … |
| 20-737 |
B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In an inter partes review proceeding under 35 U.S.C. § 311(b), does the Board have authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness th… |
| 20-723 |
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency v. Susan Allan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system civil-procedure federal-regulation number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the definition of ATDS in the TCPA encompasses any device that can "store" and "automatically dial" telephone numbers, even if the device does… |
| 20-728 |
adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
|
5-usc-7513 administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers severance statutory-interpretation us-patent-and-trademark-office |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-731 |
Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and … |
| 20-6436 |
Daniel Lovato v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Wh… |
| 20-6447 |
Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by inti midation . . . or . . . by extortion.… |
| 20-6458 |
Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "statute of conviction" must be used for an ACC A predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment in… |
| 20-6412 |
Robert St. Hilaire v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit, which noted it was deepening a split over the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B), properly construed that Guideline's 4-… |
| 20-6414 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
In an 18 U.S.C. § 113 prosecution, does the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they "work at a United States prison" contravene… |
| 20-6420 |
Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6424 |
Deloyd Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an "enterprise" under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared… |
| 20-6427 |
Marquis Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(… |
| 20-714 |
Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States that there exists no statutory authority for … |
| 20-6404 |
Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6405 |
Joshua Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc… |
| 20-6392 |
Peter Gakuba v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
AS A MATTER OF LAW, GAKUBA IS EHTITLED TO EQUITABLE RELIEF PER 18 USE S27IO(E+ SC8) COHBISTEMT W
LIKEWISE THE SAME EOURABLE REUEF 1S DOUBLY AFFORDED … |
| 20-6399 |
Duwayne Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) |
Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6388 |
Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6351 |
Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation |
Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the Sixth Circuit and the Distri… |
| 20-6359 |
Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 20-6362 |
Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict… |
| 20-6363 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … |
| 20-681 |
Daniel E. Larkin, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof civil-procedure irs irs-restructuring judicial-review penalties statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-law tax-penalties |
1. Does the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105-206, 112 Stat. 685, Title III, which enacted new sections 6751 … |
| 20-686 |
Michael Shock v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation |
Are significant discovery and Brady violations by the
prosecuting attorney, necessitating the grant of a mistrial,
sufficient to invoke the double j… |
| 20-6326 |
Adam Donald Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law |
I. Is a Texas deferred adjudication a "prior conviction" for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)?
II. Does the Texas crime … |
| 20-6333 |
Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights government-power hearing judicial-power oral-argument procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-6314 |
Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6316 |
Mickey Pubien v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-6323 |
Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Does the Fifth Circuit have constitutional authority under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, to bring Criminal Charg… |
| 20-664 |
Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation |
FLA. STAT. § 57.111 (2020), the Equal Access to Justice Act, entitles small business owners to costs and attorney's fees when they prevail in administ… |
| 20-666 |
Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3) |
byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards.
2. Whether the… |
| 20-6282 |
Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code |
Whether, the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a "Career Offender" and Sentencing Him Accordingly? |
| 20-6283 |
Robert Brownlee v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RESEARCH THE ELEMENTS OF A VIOLATION OF 18 PACSA 6301(a)(1)(@i) (THE STATUTE"… |
| 20-6284 |
D'Angelo Domingo Davis, aka D'Angelo Dominico Davis, aka Deangelo Domingo Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United Stat… |
| 20-6285 |
Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6290 |
Orlando Sanchez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6292 |
Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-648 |
James W. Bonham v. John Sutto, Jr., et ux. |
Arizona |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation |
Currently Arizona uses a scheme of statutes to effectuate forced conveyances of residential single family property Via a non-judicial foreclosure. It … |
| 20-654 |
Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix |
1. Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a "denied . . . benefit " to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Ed… |
| 20-655 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. The Lord god of hosts J… |
| 20-6268 |
Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation |
Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, under cover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innoce… |
| 20-6272 |
Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-616 |
Stephen Durr v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-to-vacate procedural-rights standing statute-claim statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6258 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden |
THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR, CONTRARY TO 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., WHEN IT ABDICATED THE RESPONSIBILITY, CONFERRED BY CONGRESS ON THE COU… |
| 20-6246 |
Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-6249 |
Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop… |
| 20-604 |
InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit innovation longstanding-human-practice patent-eligibility patent-monopoly statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101. |
| 20-6212 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon… |
| 20-6214 |
John J. Powers v. Warden, Allenwood USP |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1-usc-109 18-usc-3624b criminal-procedure first-step-act general-savings-statute good-time-credits sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the General Savings Statute, 1 U.S.C. §109, apply to the First Step Act's amendment to 18 U.S.C. §3624(b) so that penalties of the loss of good t… |
| 20-6225 |
Michael David Lister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 20-6242 |
Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of "controlled su… |
| 20-601 |
Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat… |
| 20-587 |
Hope Angelic White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Myron Pollard v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
bivens bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar personal-representative sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), 2671 et seq., waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and creates a cause of action … |
| 20-6187 |
Robin Elaine Jackson v. County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law fmla fmla-violation standing statutory-interpretation time-limitation wrongful-termination |
Whether a plaintiff who has no available remedy in a ["FMLA" ] time limitation violation , through no lack of diligence on her part, she is barred by … |
| 20-6202 |
Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation |
Did United States Code Annotated 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought… |
| 20-6204 |
Kenneth Curry v. Kess Roberson |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER PLAUSIBLY HAS SUFFICIENTLY PLEADED A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A SECURED RIGHT PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2253… |
| 20-6207 |
Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness |
1. Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague on its face and as applied beca… |
| 20-6180 |
Naquan Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's fa… |
| 20-6182 |
Kyle Rainey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Under Brady vs. Maryland, a PCRA petitioner may establish a true Brady violation if the following can be proven; if the evidence at issue is favorable… |
| 20-6192 |
Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d… |
| 20-579 |
Zimmian Tabb v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Wh… |
| 20-568 |
William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity |
Whether a waiver of age discrimination claims can be found to be voluntary when an employer verbally revokes an employee's twenty-one (21) day review,… |
| 20-575 |
Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
Whether a person who is authorized to access
information on a computer for certain purposes violates
Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 20-558 |
Jon D. Adams v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6404e case-law fifth-circuit interest-abatement judicial-review lee-v-commissioner statutory-interpretation tax-abatement tax-law tax-procedure |
The Appellant (hereinafter referred to as "the Taxpayer") is seeking abatement of interest assessed by the Appellee (hereinafter referred to as "the C… |
| 20-559 |
Jane Doe v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled?
2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem… |
| 20-6161 |
Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping |
Is a wiretap order, which fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order, insufficient on its face thereby requ… |
| 20-6170 |
Justin David Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance |
Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at… |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
THE COURT SHOULD ISSUE A W.O.C. AND ADDRESS WHETHER THE FEDERAL CARJACKING OFFENSE DOES CONSTITUTE A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF 18 U.S.… |
| 20-6145 |
Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation |
In the extrcordinary ircunstances of this case, lenited states Lourt of Appeals
Daniet, 529 4.s, 473, 48y (2000); B4ck 05 Davi5, - 4.5.m,137 80k 759,7… |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m… |
| 20-6148 |
Smith Merinord v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT APPLIES TO CASES PENDING ON DIRECT APPEAL AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, WHERE THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE HOBB… |
| 20-6153 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "death enhancement" of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation when the statute's language is ambiguous - triggering the rul… |
| 20-551 |
Jack Witt Voris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… |
| 20-555 |
Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-556 |
Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County |
West Virginia |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due process clause of the United States Constitution by being unconstitutionally vague as to the meaning of … |
| 20-6137 |
Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6133 |
Theodore David Newcomb v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-543 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporation cares-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance indian-tribe relief-funds statutory-interpretation tribal-government |
Whether Alaska Native regional and village corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act are "Indian Tribe[s]" for purp… |
| 20-544 |
Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition |
Whether ANCs are "Indian tribes" under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act. |
| 20-535 |
Drew Samuel Bates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-6108 |
Antoine Washington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |
| 20-6092 |
Nathan L. Hill v. Warden of Lee County, U. S. P. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
albeyne-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's holding in Alleyne v United States set forth a Rule of statutory interpretation that could be used on Collateral Review. |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 20-6101 |
Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6074 |
Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T … |
| 20-6075 |
Deshawn McCarter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-statute generic-extortion generic-robbery property-threat sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the California robbery statute criminalize a broader swath of conduct than generic robbery or generic extortion in light of the fact that Califor… |
| 20-6081 |
Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7. Whether the equal protection c… |
| 20-519 |
State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
|
11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea… |
| 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… |
| 20-525 |
Harold E. Rutila, IV v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit hearing-waiver johnson-v-zerbst merit-systems-protection-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner's due process rights when an administrative judge failed to provide him a hearing, in v… |
| 20-6073 |
Desmond Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 20-6053 |
Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation |
Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha… |
| 20-6057 |
David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation |
As of right now, immigration cases use the Esquivel-Quintana standard exposure to statutory penalty for "any 1' prior felony of "sexual abuse of a min… |
| 20-6058 |
Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a
person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-6027 |
Michael Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… |
| 20-6029 |
Pedro Tiempo-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in ruling the District Court did not err in imposing an upward departure sentence.
Whether the Court of Appeals er… |
| 20-6032 |
Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation |
The requirement to provide notice of what conduct is considered to be human trafficking I.
will forever be changed by the answer to the question: Is i… |
| 20-6041 |
Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-480 |
David Bryon Babcock v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-service-pension dual-status-military-technician military-technician national-guard social-security-act statutory-interpretation uniformed-service |
Is a civil-service pension payment based on dual-status military technician service to the National Guard a payment based wholly on service as a membe… |
| 20-481 |
GE Capital Retail Bank v. Nyree Belton |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy-code debt-discharge federal-arbitration-act implied-repeal legal-procedure lower-court-confusion precedent statutory-discharge statutory-interpretation |
Whether provisions of the Bankruptcy Code providing for a statutorily enforceable discharge of a debtor's debts impliedly repeal the Federal Arbitrati… |
| 20-6004 |
Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6007 |
William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue |
Did the Delaware Court Erect to Denie doaht's Modton bo t SINS Che Naictineit? |
| 20-472 |
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qual administrative-law disproportionate-economic-hardship energy-policy epa-regulation hardship-exemption renewable-fuel-standard small-refineries small-refinery-exemption statutory-interpretation |
In order to qualify for a hardship exemption under § 7545(o)(9)(B)(i) of the Renewable Fuel Standards, does a small refinery need to receive uninterru… |
| 20-5994 |
Mongkhon Leekomon v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure georgia-court-of-appeals indictment legal-procedure statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-exception |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the indictment alleged a statutory tolling exception to extend the seven-year statute of… |
| 20-5995 |
Edwin Virgilio Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Edwin Virgilio Gomez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to app… |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-5998 |
Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-6001 |
Antranette Canady v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a
person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-5975 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA?
2. When defining an operative, bu… |
| 20-450 |
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment notice-and-comment-rulemaking public-charge standing statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., an alien is "inadmissible" if, "in the opinion of the [Secretary of Homeland Securit… |
| 20-454 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
abortion abortion-referrals administrative-law agency-rulemaking family-planning rust-v-sullivan statutory-interpretation title-x |
1. Whether the rule falls within the agency's statutory authority.
2. Whether the rule is the product of reasoned decisionmaking. |
| 20-457 |
MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury |
The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano… |
| 20-5959 |
Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-5964 |
Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 20-5969 |
Robert Dinkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif vacate the judgement below certiorari criminal-law criminal-participation due-process gun-buy-program illegal-guns non-profit-organization police-department public-announcement rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant Certiorari, vacate the judgement below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Cti. … |
| 20-5937 |
Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th… |
| 20-437 |
United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry |
Under 8 U.S.C. 1326(d), a defendant charged with unlawful reentry into the United States following removal may assert the invalidity of the original r… |
| 20-440 |
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation |
In the Patent Act, Congress established that invalidity is a "defense[] in any action involving the validity or infringement of a patent." 35 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-5925 |
Roberto Mendoza-Sanchez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen
where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did n… |
| 20-5926 |
Rolando Candia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be violated by means of "intimidation" through threats of mental or non-corporeal … |
| 20-5904 |
Tarahrick Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)IFP |
2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-5910 |
Robert Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. What Conateude celevank Conduck 2°
Ad. \Nhen does teledant Conduck become Celevant Conduct do dhe inslant S¥Sense oF conuicheon Yo be used to enha… |
| 20-5912 |
Adam Alan Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually
explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the
genitals or pubic … |
| 20-5914 |
Clifton Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg … |
| 20-5871 |
Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury? |
| 20-5891 |
Mauricio Alvarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, which uses the terms "misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties" does not p… |
| 20-418 |
Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA"), Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat. 2394, prohibits use of an "automatic telephone dialing system" … |
| 20-5857 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5863 |
Andrew Newson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection mailing-error parental-rights petition-for-review statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5876 |
In Re Paula Idele Keller |
|
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
9th-circuit-appeal civil-procedure fair-housing-act loan-modification mortgage mortgage-modification private-right-of-action real-estate real-estate-transaction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiffs loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of "real estate-related transaction " u… |
| 20-5877 |
Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 for "an offense against the United States" is required to be imposed for all offense… |
| 20-5880 |
Deepak Deshpande v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript |
1. an statutorily On instad they acquind bypothetinal jurisdiction.
2. convictien have @right to control dfense and right to Casist in Ocon dleeose 9… |
| 20-5861 |
Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense |
IS A HOBBS ACT ROBBERY A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 20-400 |
James Avery, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state burglary statute that disjunctively lists places that may be burgled under the statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhance… |
| 20-409 |
Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation. |
| 20-5824 |
Trenard Caldwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed that … |
| 20-5807 |
Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a Pro Se [indigent] prisoner to be held to a higher standard than state courts?
Are state courts exempt from following their own statutes and r… |
| 20-5809 |
Albert Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition |
1. Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable?
… |
| 20-380 |
Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description |
The Patent Act provides that patents must "contain a written description of the invention" in "such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable… |
| 20-383 |
PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts may look to state law to define
"present right to possession" in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e… |
| 20-5772 |
Michael Portanova v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "categorical approach," which this
Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a
… |
| 20-376 |
DNF Associates, LLC v. Jillian McAdory |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act henson-v-santander legal-standing passive-debt-buyer statutory-interpretation |
Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties that perform collection, … |
| 20-5777 |
Leroy Banks v. Anthony Terry, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals and The District Court erred and Prejudiced me in denying and dismissing my claims and case (including injunctive relief … |
| 20-5751 |
Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled. |
| 20-5758 |
Damon Woodard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993), which permits the "stacking" of mandator… |
| 20-5759 |
Charles C. Williamson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND CIRCUIT COURT MISINTERPRETED
AND MISAPPLIED THE "RELEVANT CONDUCT" PROVISIONS OF UNITED
STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION, G… |
| 20-5739 |
David Rothenberg v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses |
When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from… |
| 20-5746 |
Brandon Thomas Finnesy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-636 consent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea judicial-consent magistrate-judge statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3) authorizes a federal magistrate judge to accept a guilty plea with the parties' consent? |
| 20-355 |
Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that "notified of the infringement" and "such notice" under §287(a) refer only to communications from th… |
| 20-360 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
|
attorneys-fees circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights fee-enhancement judicial-discretion lodestar-method prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the PLRA leaves any room for a district court to enhance a fee award in prisoner cases beyond what it statutorily pr… |
| 20-5714 |
Donald Joseph Koshmider, II v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process medical-marijuana possession-immunity retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Did the Sixth Circuit err when its opinion failed to analyze Petitioner's issues according to the Legislative directive that Public Act 283 is retroac… |
| 20-5725 |
Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation |
WAS PETITIONER'S 42 U.S.L. $ 1983 LOMPLAINT ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OFEQUITABLE TOLLING?
IN SOME EXTLA DRDINARY WAY FRDM ASSERTING HIS RIGHTS BEFDRE THE
S… |
| 20-338 |
Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION
Federal district courts have their jurisdiction limited to violations of laws of the
United States. During the per… |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-5695 |
Tony DuPree v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation takings |
(1). Is the Florida Supreme Court correct in saying it lacks jurisdiction where Petitioner is bringing Actual Innocence claim, Newly Discovered Eviden… |
| 20-5658 |
Martin Racioppi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's approach, in United States v. McCants, 952 F.3d 416 (3d Cir. 2020), to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery… |
| 20-5670 |
Henry Horace Givins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
| 20-5672 |
David Kareem Turpin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another
in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible
propert… |
| 20-322 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Esteban Aleman Gonzalez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law bond-hearing danger-to-community due-process flight-risk immigration-detention statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government … |
| 20-315 |
Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12) |
8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of
Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain lawful-permanent-resident statu… |
| 20-5636 |
Miguel Figueroa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5640 |
Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5648 |
Damien Guidry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
| 20-5649 |
David Blaszczak v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
GVR |
Amici (1)IFP |
conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 |
1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" and a "thing of value" belonging to the regulatory agency such that its di… |
| 20-5650 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by
the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for
second firearms… |
| 20-5622 |
Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY
TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH… |
| 20-5627 |
Justin Woodard v. New York |
New York |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Was defendant's Constitutional Fourteenth Amendment right to Due process violated when the Monroe County Trial Court denied the re-opening of a sup… |
| 20-5628 |
Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months"
in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
| 20-302 |
Steven Dotson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions |
If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sen… |
| 20-303 |
United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero |
First Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (31)Relisted (6) |
civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights |
Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by establishing Supplemental Security Income… |
| 20-294 |
Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence … |
| 20-298 |
El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Pending |
|
appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds |
In January 2019, during a government shutdown, President Trump formally requested from Congress $5.7 billion in appropriations for a wall along the So… |
| 20-5600 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-rights relief-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
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unt«?*Jt j^… |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-291 |
Jamell Birt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation |
Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… |
| 20-285 |
Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board
decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to
be ada… |
| 20-5584 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 20-5588 |
Joshua Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation |
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 nec… |
| 20-262 |
Bridget Alex, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation tort-claims-act |
Plaintiffs sued T-Mobile in state court for breach of contract, deceptive trade practices, and gross negligence that led to Brandon Alex's death. T-Mo… |
| 20-256 |
Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm… |
| 20-246 |
Stephen B. Pence, et al. v. VNB New York, LLC, as Successor by Merger to VNB New York Corporation, as Successor in Interest to the Park Avenue Bank |
Kentucky |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
|
banking banking-regulation d'oench-doctrine defenses federal-common-law financial-institutions-reform firrea fraud holder-in-due-course statutory-interpretation |
Does the D'Oench doctrine, D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. FDIC, 315 U.S. 447 (1942), or federal common law "holder in due course" doctrine, survive Congress'… |
| 20-5546 |
Rudolph Carryl v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure fraud fraud-definition sale sale-requirement sec-v-zandford securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing statutory-interpretation zandford-precedent |
WHETHER VIOLATION OF §10(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (15 U.S.C. §78j(b)) AND THE HOLDING OF SEC u. Zandford, 535 U.S. 813 (2002) HAS BEE… |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-5515 |
In Re Tracey A. Merrill |
|
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
IS THIS A DISTORTION OF JUSTICE
WAS EXTREME MALICE DISPLAYED IN THIS CASE |
| 20-234 |
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Yolany Padilla, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
GVR |
|
5th-amendment classwide-injunction credible-fear detention due-process expedited-removal immigration immigration-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(l)(B)(ii) —which authorizes the government to detain aliens who are placed in expedited removal proceedings, but who then … |
| 20-5504 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals dealt with the merit and merits due in good faith process protection protect mactin in this case.
2) District court abus… |
| 20-5490 |
William James Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) criminal-procedure home-visit home-visits liberty-deprivation probation-officer statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a
person to "permit a probation officer to visit [him] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-215 |
Richard Bernholz v. Internal Revenue Service |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-tort-claims-act government-liability immunity internal-revenue-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-collection |
The question presented is whether any conduct by the Internal Revenue Service which may broadly be construed as a mechanism for the assessment and col… |
| 20-5457 |
Dennis A. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5469 |
Alfonzo Traymayne Lee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether giving the District court discretion to grant or deny sentencing reduction pursuant to 18 USC 3553(a) and the First Step Act of 2018, Section … |
| 20-5472 |
Henry Dailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
The State of Missouri has a Statute that criminalizes the transfer of dee. Custody or @acontcol of ANY Corin +o aNatrer, or ko another place, when the… |
| 20-5444 |
Mark Louis Sanders v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure asset-monetization civil-rights due-process government-overreach jurisdictional-challenge property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-procedure |
Respondent, by their own admissions, monetized Petitioner's assets in the amount of $212,945 without jurisdiction and violated their own policies and … |
| 20-209 |
Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act |
The question presented is whether this definition encompasses only systems that autodial telephone numbers generated using a random or sequential numb… |
| 20-5409 |
Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5421 |
Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation |
1. IS SIMPLE POSSESSION UNDER F.S. 893.13(6)(A). A LEGALLY
PERMISSIBLE RACKETEERING PREDICATE INCIDENT UNDER F.S. §
895.02(l)(a), § 895.02(l)(b)?
2. … |
| 20-5396 |
Austin Peterson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation... or... by extortion" and… |
| 20-5373 |
Don Nell Hawkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
16-usc-3582 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-5376 |
Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5380 |
Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen… |
| 20-171 |
Isaac L. Hobbs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
18-usc-922 constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea knowledge-of-status statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Does a constitutionally invalid guilty plea resulting from the government's failure to inform a defendant of the knowledge-of-status element of 18 U.S… |
| 20-174 |
Patrick Baehr, et ux. v. The Creig Northrop Team, P.C., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-harm due-process fiduciary-relationship kickback kickbacks real-estate respa standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether plaintiffs pursuing claims under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA") must present evidence of an overcharge for services ta… |
| 20-163 |
Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal "money or property" fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by… |
| 20-5347 |
Bakari McCant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 attempt crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element of the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of vio… |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
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ner th p atn ith febny atte… |
| 20-5341 |
Erik Becerra v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-justice criminal-prosecution federal-law firearm-possession judicial-development lower-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
In a criminal prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm or ammunition, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), does federal law permit the judicial development of … |
| 20-5353 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-146 |
Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
WHETHER SECTION 20A.03 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
| 20-158 |
SRAM, LLC v. FOX Factory, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-103 commercial-success federal-circuit graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia patent-act patent-claim patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill secondary-considerations statutory-interpretation |
In Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1 (1966), this Court recognized the pivotal importance of "objective indicia" of nonobviousness (… |
| 20-5334 |
Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability on the district court's denial of Kieren's motion to amend his petition w… |
| 20-5335 |
Dustin Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Issue I
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont… |
| 20-5321 |
Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing
Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-5323 |
Alfred Domenick Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fair-sentencing-act government-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sentencing-reduction sibron-v-new-york statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance united-states-v-gall |
1.) Should the Government correct error committed when applying 'The Fair
Sentencing Act ' (Nov. 2014)? And if an applicant 's reduction for
Substan… |
| 20-5325 |
Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Where the State postconviction courts assessment of Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of counsel claim was "I guess the only potential issue would b… |
| 20-5305 |
Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the statutes 29 UCS Section 1001 et seq., ERISA insulated Petitioner 's federal pension funds in a account which is not taxable exempt from… |
| 20-5302 |
Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
In the interpretation of a sentencing guideline enhancement pro vision to determine whether
it applies to extraterritorial or merely domestic criminal… |
| 20-130 |
Hung Dang v. Washington Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission |
Washington |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
duty-of-care first-amendment free-speech medical-licensing medical-quality-assurance physician-patient-relationship professional-speech statutory-interpretation |
While on-call as a private otolaryngologist, I verbally declined to accept into my care two persons from outlying hospitals, where I was neither on st… |
| 20-136 |
Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme |
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… |
| 20-138 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transfer… |
| 20-126 |
Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law creditor-liens municipal-finance property-rights secured-lending statutory-interpretation |
Federal bankruptcy law generally provides that a creditor's lien does not extend to "property acquired . . . after the commencement of the [bankruptcy… |
| 20-5267 |
Kolongi Richardson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not le… |
| 20-5268 |
Luis Fernando Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Ramirez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illegal … |
| 20-5284 |
Tony Lam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5259 |
Robin Hood Who v. Department of the Treasury |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-5264 |
Lakento Brian Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The First Step Act changed the penalty for petitioner's crack cocaine crimes from life in prison to 10 years to life and changed petitioner's guidelin… |
| 20-121 |
Marshall Spiegal v. Michael C. Kim |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel debt-collection debt-collector-allegations debtor-conduct direct-connection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa judicial-notice statutory-interpretation transaction-nexus |
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") covers debts "arising out of" certain transactions. Does "arising out of" require a "direct" connecti… |
| 20-114 |
Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy |
1. Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this "tax" dispute?
2. Was it error to refer anything to the un-consented-to magistrate?
3. Was it ab… |
| 20-5248 |
Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that "exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo… |
| 20-5249 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
2020-08-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Does the circumstances presented and detailed by STATEMENT OF THE CASE portion of the present Petition for a Writ of Certiorari warrant issuance of th… |
| 20-5252 |
Garry Grace v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of,
a crime that was not an offense against the United States, in light of the… |
| 20-5244 |
David Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written? |
| 20-5245 |
Victor John Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act attempt attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of violen… |
| 20-5246 |
Jerry Luke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-110 |
Jack S. Kannry, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law disaster-relief disaster-tax-relief federal-tax-procedure irs-discretion irs-regulations stafford-act statutory-interpretation tax-procedure taxpayer-rights |
The question thereby presented is whether the IRS should be free to pick and choose which mandated statutes and regulations to apply, and to avoid oth… |
| 20-111 |
Walter N. Strand, III v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law board-discretion civilian-oversight due-process judicial-review military-records separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the Secretary of the Navy, is "acting through" the Board for Correction of Naval Records as required by statute when… |
| 20-5194 |
In Re Kevin D. Moore |
|
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5198 |
Franklin C. Smith v. Nurse Mayfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
ated intrinc os extsinsic missepsesentaion, ar othes tiscondnat of an adresce pasy
nch as, Cpi Fay pesinsed Limse eile sondes Dath tesif depition that… |
| 20-5200 |
Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
WHETHER A STATE COURT OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH A DECISION OF A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AND OTHER STATE COURT OF APPEA… |
| 20-5206 |
Nathan D. Knuth v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5207 |
William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. When the Legislation oasses enactments pertaining to all its citizens does not the (14th.Amendment ) Equal Protection apply to all it's citizens ?
… |
| 20-87 |
George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation |
I. How does one determine whether a defendant is an Indian?
II. Is Indian status a jury question? |
| 20-88 |
HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase |
Whether the "basic and novel properties" identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" must independe… |
| 20-89 |
Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i), a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application must be dismissed before a hearing on the me… |
| 20-94 |
Martin Dekom v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC |
New York |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure court-intervention due-process foreclosure foreclosure-procedure judicial-rulemaking legal-burden rulemaking-power standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
A county court in New York invented a legal process which streamlines foreclosure by removing statutory requirements and motions. Can a court of its o… |
| 20-84 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Troy Alexander, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acting-official civil-procedure due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act immunity-doctrine individual-liability jurisdictional-challenge official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken i… |
| 20-86 |
Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
|
but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab… |
| 20-5160 |
Keith Henderson v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 20-5184 |
Richard Brian Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)… |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a… |
| 20-5131 |
Michael Kimbrew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bribery-of-public-official bribery-statute commercial-bribery due-process federal-employee ninth-circuit-interpretation official-act public-official quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation sun-diamond |
Is Kimbrew's expansive reading of § 201 unconstitutional? |
| 20-5111 |
James Earvin Sanders v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review rare-and-exceptional-circumstances statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-provision |
If a petitioner can demonstrate that he falls under a built-in tolling provision as described in 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(A)-(D), does he also need to de… |
| 20-5118 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-07-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation |
I.
Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to
review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
II.
… |
| 20-5120 |
Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains… |
| 20-5122 |
Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 20-5132 |
Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether
Petitioner Is actually, Factually,
Legally, and Lawfully
Innocent of his
Rehaif
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United States,
139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019)
recently decided by T… |
| 20-5100 |
Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether the PLAINTIFF appeal is frivolous when it involves a trespass of constitutional dimension on the Freedom of Information Act, BY THE UNITED … |
| 20-38 |
Arkansas v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion experimental-projects health-benefits health-policy medicaid medicaid-expansion secretary-of-health-and-human-services social-welfare statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the Secretary's approval of the Arkansas Works Amendment was lawful. |
| 20-5093 |
Dion Clayborn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender congressional-intent deference-to-agency drug-trafficking guideline-commentary recidivism sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Title 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) authorized the Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines that, based on legislative history, were intended harshly punis… |
| 20-37 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights demonstration-projects health-care-coverage medicaid medicaid-demonstration-projects statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that the Secretary may not authorize demonstration projects to test requirements that are designed to… |
| 20-5076 |
Jorge Aaron Ceja-Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 20-5077 |
Joaquin Mario Cipriano-Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-classification citizenship-laws due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry morales-santana morales-santana-precedent ninth-circuit-review severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 20-5079 |
Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5080 |
Christopher George Wiggin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5081 |
Clarence Hoffert v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
The question presented is whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case… |
| 20-5052 |
Jeremy E. Lewis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights due-process frivolous-filings habeas-corpus immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen standing statutory-interpretation |
Lewis was "Completely" barred from filing a motion in federal court. Does Lewis have a "Constitutional Right To Petition The Courts" under this Court'… |
| 20-5054 |
Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the "related to" test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense,… |
| 20-5055 |
Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation |
Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 20-5060 |
Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act… |
| 20-19 |
Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military |
Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military? |
| 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' … |
| 20-5016 |
Ashton Charles Butler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice united-states-code |
In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court
construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C.
§ 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry in… |
| 20-5020 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Tri-Lift North Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5031 |
Artemio Ramirez-Arroyo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582(c)(2) due-process equal-protection hughes-v-united-states retroactive-amendment retroactive-guideline-amendments sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In 2011, the Sentencing Commission changed its policy statement in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 to disqualify defendants who received sentences below the Guideli… |
| 20-5001 |
Mark Norris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under the… |
| 20-5004 |
Michael Joseph Zeroni v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-USC-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i… |
| 20-5008 |
Emilio Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5012 |
In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross |
|
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of Prohibition be issued under the U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari in this case or Writ of Mandamus, I also stated or whatever the… |
| 19-1475 |
Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-314 administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause due-process forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c… |
| 19-1476 |
Vantage Energy Services, Incorporated, et al. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-precedent due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intake-questionnaire iqbal plausibility-standard pleadings statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements verified-charge |
1. Whether the combination of an unverified intake questionnaire submitted on behalf of the charging party and an inexcusably dilatory verified charge… |
| 19-8914 |
Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind |
Principle of strict statutory construction requires that term "fear" should not be construed broadly to include any non-violent acts of "economic loss… |
| 19-8918 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of
person's property once it no longera
serves a government purpose in the
prosecu… |
| 19-8922 |
Amber Renee Craker v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Was there sufficient evidence to support her capital murder conviction?
Did the Court of Appeals Err in holding Craker's mistaken belief that she kil… |
| 19-8924 |
William R. Jenkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8927 |
Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is… |
| 19-8928 |
Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-8929 |
Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 … |
| 19-8847 |
Michael D. Nixon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3006A constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness funding-denial geo-location indigent-defendant sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Michael D. Nixon's constitutional rights were violated when the District Court failed to grant him, an indigent defendant, funding for a geo-l… |
| 19-8907 |
Jonathan Boyer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-uscs-2254 civil-procedure federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-recall relitigation-bar statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
Whether and under what circumstances a motion to recall judgment attacking the erroneous application of the relitigation bar in 28 USCS 2254(d) should… |
| 19-1461 |
Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (13) |
civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an "undue hardship" under Title VII, 42 … |
| 19-8899 |
Michael Wayne Blanche v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law jury-finding jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
Whether the verdict and 7-year sentence on the … |
| 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… |
| 19-1459 |
Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-311 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-service-protections congressional-intent constitutional-remedy ipr-statute patent-law severance statutory-interpretation tenure-protections |
1. Whether severance of the tenure protections for Administrative Patent Judges ("APJs") was unavailable to the Arthrex court to remedy the violation … |
| 19-8896 |
Melodio Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8884 |
Samuel Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-8890 |
Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-8892 |
Edwin G. Perez-Cubertier v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceeding collateral-proceedings counsel-rights first-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation withdrawal-from-conspiracy |
In Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003), this Court held that a convicted federal defendant may first bring an ineffective assistance of coun… |
| 19-8877 |
Patrick D. Lomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion section-404 sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
i.
Did the District Court abuse it's Discretion when it denied Petitioner's
Motion seeking a reduction of Sentence under Section 404(b) of the First S… |
| 19-8878 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim… |
| 19-1446 |
Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation |
The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse
the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was
promulgated by this Court in Helvering… |
| 19-1440 |
Melvin Ammons, et al. v. Wisconsin Central, Ltd. |
Illinois |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
comparative-negligence counterclaim federal-employers-liability-act fela fela-liability property-damage railroad-liability setoff statutory-interpretation statutory-limitations void-device |
1. When a railroad files a counterclaim for property damage in an injured employee's FELA action to purposely or intentionally evade FELA liability to… |
| 19-8824 |
Keith Newton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process effective-counsel evidence jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8828 |
Michael Jerald Leggett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-crimes attempted-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act specific-intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step violent-crimes |
The courts of appeals have universally held that a conviction for a completed offense is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)… |
| 19-8837 |
Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi… |
| 19-8799 |
James Johnman, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act |
Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8802 |
Regina Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Oi ryik finest |
| 19-8813 |
Tom Mark Franks v. Kirk, Deputy Sheriff, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8820 |
Cesar Velazquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8810 |
Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. DOES NORTH CAROLINA'S OFFENSE OF FELONIOUS BREAKING AND/OR ENTERING QUALIFY AS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT? |
| 19-1408 |
James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below, Respondent's failure to state a claim with… |
| 19-1409 |
Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California |
California |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity |
In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f… |
| 19-1404 |
Michael Lieberman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) What relief is available to a criminal defendant
under the All Writs Act?
2) How, and when, may a district court amend a
restitution order imposed… |
| 19-1406 |
Lord, Lewis & Coleman, LLC v. Bellaco, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-entity choses-in-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process notice notice-requirement standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether a Texas statute, which extinguishes a business entity's choses in action without notice, violates the Due Process clause of the U.S. Constitut… |
| 19-8762 |
Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULV DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT
OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT
APPELLANT'S PETITION WAS UN… |
| 19-8756 |
Kevin Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-offense categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute federal-sentencing james-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
If a completed offense is categorically a "crime of violence" within 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause, is the attempted commission of that o… |
| 19-8697 |
Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8741 |
Kelly David Ankeny, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon force-requirement oregon-robbery physical-force second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Oregon Robbery in the Second Degree (Or. Rev. Stat. § 164.405(1)(a)) is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the statute'… |
| 19-8745 |
Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8749 |
Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
was the pirosented Statement made in the Newspaper hommbul evoug to wannt a mistial?
2 D (cRaytaw) Anmendent. Presene his 6tll N3) boovove Dio the De… |
| 19-1388 |
Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) |
civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an "undue hardship" in accommodating an emp… |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8733 |
Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation |
The issue presented in this Petition is whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is "official restraint" that prevents an "entry" and … |
| 19-8735 |
Michael A. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8704 |
Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
IS THE DECISION OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BASED ON AN UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION OF THE FACTS INASMUCH AS IT IS BASED ON AN INCOMPLETE REC… |
| 19-8710 |
William Frazier v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-8688 |
Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016… |
| 19-8690 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
The OCR text is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 19-8694 |
Joseph D. Rouse v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1364 |
Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the decision of the District Court that Petitioners' claim is ba… |
| 19-8669 |
William M. Tyson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251 (… |
| 19-8674 |
Rolando Gus Paez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system civil-procedure dismissal-rule due-process federal-procedure federalism federalism-doctrine habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation |
Does Rule 4 of the rules governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Court, which provides that "[i]f it plainly appears from the petit… |
| 19-8675 |
Issac Oral Chandler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol… |
| 19-8679 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 19-8680 |
Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
To avoid "unwarranted sentence disparities," does 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) require federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of … |
| 19-8653 |
Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner is challenging all Drugs Minus-Two pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (c)(2). Reduction of Sentence, Petitioner is eligible to receive the … |
| 19-8662 |
Jason Paris Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-8621 |
Steven Desmond Peterson, aka Primo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8628 |
Deree J. Norman, Administrator of the Estate of Lydia F. Shearlds, Deceased v. Temple University Health System, dba Temple University Hospital, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
decedents-estates decedents-estates-and-fiduciaries inherent-powers inherent-powers-and-duties jurisdictional-standards pennsylvania-statutes self-contained-statutes state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation wrongful-death-claim |
1. Are State Supreme Courts required to adhere to the standards of self-contained statues governing Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries within their re… |
| 19-8645 |
Joe Cephus Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the separation-of-powers doctrine because the statute allows a prosecutor to unilaterally se… |
| 19-8646 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-8648 |
Vernon Wayne McNeal v. Fleming, C/O, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-penalties agency-authority civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction regulatory-compliance standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-strikes |
(a) congress did not includ a statute of Limitation inside 28 u.s.C. Revok2 a jndien+ in1 trree strikes.
(b) Congress did not State in 28 us,C, 1915(… |
| 19-1348 |
Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the phrase "prescribed by the law of the State" in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to… |
| 19-1349 |
George L. Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of HomeBanc Corp. v. Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-code collateral collateral-liquidation creditor-protection financial-crisis repurchase-agreements safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
In times of acute economic distress, the automatic stay of the Bankruptcy Code functions as a critical circuit breaker: it backstops a vulnerable fina… |
| 19-8636 |
Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it … |
| 19-8637 |
Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should overrule the " legislative override " exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. |
| 19-8611 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-8617 |
Homar Perez Chavez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-8619 |
Deon Christopher Cobb v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
I Woether The Ruling By The Court Was Confrary Topor INvolved an
Unreasowable Applrcatn Clearly Esablished Unied Sfates Supreme Court
Law?
I. Woether… |
| 19-1336 |
The National Retirement Fund, et al. v. Metz Culinary Management, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actuarial-assumptions arbitration best-estimate employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa measurement-date multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Whether ERISA prohibits multiemployer pension plan actuaries from selecting actuarial assumptions to calculate withdrawal liability, after the Measure… |
| 19-8580 |
Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-8583 |
Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18… |
| 19-8585 |
Van Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a federal Prisoner has a Right to Present a argument based on a Change in Procedural law on his first motion under Title 28 U.S.C.S 2255 ?… |
| 19-1324 |
Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")* require a plaintiff or prose-cutor claiming an "open pattern" of racketeering to… |
| 19-8574 |
Calvin G. Latimer v. North Carolina Department of Transportation |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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3 . TT ^5 ~l DT l St 0 A? ° ^ ZO-rohfirA Setp^fO/yiC- Cu^f… |
| 19-8544 |
Hubert Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-8536 |
In Re Robert P. Russell |
|
2020-05-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions |
Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell ("Russell"), convicted of first degree murder under 18
U.S.C. Section 1, retains a federal constitutional righ… |
| 19-8540 |
Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… |
| 19-8524 |
Gregory Preston Coker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-1312 |
Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test… |
| 19-1310 |
Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation of exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl… |
| 19-8518 |
Dexter C. Newson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-law due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-present-defense statutory-interpretation |
Petitioners appeal Without him compusorry process to Call a Witness in his Fabor as guarented in the 6th AMendment of the Constitution and to determin… |
| 19-8505 |
George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1303 |
Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California |
California |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… |
| 19-1304 |
Indian River County, Florida, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-deference federal-assistance qualified-highway-or-surface-freight-transfer-faci skidmore-deference statutory-interpretation surface-transportation tax-exempt-bonds title-23 transportation-project |
The Internal Revenue Code authorizes the issuance of tax-exempt bonds to finance "qualified highway or surface freight transfer facilities." 26 U.S.C.… |
| 19-1305 |
Wanda Vázquez-Garced, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
democratic-governance democratic-representation elected-government fiscal-plan fund-reprogramming governance-of-territories oversight-board promesa promesa-section-202 promesa-section-204-c puerto-rico statutory-interpretation territorial-governance |
1. Whether the Oversight Board may preemptively override the elected Government's ability to request reprogramming of funds under PROMESA section 204(… |
| 19-1306 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation |
1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses… |
| 19-8485 |
Melvin T. Bell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-remedy statutory-interpretation |
WHEN A PETITIONER HAS REALIZED, TWO YEARS LATER, AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY RETRIED FOR THE SAME STATUTORY OFFENSE TO IN THE SAME PROCEEDING, WHICH HAS LE… |
| 19-8474 |
Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
i. DOES A DISTRICT COURTS INABILITY TO DEPART BELOW A MANDATORY MINIMUM UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), FOR ANY FACTOR OTHER THAN DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL A… |
| 19-8455 |
Michael Alan Bruzzone v. James McManis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-espionage false-claims-act federal-recovery judicial-misconduct qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation |
Can federal judge's intentionally error to conceal economic espionage subject 18 U.S.C. §§ 1832, 2382 questions harms country and citizen's presents t… |
| 19-8463 |
Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti… |
| 19-8467 |
Juan Petis McLendon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandatory-review speech-trial-act standing statutory-interpretation stricklands-prejudice |
Does a failure to obtain a dismissal without prejudice under the Speedy Trial Act constitute "Strickland prejudice," when the mandatory language of Ti… |
| 19-8469 |
Viengxay Chantharath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes:
21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI.
con
victions that qua… |
| 19-8452 |
William Strickland v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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Why The triel court did not
witness" in strction, 1. P.1.3.17, dispitethe existence of
prebible Cduse to indict Doy " Bleck Arms… |
| 19-8443 |
George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the State have the authority to commence prosecution after the twenty-year statute of limitations has expired when the alleged suspect is not kno… |
| 19-8445 |
Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 19-1282 |
Avery Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL PURSUANT TO AN INVALID APPEAL WAIVER, AFTER MAKING ERRONEOUS FINDINGS, OVERLOOKING AND MIS… |
| 19-8430 |
Valery LaTouche v. New York |
New York |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURTS INVOCATION OF STATUE 440.10(3)(C) DENIED PETITIONER HIS INTEREST, DUE PROCESS RIGHTS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW.
WHETH… |
| 19-8431 |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" … |
| 19-8422 |
Todd Lee Glenn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-8426 |
Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o… |
| 19-8410 |
Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
The Constitation's Direct anthorty that the wi't of Habens Corpus Shall ot be suspended" superceeds the requirement suspendig shch wight perding the S… |
| 19-8415 |
Arthur Stanley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence gang-related-crime relevant-evidence rico-statute rule-401 standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Where the Government introduced a cache of weapons found four years before the alleged crime, simply because gang graffiti was found nearby, should… |
| 19-8416 |
Hadori Karmen Chantel Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law boumediene-v-bush civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), Mr. Williams' 28 U.S.C. section 2255 Motion to Vacate was timely if 18 U.S.C. sect… |
| 19-8406 |
Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8397 |
Domenico Alexander Lockhart v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cole-v-arkansas constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-narcotic-offenses due-process judicial-review overt-act procedural-and-substantive-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8399 |
Reshon Tolliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-8387 |
Robert C. Caldwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute |
The Government seehs to have defendants sentenced
under both the CarJacking
statute and the firearm statute.
The issue befire the Court is whether sen… |
| 19-8377 |
Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations |
ARE THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (FRAP) TOO RESTRICTIVE OR INFLEXIBLE IN RESOLVING IMPEDIMENTS TO TIMELY LITIGANTS HAMPERED BY THE CONJUNCTIVE… |
| 19-8382 |
Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee that defendants have the right to "demand and procure counsel" requires state courts to appoi… |
| 19-8381 |
Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-1248 |
Eli Dunn v. Bryce Hatch, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
|
admiralty admiralty-jurisdiction civil-rights commercial-fishermen commercial-fishing maritime maritime-law public-policy punitive-damages seamen-rights statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour wage-disputes wages |
1. Should punitive damages be available to commercial fishermen cheated on their wages?
2. Is there a conflict among federal courts of appeal, and wi… |
| 19-1239 |
Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows |
Ohio |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B), as decided by the Ohio Supreme Court and the Fift… |
| 19-8314 |
Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8315 |
Todd Michael Vincent v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Question One
A review of an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion does not involve the
validity of the underlying judgment. Yet, the Eleventh Circuit, lik… |
| 19-8322 |
Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
"Whether the U.S. District Court and the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals, have abused their discretion by failing to accept Petitioner's timely amended § … |
| 19-8308 |
Terry Gooden v. U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
7h) ^<<a /T\J c/tltrri.(j J. /brf) |
| 19-8287 |
Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
(1) AGAINST FED.R.CIV.P 12(b)(6) AND 12(e)(6), WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF A COURT'S DISCRETION IN UPHOLDING A PLEADING THAT STATES A CLAIM FOR RELIEF IN LIG… |
| 19-8269 |
Stella Rae James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1791 conviction criminal-statute due-process federal-correctional-facilities federal-correctional-facility federal-criminal-law inmate-contraband possession possession-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether due process requires the government to establish actual or constructive possession of a prohibited object in order to sustain a conviction und… |
| 19-8255 |
Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-1212 |
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Innovation Law Lab, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority border-policy due-process immigration-law non-refoulement notice-and-comment preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which applies to aliens who have n… |
| 19-1210 |
Harry's Nurses Registry, et al. v. Claudia Gayle, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-enforcement condition-precedent employment-law fair-labor-standards-act private-right-of-action section-206 section-207 section-216(b) statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour |
Is the finding that the employer has violated
Section 206 or Section 207 of the Fair Labor Standards
Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq , a condition preced… |
| 19-1207 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Denise G. Clayton, Chief Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals |
Kentucky |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access ballot-challenge due-process election-law federalism judicial-review kentucky-supreme-court original-jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing state-constitution state-constitution-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Supreme Court of Kentucky
may nullify Kentucky's ballot challenge statute,
Kentucky Revised Statute ("KRS ") 118.176, and
violate Secti… |
| 19-8240 |
Richard Valentini v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-statute extortion hobbs-act personal-gain property-deprivation property-transfer statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-transfer |
1)
Does a conviction for violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C.A. §
1951(b)(2) require not only that a victim be deprived of his or her
property, but a… |
| 19-8229 |
Donnie L. Harris, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Does Oklahoma's strict application of its statutory requirement that all newly discovered evidence in capital cases must be presented within one year … |
| 19-8235 |
Justin K. Eaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1). Since the Sentencing Commission is to serve a similar function to interpreting guidelines as this Court does in interpreting statutes under Braxt… |
| 19-1203 |
Children's Hospital Association of Texas, et al. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation chevron-deference disproportionate-share-hospital medicaid medicaid-reimbursement regulatory-policy statutory-interpretation supplemental-payments |
Because of Medicaid's low reimbursement rates, hospitals with large Medicaid patient populations have a statutory right to supplemental "Disproportion… |
| 19-8218 |
Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest |
This petition asks an important question: whether modern criminl- forfeiture statutes can be squared with the Due Process Clause and and whether petit… |
| 19-8221 |
Feuu Fagatele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8204 |
Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague
residual clause, and has the government, District Court, or the Sixth Ci… |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8188 |
Anthony Wayne Hamilton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence hobbs-act ninth-circuit-conflict physical-confrontation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-florida |
1. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery, which statutorily can be committed by a threat of future harm, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18… |
| 19-8195 |
Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… |
| 19-8179 |
In Re Harold Wayne Nichols |
|
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
1. When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenti… |
| 19-8182 |
Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8161 |
In Re Curtis Smith |
|
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation |
I.
Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different … |
| 19-8172 |
Adam Carson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction perjury statutory-interpretation witness-credibility witness-tampering |
Can a conviction for witness tampering be upheld when a Defendant did not ask a witness to lie for him? and; can a Court of Appeals change the interpr… |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 19-8133 |
Jorge A. Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-31 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE 'BUT-FOR' TEST OF GENERAL CAUSATION IS
SYNONYMOUS TO THE STATUTORIAL ELEMENT OF ACTUAL
CAUSATION IN THOSE STATUTES LIKE 18 USCS § 1347H… |
| 19-1189 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 19-1181 |
Estate of Thomas Steinbeck, et al. v. Waverly Scott Kaffaga, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
17-usc-304 collateral-estoppel copyright-act copyright-law copyright-termination licensing-rights res-judicata statutory-interpretation vesting |
Whether collateral estoppel bars an affirmative defense based on 17 U.S.C. § 304(c)(5) in a second litigation, when the first litigation involving dif… |
| 19-1186 |
Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha… |
| 19-1173 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders, pursuant to Unit… |
| 19-1176 |
Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap |
The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority sys… |
| 19-8117 |
Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
In federal habeas cases, whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner ha… |
| 19-8129 |
Charles Ben Bounds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Obstruction-of-Justice Sentence Enhancement in United States of A… |
| 19-8107 |
Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" app… |
| 19-8100 |
Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-8089 |
Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard |
Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.… |
| 19-8096 |
Marvin D. Noble v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1166 |
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action challenging a federal agency's compliance with… |
| 19-1158 |
Airbus Helicopters, Inc. v. Mary Riggs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-1442 administrative-delegation aviation-law civil-procedure delegation faa federal-aviation-administration federal-officer federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-removal removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a private party is "acting under" a federal officer and may remove under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), where it is carrying out duties formally and … |
| 19-1162 |
Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act |
In 2014, a photographic mural project was destroyed during the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant United States Postal Service (USPS), New York. The U… |
| 19-8071 |
Curtis Dion Earley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 19-8073 |
Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo… |
| 19-8079 |
Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation |
Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t… |
| 19-8049 |
Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In… |
| 19-8053 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law hobbs-act property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (b) is categorically a "crime of violence" as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c)(3)(A) , if the plain … |
| 19-8054 |
Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard |
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"), 34 U.S.C. § 20901 et seq., requires anyone convicted of a sex offense under state law to… |
| 19-8046 |
Michael Anthony Cervantes v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
WAS PETITIONERS CONVICTION SUSTAINED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS WARRANTING HABEAS RELIEF WHERE THE DISTRICT
THE INJUSTICE THAT RESOULTS FRON THE CON… |
| 19-1147 |
Willowood, LLC, et al. v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-U.S.C.-271(g) 35-usc-271 copyright-claims federal-circuit-review limelight-networks-v-akamai monopoly patent-infringement pesticide-labels single-entity-rule statutory-interpretation |
This Petition presents two questions for
review:
1. Whether lability for patent
infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(g) requires that
all steps of a pat… |
| 19-1145 |
Ng Lap Seng v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
bribery bribery-of-foreign-officials criminal-prosecution foreign-corrupt-practices-act international-organizations mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act quasi-sovereign-public-international-entities statutory-interpretation united-nations |
1. Whether the generic term "organization" in §666 should be construed to include quasi-sovereign public international entities like the United Nation… |
| 19-8038 |
Jermaine James v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8043 |
Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a "crime of
violence" that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 19-8016 |
Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8030 |
Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
| 19-8034 |
Whitney Atkinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act… |
| 19-8036 |
Odis Lee Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
I. What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required "complete review… |
| 19-7996 |
Milton Mayorga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-authority immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Milton Mayorga, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" t… |
| 19-7999 |
Christopher Parker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) categorically a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) w… |
| 19-8004 |
Lamarcus Harvey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause intimidation statutory-interpretation |
I. Bank Robbery, (the basis for attempted bank robbery) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim, or by presenting to the telle… |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
| 19-1131 |
Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement |
Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a "substanti… |
| 19-1119 |
Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-services arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-policy federal-property federal-property-and-administrative-services-act military-helicopter-training military-training national-environmental-policy-act national-park-service recreation secretary-of-the-interior standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in concluding that the National Park Service's approval of military helicopter training exercises on property conveyed for… |
| 19-7980 |
Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights |
IF PETITIONER ORDERS BEFORE OFFERING IS OCT. 10, 1998 AND THE N.C.G.S. THE-501 CONTINUE VICTIM RIGHTS ACTIONS ESTABLISHED FOR CRIMES THAT WERE COMMITT… |
| 19-1116 |
LinkedIn Corporation v. hiQ Labs, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bot-technology circuit-conflict computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act computer-trespass data-harvesting legislative-history personal-data public-websites statutory-interpretation technical-barriers unauthorized-access website-scraping |
Whether a company that deploys anonymous computer "bots" to circumvent technical barriers and harvest millions of individuals' personal data from comp… |
| 19-1115 |
American Bankers Association v. National Credit Union Administration |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law agency-authority agency-discretion chevron-deference delegation-of-authority local-community regulatory-definition separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
When a statute expressly directs an agency to define a statutory term, does the delegation expand the scope of the agency's authority at Chevron step … |
| 19-7894 |
In Re Charles S. Renchenski |
|
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-adequacy statutory-interpretation statutory-notice writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE FEDERAL COURT(S) UNLAWFULLY SUSPEND THE WRIT OF HABEAS
CORPUS
BY
RENDERING DECISIONS CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT RELATING TO: … |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 19-7965 |
Cedric Edney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b |
Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7966 |
Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1) whether the Courts violated U.s. Const. Amend,14
clauses on Due Process and Equal Protection?
2) Whether the courts violated U.s. Const. Amend. 5
… |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 19-7950 |
Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon… |
| 19-7952 |
Michael Deon Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7909 |
Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7896 |
Nicholas Hughes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor "for the purpose of" p… |
| 19-7900 |
Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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t+jTevT To d?£&rr /3o^ f fi'U&… |
| 19-7878 |
Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation |
Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Harris alleges an obvious conflict between the criminal 16-93-609(b), and the habitual offender statute 5-4-501(d)(2), that prohibits the two from… |
| 19-1090 |
In Re Bahig F. Bishay |
|
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Against the backdrop of this Court's most recent guidance set forth in Weyerhaeuser Co., — where the Court held, to wit: "The Administrative Procedure… |
| 19-1084 |
Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on… |
| 19-7858 |
Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai… |
| 19-7859 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-seizure civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process judicial-procedure neutral-hearing penal-code property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is it not true that in view of the matters brought to be heard (see APPENDIX A-1a.) the Courts Summary denial is Unreasonable and advance the an Ac… |
| 19-7867 |
David Leon Mims v. Illinois Health and Family Services |
Illinois |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
THe pAyMert oF Chid Supprt (TiHI D PriNAtEe
COMPANY is NOt MANdatoRY, ANd hAS NO JarisdictiON tO
Stop my FOodom AS A FrEt MAN |
| 19-7869 |
Raymond David Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY
CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS
AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt.
LSO WAS The DiStRICt C… |
| 19-7873 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Mr. Alexis appeal asked Justices Gorsuch and Kagan to overturn Defendant's knowledge of his two prior felony convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Aff… |
| 19-7863 |
Delores L. Knight v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-7842 |
Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret |
I. When considering whether agency expertise could be brought to bear on the questions presented in the "Bennett " decision, the United States Court o… |
| 19-7846 |
Cemaludin Veseli, II v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1073 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-112 35-usc-282 clear-and-convincing-standard enablement inoperability non-enabled-claims patent-law patent-validity presumption-of-validity statutory-interpretation unpredictability |
I. In light of a patent's presumption of validity under 35 U.S.C. § 282 and the concomitant clear and convincing standard for proving invalidity, may … |
| 19-1064 |
Kealii Makekau, et al. v. Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-attorneys-fees election-cancellation injunctions judicial-imprimatur merits prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court's grant of an injunction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), which requires a "finding that [plaintiff] has a sig… |
| 19-7822 |
Harry J. Williby v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
A. Is Facebook subject to suit under the Civil Rights law(s) based upon the conduct |
| 19-7824 |
Dexter Fisher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7766 |
Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. |
California |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-7775 |
Rande Brian Isabella v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Whether if was prejudicial error for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by disreg… |
| 19-7797 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING A JURY COULD RATIONALLY CONCLUDE THAT DEFENDANT PHARMACIST ABDICATED HIS DUTY UNDER §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 19-7811 |
Marcus Scott Crum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary
to its definition of "controlled substance offense" in
U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7777 |
John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness |
Is West Virginia's sexual offender registration scheme, which requires the disclosure of any telephone number that a registrant "has" or "uses," uncon… |
| 19-7778 |
James William Hill, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
bias-motivated-assault civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes hate-crimes-act hate-crimes-prevention-act jurisdictional-prong statutory-interpretation |
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, 18 U.S.C. § 249, criminalizes, among other things, assaults based on the … |
| 19-7780 |
Frank Harper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a… |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-7782 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
I.
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S OPINION DECLINING JURISDICTION
OVER CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS UNDER 18 U.S.C. §401, VIOLATES FEDERAL
RULES OF CRIMINAL P… |
| 19-7783 |
Billy J. Martin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings |
If a Florida U.S. Citizen is convicted of a crime by and through the perpetration of fraud on the trial Judge, and the jury by the assistant state att… |
| 19-7760 |
Jeremy Achey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. Whether, in cases where a drug conspiracy allegedly involves multiple substances, the government must prove that the defendant conspired to distrib… |
| 19-7763 |
Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS EXCEED THE STATUTORY
AUTHORITY CONFERRED UPON THE AGENCY BY CONGRESS
IN 18 U.S.C. § 3585(a), WHEN IT COMMENCES A … |
| 19-7764 |
Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United States,… |
| 19-7776 |
Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7753 |
Juan Ramon Pineda-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pineda because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illeg… |
| 19-7757 |
Babatunde Popoola v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A PERSON WHO WITH THE
CONSENT OF A BANK
ACCOUNT HOLDER PROVIDES IDENTIFYING
INFORMATION TO A
THIRD PARTY TO DEPOSIT
FUNDS INTO THE ACCOUNT W… |
| 19-7722 |
Audrel Jack Watson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-appeals due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure standing state-court-rules state-statutes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-error |
ARE ALL STATES MANDATED BY ANY U.S. PROVISIONS TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RULE 11 BY ADOPTING THEIR OWN SIMILAR OR IDENTICAL R… |
| 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 … |
| 19-7737 |
Charles Wolfe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness |
When the "advice of counsel" is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense … |
| 19-7663 |
Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states |
Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7718 |
Denny Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi… |
| 19-1035 |
ShaRon D. Rose v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
11-usc-362 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-362-a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-filing bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-petition-dismissal bankruptcy-statute-2005-revisions bankruptcy-stay debtor-property repeat-bankruptcy-filings statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 362(c)(8)(A) terminates the automatic bankruptcy stay as to property of the bankruptcy estate. |
| 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… |
| 19-7692 |
R. A. S. v. Montgomery County Children and Youth Services |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1257a adjudication adjudication-hearing adjudication-order constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights parental-rights statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review termination-of-rights termination-proceeding |
Whether the right to a fair termination of parental rights proceeding include the right of an effective adjudication order, and whether the Supreme Co… |
| 19-7706 |
Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states |
DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 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 ", … |
| 19-7684 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony |
1. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery, Penal Code § 29.02(a), "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force … |
| 19-7687 |
Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral
But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr
Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede
As Ne… |
| 19-7691 |
In Re Wilbert Norwood Starks |
|
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. WHETHER the County Court abused its Discretion and violated Due Process Under the
Fourteenth Amendment and Rule 13, Tex. Rule of Civil Procedure; … |
| 19-1026 |
Ford Motor Company v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
customs-classification federal-circuit import-duties international-trade post-importation-modification precedent statutory-interpretation tariff-classification tariff-provisions vehicle-classification waiver worthington-v-robbins |
I. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding, contrary to this Court's precedent, that a product's post-importation modification and use can determ… |
| 19-7659 |
Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-neglect abuse-or-neglect child-custody due-process expert-witness foster-placement indian-child-welfare-act knowing-waiver parental-rights qualified-expert-witness statutory-interpretation waiver |
In a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA"), 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901 – 1923 (1978), may a court deny a petition to invalidate the proceeding w… |
| 19-7664 |
Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7665 |
Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 19-7648 |
Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT FOUND THAT PETITIONER HARRIS WAS NOT ELIGIBLE
FOR A SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER SECTION 404? |
| 19-7635 |
Timothy Courtney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de… |
| 19-7637 |
Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or … |
| 19-995 |
Michael J. Murray v. Mayo Clinic, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination discrimination motivating-factor statutory-interpretation |
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination "on the basis of" disability, but does not specifically set forth the standard to be … |
| 19-1000 |
Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
|
bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "an offense against a foreign nation involving . . . bribery of a public official" under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery… |
| 19-7589 |
Michael M. Monzel v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-7604 |
Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7609 |
Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-7562 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. b18-6662 (January 2019)
2. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016).
3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2… |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT? |
| 19-7553 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7559 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights |
• DOES APPENDIX Q PERSONAL GUARANTOR/SURETY BOND 5-9-2017 SUFFICE TO DEFER FILING FEES?
• DID THE ARTICLE 3 COURT-U. S. DISTRICT COURT-MDF-TD ERROR I… |
| 19-7567 |
Richard Ben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2111 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-law dimaya-decision dimaya-vs-sessions due-process firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states johnson-vs-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, under Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson and Dimaya, Mr. Ben's conviction for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of vio… |
| 19-7571 |
Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Tennessee |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue |
Whether, as applied to the facts of this case, the statutory presumption if a body of a murder victim found within the state, the death is presumed to… |
| 19-7573 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness |
Question I. WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM FOR 38 U.S.C. §4215?
Question II. WHAT IS THE NEXT BEST ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ABSENT THE US… |
| 19-7535 |
Norman Eugene Reed v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-U.S.C.-20913(d) 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-law executive-branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
(1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i… |
| 19-7536 |
James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t… |
| 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… |
| 19-7531 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal?
2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-966 |
Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
In the America Invents Act, Congress authorized the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review whether certain patents, called Covered Business Method (C… |
| 19-972 |
Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., requires administrative exhaustion when a plaintiff brings a… |
| 19-7504 |
Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7520 |
Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7494 |
Ricky Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-limits executive-branch gundy gundy-precedent legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation |
(1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i… |
| 19-7505 |
Lamar James Crump v. Tracy Beltz, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7472 |
Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent |
Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7444 |
Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7458 |
Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth… |
| 19-7463 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988. |
| 19-7465 |
Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review patent procedural-rights racial-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-939 |
Stephen Gustus v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense. |
| 19-944 |
Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action, which was based on fi… |
| 19-934 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release |
Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… |
| 19-7420 |
In Re Adrean Francis |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
QUESTION ONE: Whether the continued application of a vacated New York "Youthful Offender" conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separ… |
| 19-7423 |
Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government |
Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114,
28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction
for the prosecution of such a criminal… |
| 19-7433 |
Anthony Russell Wilson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-sentencing fifth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
The question presented to this Court is whether Petitioner, Wilson, who suffered a criminal prosecution by way of a supervised release revocation hear… |
| 19-7434 |
Andrea Zambrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether "in… |
| 19-7387 |
Travis Miles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
1. Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under … |
| 19-7389 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process eeoc-obligations employment equal-employment-opportunity-commission equal-opportunity exhaustion-of-remedies human-rights judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was the Petitioner adversely aggrieved by the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission- DC Fiel… |
| 19-7397 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Here in these United States of America where we have all pledged "...justice for all", is this Honorable High Court's supervisory authority called for… |
| 19-7404 |
Joseph James Roe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) |
Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7409 |
Melvin Pryor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a "violent felony" having as an … |
| 19-7410 |
Victor Manuel Mora-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear procedural-due-process removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mora because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illegal ree… |
| 19-7413 |
Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process?
The 1l'h cir… |
| 19-7415 |
Dennis C. Davis v. Fayette County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 adjudicate-merits erroneous-limitation-law federal-jurisdiction state-court-remedies state-law-remedies statutory-claims statutory-interpretation tax-case-litigation tax-cases tax-cases-1983-relief taxation-violation-claim tort-claims |
Writ of Certiorari to resolve a conflict among the state, courts as to whether in TAX CASES, state court must provide relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 whe… |
| 19-7417 |
Corey Michael Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can a the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-930 |
CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (23)Relisted (2) |
administrative-agencies administrative-procedure-act anti-injunction-act apa-challenges direct-marketing judicial-review regulatory-mandate regulatory-mandates statutory-interpretation taxes |
Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawfu… |
| 19-932 |
In Re Julius Jerome Murphy |
|
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
|
2244(b) 28-U.S.C.-§-2244(b) circuit-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction prima-facie-showing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions |
I. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) tasks federal courts of appeals with determining whether an applicant has made a "prima facie showing" that his application … |
| 19-933 |
Monex Deposit Company, et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cftc-authority commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission due-process fraud market-manipulation retail-transactions retroactive-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 7 U.S.C. § 9, the Commodity Exchange Act's "Prohibition Against Manipulation," empowers CFTC to punish conduct that does not manipulate any co… |
| 19-914 |
Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC "may seek" a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to "file suit" se… |
| 19-896 |
Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Antonio Arteaga-Martinez |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law bond-hearing clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process flight-risk immigration-detention immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government … |
| 19-897 |
Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Maria Angelica Guzman Chavez, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
8-usc-1226 8-usc-1231 administrative-law detention immigration-detention immigration-law immigration-procedure removal-order statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal withholding-removal |
Whether the detention of an alien who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal is governed by 8… |
| 19-7346 |
Peggy Jean Clark v. Department of the Army, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action-review administrative-law benefits-revocation due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-review military-benefits procedural-error property-rights retroactive-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the Appeals Court err in its judgment affirming the retroactive revocation of benefits on the premise that the initial determination granting … |
| 19-7320 |
Jurden Rogers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not… |
| 19-7330 |
Michael P. Haldorson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-844h2 constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment statutory-interpretation stirone-v-united-states |
Where a grand jury charges a defendant with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2) based on the carrying of an "explosive, namely, smokeless powder," may he … |
| 19-7334 |
Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation |
I.
WHETHER FORCE REQUIRED TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY SATISFIES THE PHYSICAL FORCE
STANDARD OF JOHNSON I TO CATEGORICALLY QUALIFY THE ELEMENTS CLAUSE … |
| 19-7335 |
Chad Prodoehl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7337 |
Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7341 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the inherent inequity in Congress changing the level of the enhancement for prior drug felonies for 21… |
| 19-7315 |
Andrew Wright v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United St… |
| 19-7324 |
Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary
as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-887 |
Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation |
The United States Constitution requires that parties have at least minimally diverse citizenship for a federal court to exercise diversity jurisdictio… |
| 19-7292 |
Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler |
First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre… |
| 19-7293 |
Desmond Bowen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) states: "The court shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary." Indeed, there are factors found in § 3553(… |
| 19-7301 |
Michael Goodrum v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER IT'S A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, PROSCRIBED IN JACKSON V. VIRGINIA, FOR PETITIONER'S CONVICTION TO BE BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE T… |
| 19-7260 |
Darin Kaufmann v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7238 |
Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights |
1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE… |
| 19-7242 |
Bryan Whitehead v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 5th-amendment conviction conviction-and-sentence crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment jury-determination residual-clause sentence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
I. Whether the Petitioner was denied his Fifth Amendment right to due process
of law by virtue of his conviction and sentence under the residual claus… |
| 19-7247 |
Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
A federal prisoner who seeks to challenge the legality of his conviction or sentence usually must do so in a motion under 28 U.S.C. §2255. Under the s… |
| 19-7249 |
Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Illegal Sentence
After
Revocati
Of supervised Release-Extended past
Originol Sentence Expiration Date. |
| 19-7251 |
William McNeal v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 19-7187 |
Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
sixth AmEndMEnt U.S. Const to
. whether Petitroner
EFFECTIVE
Fthe story?
I. whEther PEtitoner sixth Amendment eights U.s. const to EfFectIVE
unding fo… |
| 19-7234 |
Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7188 |
John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation |
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY OF THE CIRCUITS, THE TENTH CIRCUIT HELD THE LANGUAGE OF 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'S PHRASE "AT THE SAME TIME" TO BE AMBIGUOUS. THE T… |
| 19-7206 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7207 |
Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea |
Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv… |
| 19-7217 |
Rickey Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
L. Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and … |
| 19-854 |
Universal Telephone Exchange, Inc. v. ZTE Corporation, et al. |
Texas |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-standard legal-integrity revised-uniform-arbitration-act statutory-interpretation texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code undue-means uniform-arbitration-act |
Does an admission by a party of contemporaneous illegal activity at the time of the issues in dispute in arbitration, or contemporaneous with the time… |
| 19-850 |
Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases such as Derrico's where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitr… |
| 19-7185 |
Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
(1) The judgment of the United States District Court has violated long standing precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the United States Cou… |
| 19-7195 |
Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7197 |
Darryl William Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver |
1. The United States Supreme Court is asked to resolve a federal question of jurisdictional law, whether the district court for the Eastern District o… |
| 19-7172 |
Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District … |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u… |
| 19-839 |
Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. |
Oregon |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining |
The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).… |
| 19-7123 |
Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7155 |
Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
First Question:
Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and
adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of
authority, prohibits petitioner's 2… |
| 19-7160 |
Ernest J. Espinoza v. Matt A. Ashe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process free-speech patent. standing takings appeal case-statement civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process filing-deadlines jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7113 |
Raynard Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), the so cal… |
| 19-7115 |
Alexander Faulkner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-7118 |
Calvin Buffington v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting
PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis f… |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 19-7131 |
Eric Hanna v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand (GVR) this case with directions that the Eleventh Circuit grant Pe… |
| 19-819 |
Alfred Procopio, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure equal-access-to-justice equal-access-to-justice-act haas-v-peake judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation substantially-justified veterans-benefits |
I. Whether This Court Should Grant Certiorari to
Resolve an Important Point of Law Concerning
the Applicability of the "Substantially Justified"
Stand… |
| 19-825 |
Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (6) |
circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds. |
| 19-836 |
Paul Ross Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions |
1. When a motion under Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 60(b) is granted with respect to a prisoner's first application under 28 U.S.C. 2255, whether a subsequent a… |
| 19-7076 |
Cedrick Ponder v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… |
| 19-7083 |
Leroy L. Perdue v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b).
2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f… |
| 19-7084 |
Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204, the International Parental Kidnapping statute, to define the term "domestic violence" for purposes of an affi… |
| 19-7095 |
David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-7102 |
Ruben Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7103 |
Edward Merritt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the definition of "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to re… |
| 19-7105 |
Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "reweigh the [18 U.S.C. §3553(a)] factors"?
SUBSIDIARY QUES… |
| 19-7107 |
Joseph Thor Perkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion booker-v-united-states criminal-sentencing downward-variance federal-sentencing-procedure gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court can abuse its discretion by not varying downward further based on this Court's decisions mandating that a sentencing court … |
| 19-7111 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Kevin S. Portnoy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection insurance rico standing statutory-interpretation texas-department-of-insurance |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7067 |
Michael Baird Jordan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that bank robbery by intimidation is less culpable than a specific in… |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7072 |
Tyrone Walker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states |
1. Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
2. Whether H… |
| 19-7074 |
Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law |
I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-7077 |
Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis oral-argument standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7078 |
Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i). |
| 19-7079 |
Bryan Mark Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause intent intentional-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 19-7080 |
Stanley Jaboin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. Petitioner ask did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and un… |
| 19-809 |
Michael Bonin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on "falsely assum[ing] or pretend[ing] to be an officer or employee acting under the author… |
| 19-7057 |
Johnny L. Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "death results" enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 19-7062 |
Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation |
Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7050 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
Wter the Foh ct con pel bue i
1. discretion in sanction the petitioner
Whether the Founth OcH Erceed it Authonty in sancion The petitioner.
A Disco… |
| 19-801 |
Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii |
Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w… |
| 19-7031 |
Allen James Hancock v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection land-use property-rights regulatory-takings standing statutory-interpretation takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-6972 |
Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation |
The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th… |
| 19-7017 |
Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. NH4 NO LIABILI7Y INSUNANCE ON BUSiNESSGS
2. WNY IS A CALiFONIA AUOWED TO STRING Ou7 Er CASE. AND NUMEnOUS EXNENSES - DECIDE (ONENHAT THAY PRo-SEL … |
| 19-786 |
Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu… |
| 19-782 |
Vahan Kelerchian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
|
carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Does the "right to control" constitute "property" for purposes of wire and mail fraud in light of this Court's holding in McNally, Carpenter, Cleve… |
| 19-783 |
Nathan Van Buren v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (22)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
Whether a person who is authorized to access
information on a computer for certain purposes
violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud
and Abus… |
| 19-6951 |
Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, John Nathan … |
| 19-6979 |
Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene… |
| 19-6994 |
Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione… |
| 19-6996 |
Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE LOWER COURTS ERR IN THEIR DISPOSITION OF PETITIONER'S CASE? |
| 19-7006 |
Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Petitioner Alvin Drummond presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additiona… |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his
18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi… |
| 19-6961 |
Hernan Navarro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process equitable-relief evidence evidentiary-proceedings intellectual-predicate judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
fordamenton error of equitable sharispr tence by evaluating the Detitoners
WS Under an erroneous Stendo revi Me tn &&
B0id Claimg being unFarnly rejec… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6966 |
Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the "fair presentation"/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the decision… |
| 19-6967 |
Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation |
1. There is an important issue of law as to the scope of the remedies available
for violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act ["PURPA"]… |
| 19-6968 |
Brian David Brumbach v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." "Burglary" carries the meaning that the majori… |
| 19-6974 |
Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation |
In her short tenure as U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York, the Honorable Ronnie Abrams has presided over a number of cases that … |
| 19-6975 |
Jason Lee Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS
DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN… |
| 19-774 |
Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a … |
| 19-6933 |
Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served |
Base upon the case laws, rules, and the authority provided by the Genral Assermbly and the Attorney General, petitioner alleged the his jail good time… |
| 19-6936 |
Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation |
In a RICO-conspiracy case, must the government present proof of, inter alia, an existing enterprise, which is engaged in activities that actually affe… |
| 19-6940 |
Kevin James Petroske v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism |
Whether mere video voyeurism – surreptitious videoing of unaware subjects without any posing or manipulation of the video images – of the innocent con… |
| 19-6941 |
Michael Collins v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony |
1. Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career C… |
| 19-6920 |
Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S
CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION… |
| 19-748 |
John B. Lepore v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-judge-findings administrative-law annuity-calculation basic-pay civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-a-6 creditable-service due-process fact-finding federal-employment government-benefits government-employee-retirement government-employment judicial-review retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the court below had the right to ignore that finding, in plain violation of Rule 52(a)(6) which states that
"Findin… |
| 19-752 |
Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
If state statutes create an adjudicatory procedure that is contrary to the exclusive civil enforcement mechanism under the Employee Retirement Income … |
| 19-6902 |
Samir Benamor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a 922(g)(1) prosecution, the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics th… |
| 19-6904 |
Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6908 |
Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6888 |
In Re Roger A. Libby |
|
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
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| 19-6891 |
Ahmad Khan Rahimi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2332a attempted-use attempted-use-of-weapon-of-mass-destruction criminal-law criminal-statute-interpretation detonation explosive-device explosives federal-criminal-code possession-of-weapon public-safety statutory-construction statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-law weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons |
Whether a defendant's attempted "use" of a weapon of mass
destruction, an element of 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, includes conduct besides detonation
such as co… |
| 19-6896 |
Jeffrey Antonio v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
I. Whether, when Congress relinquished all federal claims and extinguished all interest of the Pueblo of Sandia in privately held lands within pueblo … |
| 19-6897 |
Obaydul Hoque Bhuiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction plaintiff-burden prima-facie prima-facie-showing private-party-analogue standing statutory-interpretation |
What prima facie showing is it necessary and sufficient for a plaintiff to make, in order to establish the existence of a private-party analogue suppo… |
| 19-734 |
Trina R. Patterson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
15-usc-1692a-6 circuit-court-split debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure ninth-circuit security-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding consistent with the opinions in Dowers v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al and Obduskey v. McCarthy and H… |
| 19-6885 |
Antonio Escobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop |
1. Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009),
Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United … |
| 19-6883 |
Donald Brian Winberg, et ux. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is a farmer committing' 'fraud"(l8 U.S.C. §1343) when he sells
his "future goods" crop (UCC §2-105) on a '.'future goods" contract,
and accepts a… |
| 19-6862 |
Dalton Betsinger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-6864 |
Cedis R. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine |
Does a state court conviction qualify as an "offense of violence" for the purpose of the sentencing predicate pursuant to U.S.S.G.§4A1.1(e), if the st… |
| 19-6865 |
Delante L. Lunn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the but-for test established by Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) for mixed drug overdoses… |
| 19-712 |
Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. |
Louisiana |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur |
1. Is "manifest disregard of the law" still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
2. Did the arbitrator in this case manifestly di… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6840 |
Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness |
Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-6842 |
Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a
new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit
court… |
| 19-6849 |
Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6850 |
Ledell Tyler v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
1. Whether The Meaning of The Word "Force" Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompassass Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct:
2. Whether The Hobbs Act … |
| 19-6858 |
David Lamont Liddell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-708 |
Gold Value International Textile, Inc. v. Sanctuary Clothing, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
17-usc-411 attorneys-fees copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership copyright-procedure copyright-registration copyright-validity good-faith publication publication-status statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a court invalidate a copyright registration –
and thus terminate a pending case – on the basis of a
good-faith inclusion of inaccurate informat… |
| 19-711 |
Missouri, ex rel. Darrin Lamasa v. Michael Wright, Associate Circuit Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit, Warren County, Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption marbury-v-madison medical-marijuana rational-basis-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Missouri's medical marijuana law (Mo. Const. art. XIV) is preempted by the federal statute.
II. If not, since there is no verdict director… |
| 19-6798 |
Corey Eugene Gill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6804 |
Michael Helms v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process extinguishment foreclosure foreclosure-judgment rescission rescission-rights security-interest statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act |
The Truth in Lending Act ('TELA "), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq., provides special rescission rights for loans secured by a borrower's principal dwelling… |
| 19-6806 |
Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification |
I.
WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION.
II.
WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 19-6807 |
Marcus Robinson v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court takings |
Could the District Court or the State Court make a decision to deny the Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim based on U.S. Supreme Cou… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6820 |
Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code |
In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or… |
| 19-6826 |
Jennifer Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-705 |
John F. Sharpe v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion federal-claims military-pay separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treasury-disbursements |
I. Whether the acts of officials of the De
partments of Defense and of the Navy are
bound by statute and regulation.
II. Whether a court may find va… |
| 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… |
| 19-6794 |
Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination |
1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did
the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta… |
| 19-6771 |
Larry Wayne Parr v. Simon E. Rodriguez |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-definition bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-procedures business-trust chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 corporation debtor-status homestead-exemption statutory-interpretation |
Due to The Fact Larry Parr 's business and business assets were in The LARRY W. PARR LIVING TRUST, do these facts make The LARRY W. PARR LIVING TRUST … |
| 19-6775 |
James Marione Butchee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6784 |
Jermaine Whyte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a self-standing strict liability offense with regard to the age of the victim that removes the mens rea element in… |
| 19-6791 |
Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
SHOULD THE COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL IN THE APPLICATION OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE SE… |
| 19-688 |
Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability |
Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a "logical bond" between the alleged statutory violation a… |
| 19-689 |
Mark Chapman, et al. v. ACE American Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
|
certification civil-procedure duty-to-defend insurance-coverage statutory-interpretation statutory-rights substance-abuse summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by requiring allegations not contained in Chapter 397 and by denying petitioners' motion to cert… |
| 19-667 |
Michael Baker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
The federal fraud statutes define the offense of fraud as a scheme to "obtain[ ] money or property" by deceptive means. 18 U.S.C. § 1343; see also 18 … |
| 19-671 |
Daniel A. Grover v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation civil-procedure civil-service due-process federal-regulations regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies interpretation of their own regulations must continue in the light of the admission by the O… |
| 19-6748 |
Steven A. Adams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6757 |
Jamal Bowens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for
reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-6761 |
Younes Kabbaj v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-115 18-usc-875 apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence elonis-v-united-states first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat true-threats |
It is a federal crime under both 18 U.S.C. §875 and §115 to threaten to injure the person (\.e.
physical body) of another, yet not legally settled as… |
| 19-677 |
Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients?
2. When, if ever, does a plaintiff who wins a preliminary … |
| 19-678 |
United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q… |
| 19-6722 |
Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
(1) Did the Petitionee 1 know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a
gun or fifeafm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). Rehaif v. See ,e .g.
United States , … |
| 19-664 |
Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis |
1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi… |
| 19-6714 |
Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite… |
| 19-6720 |
James Dwayne Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6736 |
Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-659 |
Miladis Salgado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice |
1. When does a civil forfeiture claimant "substantially prevail" under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)?
2. In civil forfeiture lawsuits where a district court… |
| 19-6707 |
Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s FORCE CLAUSE requires the use of "physical force" (i.e: "violence force" meaning "force capable of causing PHYsICAL in Dima… |
| 19-6711 |
Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6675 |
Michael Ray Bishop v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-6688 |
Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of
conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6703 |
Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are
no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is...
remand required i… |
| 19-6706 |
Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 19-6667 |
James Anthony Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER A UNITED STATES CITIZEN SHALL BE HELD IN PRISON FOR AN |
| 19-6671 |
Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1)
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the
Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the
deter… |
| 19-6672 |
Erwin Keith Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1)
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the
Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the
deter… |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6678 |
Joseph Van Sach v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6680 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6681 |
Louis Milton Willis v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
48-usc-1612 district-court exclusive-jurisdiction gross-receipts-tax income-tax organic-act revised-organic-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction virgin-islands |
Whether the plain language of § 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954
[48 U.S.C. § 1612(a)] establishing that "the District Court of the Virgin
Isla… |
| 19-6653 |
Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence |
Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6661 |
Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation |
A.
IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION-OF-POWERS , WHICH PROHIBITS
WJUDTGIAL ENCROACHMENT ON THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF CONGRESS
TO MAKE LAWS, VIOLATED, WHEN… |
| 19-6662 |
Shane E. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S… |
| 19-630 |
Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved
Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore
Lake was not an "area" where a fee was charged,… |
| 19-631 |
William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19) |
automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con… |
| 19-633 |
Edwin Arthur Avery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 federal-custody federal-prisoners habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limitation post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief second-or-successive-motion state-custody statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 19-619 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-automated-method computer-automation computer-network data-analysis data-collection patent patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice. |
| 19-612 |
Hassan Abpikar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment |
1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-6609 |
Chad Michael Stoner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-875c 18-usc-876c criminal-law due-process federal-crime first-amendment-speech free-speech internet interstate-threat interstate-transmission private-correspondence statutory-interpretation threat video-reposting |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmissio… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 … |
| 19-6623 |
Mario Denane Fultz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6626 |
Allen Dodson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-6586 |
Shane Inghels v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under the Armed… |
| 19-6564 |
In Re Wei Zhou |
|
2019-11-08 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction |
Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite… |
| 19-6569 |
Keyon W. Carraway v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclud e that
Rehaif v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (June 2… |
| 19-6512 |
Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether The Defcndant's Knwingly with willful Misconduct
1.7
Dut due process of Law.
Yes s NO.
2.)
Whether The DeFendant's Volated A.R.s.4. b) MEMoRAu… |
| 19-6555 |
Courtney Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF… |
| 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… |
| 19-6504 |
Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6505 |
Michael Ingram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation |
Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan… |
| 19-6517 |
Lynden Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 19-583 |
Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire |
First Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
|
facts-underlying false-claims-act first-to-file-bar judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-provision legal-standing pleadings procedural-analysis qui-tam statutory-interpretation |
The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, permits qui tam relators to sue on the United States' behalf to recover damages for frauds against… |
| 19-587 |
Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
|
continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion |
Whether, notwithstanding the plain language of § 3161(h)(7) of the Speedy Trial Act and this Court's decision in Zedner, a district court may exclude … |
| 19-585 |
Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations |
Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover … |
| 19-6486 |
Eduard Bangiyev v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt |
Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt, also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute. |
| 19-6487 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
DOES TREATING "CIVIL RIGHTS " AS CUMULATIVE RENDER THE
ENFORCEMENT OF 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(l) AND 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) TO BE
CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM … |
| 19-6428 |
Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-11-01 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-1151 choctaw-nation congressional-act dependent-indian-community diminishment disestablishment extinguishment indian-country jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries oklahoma reservation reservation-status statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE CHOCTAW NATIONS 10,864 SQUARE MILES LOCATED IN
SOUTH-EASTERN PART OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTED A
RESERVATION UNDER 18 USCA 1151 … |
| 19-576 |
Interior Glass Systems, Inc. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing due-process hearing irs iRS-collection penalties seizure statutory-interpretation tax tax-penalties vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the collection of tax penalties an exception to the requirements of due process, or does a citizen have a right to a hearing before the IRS seiz… |
| 19-6462 |
Stephen L. Bush v. David W. Gray, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6466 |
Eric Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery —which can be accomplished without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force —qualify as… |
| 19-6420 |
Christopher Mark Heath v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-6447 |
Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky |
WhEther The power appiled in this case to assert Judiciol authority
wos Contrary to this and other circutr in light of thcwhole
record.
WhEther the I… |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
1. Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction. The courts of appeals continue applying the incorrect standard of re… |
| 19-6453 |
James E. Lang v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it's statutory law committed by it's lower appellate Court, that has affirmed a c… |
| 19-566 |
Devan Pierson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 401(c) of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-394, provides: "This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to… |
| 19-568 |
Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States,… |
| 19-563 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Patrick J. Collins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law anti-injunction anti-injunction-clause conservatorship conservatorship-powers derivative-action fannie-mae federal-housing-finance-agency freddie-mac shareholders-rights statutory-interpretation succession-clause takings third-amendment treasury |
1. Whether the statute's anti-injunction clause, which precludes courts from taking any action that would "restrain or affect the exercise of powers o… |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
(LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS
FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI… |
| 19-6433 |
Edward Anthony Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question in light of conflicting Ninth Circuit law that results in a fe… |
| 19-6359 |
Stephen Nivens v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-law correctional-services double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentencing-credits special-project-credits standing statutory-interpretation venue |
1.) Whether Judge Daniel P. Dwyer as the Administrative Judge was to preside over and hear Petitioner's hearing for Judicial Review instead of Judge B… |
| 19-6360 |
George C. Pugh v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation |
Is it lawfol for the Petittioner For be decmed an Habitual fetorry offe whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the B years of dor of conviction… |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6397 |
Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6401 |
Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 Gives The Court of Appeals Error Correction Power. Under § 2106, Error Correction Becomes An Exercise of The Court's Statutory … |
| 19-544 |
In Re Todd C. Bank |
|
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
|
affidavit affidavit-requirement article-iii-court bar-admission civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1746 due-process federal-courts legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation unsworn-declaration |
28 U.S.C. Section 1746 states that, "[w]herever, under any law of the United States or under any rule, regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant… |
| 19-536 |
Bocilla Island Seaport, Inc., fka Highpoint Tower Technology, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
basis-adjustment deficiency-determination due-process partner-level partner-level-penalty partner-level-proceeding partnership-basis penalty penalty-imposition reasonable-cause statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure united-states-v-woods |
This Tax Court partner-level penalty jurisdiction case raises these four interrelated issues:
1) Should "each partner's outside basis [in his partner… |
| 19-6366 |
Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
As Truth is fundamental:
Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in … |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6364 |
Eduardo Duffy, aka Eduardo Duffy-Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-definition citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge conviction-review due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry judicial-precedent morales-santana severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6348 |
Billy J. Griffin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Question 1. Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statue indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state cou… |
| 19-6353 |
Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the general, residual phrase "takes any other action" in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6358 |
In Re Morris J. Warren |
|
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation |
DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, … |
| 19-6315 |
John David Stahlman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) |
1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T… |
| 19-6334 |
Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-6340 |
Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal court of appeals below correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction unde… |
| 19-517 |
Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-transparency civil-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception express-statement-requirement foia foia-publication-requirements freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandatory-publication secret-law stafford-act statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether section 5148 bars review of claims that FEMA uses secret law in violation of FOIA's mandatory requirements. |
| 19-508 |
AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts |
Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th… |
| 19-511 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") to prohibit calls made to a cell phone without consent using an "automatic tel… |
| 19-512 |
Anthony Robinson v. Department of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure civil-suit consumer-protection fair-credit-reporting-act federal-agency federal-government-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-liability |
Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act authorizes consumers to file civil suits against federal governmental agencies under 15 U.S.C. § 1681n and §1681… |
| 19-6314 |
Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal |
[1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
[2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho… |
| 19-6318 |
Damon Tracy Locke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6320 |
Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6327 |
Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Refexto All attachmentoregarding
questions of Las
V
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5
Y6 positibn 57 Also, Under ColiForriaPenal C… |
| 19-6306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951… |
| 19-6307 |
Andrew Oreckinto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec… |
| 19-6309 |
Charles Benton Bagwell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intentional-force intentional-use-of-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 19-507 |
Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (7) |
circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles; and
2) Whether a… |
| 19-6282 |
Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United Sta… |
| 19-6289 |
Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. Unite… |
| 19-6293 |
Dwight Knowles v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application |
Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in… |
| 19-495 |
Martin Shkreli v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
In prosecutions for mail, wire and bank fraud, which require a finding of a loss or an intended loss by the victim, a "no ultimate harm" instruction h… |
| 19-484 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether, notwithstanding FECA's express bar on prohibiting the disclosure of any investigation, and its careful constraints on the FEC's disclosure po… |
| 19-488 |
Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750… |
| 19-483 |
Elsie Marino v. Jeffrey Nadel, dba Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
|
creditor debt-assignment debt-collection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure foreclosure-action postjudgment-remedy standing statutory-interpretation trustee trustee-status |
In Heintz v. Jenkins, 514 U.S. 291, 296, the Court observed that an apparent objective of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et … |
| 19-6255 |
Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether me, the Petitioner, is entitled to Relief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 19-6262 |
Liddon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-intent federal-firearms-law felon-possession firearm-disposal firearms-transfer knowledge-requirement mens-rea prohibited-persons prosecution-burden prosecution-strategy statutory-interpretation |
1. Since the Supreme Court has now held, in Rehaif v. United States , that in a
prosecution under §922(g) and §924(a)(2), the Government must prove b… |
| 19-6264 |
Orane Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a
single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties
under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-6238 |
Brannon D. Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) 18-USC-924c categorical-approach contemporary-interpretation crime-of-violence elements-clause predicate-crime statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in applying the categorical approach to the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), courts must analyze the least of the acts historical… |
| 19-6244 |
Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
.WhEthER fectiv ASisA of COUE ws h WhE cOU AppoNd cOUe ft
CRMN RACICE to peSUE rNSURAUCE lAW the MIdle of y MEl. whCh cAUSE y AEAl to
bE disMissEd "du… |
| 19-6245 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
IS a Family Law Divorce Proceeding in which Parental, Custody Property and Financial rights are at issue a Bona Fide Civil Access to Courts Action war… |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption with… |
| 19-469 |
John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-481 |
In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy |
|
2019-10-10 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-6225 |
Marc Pierre Hall v. Warden Andrews |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 district-court fundamental-errors habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-analysis retroactive-statutory-interpretation savings-clause-28-usc-2241 statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation-28-usc-2255 subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Petitioner respectfully requests the Supreme Court's Supervision of uncommunicated Circuit Courts regarding Statutory Interpretation and applicatio… |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER
THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING
AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-6193 |
Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement |
g the Court to put i halt to the Intrmant systen as esteuctive and inherently Bangerons
And
droxen Censing the life of at jeust one aw enfoscement off… |
| 19-6197 |
Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation |
1) Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in Martinez v. United States , that
the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions,
inconsistent … |
| 19-6176 |
Christopher Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclud… |
| 19-6178 |
Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-6181 |
Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which … |
| 19-6186 |
Latroy Leon Burris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the "use of physical force against" that person for purposes of the Ar… |
| 19-6143 |
Christopher Scott v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution-framing constitutional-law due-process exoneration judicial-review original-intent separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FRAMER! Si OF THE CONSTITUTION BELIEVE THAT THE DOCUMENT'S
POWER WOULD "EXONERATE?! [A] MAN ? |
| 19-6144 |
Tom Smith, III v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
I. whether the Sentencing Commission via commentary exceeded its statutory mandate under § 994(h) by includiiig/aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and a… |
| 19-6155 |
Deounte Ussury v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes |
I. Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute § 18 U.S.C. 1959(a), also known as VICAR, requires a special verdict for… |
| 19-6128 |
Bacari McCarthren v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-battery categorical-approach crime-of-violence deadly-weapon descamps descamps-v-united-states mathis physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation turner |
The Florida crime of aggravated battery may qualify as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines only if the … |
| 19-6131 |
Derrick Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional |
Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a "crime of violenc… |
| 19-435 |
SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation |
The Third Circuit, in conf lict with the D.C., Ninth, and Federal Circuits, deferred to an IRS regulation under step two of Chevron even though the ag… |
| 19-438 |
Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 19-440 |
Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act |
For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary… |
| 19-425 |
Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915 (e) (2) (b) (ii), "fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted", as it relates to Rule 12 (b) … |
| 19-428 |
Ryan Courtade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent |
1. When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a "lascivious exhibition" under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court r… |
| 19-6084 |
Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle |
(1.)Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based
upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the
U.S.A. by implication given… |
| 19-6104 |
Freya D. Pearson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1) Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a "Materiality" determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court o… |
| 19-6108 |
Corey Kidd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the court below err in finding that the offense of aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under … |
| 19-6116 |
Ronald E. Evans v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation generic-burglary north-carolina north-carolina-burglary north-carolina-statute second-degree-burglary sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation trailers |
Whether North Carolina second degree burglary (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51), which encompasses unlawful entries into trailers used to store property, is c… |
| 19-6119 |
Masnik Sainmelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 |
1. Whether The District Court Erred When The Court Increased The
Appellant's Guideline Range Four Levels By Finding That The Offense
Involved Between … |
| 19-6120 |
Raul Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-6090 |
Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere
serivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a "new judgment" within the
mea… |
| 19-6097 |
Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact |
Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional?
Is the Virginia Parole Board Manual that mandates the use of … |
| 19-421 |
In Re William Henry Hamman |
|
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
1) Florida 's public colleges and universities each
require a high school GPA in order to participate in
the Dual Enrollment program. But law states… |
| 19-413 |
Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa |
Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an "advertisement" as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the… |
| 19-415 |
Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether a grant of TPS to an alien by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") constitutes a lawful admission into the United States fo… |
| 19-6087 |
Atif Babar Malik v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton |
DO COURTS LACK SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION WHEN THE SCOPE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT FALLS OUTSIDE CHARGED STATUTE? |
| 19-6088 |
Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6078 |
Terreall McDaniel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the
applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6055 |
Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
II. May courts … |
| 19-6062 |
Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets |
(1) May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)?
… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-402 |
Howard L. Baldwin, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law agency-deference brand-x-doctrine common-law common-law-mailbox-rule stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund |
(1) Should Brand X be overruled?
(2) What, if any, deference should a federal agency's statutory construction receive when it contradicts a court's p… |
| 19-403 |
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes |
Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming, as the National Indian Gaming Commission,… |
| 19-387 |
Ambac Assurance Corporation v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
11-usc-904 11-usc-922 48-usc-2165 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-debtors special-revenues statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 11 U.S.C. § 904 and 48 U.S.C. § 2165 prohibit a bankruptcy court from enforcing the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code against municipal deb… |
| 19-6025 |
Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6039 |
Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PROSECUTION OF MR. VARGAS - AN
ECUADORIAN NATIONAL WITH NO TIES TO THE UNITED
STATES — FOR TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN
INTERNATIO… |
| 19-6044 |
Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment |
I. As applied, does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land Subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B) (vi) ("IRC … |
| 19-6050 |
Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach
fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining
force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-6001 |
Gregory Leroy Packer v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-duty counsel-representation court-docket court-procedure diligence diligence-appeal due-process legal-diligence pennsylvania-statute prejudicial-delay related-case-law standing statutory-interpretation unprecedent-case |
1. WERE THE APPELLATE COURTS RULINGS UNPRECEDENT FOR THIS CASE?
2. DID THE COURTS DISREGARD PETITIONER'S COURT DOCKET IN THEIR RULING?
3. DID THE CO… |
| 19-6002 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion
and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Co… |
| 19-6015 |
Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-6016 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-6018 |
Joey Little v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise |
Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-381 |
Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company |
Tennessee |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118
unconstitutional as applied, given the lack of due
process created by artificially limiting a Defendant's… |
| 19-372 |
William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative "voids ".
… |
| 19-373 |
James Walker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed
with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent
felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-5983 |
Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5952 |
Keith A. Gordon v. Cenedra D. Lee, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals err in finding that Petitioner has not shown a "clear and indisputable right" to issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel… |
| 19-5964 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c… |
| 19-5976 |
Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5981 |
William James Truesdale v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer |
Whether the united states Distriet court Middle District of Florido Tompo Division deliberately OF OBJEETIONS" U.S. DiSTrIET JUdYe ORDER DENYFNG MOTEO… |
| 19-5929 |
Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5928 |
Marcos Santiago v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 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 … |
| 19-5923 |
Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used… |
| 19-5908 |
Howard Leon Combs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime |
1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt… |
| 19-5911 |
Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does the "saving clause" of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a Congres… |
| 19-329 |
Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response Waived |
ability-one agency-acquisition bid-protest bid-protest-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims government-contracts mandatory-source-directive statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-preference |
Congress enacted the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act
("JWOD"), 41 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq., to increase employment for individuals who are blind and severely
dis… |
| 19-323 |
Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with r… |
| 19-5871 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent |
1) Did the district court error in increasing Havis base offense level based upon its belief that the Commentary to &4Bli2 appropriately includes atte… |
| 19-5882 |
Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
1. Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court… |
| 19-5891 |
Donte Island v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling |
Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m… |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 19-5848 |
Saquawn Harris v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-review federal-rule-35 federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-statute judicial-procedure majority-vote recusal statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the federal statute providing that en banc rehearing is granted upon the vote of "a majority of judges of the court in regular active servi… |
| 19-5852 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5853 |
Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings |
I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. … |
| 19-314 |
Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin |
California |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation |
Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law? |
| 19-5820 |
Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) permits a court of appeals, when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based … |
| 19-5821 |
Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Should the verdict be reversed because the plea was not entered into knowingly intelligently and voluntarily?
Did the prosecution violate Brady requi… |
| 19-5833 |
Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question A:
Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's
Constitutional Due Process Ri… |
| 19-5835 |
Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §
924(c)(3)(B), which defines "crime of violence," is unconstitut i… |
| 19-5812 |
Mitchum Pastor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Because 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines bank robbery in a way that does not require intentional intimidation, does § 2113(a) bank robbery fail to qualify … |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-296 |
Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether Chevron deference, rather than the rule of lenity, takes precedence in the interpretation of statutory language defining an element of vari… |
| 19-5777 |
Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5793 |
Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall… |
| 19-5763 |
Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5771 |
Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5772 |
Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
California state courts have authoritatively construed the state statute punishing assault with a deadly weapon, California Penal Code $ 2a5(a)(1) and… |
| 19-5773 |
John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5750 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5753 |
Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1029 constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law-mens-rea criminal-procedure due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states intent jury-instructions knowingly knowledge mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1) To satisfy the "knowingly" and with "intent" in 18 U.S.C. § 1029(A)(3), Do Courts have to prove precise "mens rea" as set forth in Rehaif v. United… |
| 19-5730 |
Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-5743 |
Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced
sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and
3582(a), or d… |
| 19-256 |
Yuzef Abramov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-powers counsel-of-choice due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause necessary-and-proper necessary-and-proper-clause sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation treaty-power |
I. Whether it is constitutional to extend 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c) to noncommercial conduct allegedly committed by a foreign citizen and resident against o… |
| 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… |
| 19-248 |
Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Like many federal statutes, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 incorporates the traditional common-law test for distinguishing betwee… |
| 19-5710 |
Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United… |
| 19-5664 |
Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute |
1. IF THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURTEDICTIOON DECTION TO SETTHE CONVECTION -JUDGMENT AEIDE AND DEEMISETHELAUSE.
2. THE TREAL COURT /THE COURT OF CREMONA… |
| 19-5699 |
Robert Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5702 |
Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETER 28 U.S.C.3 1915(S) s OVERBROAL, UNCONSTUTIONAL, AND INVALID WHERE CONSRESS HAS ENAETEd THE STAIUNE THAT INTENTIONALLY CHILLS ANd VIOLAIES IN… |
| 19-242 |
Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation |
Whether "regular occupation" refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's "actual job du… |
| 19-237 |
James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert |
Nevada |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding |
1. Did the Nevada Supreme Court have the right in its Order of Affirmance to blatantly disregard past decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court as to statut… |
| 19-5649 |
Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation |
To what degree for interpretation of a constitution, statute, rule and regulation is a question of law for consideration by the Supreme Court is neces… |
| 19-5652 |
Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines? |
| 19-5654 |
Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5629 |
Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony |
I. Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a‐133 categorically qualifies as a "violent felony" under the force clause of the Armed Care… |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr… |
| 19-5647 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington |
Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal … |
| 19-218 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Wu Hua Jing, et al. |
New York |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-messenger due-process governor judicial-intervention jurisdictional-claim legal-petition mandamus mandarin-chinese registered-mail religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
1. messenger sent by Jehovah,- the Lord of host, said through the angel: 'Bring it over to face the judge.' Said it on October, 2012,
Wu Hua Jing M.D.… |
| 19-221 |
Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court should overrule
Chevron.
2. Whether Chevron requires courts to defer to
an agency's resolution of a conflict between statutory
p… |
| 19-213 |
Charles Fischer v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute |
Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity. |
| 19-5631 |
Joe Fernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's de… |
| 19-5608 |
Christopher Joe Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-elements-clause certificate-of-appealability disagreement federal-prisoner judicial-disagreement post-conviction-claim postconviction-claim reasonable-judges statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary |
Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that judges have, in
fact, disagreed about the legal issues governing his postconviction claim, is he entitled t… |
| 19-5623 |
Deshawn Legrier v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-possession indictment knowingly-element rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) -- which held that the elements of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 19-200 |
Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with
the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and
Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged
tra… |
| 19-5601 |
Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-199 |
Manfredo M. Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-law agency-decision-making benefits-determination final-decision judicial-review railroad-retirement-act railroad-retirement-board railroad-unemployment-insurance-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under section 5(f) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, 45 U.S.C. § 355(f), and section 8 of the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U.S.C. § … |
| 19-5597 |
Randall B. Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation |
I. Is it a plain error for the District Court to regulatory deference to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a… |
| 19-196 |
Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a federal court seeking to identify the content of state law pursuant to Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), may choose the … |
| 19-5571 |
Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-5589 |
Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI… |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER?
DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P… |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J… |
| 19-5572 |
Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to… |
| 19-5574 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5575 |
Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5578 |
Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-5579 |
Sebastian Eccleston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos… |
| 19-5580 |
In Re Sebastian Eccleston |
|
2019-08-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos… |
| 19-5534 |
James W. Royster v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner filed two (2) Motions with the Henrico County, Virginia Circuit Court Per Virginia Code section(s) 8.01-428(D) and 19.2-227, upon the gr… |
| 19-5556 |
Regina Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 |
Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b)
Did my arrest and prosecution violate the narrow federal-state… |
| 19-182 |
Francisca Guillen v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code california-law district-court-discretion electronic-records employee-protection employee-rights jury-instructions labor-code labor-law labor-standards-enforcement statutory-interpretation wage-statements |
1. Whether it was error not to instruct a jury on the law set forth in almost 20-years of opinions of California's Department of Labor Standards Enfor… |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Respondents are United States-based organizations that receive federal funds to fight HIV/AIDS abroad. In Agency for International Development v. Alli… |
| 19-5511 |
Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Are inccrcerated plaintiffs m civil coses in corcercted fro se U.S. Distriet Cout cnfairl trected, cadlar in prejedd agoinst, becaule they ore not giv… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5521 |
Steven Michael Cox v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-standard welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-5529 |
Kendrick Ledelle Dotstry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges district-court-discretion divisible-elements divisible-offenses felony-enhancement felony-offense misdemeanor-elements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-misdemeanor |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CAN ENHANCE A SENTENCE PURSUANT TO UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE (U.S.S.G.) PROVISIONS UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(b)(6)(B)… |
| 19-5460 |
Jose Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap… |
| 19-5491 |
Shed T. Woods v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under th… |
| 19-5501 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel |
Whether in light of the Court's opinion in Rehaif v. United States, No. 17-9560 issued on June 21, 2019 this Court should vacate the opinion of the U.… |
| 19-5451 |
Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) provides the procedures by which inmates request, and federal appellate courts grant, permission to file second or successive 28 U… |
| 19-5478 |
Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of… |
| 19-5480 |
Andrew Dorsey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of … |
| 19-164 |
David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners. |
| 19-168 |
Remington Arms Co., LLC, et al. v. Donna L. Soto, Administratrix of the Estate of Victoria L. Soto, et al. |
Connecticut |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process firearms-immunity firearms-industry-regulation free-speech plcaa plcaa-immunity predicate-exception statutory-interpretation unfair-trade-practices |
The question presented is whether the PLCAA's predicate exception encompasses alleged violations of broad, generally applicable state statutes, such a… |
| 19-5456 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-5457 |
Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC … |
| 19-5427 |
Danny Reaves v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1291 civil-procedure due-process final-order jurisdiction standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation unadjudicated-claims |
§2255 motion is Order Within the meaning of §2253. Standard to deny COA. |
| 19-151 |
United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry |
Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime has "the ba… |
| 19-5383 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5410 |
Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 19-5401 |
Thomas Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-140 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, once an appeal of a remand order has been explicitly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the en… |
| 19-133 |
Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination |
1. Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury? The amended complaint is for wrongful termination on account of statutory p… |
| 19-134 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund |
1. Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements, made … |
| 19-137 |
Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
A circuit split currently exists over the scope of 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), which provides remedies for the improper filing of an involuntary bankruptcy pe… |
| 19-125 |
Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event |
QUESTION 1:
In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Indus. Corp.,
544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court held that federal courts
have jurisdiction to consider… |
| 19-128 |
Charles Daniel Maye v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-restrictions authorized-access circuit-split civil-procedure computer-fraud-abuse-act computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime-law information-access information-use legal-scope standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud Abuse Act ("CFAA") is limited to violations of restrictions on access to information, and no… |
| 19-5309 |
William Dante Mitchell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _ S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5330 |
Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
GVR |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to
instruct the jury that, in order to convict a person under 18 U.S.C.
§ 922(g), it … |
| 19-5350 |
Stevie Elbert Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-4b1.1 ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery satisfies the definition of "crime of violenc… |
| 19-5356 |
Rashad Washington v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application |
Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha… |
| 19-5361 |
Luis D. Cabrera Mejia v. Walmart |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights class-action court-procedure due-process employment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-parties lower-court-error standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the lower court 's erred, in violation of justice for all to 4 U.S.C. § 4. |
| 19-5304 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Appellate count committed a manifest of Constitutional error by failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article il subsecti… |
| 19-5308 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that the Court has now answered in United States v. Davis… |
| 19-5325 |
Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5337 |
Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5344 |
Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to convict the Petitioner for witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1) and two interrelated charge… |
| 19-5345 |
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to … |
| 19-120 |
IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention |
Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai… |
| 19-5303 |
Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I.
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in
Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5312 |
Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime |
Mr. Burke was convicted of knowingly carrying a firearm during and in relation to a "crime of violence," in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The "crim… |
| 19-5314 |
Aurora Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 19-5283 |
Kyle Jason Korte v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law |
1. Does the "good faith exception" outlined in Illinois v. Krull 480 U.S. 340 (1987) extend to circumstances where the statute, rather than being "sub… |
| 19-5268 |
Thomas Bois v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-with-dangerous-weapon crime-of-violence enumerated-offenses federal-sentencing force-clause massachusetts-assault massachusetts-assault-with-dangerous-weapon massachusetts-law sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Where the Massachusetts offense of "Assault with a Dangerous Weapon," Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265 § 15B, may be committed merely by means of an offensive … |
| 19-5270 |
Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 19-5279 |
Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
This case presents the issue of whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2), is entitled to not… |
| 19-5221 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review?
Can… |
| 19-5243 |
Larry Marvel v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
Where the State General Assembly legislatively defined in two separate statutes the same identical "conduct" for two criminal offenses mandating the s… |
| 19-5245 |
Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. This case represents a public issue to thousands of transgenders confined to state and federal institutions whom are being denied treatment despite… |
| 19-5246 |
Jason Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-100 |
Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties who perform collection, a… |
| 19-5237 |
Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-5198 |
Robert Rang v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Does a "substantial step" under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) [attempted coercion and enticement of a minor] require evidence of intended "interpersonal physica… |
| 19-5203 |
In Re Angel Ruiz-Rivera |
|
2019-07-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment debt-issuance due-process federal-law government-debt judicial-authority judicial-discretion legal-interpretation puerto-rico-government referendum standing statutory-interpretation takings |
IS JOINT RESOLUTION 87*121 OF AUGUST 3, 1961 BY THE U.S. CONGRESS AND THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF P.R. APPROVED THEREIN AND RATIFIED BY 82 % … |
| 19-5194 |
Edward Hector v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5201 |
Kenneth Medenbach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release |
Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term… |
| 19-5172 |
Jesus Hilario-Bello v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process economic-loss fair-trial hobbs-act intangible-asset judicial-intervention physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) because it can be committed without using physical force, by causing the … |
| 19-5183 |
Miguel Grado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5188 |
Jermaine Tart v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-access discovery discovery-limitations due-process employment-royalties ninth-circuit procedural-scope royalties standing state-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
DO INKNATES HAVE 5 AND I4TL AMAEND MENT PRE-DEPRIVATION ROYALTIES?
D, SHOULD THE EASTERN DISTRICT U.S. DISTRIOT COURT OF NC ORDER THE DEFENDANTS TO P… |
| 19-5189 |
Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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whether the u.s. supreme cart should great certiorcc
to cesdve the Circuit Canflict, whether schlup gateway
lnquir require neusly Presented … |
| 19-5190 |
Steven Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5196 |
Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t… |
| 19-73 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis |
1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C… |
| 19-74 |
Michael A. Willner, et ux. v. James Dimon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law constitutional-claims due-process fdic federal-deposit-insurance-corporation financial-institutions financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce firrea judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the DC Circuit erroneously held that 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)(A) required claimants to have filed their constitutional claims against the FDIC i… |
| 19-67 |
United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-68 |
Unity HealthCare v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference civil-procedure judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation volume-decrease-adjustment |
This case presents the following question: whether federal courts must defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of its own regulations (commonly… |
| 19-71 |
FNU Tanzin, et al. v. Muhammad Tanvir, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability due-process federal-employees free-speech religious-freedom rfra standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C 2000bb et seq., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal employe… |
| 19-61 |
Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Title 28, section 516, of the United States Code, vests the authority to litigate on behalf of the United States in the Department of Justice, under t… |
| 19-5142 |
Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPOALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
ERR ON AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION BY-ENTERING ITS
DECISION/JUDGMENT, WHICH IS IN CONF… |
| 19-5150 |
Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 19-5134 |
Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force … |
| 19-5141 |
William Wade v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. The 10th Circuit has already declared that the 924(c) "residual" clause is unconstitutional in light of this Courts Johnson v US and Sessions v Dim… |
| 19-5105 |
Rudy Espudo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5107 |
James C. Karahalios, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 bank-robbery categorical crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-v-united-states pharmacy-robbery statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
1. Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical "crime of violence" under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)?
2. Whether… |
| 19-5111 |
Avery Blodgett v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-§2113 18-U.S.C.-§924(c)(3) 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3 crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
1. Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical "crime of violence" under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)?
2. Whether… |
| 19-5124 |
Arthur Durham v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states |
1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 19-5127 |
William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)--"old law"
— parole statute 18 USC §42.06(d) mandating federal prisoners'
lease on parole absent certain… |
| 19-5093 |
Jason Ellis Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 19-5100 |
Matthew Karahalios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa
predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-5102 |
Dan Pizaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 19-52 |
Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-41 |
Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions |
May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … |
| 19-5066 |
Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-5078 |
Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 19-5039 |
Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-5058 |
In Re Artur Tchibassa |
|
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY REFUSING TO APPLY THE REYES-REQUENA/SAVINGS CLAUSE JURISPRUDENCE. |
| 19-5061 |
Akeem Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951: conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery, qualify as a "crime of viol… |
| 19-5063 |
Jose Thomas Barriera-Vera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-crime criminal-law criminal-statute person-or-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether attempted armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element "the use . . . of physical force against the person or property of another,"… |
| 19-5070 |
Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113), which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand note,… |
| 19-16 |
Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (5) |
18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have held, or… |
| 19-5025 |
Isaac Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
1. Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) convicti… |
| 19-5029 |
Frederick Tyrone Calhoun v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain equal-protection just-compensation private-property standing statutory-interpretation takings |
The Constitution requires the federal government to obtain an indictment and jury verdict before imprisoning a person. While on federal supervised rel… |
| 19-5032 |
Tyrone Felder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis… |
| 18-9793 |
Timothy Dale Gould v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is divisible for purposes of categorical analysis? |
| 18-9812 |
Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon |
In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts … |
| 18-1589 |
James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
|
contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the act of an accused to delete or destroy contraband constitutes a "knowing or intentional possession" of the contraband. |
| 18-1593 |
Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an… |
| 18-1581 |
Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1623 ambiguous-questioning ambiguous-questions bronston-rule bronston-v-united-states false-declaration false-statements grand-jury grand-jury-testimony literal-truth perjury perjury-statute prosecutorial-questioning statutory-interpretation |
Can responses to fundamentally ambiguous questions - or literally truthful answers to unambiguous questions - constitute "false declarations" before a… |
| 18-9805 |
Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability |
1. Whether the statutory phrase "can be used" contained in the definition of "access device" at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove u… |
| 18-9809 |
Willie Strong v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption |
When is evidence sufficient to render the "Automobile Presumtion" N.Y. P.L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable?
Does the N.Y.P.L. §265.15 (3)(a), violates t… |
| 18-9780 |
Christopher Hannigan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation |
Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts? |
| 18-9781 |
Adam J. Winarske v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to … |
| 18-9782 |
Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 |
(1). Whether The Lower Court(s) Erred In Concluding
That Petitioner Did Not Suffer Ineffective
Assistance Of Counsel At His Resentencing
On Appeal … |
| 18-9796 |
Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) … |
| 18-9762 |
Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the… |
| 18-9772 |
William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 18A1351 |
Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-challenge extension-of-time pro-se statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1352 |
Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act chevron-deference criminal-enforcement machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1561 |
Armament Services International, Inc., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-923-f-3 de-novo-proceeding due-process federal-firearms-licensing firearms-licensing gun-control-act standard-of-review statutory-interpretation statutory-review statutory-safeguards third-circuit willful-violation willfulness |
1. Whether the Third Circuit applied an improperly deferential standard of review in a de novo federal firearms licensing proceeding under 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-1564 |
LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
|
citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation |
Petitioners are private attorneys general who brought a Congressionally authorized Citizen Suit against Respondent under the Resource Conservation and… |
| 18-1566 |
Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti… |
| 18-9737 |
Laquan L. Kellam v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest |
1. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ABUSE ITS DISCRETIONARY, BROADLY-BASED AUTHORITY OF INTERPRETATION, THUS, VIOLATING PE… |
| 18-9739 |
Timothy Paul Malone v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a l… |
| 18A1315 |
United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act burglary intent-element sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9705 |
Leonard Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ… |
| 18-9723 |
Jennifer Cardenas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment due-process false-statements indictment indictment-specificity jury-instruction statutory-interpretation variance visa-fraud |
1. Whether an indictment charging visa fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a)
or other crimes involving "false statements" must specify the allegedly false
s… |
| 18-9726 |
Lorenzo Hale v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed
state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 18-9734 |
Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT(S) ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED APPELLANT SECTION 3582(c)(2) RELIEF? |
| 18-9735 |
Carlton Darden v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing dillion-v-united-states district-court-authority due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review new-evidence offense-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-adams ussg-1b1.10 |
Does 18 USC 3582(c)(2) after Dillion give a district corut authority to make additional finding as to offense conduct attributable to a defendant base… |
| 18A1336 |
Robert Rang v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1552 |
Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud |
Does the potential for collection of fines and costs which may become due to the state from unadjudicated traffic tickets, on which there has yet been… |
| 18-9696 |
Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9699 |
Jose Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9707 |
Blair Cook v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
The underlying question presented is: Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause.
This involves a… |
| 18-9673 |
George Djura Jakubec v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-9679 |
Gary Raymond Harvey, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
in conflict with Chevron and Section 6325(f)(2) administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference irs-fiduciary-duty irs-lien lien-validity limitation-period statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tax-debt tax-lien-reinstatement-validity tax-procedure |
Congress enacted the Release of lien or discharge of property Act, 26 U.S.C.A. § 6325 (f) (2); Public Law 115-281, approved 12/1/18, to inform both th… |
| 18-9681 |
Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-9684 |
David Prien-Pinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-1546 |
Century III Mall PA LLC v. Sears Roebuck & Co. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
|
9-usc-10a4 arbitration-award arbitration-review arbitrator-authority binding-arbitration civil-litigation contract-interpretation contractual-rights dispute-resolution judicial-restraint lease-valuation prudential-restraint scope-of-authority statutory-interpretation |
While courts exercise prudential restraint when considering whether to vacate an arbitration award under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4) ("where arbitrators excee… |
| 18-1547 |
Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit—in direct conflict with
the Seventh Circuit—erroneously fail to recognize that
28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from … |
| 18-1539 |
Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility |
Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil… |
| 18-9646 |
Max Edward Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9653 |
Todd Ricks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9661 |
William Kostopoulos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S GENERAL DENIAL TO STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THAT HE COMMITTED A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE IS SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE FEDERAL NEXUS… |
| 18-9633 |
Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation |
(1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection… |
| 18-9637 |
Robert Travis Jenkins v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compliance-burden constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-regulations judicial-review jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
[I] On appeal, Jenkins contendsthe verdictshould be set aside because the prosecutor antialevidence. The inquiry advances in three staqes. If these st… |
| 18-9643 |
Herichie Paul v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-9645 |
Victor J. Black v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1530 |
Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i… |
| 18-1531 |
South Carolina v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to ch… |
| 18-9592 |
Gene T. Favors, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9582 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-conditions federal-preemption federalism government-regulation labor-law labor-relations labor-rights national-labor-relations-act statutory-interpretation workplace-governance |
Are "terms and conditions of employment and working conditions" as defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to free peo… |
| 18-9584 |
William Earl Miller v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Cons… |
| 18A1274 |
Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure fee-shifting prevailing-party statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9562 |
Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in 'denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statu… |
| 18-9563 |
Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the
statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary " to ach… |
| 18-9574 |
Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen… |
| 18-9575 |
In Re Phillip Love |
|
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union?
… |
| 18-9539 |
Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower |
Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a … |
| 18-9531 |
Lan Deyerle v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-rules |
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e cL2L)rt L V)u' re( 4- |
| 18-1511 |
Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Controlled Substances Act permit the United States to impose a fine for each and every technical violation of … |
| 18-1501 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
agency-enforcement disgorgement equitable-relief judicial-review kokesh-v-sec lower-court-precedent penalty sec-enforcement securities-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as "equitable relief" for a securities law violation even… |
| 18-9472 |
Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
A UNITEA STATES COURT oF APPeaLS has dECided an imPOrtant
question of Federal Law that hasnot beent,but should be setled
hy this CouRT,
And has decide… |
| 18-9520 |
Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-06-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search |
Whether in light of Coolidge vs. Judge Susanno C Pineda for the State of Arizona abused discretion denying Bartett's motion to suppress Petitioner arr… |
| 18-9522 |
Renee Lopez-Galvan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-9482 |
Jorge J. Rubio v. Tina Raburn, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
I WherTher A FederAl CourT OF APPeAs hAs JurIsDIcTiOn
Under U.S.C.28 32lo7 To Review An order denting
LeAVe To Proceed in FormA PAuperis under SecTion… |
| 18-9499 |
Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar |
1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal
Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999
under manttory sentencing Gidelines"… |
| 18-9501 |
Bruce Mayo Ennis v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9457 |
Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation |
DOES STRICT CALCULATION OF TIMELINESS AFTER FINDING OF EXTRAORDINARY CURCUNSTANCES CREATED BY A STATE IMPEDIMENT TO FILING 28.U.S.C. SECTION 2244(D)(1… |
| 18-1493 |
Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act |
I. Whether a U.S. court of a ppeals can explicitly decline
to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent requiring a
voluntary act and a "special benefit" fo… |
| 18-1489 |
Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
|
automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the… |
| 18-9460 |
Quentin Perry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth… |
| 18-9466 |
Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States, _U.S._, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disable… |
| 18-9467 |
Koran McKinley Allen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9468 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when a state court enters a nunc pro tune judgment to attempt to cure a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, the first … |
| 18-9469 |
Paul Melvin Watson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9432 |
Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9431 |
William Maurice Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018?
If so did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply Griffith … |
| 18-9436 |
William Edward Branham v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9439 |
Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9444 |
Gregory Greer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
GVR |
IFP |
922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
1. Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S… |
| 18-9411 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the judicial construction of "lascivious exhibition" of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-9413 |
Hozay Royal v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appeal-deadline appeals civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadlines mail-filing notice-of-appeal postmark statutory-interpretation time-computation time-limits |
A. Does the thirty-day period under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Fed.R.App.Proc. 4(a) (1) (A) allow for the notice of appeal to be filed in the United States … |
| 18-9420 |
Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. __, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) and Oh… |
| 18-9424 |
Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime ? The Court … |
| 18-9425 |
Kevin Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states |
I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense?
II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-1468 |
United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity |
1. Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigan… |
| 18-1474 |
Sunoco, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
congressional-intent excise-tax federal-circuit renewable-fuels statutory-interpretation tax-credits tax-incentives tax-liability tax-system |
Whether the Federal Circuit properly held that tax credits operate as a reduction of tax liability rather than as a payment of taxes owed. |
| 18-9394 |
Ward T. Evans v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law |
Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) as it was written when Petitioner was charged and convicted, define three distinct and separate crimin… |
| 18-9398 |
Ali Cisse v. New York |
New York |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent |
Does knowledge of wiretapping establish "consent" to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)? |
| 18-9403 |
In Re Christopher Johnson |
|
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal prisoner may file a
petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed
by binding… |
| 18-9365 |
Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights |
Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule… |
| 18-9375 |
Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 18A1209 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees fee-shifting foia litigation-costs statutory-interpretation substantial-prevailing |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1207 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause felony-robbery johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9360 |
Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9364 |
Javontae Tyree Street v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off… |
| 18-9351 |
Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process of law guarantees?
Can 42 U.S.0 Sect. 1983 be used to resolve the con… |
| 18-1446 |
Lettie Sexton, ex rel. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Kentucky |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
beneficiary-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-benefits medicaid-program medical-coverage personal-liability standing state-agency statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(3) requires a state participating in the Medicaid program to provide a "fair hearing" to a beneficiary when coverage of h… |
| 18-9318 |
Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INDIGENT APPELLANTS WITH A COMPLETE COPY OF THE RECORD/TRANSCRIPTS FROM ALL PRE CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS … |
| 18-9320 |
Domenick James Howard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION
SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY
WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE
VIS-A… |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9324 |
Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9325 |
Davion L. Jefferson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 18-9330 |
Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco… |
| 18-9331 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Would it be violation of procedural & substantive due process and deprivation of right to meaningful, effective access to courts, if District Courts, … |
| 18-9337 |
Ronnie Barnes v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law anatomical-definition anatomy back-injury civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process neck-injury permanent-disability-rating statutory-interpretation workers-compensation workers-compensation-act |
Does the term Back as used in the Award of June 0 1, 1982 include petitioners neck_
(a). Was the ruling of the WCAB (Board 's) On, Nov. 2,20 17, deny… |
| 18-9340 |
Anes Subasic v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 18-7047 make an error in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing … |
| 18-9301 |
Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use |
Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-9280 |
Miguel A. Jusino, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9292 |
Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bail bail-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandamus pre-trial-detention pre-trial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
What recourse is available to a defendant, when an appeal and mandamus enforcement of the ministerial and self-executing release on bail provision of … |
| 18-1432 |
Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal |
Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin… |
| 18-1434 |
United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-1423 |
Paul E. Cooper v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-867c article-i-authority court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces johnson-v-united-states judicial-review matter-of-fact matters-of-fact matters-of-law military-appeals-court-authority military-appellate-review military-law navy-marine-corps-court-of-criminal-appeals statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces exceeded its statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 867(c) when it took action with res… |
| 18-1430 |
ReDigi Inc., et al. v. Capitol Records, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
copyright copyright-law copyright-reproduction digital-distribution electronic-transfer exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-use first-sale-doctrine reproduction-right statutory-interpretation |
1. Under 17 U.S.C. § 109(a), is the acknowledged owner of a particular digital phonorecord lawfully purchased via electronic distribution under 17 U.S… |
| 18-9248 |
Preston Phillips v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-offense indirect-force omission physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether an offense committed by indirect force, or by "any means" like an omission, qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Careener Criminal … |
| 18-9258 |
Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
"Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the "vagueness challenge" of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is consid… |
| 18-9266 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Petitioners were convicted of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of crimes of violence. The dis… |
| 18-9271 |
Eteri Kholost, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consumer-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-trade-commission interstate-litigation national-security reseller standing statutory-interpretation |
Must Real Page, Inc., in interests of national security define itself as a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) and be responsible in that number under Fai… |
| 18-9276 |
In Re Jesus Avila |
|
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure miscarriage-of-justice motion-recharacterization rule-60 rule-60(b)(6) standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE RE-CHARACTERIZATION OF JESUS AVILA'S PROPERLY FILED RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION CONSTITUTES AN IMPERMISSIBLE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE |
| 18-9245 |
Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Court of Appeals erred by not requiring the District Court to correctly apply the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Specifically, the sentencing cour… |
| 18-1416 |
Adam Bereki v. Gary Humphreys, et ux. |
California |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines penal-forfeiture restitution standing statutory-interpretation takings unjust-enrichment |
1. Are sections §7031(a) and (b), of the California Business and Professions Code unconstitutional in effect or as applied?
2. Is disgorgement under … |
| 18-1418 |
Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Akorn, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-144 federal-circuit mandate non-obviousness obviousness-standard opinion patent-appeal patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144's directive that the Federal Circuit "shall issue … its mandate and opinion" in all appeals from the Patent and Trademark O… |
| 18-1412 |
Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 46) as… |
| 18-9221 |
Barrington M. Hamilton, aka Jaame Amun Re El v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-claims debt-discharge due-process government-administration government-liability legal-procedure property-rights statutory-interpretation |
operation?
Ans. No. The languagefound in Title 11 UScs$5a caxa) says "(a) A discharge in a case under
this title [11 uscss 1o1 et seq.I (a) operates a… |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.)
… |
| 18-9197 |
Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Earl Moore Found himself in the sights of what has become known as a sting operation. That is, Moore was sitting at home in great need of resources to… |
| 18-9218 |
Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands |
The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands provides for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 48 U.S.C. § 1612, and for the appointment of judg… |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9195 |
Keith Walter Bullard v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection index-of-authorities jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-certiorari standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
expert related services, non-psychiatric, what is the threshold determination to be made, and what does that consist of? |
| 18-9154 |
Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE
THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG… |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9184 |
Michael B. White v. Collene K. Corcoran, Trustee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506-c bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506(c) bankruptcy-conversion chapter-11 chapter-7 debtor-in-possession debtor-recovery debtor-rights preservation-costs recovery statutory-interpretation trustee-duties |
Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals err when it determined that a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession loses all rights to recover under 11 USC 506(c) upo… |
| 18-1401 |
David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 18-1396 |
Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Arkansas |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image… |
| 18-9138 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Timothy J. Corrigan, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9142 |
Joshua Neil Harrell v. California |
California |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Did the insefient ecod fal to stalish a Kowing, whiver of attelhints to Amerament right and Voluntaly andVor was Structural revessible enor coussel… |
| 18-9148 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. James T. Blomo |
Arizona |
2019-05-06 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether or not the Honorable Margaret Mahoney Should had issued Civil Procedure, Rule 7, to reply to Defendant/Appelles Motion to Dismiss, as a minima… |
| 18-9100 |
Corry Mency v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge |
Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli… |
| 18-9119 |
Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
#1:
WHETHER THE FULL,FAITH, CREDIT CLAUSE : DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE
PROHIBITS THE STATE OF TEXAS FROM REPROSECUTING : REIMPRISONING
MODI SON JO I SO YH… |
| 18-9124 |
Garland D. Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 |
DOES JURISDICTION EXIST TO CORRECT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AT ANY TIME. |
| 18-9135 |
Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction of (10) years when the (O.G.S.) offense gravity score was changed from Felony (1) t… |
| 18-1384 |
Joseph D. Bradley v. Alco Oil & Gas Company, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-959(b) diversion-of-funds exclusive-in-rem-jurisdiction federal-equity-receiver federal-freeze-order federal-receivership fund-diversion in-rem-jurisdiction in-rem-jurisdiction-28-usc-754 midlantic midlantic-decision notice-to-parties state-agency state-agency-regulation statutory-interpretation summary-proceedings |
1. Whether a State agency, with notice that certain
defrauded investor funds on account at a bank are
subject to 28 U.S.C. § 754's exclusive in rem ju… |
| 18-1374 |
Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl… |
| 18-1381 |
Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by following FCC commentary to hold that an "'incidental [fax] advertisement' 'does not convert the entire communication int… |
| 18-9066 |
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 … |
| 18-9092 |
Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FAILED TO PROPERLY APPLY TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 922(e) IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLIS… |
| 18-9105 |
Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING THERE ARE "NO AGGRAVATED CRIMES", SUCH AS AGGRAVATED COMMON LAW ROBBERY, IN NORTH CAROLIN… |
| 18-9112 |
Daniel Bronson v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-9040 |
Valerie Arroyo v. Joseph Colbert, Jr., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
1985 1988 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 242? 18-usc-241-242 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1988 civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation-due-process-42-usc-1983-1 color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug… |
| 18-9057 |
In Re Miles Kaufman |
|
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Can The Respondent just not follow any and all Court Orders.
Can just let an Indigent Mentally ill person rot in prison.
Can The lower Courts do as … |
| 18-9060 |
Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 |
This Court provides that the Ex Post Facto Clause applies to any change in the law that creates a significant risk of a higher sentence, including cha… |
| 18-9063 |
Tyrone Leonard James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3584 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentences,federal-sentencing,state-sent Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiora federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-consideration sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors state-sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit unrelated-crimes vagueness |
Whether a district court's finding that a state crime and federal crime were unrelated is sufficient, in itself, to satisfy its obligation under 18 U.… |
| 18-9071 |
Jason Moody v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-law firearms interstate-commerce knowledge-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(a) provides for criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of thei… |
| 18-9004 |
Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement |
(1) Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea
where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of
… |
| 18-9019 |
Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the "use" of another's identity without lawful authority as unambi… |
| 18-1349 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
The motion to re-open was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit… |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the "ministerial exception" … |
| 18-1346 |
Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
|
age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation |
Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, as this Court held when interpreti… |
| 18-8932 |
Vickie L. Sanders v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti… |
| 18-8999 |
Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135
S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c),
t… |
| 18-1341 |
Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision |
Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla… |
| 18-1336 |
Walter P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. •-. has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the … |
| 18-8975 |
Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) WAS PETITIONER SMILEY WRONGFULLY CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED WITH BREAKING A SPECIFIED STATUTE, (PC:607, GCD)), WHICH CHANGED THE LEGAL CONSEQ… |
| 18-8977 |
Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (… |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8947 |
Michael-Francis Palma v. Harris County Appraisal Review Board |
Texas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process property-rights state-judiciary statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
NOTE: In order to simplify and facilitate the courts understanding, items highlighted in yellow and the chart contained herein concerns case #2. All o… |
| 18-8953 |
Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits |
MUR OF HER ENTITLEM ENT TO JUST COMPENSATUOU: PUESUAUT
TO.TITIE 28 USC 13.58, EMWENT DOMAW STATUTE (RE:MCAD
V. CREOL JOHNENE MORRIS, TP13106, FUOO OCT… |
| 18-8959 |
James Paul Arlotta v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1.)Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2403(a), may apply because neither the W.D.N.Y. federal district court, nor the U.S. C.A. 2dcir. certified to the U.S. Atto… |
| 18-8965 |
Olusola Olla v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness |
1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
| 18-8973 |
Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Has the Petitioner been validly sentenced under §53.1-202.2 Code of Virginia, therefore being encompassed by this statute?
Is the Petitioner one of "… |
| 18-8909 |
David Lee Gentles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1385 constitutional-violation evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-search law-enforcement-limits posse-comitatus-act search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence |
Should a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 1385), serve as foundation for suppression of fruits of the resulting illegal searc… |
| 18-8911 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 18-8931 |
Tajie Coleman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an… |
| 18-1331 |
William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial |
1. The scope of the authority of the United States Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records ("Naval Board") to remove an unjust summary court-mart… |
| 18-1328 |
Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the oblig… |
| 18-8917 |
Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
(1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran… |
| 18-8886 |
In Re James Rodgers, Jr. |
|
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER ACTR NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, IS FACIALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF SECTION 13A-5-40(a), CODE O… |
| 18-8890 |
Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights |
medical Knee And Her Disease And medical Denial Tredtment
The united states court of appedls has entered a decision in Conflict with the decision of … |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8901 |
Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT
OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE
PETITIONER'S ABSOLUTE RIGHT IN
FILING AS WELL AS TO APPEAL HIS
CIVIL ACTION IN FORMA PA… |
| 18-1319 |
Elijah Thomas v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-impairment civil-procedure court-of-appeals-for-veterans-claims disability disability-compensation due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review procedural-barriers procedural-exhaustion statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-claims |
Should the 120 day deadline stated in 38 U.S.C. § 7266(a) for filing a claim in the Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims be equitably tolled where the … |
| 18-8875 |
George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
The 'Pipeline' Analysis Should Be Expanded To New Law That Applies To Postconviction Claims Where The Resolution Of The Postconviction … |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does 18 Usc §3664(0) and USC H3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of t… |
| 18-8842 |
Michael Demon Nixon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 18-8845 |
Abel Revill Ochoa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-funding funding habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-standard statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether, in light of Ayestas v. Davis, 138 S. Ct. 1080 (2018), a court applies an overly burdensome standard for funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f)… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8858 |
Aspen Warren v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
IN A MURDER CASE WHERE UNDER STATE STATUTES A JURY NEED NOT BE UNANIMOUS AS TO MANNER AND MEANS AND ARE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE FROM THREE SEPARATE MANNER A… |
| 18-1309 |
Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration |
Applicants for trademark registration dissatisfied with a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can commence a civil action seeking de novo… |
| 18-1314 |
Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise its mandatory diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 by refusing to make an "Erie guess" whether… |
| 18-1299 |
Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
I. Does the Precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict United States Supreme Court precedent of Schindler Elevator Co… |
| 18-1302 |
Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 … |
| 18-1304 |
Richard Ashbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained … |
| 18-8830 |
Julio Cesar De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms mens-rea misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force statutory-interpretation voisine-v-united-states |
I.
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__,136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical… |
| 18-8798 |
Brent Lynch v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8733 |
Russell T. McElvain v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism self-incrimination statutory-interpretation |
I. Can a state enact a statute that combines the use of older, established
statates as the ways and means to commit the new statutes crimne,
thereby e… |
| 18-8745 |
Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation |
When underlying USPTO disciplinary proceedings are conducted according to regulations which abolish both 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery under the… |
| 18-8752 |
Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment |
(1) Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated ver… |
| 18-8755 |
Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation |
Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8773 |
Emmanuely Germain v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error |
1. Is the error of omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions rendered harmless by the sufficiency of evidence to support a… |
| 18-8774 |
John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. |
Nevada |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1285 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen |
Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection. |
| 18-1284 |
Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
North Carolina |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue |
Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.… |
| 18-8738 |
Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth… |
| 18-8741 |
Francisco Frank Apodaca, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association-in-fact corporation enterprise enterprise-definition guilty-plea individuals ineffective-assistance legal-entity rico rico-statute sentencing-error statutory-interpretation union |
1. Can a corporation or other legal entity be associated in fact with a union or one or more individuals under the "enterprise" definition of the RICO… |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-8763 |
Terry Walker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution recharaterize a defendant's conviction into conduct th… |
| 18-8719 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit … |
| 18-8726 |
In Re Stetory Calhoun |
|
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER ACT NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF … |
| 18-8729 |
Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter |
In light of United States v Peter, 310 F.3d 709 (11th C ir 2002), does the ambiguousness of the nature of the term "material" within Title 18 USC 2252… |
| 18-1276 |
Andrew Levert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-1279 |
K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
|
29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation |
Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under § 1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches… |
| 18-1274 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
|
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion |
Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every single requirement o… |
| 18-8699 |
Marckenson Chery v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422b criminal-offense criminal-offense-element double-jeopardy fifth-amendment indictment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) must identify the ''criminal offense'' element in order to meet the required nature of the … |
| 18-8706 |
Donn Deveral Martin v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure patent scotus-rules standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rules takings |
MUST BE SETASIDE?
conviction oftthined from an perury
Question daro. toes the scotus precednt still hold that aftaaid fom a warrntless pristected se… |
| 18-8695 |
Deontray Vershon Tate v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 18-8696 |
Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-1264 |
Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation |
1. Can the Environmental Protection Agency
revise clear statutory terms of the Clean Air Act to
allow the importation, sale, and use of motor
vehic… |
| 18-1265 |
September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings |
What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations? |
| 18-1258 |
Enclarity Inc., et al. v. Matthew N. Fulton |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-availability commercial-communication commercial-transaction communication-law due-process fax-regulation information-request standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement unsolicited-faxes |
Whether faxes that only request information and propose no commercial transaction with recipients are "advertisements" under the TCPA. |
| 18-1260 |
Jessica Cooke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
|
administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the common-law "mailbox rule" applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a). |
| 18-8600 |
Tony McLeod v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 18-8619 |
In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241
TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN
THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18. |
| 18-8625 |
Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Illinois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a "contributing c… |
| 18-8632 |
Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 782;… |
| 18-8634 |
Andrew A. Chavis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery career-offender crime-of-violence johnson-ruling mandatory-guidelines post-Johnson pre-Booker sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PRIOR CONVICTION IN ILLINOIS FOR ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY CATEGORICALLY QUALIFIES AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE UNDER THE 4131.1 CAREER OFFENDER PRE-B… |
| 18-8614 |
Leonard Dwayne Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment atf-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation |
23 Year Long "Circuit split" is making 9Jxgj) Unconstitutional to my case.)
The 23 Live Rounds of Ammunition Was Manufactured An Assembled In The (Sa… |
| 18-8617 |
Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-8545 |
Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
I. Count 1 Conspiracy Indictment is insufficient on its face because it omitted essential element(s) that the Government had to prove.
(a). Is Title … |
| 18-8549 |
Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute |
In 2013, The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Va. Code § 18.2-361(A), a state criminal statute under which Petitioner remains convicted, sente… |
| 18-8536 |
Elmar K. Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8537 |
Daniel Salinas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8528 |
Willie Robertson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act force-clause state-robbery state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an
element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim
resistance" categorically a "violent felony"… |
| 18-8530 |
Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply.
Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim |
| 18-8496 |
Anthony Swatzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-8525 |
Robert Brian Winston v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-1233 |
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness |
Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a … |
| 18-1231 |
Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." (fE ftl?. (fli) !
Attorney for … |
| 18-8486 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Minnesota |
2019-03-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ of Habeas corpus moot?
Did Court error by holding his petition was moot… |
| 18-8507 |
Randall Jennette v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1738 admiralty-law admiralty-maritime full-faith-and-credit maritime-contract relief-sought statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court |
Whether Tax Court, had subject mattter jurisdiction, under it's Admiralty/Maritime
Jurisdictions. To grant Appellee, relief sought in the absence of … |
| 18-8479 |
Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) PRESIDENT THRU VE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO PARDON HIMSELF?
2.) IS PRESIDENT TRUMP SUBJECT TO SUBPOENA(S)?
3.) DID PRESIDENT TRUMP SELL CO… |
| 18-8493 |
Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE… |
| 18-8497 |
Leslie Roy Lynch v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Are the Idaho Courts going to be allowed to violate U.S. Laws, or is the U.S. Supreme Court going to enforce U.S. Constitution Article I Clause 2? |
| 18-1218 |
Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Dismissed |
|
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 18-1223 |
Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional |
Is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Title 5 U.S.C. § 706) somehow nonrelevant under Alice/Mayo, or does the Federal Circuit's refusal to addres… |
| 18-1224 |
NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contract-relationships contractual-relationships federal-maritime-law maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner vessel-supplies |
Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-8443 |
James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Question presented being important to administration of Criminal Justice.
If the defendant James F. Oliveira had been granted his Speedy Trial, would… |
| 18-8454 |
Carl Lynn Scott v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8456 |
Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
1. Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the
United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same
offense and conduct for which he was acquitted … |
| 18-8467 |
Abukar Osman Beyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the Court Of Appeals create a Procedural Error, when it determined Petitioner, Abukar 0. Beyle, in a "Capitol Murder Case", did not make a claim t… |
| 18-8469 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b… |
| 18-8472 |
James Allen Eapmon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS OBLIGATED TO IMPOSED. A STATUTORY MANDATORY MI… |
| 18-8442 |
Marc Dutch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Given that the Sixth Amendment and Apprendi prohibit a sentencing judge from finding facts about a prior conviction, does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requ… |
| 18-8447 |
Javis Wilson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-1209 |
Nicholas J. Bonacci v. Transportation Security Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure apa-section-706 chevron-deference chevron-doctrine due-process judicial-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sec. 706 of the APA is compatible with Chevron, or other deference models when a Court is faced with a significant question of statutory law.
… |
| 18-1211 |
NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contractual-relationships maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner |
Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-1214 |
Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act apportionment-clause census-act census-citizenship-question census-data commerce-department commerce-secretary constitutional-authority constitutional-provisions district-court-injunction due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-injunction standing statutory-interpretation voting-rights-act |
Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census. |
| 18-8395 |
Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states |
The Sentencing Reform Act requires courts to "recogniz[e] that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation." 1… |
| 18-8437 |
Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court failure to grant a Wis.Stat.5(Rules) 809.71 Supervisory Writ to change Jurisdiction of cases 2013AP714 and 2012AP1… |
| 18-8413 |
Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila |
Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by" [N]oti±ring the creditor" in writin… |
| 18-8417 |
Robert Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness |
I. In a prosecution for filing a false claim against the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, does the mens rea element require a showing of… |
| 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… |
| 18-8423 |
Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation |
(1) Once Respondent failed to reply to the courtt orders on October 26,2017, should the application have been granted via 28: U.S.C. § 2248. |
| 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… |
| 18-1177 |
Bradford G. Peters, as Executor of the Estate of Andrew J. McKelvey, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law fair-notice internal-revenue-code judicial-gap-filling phantom-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-law-exceptionalism tax-regulation treasury-delegation treasury-regulations |
Whether, or under what circumstances, the Judiciary may enforce an ambiguous provision of the Internal Revenue Code by filling a statutory gap, when C… |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8393 |
Irma Ovalles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-8394 |
Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8366 |
Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 18-8373 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
COULD A HAZEL-ATLAS MOTION BE USE TO ATTACK A CRIMINAL CONVICTION? MOTION UNDER HAZEL-ATLAS IS IT OR IS IT NOT A SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE §2255 PETITION?
… |
| 18-8333 |
Jorge Sosa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering |
I. Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeerin… |
| 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… |
| 18-8341 |
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… |
| 18-8352 |
Lino Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-8318 |
Helen Thomasina Gardner v. Verizon Communications Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach civil-procedure defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-section-502 fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty health-insurance life-insurance participant plan-participant relief standing statutory-interpretation |
Do sections 502 (a)(2) of the Employee Retirement Security Act of
1974(ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(2), and 502(a)(3), 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(3)
authorize a p… |
| 18-8324 |
Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-8327 |
Robert Nathan Alm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8329 |
Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A). |
| 18-8330 |
Martin Fitzgerald Connors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8269 |
Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control?
Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-8277 |
Trevor Ransfer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 binding-precedent circuit-precedent crime-of-violence federal-appeals-court habeas-petition hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
Should a three—judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit's Order Denying A Second Or Successive habeas petition for re… |
| 18-8302 |
Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8303 |
Thomas T. Alford v. Stephen S. Carlton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8309 |
Darwin Zoch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8311 |
Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8313 |
John Allen Newton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence offense fails to require any intentional use, attempted use, or threatened use of violen… |
| 18-8234 |
Jeremy Snider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8272 |
Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Cour… |
| 18-8281 |
Michael Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit… |
| 18-8286 |
Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County |
Florida |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists… |
| 18-1141 |
Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine |
New Hampshire |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction. Whether the
New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in failing to find
that the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medic… |
| 18-1150 |
Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (34)Relisted (2) |
annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of… |
| 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… |
| 18-8256 |
Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8260 |
Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings |
This Court's holding and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) require a § 2255 court to conduct an evidentiary hearing unless the record and filings conclusively prove… |
| 18-8265 |
Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti… |
| 18-8266 |
Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
507, 5a7 (I9Be) In Which the California CourT OF Appeal held tHat "state Priooners Presently have a statutory right absent a judicial determination th… |
| 18-8211 |
Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a persons height be a disability under Tithe II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42U.s.C.8 12102(1)(A)-(C)?
2) Can a "Strike" be access… |
| 18-8222 |
Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code |
Was the Trail Court in error when the Court therefore find that it is without jurisdiction to conduct a resentencing or modify the Defendant's sentenc… |
| 18-8187 |
Kelley Toney v. David Stock, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1) Shoud A CONVcd PERN b FL ANishEd A SENENING?
2) Is A SENtence Not AuthoRizEd by StAtUte Void?
3) IS AN IPRPER SENtENCE in ViOLATiON OF UNiTESAtES… |
| 18-8200 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Assuming the Circuit Courts Application oF The June 15, 1989-Amended PArole Statute in Texas, By The 71 sT Legislature, strategicly Dismantling The SA… |
| 18-1130 |
David W. Charron v. Glenn S. Morris, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-procedure contempt contempt-sanctions debt-discharge discharge discharge-of-debts due-process intent non-dischargeable non-dischargeable-debt non-dischargeable-debts statutory-interpretation |
Whether contempt sanctions are per se non-dischargeable debts under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6)? |
| 18-1131 |
United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
|
accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten… |
| 18-8149 |
Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the State have a Constitutional duty to bear the burden of proving that an error in enforcement in order to obtain a conviction, and/or a fair vo… |
| 18-8164 |
Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8128 |
Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct |
South Carolina |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (SCFPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face and as applied and is a… |
| 18-8135 |
Jerry Lee Williams, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process standing state-court-error state-law statutory-interpretation transcript-request trial-court-error |
1. Was the clerk of court in error for not applying
With LSA-R.S. 13:1885(A) andLSA-C.CR. P.Art.843?
2. Whether the clerkof court in error for not ad… |
| 18-1116 |
Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. 1113(2), which runs from "the ea… |
| 18-1097 |
SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a state law exempt from the Dormant
Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce?
2. Is a state law exem… |
| 18-1100 |
Wayne D. Ramsay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure deficiency deficiency-interest interest internal-revenue-service jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax tax-court tax-law |
DOES THE U.S. TAX COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO DETERMINE DEFICIENCY INTEREST ASSESSED BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE? |
| 18-8076 |
Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and
Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits?
… |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta… |
| 18-8095 |
Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A CLARIFYING AMENDMENT UNDER UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOULD APPLY RETROACTIVELY UNDER 18 USCS 3582(C) |
| 18-8098 |
In Re Christopher Hanson |
|
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process government-interference habeas-corpus pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief-act statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions timeliness |
WHETHER APPELLANT HANSON'S PCRA'S WERE TIMELY UNDER 42 Pa. C.S. § 9545(b) DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND REFUSAL TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS.
WHETHER AP… |
| 18-8099 |
In Re Henry Lee Bryant |
|
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation |
At the end of Henry Bryant's direct appeal the government informed his appointed attorney (Sheryl Lowenthal) that the lead investigator had been disci… |
| 18-8043 |
Victor Alanis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8051 |
Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-8055 |
Kevin Ventura v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec… |
| 18-8064 |
Fernando Luviano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove … |
| 18-8069 |
Eric Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation |
Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 18-8078 |
Elbert Walker v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation time-requirements trial-court-error void-judgment |
WHETHER THE BENNETT AND PURSUANT TO GEORGIA LAW/ STATUTE O.C.G.A.817-9-4 50 SEe RI/EY V.GARRETT, 219 GA.345,133 S.E.2d 367 (1463 AND GUTIERMEZ V.STATE… |
| 18-1088 |
Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test |
For over 70 years, the Court has used a common law patent eligibility test that deviates from the language and plain meaning of the patent eligibility… |
| 18-1075 |
RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's… |
| 18-8010 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A.
Whether Under 18 U.S.C. S3582 (C) (2) should
the Petitioner be eligible for a resentencing
when two clariying amendments relevent to his
case was e… |
| 18-8025 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness |
1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstit utionally vague, given the Court's holding in… |
| 18-8026 |
Sergio Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the force cla… |
| 18-7989 |
Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-7993 |
Ronald Bedford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor |
Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service ("USPS") to haul mail is a person… |
| 18-7994 |
Daniel H. King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 18-7996 |
Emory Watkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-conspiracy residual-clause statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause at 18 USC Sec. 924 ( c) (3) (B) is void for vagueness, a question that divides seven Court of Appeals?
2. Whether the… |
| 18-1069 |
Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver |
1. Whether the Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to consider and determine a liability for an incorrect taxable year when it does not have jurisdiction ove… |
| 18-1070 |
Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
|
employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership |
Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act
states that nothing in the Act "shall be construed as
authorizing the execution or application of ag… |
| 18-1072 |
James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, what standard should be applied in determining whether prior art is "analogous," and, if the… |
| 18-7939 |
In Re Daniel Eric Salley |
|
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus patent standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers |
Whether the district court failed to
Perform it's ministerial duties pursuant to 28
U.S. C. 3636()()(Band(), and Fed,R. Civ. P 6(a)
by not Computing
T… |
| 18-7961 |
David Martinko v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the "Absurdity Doctrine" be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether in order to protect legislative supremacy?
II. When states… |
| 18-7967 |
James Dalton Smith v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh… |
| 18-7974 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio… |
| 18-7976 |
Gerald Adger v. New York |
New York |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings |
WHEN THE PETITIONER GERALD ADGER #05-B-1254 WAIVED HIS RIGHT FOR A JURY TRIAL, WAS THE JUDGE SUPPOSE TO DENY GERALD ADGER WAIVER OF THE JURY TRIAL BEC… |
| 18-7979 |
Eric K. Watkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3) (B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal c… |
| 18-7984 |
James Scott Ervin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determ… |
| 18-7986 |
Maurin Chacon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan |
Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 585 U.S. - (2018). Clar -
ified the Plain Error Standard in United States v.Olan, 507 U.S.
725, 736 (1993). Does a… |
| 18-7936 |
Jaquan Henderson v. Greg Skipper, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure duress legal-justification murder statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DURESS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PRIOR TO AN OCCURRE NCE OF MURDER? |
| 18-7941 |
Trevor Little v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
the lower Courts, Fourth Circuit. Violated The Petitioner's
st Facto Clause of The Cluted States Constituton, Artice,
on 9 Clause 3, When It Still Enf… |
| 18-7949 |
In Re Reginald Watson |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION #1- Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watsons 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
QUESTION #2- Whether in light of Decamps v … |
| 18-7912 |
Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment,
Chapter 2016-13, Laws of Florida, which required a vote of no less than… |
| 18-7918 |
Rutilio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
I. Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to compl… |
| 18-7920 |
Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
"Whether; Dean v. United States, 581 U.S. (2017) permits a district court the discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive s… |
| 18-7921 |
James Howard Looman, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app… |
| 18-7922 |
Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification |
Did the Eleventh Circuit court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's SubjctMatter Jurisdiction claim, where the charging documents statute [26 … |
| 18-1051 |
James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department |
First Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-1044 |
PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a relator's admission that he, in fact,
derived his complaint from public disclosures
triggers the Bar, requiring an analysis of
whether su… |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether district courts can consider future earing capacity in determining whether a person is "non-indigent" for the purposes of assessing the $50… |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-7789 |
Ashley Richards v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d… |
| 18-7804 |
Denandias Watson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7815 |
Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-judgment civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing state-court-judgment state-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7816 |
Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness |
Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7836 |
Michael Travis Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) is … |
| 18-7838 |
William Floyd Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a general inte… |
| 18-7839 |
Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1.Did the Fourth:CuEcuit:Coutt 6 1f, appeals in dismissing 1.the district Court case, violated petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process to redress the… |
| 18-7844 |
Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1030 |
United States, ex rel. Thomas A. Berg, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
energy-savings-performance-contract false-claims-act government-knowledge materiality scienter statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements utility-cost-savings |
Although fraud-in-the-inducement taints all subsequent payments, belated discovery of the truth can leave the Government with no practical choice but … |
| 18-1032 |
Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the "DOL's independent interest in Mawhinney's AIR21 discrimination and retaliation complaint ... cea… |
| 18-1027 |
Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether, under § 314(d), a party may appeal the PTAB's application of § 315(b)'s time-bar provision made during its decision to institute IPR.
2. … |
| 18-1028 |
Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
appropriations appropriations-riders bait-and-switch federal-circuit government-contracts government-obligation health-care health-exchanges health-insurance insurance statutory-commitment statutory-interpretation statutory-promise takings |
Whether Congress can evade its unambiguous statutory promise to pay health insurers for losses already incurred simply by enacting appropriations ride… |
| 18-7779 |
Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm |
Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. … |
| 18-7783 |
Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
1. Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clau… |
| 18-7784 |
Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-7797 |
Coree Patrick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-7753 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review rules-of-construction separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did MN Supreme Court violate Separation of Powers?
Did MN Supreme Court's interpretation of Minn.Stat. § 590 and Minn.R.Crim.P. 27.03 unconstitutiona… |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE
AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7737 |
Tyshawn Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7743 |
Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Antirerrorist and3 Effea tive Death Penalty A (AEWA) of 1996) vitiates; m citizens 1) Privilege to t he Wr it o' Hbeas Corpa pursuant to "… |
| 18-1017 |
Angelex, Ltd. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
|
33-usc-1904 administrative-delay administrative-law apps-act-to-prevent-pollution-from-ships civil-procedure compensation-claim due-process government-liability maritime maritime-law marpol-treaty statutory-interpretation takings unreasonable-delay vessel-detention |
1. Whether the Court below erred by prematurely dismissing Angelex's case prior to trial and full presentation of Angelex's evidence; and
2. Whether … |
| 18-7709 |
John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether contestability precedent from this Court, see Hurni, Enelow, Stewart, Pickering, Wallerstein and Button; the N.C. Supreme Court, see American … |
| 18-7716 |
Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui… |
| 18-7720 |
Howard Webber v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
| 18-7722 |
Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a
merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth
Circuit… |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 18-7680 |
Hector Cirino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7685 |
Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. Porter County, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-compliance county-treasurer due-process indiana-statute property-tax standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr.'s property tax payments submitted to the Porter County, Indiana Treasurer in 2011 and 2012 were properly and l… |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7700 |
Luther Gene Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 18-996 |
Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT REFUSE TO APPLY THE MANDATORY LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE, WORD OF SHALL IN MISSISSIPPI CODE OF ANN § 11-1-17 IN VIOL… |
| 18-991 |
Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute |
1. Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692e(8), 1692g(a)(3), is a debt collector required to treat a consumer's oral dispute w… |
| 18-995 |
Crunch San Diego, LLC v. Jordan Marks |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Dismissed |
|
automatic-telephone-dialing-system capacity-to-dial circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation tcpa telemarketing-practices telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in expanding the TCPA's definition of "automatic telephone dialing system"—in acknowledged conflict with the Third Cir… |
| 18-7663 |
Randy Jason Ford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force |
When an Iowa "assault" is accompanied only by the "display" of a dangerous weapon, does the "displaying" provide the "threatened use of force" such th… |
| 18-7666 |
Rowy De Jesus Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing departure district-court-discretion due-process notice notice-requirement sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-1b1.1 ussg-5k2.0 |
Whether the district court must have provided defendant notice for the grounds for a sentence above the range recommended by the advisory guidelines r… |
| 18-7669 |
Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments? |
| 18-7674 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
CourT To Federal CourT?
2) CaN A state Habeas Corpus, Filed by A"state PrisoNer
CONTract Housed iN Federal PrisoN (withiN the sTarte) be
Removed To Fe… |
| 18-7596 |
In Re Robert F. Russo |
|
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-overreach legislative-action legislative-overreach procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions |
Has the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals arrogated its own form of legislative action concerning a Petitioner's request for "leave" to commence a succ… |
| 18-7636 |
Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
i. Does court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 28 usc 2244(d)(1) to deny review of C.O.A. Challenging District c… |
| 18-7649 |
Sergeyi Bazar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty |
1. When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908… |
| 18-7652 |
Brian Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017). |
| 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… |
| 18-989 |
United States v. Marvin Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-7580 |
Mourice Neal v. Wayne County Treasurer |
Michigan |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitution-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Is the United States Constitution the Supreme Law governing this Land?
Is every judge bound by oath or affirmation to support the United States Const… |
| 18-7592 |
Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
(1). In CoNTROVERSIEs /NVOLVING TRENSON AND LEVy By
The UiiTeo SnTEs GovernmeNT AwD WiTuiN One STiE WiTH
SoTE GoreRnMieNT AGAiNsT One Orr MoRE OF lres… |
| 18-7602 |
Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation |
In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-7609 |
Merlin Alston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the conviction of a local poli ce officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 9… |
| 18-7612 |
Nathaniel Bowens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65, 78 (2014) that in order to ai… |
| 18-7570 |
Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7572 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7573 |
Matthew Hearn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7551 |
Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? |
| 18-7556 |
Michael James Horton v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-trial-stages due-process pro-se-representation right-to-be-present right-to-counsel self-representation standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
FX ONS _JUSTiCe so eloQuent ly pot Veo
"Lest We SEHe WWISTI Ch ONL DAT TR AROUND
) Sttouks THE UNE@ViVOCA RLGKT TO
RENRESENT ONES SEIF OR HAVE COUNSe|… |
| 18-7557 |
Terveus Hyppolite v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
| 18-7560 |
Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED BY MISCONSTRUING
THE PETITIONER'S MOTION BASED ON BUCK vs. DAVIS
BY FAILING TO APPLY THE CORRECT LEGAL ANALYSIS
STANDARD… |
| 18-7565 |
Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully. |
| 18-7490 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? This C… |
| 18-7510 |
Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
As a matter of first impression - Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process pursuant to 42 Pa. C.S.A. 721, 726 constitute… |
| 18-7511 |
Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing court's discretion of setting modification via 3553(A); include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language of the … |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7523 |
Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1.)THE IOWA STATE COURT DECISION IN STATE V. HEEMSTRA, THAT IT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUTE IS CONTRARY TO THE DECISION IN STATE V. GOOSMAN, TH… |
| 18-7482 |
Edgar Baltazar Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3599 capital-case criminal-procedure due-process expert-expenses expert-fees global-cap investigative-fees legal-compensation reasonably-necessary statutory-interpretation |
Whether, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) and (g)(2), a global cap may be imposed on investigative and expert fees and expenses in a capital case in an… |
| 18-7513 |
Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Under Which Standard of Review This Case Shall Be Determined Actual Innocence Injective Assistance of Counsels, The AEDPA Limitations, or After Guilma… |
| 18-7518 |
Kevin Holt v. J.A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-cfr-chapter-1-2-61 federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-judicial-system first-impression good-time-credits life-sentence military-prisoner military-prisoners military-prisoners-life-sentence presumptive-release sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-4206 title-18-usc-4206a |
Should the Supreme Court of the United States hear this case that presents a substantial issue of first impression in the Federal Judicial System that… |
| 18-7519 |
Daltonia Duncan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody … |
| 18-7489 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 bond-v-united-states capital-case due-process-clause federal-authority hostage-taking international-terrorism recusal-standard statutory-interpretation treaty-power |
(1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1203 should be interpreted in accordance with its underlying treaty and the principles in Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. 844 … |
| 18-7495 |
Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952), were the Appellate Court has made 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-7504 |
Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY NOT REVERSING THE TRIAL COURTS ORDER DENYING PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO WITHDRAWAL OF THE GUILTY PLEA… |
| 18-7507 |
In Re Dwight Carter |
|
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)… |
| 18-936 |
Jeremy Kettler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment congressional-taxing-power constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cox-v-new-hampshire due-process murdock-v-pennsylvania national-firearms-act second-amendment sound-suppressor standing statutory-interpretation tax taxation united-states-v-sonzinsky |
1. Whether the National Firearms Act of 1934, upheld in Sonzinsky, continues to be a constitutional exercise of Congress's taxing power when the justi… |
| 18-938 |
Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1). In diverting from this Court's prio… |
| 18-941 |
Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation |
By operation of law, when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy "estate" is created consisting of all of the debtor's property "wherever … |
| 18-7470 |
Carl Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is federal carjacking by way of intimidation a crime of violence as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause?
2. In light of this Court'… |
| 18-7471 |
Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a "willful" violation of the Arms Export Control Act (""AECA"),
22 U.S.C. § 2778, requires proof that the defendant was aware of the export… |
| 18-7475 |
Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. |
West Virginia |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent |
Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements of caretaking, providing for, legally acknowledging, and forming a par… |
| 18-7443 |
Wallace Thornton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the … |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as
the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for
sentence red… |
| 18-918 |
John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987), this Court held that to maintain a facial challenge, a plaintiff must establish that "no set of… |
| 18-925 |
A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter |
Missouri |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t… |
| 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… |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7422 |
David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
Is defendnt entitled to relef where he was constuctively denied counsel duing trial?
Is ndnt ied to whhewas cnuctivy dend counsel duina his one and o… |
| 18-7387 |
James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(… |
| 18-7388 |
David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-7394 |
Torrey Brown v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process motion-to-proceed motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7345 |
Mario Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518(9) burden-of-proof due-process exclusionary-mandate mens-rea notice statutory-interpretation wire-intercepts |
In the case, as in hundreds of cases over the years since the enactment of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which … |
| 18-7346 |
Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker |
I. Whether The Lower Court Denial Of Modification Of Sentence Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) Based On A Mandatory Guidelines Range Departure's Sentence V… |
| 18-7348 |
Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… |
| 18-7352 |
Giovanni Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7360 |
Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw?
Did th… |
| 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… |
| 18-890 |
David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… |
| 18-895 |
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
general-welfare-benefits gross-income income-tax-exclusion indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act indian-general-welfare-benefits statutory-interpretation tax tax-interpretation tribal-general-welfare-exclusion-act tribal-welfare |
The 2014 Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act states that, for income tax purposes, "[g]ross income does not include the value of any Indian general w… |
| 18-878 |
Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order to satisfy the mental state requirement of "knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know" that removal or alteration of copy… |
| 18-882 |
Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
but-for-causation causation civil-rights discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination personnel-actions retaliation statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Whether "shall be made free from any discrimination" permits federal-sector personnel actions that are not made free from any discrimination or retali… |
| 18-7306 |
Michael Martin Steele v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video |
Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… |
| 18-7325 |
John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison
3
being N.C.G.S.S14-27.7A, a statute thathas been
abolished, and replaced with two separate statutes,
… |
| 18-7331 |
Ishmael Douglas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense.
2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… |
| 18-7317 |
Willie Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-intent due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Appellate Court's reading of 18 U.S.C.§ 3231 in relation to 18 U.S.C.§ 3179(a) exceeds Judicial power
Whether a Court's interpretation of… |
| 18-7249 |
John Doe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U. S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 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… |
| 18-7269 |
Larry Allison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no trial resulting in a conviction has been held?
2. Will this Co… |
| 18-7276 |
Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight |
MAY A FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ENACT A SYSTEM OF RETRIBUTION AND DETERRENCE BY WAY OF POLICY, IN DESECRATION OF THE DICTA OF KANSAS V. HENDRICKS, 521 U.… |
| 18-858 |
James McCullars v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence |
Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications - either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting… |
| 18-866 |
Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
4-r-act discrimination fuel-tax infrastructure-funding interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-taxation railroad railroad-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination transportation-law |
Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), states may not impose taxes that discriminate against railroads by favoring their competitors, such as motor carriers. … |
| 18-853 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Postal Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-deference cost-attribution institutional-costs package-delivery postal-accountability-and-enhancement-act postal-regulatory-commission postal-service statutory-interpretation |
1. Should this Court reconsider the doctrine of Chevron deference?
2. Should this Court hold that Chevron deference does not apply to an agency's une… |
| 18-7222 |
Winifred Jiau v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
The Second Circuit held, contrary to the holdings of Supreme Court considering the question, a prisoner seeking a Certificate of Appealability (COA) m… |
| 18-7233 |
Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition |
Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 18-7238 |
Antron Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7240 |
Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 18-846 |
David Allen Anderton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la… |
| 18-849 |
HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
This patent infringement case squarely presents a question acknowledged by the Court but left unanswered in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brand… |
| 18-851 |
Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was "critical" to his case before fund… |
| 18-7192 |
Lavell Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), a "violent felony" is defined as, inter alia, a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, o… |
| 18-7197 |
Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation |
Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic "robbery" for purpo… |
| 18-7176 |
Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense that can be committed by causing fear of har… |
| 18-7178 |
David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark |
THE CIRCUIT COURT SHOULD HAVE GRANTED MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BECAUSE THE COURT ERRED IN THEIR PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATUTE IN THE UNITED STA… |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… |
| 18-818 |
Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration |
Whether the statutory requirement that the petitioner show his criminal case was dismissed based on innocence or grounds consistent with innocence as … |
| 18-7143 |
Derian Eidson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… |
| 18-7149 |
Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
In Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), this Court explicitly stated that a federal court on habeas review must look to the actual reasoning of … |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7147 |
Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… |
| 18-7166 |
Gerard Mann v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct.… |
| 18-801 |
Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation |
Whether the phrase "[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings" in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in… |
| 18-790 |
Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation |
The Clean Water Act authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits for the discharge of certain pollutants into "navigable waters," whic… |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-7132 |
James R. Bright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-7133 |
Paul Burks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty |
Contrary to the rule in James v. United States, 366 U.S. 213 (1961), is the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law … |
| 18-7135 |
In Re Walter Edward Harrington |
|
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection key-terms legal-issues petition precedent scotus standing statutory-interpretation topic-areas writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7137 |
Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
May withholdin exculpatory and impeaching evidence [in violation of Brady (373 U.S. 83, 63) /Due Process as Guaranteed under the 5th and 14th Amendmen… |
| 18-7154 |
John Visconti v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion |
Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a "distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock," the question expressly left open in Boulwa… |
| 18-7103 |
Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance |
1. Whether the "official restraint" doctrine precludes the possibility that that a defendant can be illegally "found in" the United States, for purpos… |
| 18-7104 |
Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation |
May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not … |
| 18-7105 |
Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense… |
| 18-7114 |
Earle D. Williams v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), as applied to … |
| 18-7115 |
Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
This Court's Article III inferiors are in turmoil over the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s phrase "inadequate or ineffective." Congress has not defin… |
| 18-7123 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7127 |
Christopher French v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute |
Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-776 |
Pedro Pablo Guerrero-Lasprilla v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
agency-decision criminal-alien-bar diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling immigration-law judicial-review removability statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the application of a legal standard to an undisputed set of facts is a question of law, or a pure question of fact that may be barred from … |
| 18-781 |
Baltimore County, Maryland v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adea-enforcement age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent circuit-court-split discretionary-authority judicial-discretion pension-plan pension-plans retroactive-relief statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that a
retroactive award of monetary relief is mandatory
under the ADEA in this pension case,
A. becau… |
| 18-7080 |
Yusufu Danmola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code |
Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution?
Are The People Prohibited Liberty Of Usage of the Uniform Commercial Co… |
| 18-7088 |
Oscar Raul Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 18-7039 |
Alexander Ndaula v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The 5th & 6th amendments to the Constitution guarantee fairness in criminal proceedings to the accused. When the verification of a sentence enhancemen… |
| 18-7071 |
Chad Preston Brewer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammuni… |
| 18-7032 |
Reginald L. Lomax v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 18-7033 |
Michael Casey Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
congress district-court federal-indian-law indian-country judicial-restoration land-relinquishment land-rights native-american-lands native-americans reservation-status separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether or Not a District Court Judge Can Restor Lands That By TREATY Were Relinquished By Indians to the United States All Claims and Rights They Pos… |
| 18-7036 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-7002 |
Clifton Stanley Diaz, Jr. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages default-judgment due-process employment judicial-review legal-procedure motion reinstatement remand standing statutory-interpretation |
U.S. COURT OF APPENCS FOR TNE D.C. CIRAMIT D.D NOT
RESPOND TO THE MOTION SEEKING MONETARY DAMAGES
BECAUSE THE COURT WAS REVIEWING THE ORDER FICED
FIVE… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-7024 |
Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence - post-trial - without notice are unco… |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law
Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum
senten… |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-750 |
JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of… |
| 18-6972 |
Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6979 |
Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of "culpable negligence" qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-6984 |
Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ENTITLED TO FILE AN APPLI-' CATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2241 AND/OR 28 U..S.C. 2255(e) IN LIGHT OF McFADDEN v. U.… |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6989 |
Jessie Lee Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6991 |
Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges. Consequently, char… |
| 18-6993 |
Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-743 |
White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions |
1. Where a statute directs an agency to carry out
and pay for a federal project for public benefit
without granting express authority to regulate
priv… |
| 18-747 |
Sonja Ritter v. Lois Brady, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-chapter-7 bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7 chapter-7-liquidation judicial-precedent lien-stripping lien-valuation secured-claims stare-decisis statutory-interpretation unsecured-claims |
The question presented is whether Dewsnup v. Timm , 502 U.S. 410 (1992), should be overruled . |
| 18-6977 |
James Edward Mitchell v. California |
California |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION FOR RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY IN CALIFORNIA VIOLATE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHERE IT FAILS TO CONVEY THAT THE "DI… |
| 18-6900 |
Jacob Scott Watters v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions |
As written, and by the actual language used in the Statute, is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) in excess of Congress' Powers under the Commerce Clause to. regulate… |
| 18-6921 |
Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d… |
| 18-6937 |
Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
It is a crime for a person to induce or attempt to induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The statute criminalizes … |
| 18-6950 |
Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
waived even though it is observed and Texas Penal Code § 25.1(d) prohibited the use of more counts for the same offense arising out of the same crimin… |
| 18-6951 |
Jamal Cooper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518 4th-amendment congressional-intent consent-requirements criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware necessity-requirement omnibus-crime-control-act probable-cause separate-application statutory-interpretation wiretap-application wiretap-necessity wiretap-statute |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (1)c) a statutory provision that reflects Congress' core concerns and does § 2518 (1)(c) require that each request for a wiretap b… |
| 18-6962 |
In Re Walter E. Kostich |
|
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Question #1), Whether, the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case, in the absence of a statutory required signed "… |
| 18-729 |
Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer. |
| 18-6913 |
Lamar Sowell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6920 |
Clyde Retiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6926 |
James Valentine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,… |
| 18-6927 |
In Re Jerry Urbina |
|
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER IN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT HOLDING IN HUGHES V. UNITED STATES (CITATIONS OMITTED), THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING PETI… |
| 18-6936 |
Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6912 |
Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-717 |
PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… |
| 18-718 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Sannie L. Overly, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud immunity judicial-review party-accountability political-parties standing statutory-interpretation |
If the decision in Rosenberg v. Republican Party of Jefferson County, 270 S.W2d 171 (Ky. 1954) is not overturned, will the Republican and Democratic P… |
| 18-6888 |
Kathy Glenn Clay v. Peace Officer Papik |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6880 |
Jason A. Lenz v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accidental-death character-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-deadlock standing statutory-interpretation |
Should a certificate of appealability issue in a Section 2254 proceeding where counsel learned directly from a juror that the jury had deadlocked 10-2… |
| 18-703 |
University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust |
Whether an agreement to arbitrate "all claims" that an ERISA plan participant "may have" against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du… |
| 18-6839 |
Billy A. Robin v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing statement-of-the-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
DOES INVALIDATE LAW WHILE ARMED ALGRAVATED ASSAULT CONUILTIONS MENS REA BECAUSE HE LACKED THE REQUISITE TME CRIME TD COMPLETE
(2) WAS APPELLATE WHEN … |
| 18-6854 |
Matthew Lane Durham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits minor-protection noncommercial-activity noneconomic-activity sexual-acts sexual-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress exceed its enumerated powers under the Foreign Commerce Clause by punishing noncommercial, noneconomic sexual acts committed by a U.S. ci… |
| 18-6858 |
Micah G. Pritchett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law |
Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 18-6859 |
James Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), apply both to offenses analyzed und… |
| 18-6865 |
Adony Nina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi… |
| 18-6870 |
James Frederick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force |
In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the ACCA's elements clause to mean "viole… |
| 18-6789 |
Delroy McLean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness |
IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS NOT A PROTECTED PERSON UNDER THE STATUE OF 18 U.S.C.S. § 115 (a)(1)(B)
THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS AS WE HAVE SAID, AN OFFICER CREA… |
| 18-6832 |
Keddron Rakee West v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process indictment mens-rea mistake-of-fact statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Is due process violated by not allowing Petitioner to rely upon the statutory enacted mistake of fact defense as his sole defense to an indictment for… |
| 18-6833 |
Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level u… |
| 18-6852 |
Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d)… |
| 18-6801 |
Van McDuffy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation |
What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-6806 |
Eliana Sarmiento v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a d… |
| 18-6809 |
Desmond Camp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18
U.S.C.§ 924(c) when Hobbs Act robbery does not match the elements clause of
S… |
| 18-682 |
Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
|
aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation |
Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a "means of identification of another person" under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. |
| 18-6822 |
Mark Anthony Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The plain language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requires the United States to, "before trial," file an "information" if it intends to seek enhanced statutory pe… |
| 18-6829 |
Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6830 |
Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime |
Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-685 |
Lynn Robinson, et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adhesion-contract adhesion-contracts airline-deregulation-act common-law common-law-contract consumer-rights contract-interpretation contract-law forfeiture statutory-interpretation unconscionability |
Since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, there has been confusion and uncertainty among the courts as to what the answer is to the… |
| 18-6794 |
Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
DO A TIMELY FILED MOTION FOR REHEARJNG OF AN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REUIEW THAT IS NEVER RECEIVED, RECEIUE THE BENIFIT OF THE MAILBOX RULE |
| 18-6798 |
Elvin Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-force |
1. Under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), an offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" -- required for conviction under § 924(c)(1), … |
| 18-666 |
Alliance for California Business v. California Air Resources Board |
California |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clean-air-act epa epa-approval epa-regulation judicial-review sovereign-jurisdiction state-courts state-implementation-plan state-jurisdiction state-law state-law-challenges statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under a provision of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), the inclusion of a state regulation in an EPA-approved State Implementation P… |
| 18-668 |
Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Under Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b), regarding when "a creditor offsets a mutual debt owing" and "the date of such setoff," does this require that th… |
| 18-670 |
SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
federal-housing-finance federal-housing-finance-authority fhfa foreclosure-bar lien-enforcement lien-priority mortgage-securitization property-rights real-estate-transactions secondary-mortgage-market securitized-mortgages statutory-interpretation tax-liens |
1. Does 12 U.S.C. § 4617(j)(3) apply to foreclosures of properties for which FHFA holds a securitized mortgage solely as trustee for the security hold… |
| 18-6748 |
Malachi M. Glass v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6757 |
Ronald Ray Norman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony |
I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act?
II. Is the… |
| 18-6768 |
Michael Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
1. Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qual… |
| 18-6771 |
Johny Gardner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6778 |
DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
In cases such as Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), and Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003), this Court found deficient performance where trial… |
| 18-6785 |
Christopher Scott v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
1st degree murder charges Count 23.
Whether Petitoner
PriNt, while Also Killed in the Course of Another Felny"
5/18-2 & 5/19-3, Violated the Joiner of… |
| 18-651 |
Jason Craig Montgomery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422b attempt coerce criminal-attempt entice induce intent interstate-communication interstate-communications minor minor-solicitation persuade sexual-activity statutory-interpretation substantial-step telecommunications-act |
I. Does a defendant attempt to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b), where the defendant communicates… |
| 18-6741 |
Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis? |
| 18-6751 |
Patrick McIntosh v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4243 civil-commitment criminal-law due-process mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect mental-health-law personality-disorder statutory-interpretation |
Does a severe personality disorder constitute a mental disease or defect under 18 U.S.C. § 4243(c)(d) civil commitment provision? |
| 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 … |
| 18-6754 |
Domonic McCarns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial M… |
| 18-6755 |
Daederick Lacy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
age-of-consent criminal-sexual-activity interstate-commerce mens-rea minor prostitution statutory-interpretation transportation-of-minors |
Does the statute require proof that the defendant knew the individual transported had not attained the age of 18 years?
Does the statute require proo… |
| 18-6756 |
John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights contempt debt-imprisonment disgorgement due-process erisa erisa-case erisa-enforcement garnishment imprisonment judicial-review labor-secretary-powers preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly decided that parts of a $38 million judgment for "disgorgement" entered in 2015 against the Pet… |
| 18-6759 |
Gregory L. Brown v. Shawn Hatton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2244b brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition recurring-issue second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Is a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-6722 |
Craig Porter v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIRST COURT OF APPEALS ERRONEOUSOY AFFIRMED APPLICANT'S CONVECTION BASED ON STATE PROSECUTION'S ARGUMENTS WETH ROGARDS TO APPLICANT'S REGAT TO… |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by
United States v. Booker and its progeny. |
| 18-6695 |
Zafar Mehmood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter |
Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli… |
| 18-6706 |
Jeremiah Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Tennessee aggravated assault conviction, which does not require proof that the defendant caused serious bodily injury or used or displayed a… |
| 18-6707 |
Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
L In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally' mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) a… |
| 18-626 |
Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Dismissed |
|
circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability |
This is a case of first impression and national importance affecting the entire United States housing industry. It concerns who can be held liable und… |
| 18-629 |
Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. |
California |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation |
In this case of first impression before this Court, does the CAA withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of s… |
| 18-6665 |
Maurice T. Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-6697 |
Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where… |
| 18-6660 |
Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute because Congress intended such allegations of false advertising of nonprescript… |
| 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… |
| 18-610 |
TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
For a consignee to be liable for demurrage it must agree to be a consignee for the goods being shipped as the liability for such charges is based in c… |
| 18-6647 |
Kiran Sharma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing forfeiture forfeiture-restitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victim-restitution-act plea-agreement restitution statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiary trust-corpus |
Does the language in the Mandatory Victim Act (MVRA) 18 USCS 3663A, and 21 USCS 853(a), and this court's opinions in Hughey v. United States, 495 US 4… |
| 18-6598 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Tony Baynes |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6609 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Office of Personnel Management |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-immunity due-diligence due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction negligence statutory-interpretation |
When harm occurs and there is no resolution under current statutes and guidelines that regulate that agency, the following questions present themselve… |
| 18-6612 |
James Pinkney v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a "violent felony" under the… |
| 18-600 |
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a person directly infringes a patent whenever she "offers to sell" a patented invention "within the United States." The ques… |
| 18-6607 |
Scott Peters v. John Baldwin |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA… |
| 18-6608 |
William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco… |
| 18-597 |
John Ching En Lee v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
|
agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation |
1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total… |
| 18-6563 |
Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-6564 |
Cephus Hollis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle "t… |
| 18-6566 |
Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), separate opinions by Justice Thomas and Justice Breyer questioned whether Euans v. United States, … |
| 18-6574 |
Curtis D. Hall v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence firearm-use sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
1. Whether (as the court of appeals held) the categorical approach does not apply in any case in which the defendant was also convicted of "use[ of] a… |
| 18-6583 |
Dionysius Fiumano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
DOES THE UNDEFINED ELEMENT "SCHEME TO DEFRAUD"
IN 18 U.S.C. § 1343 SATISFY FIFTH AMENDMENT
DUE PROCESS NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN LIGHT OF
THIS COURT'S DE… |
| 18-6567 |
Luis Delprado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition criminal-history-enhancement generic-offense herrold-v-united-states quarles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review united-states-v-stitt |
I. Whether the following cases pending before this Court create a reasonable probability of a different result in the instant case insofar as the addr… |
| 18-6569 |
Mark Lee Murray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether ge… |
| 18-583 |
Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli… |
| 18-578 |
William L. Pender, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
|
appropriate-relief benefit-plan civil-procedure divided-bench employee-benefits equitable-relief equity-courts erisa judicial-remedy pension-law solicitor-general statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "appropriate" in ERISA § 502(a)(3) authorizes ERISA courts to decline to award an established equitable remedy based on consideration… |
| 18-6545 |
Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California |
California |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation |
Does it matter. Appeal's Court Judge States It Consequently, whether defendant intended to commit robbery from the moment he first approached or punce… |
| 18-6533 |
Anthony Lewallyn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's opinion in Nichols v. United States, can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the dis… |
| 18-6543 |
John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
29-usc-1132 appropriate-relief benefit-plans defined-benefit defined-benefit-plan erisa erisa-29-usc-1132 erisa-standing fiduciary-duty monetary-relief plan-surplus secretary-of-labor standing statutory-interpretation surplus-assets trust |
Does the Secretary of Labor have standing to sue for "losses" to the surplus of an ERISA defined benefit welfare plan - i.e., a theoretical injury to … |
| 18-6547 |
Christopher Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 18-6502 |
Chris Jonathon Epperson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process executive-power foreign-affairs foreign-policy national-security political-question separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Executive Orders:
JohnF. Kennedy
Theadore Roosevell
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reaqun
ioth
Amendment
ForeanPolicy
UKraine -Indonesia
2ndAmendmenl
France - G… |
| 18-563 |
Darren Commander v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness |
Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness
under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations
that at best are mere negligence in conflict with
th… |
| 18-568 |
Bart H. Rippl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantive-regulations |
Does the Fifth Amendment's "due process of law" guarantee apply to the specific language set forth in the Internal Revenue Code and other laws, and in… |
| 18-6495 |
Richard Anthony Trent v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation |
Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is "suggestive" and … |
| 18-6476 |
Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. |
Michigan |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment fraud hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability sexual-harassment standing statutory-interpretation workplace-abuse |
Must a court overlook co- workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and
to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile enviro… |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6483 |
Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-554 |
Charles J. Weiss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process irs levy-action notice statutory-interpretation tax tax-notice taxpayer-rights |
under the notice prong of the Fifth Amendment due process clause and the statute itself, whether the IRS notice means what it says – as the 3rd, 9th, … |
| 18-550 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva conventions. |
| 18-6448 |
In Re Michael Quattrocchi |
|
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-forfeiture administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-approval judicial-review procedural-violations property-rights statutory-interpretation trial-delay unborn-rights |
WHETHER "ACTUAL INNOCENCE" REQUIRES THE ACCUSED UPON MOTIONS "ACTUAL AND |
| 18-6455 |
Ronnie McGee v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 district-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-courts federal-habeas gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation |
WHEN A DISTRICT COURT MISCONSTRUES A § 2254 CLAIM AND/OR FAILS TO CONSIDER OR PROPERLY CONSIDER MATERIAL EVDIENCE SUBMITTED TO SUPPORT A CLAIM, DOES T… |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6414 |
Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
1. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THE ISSUE " A HABEAS CORPUS IS AN APPROPRIATE VEHICAL FORSECOND OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THIS ISSU… |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those … |
| 18-544 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t… |
| 18-534 |
Well Luck Company, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law customs-classification customs-law explanatory-notes general-rules-of-interpretation hts-heading-1206 hts-heading-2008 legislative-intent nesoi prior-statutory-construction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tariff-classification trade-classification |
Whether the panel disregarded legislative intent and prior statutory construction to improperly use the General Rules of Interpretation and the Explan… |
| 18-6408 |
Tiffany A. Prince v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a "significant physical injury" under
U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2. |
| 18-6413 |
Joshua Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior… |
| 18-524 |
Eric D. Gathings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Was the appellate court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) reciting that it had "carefully reviewed the original file of the … |
| 18-512 |
Lee Simmons v. Paul Daniel Smith, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the National Park Service, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency-deference administrative-law agency-action agency-discretion chevron-deference due-process judicial-review property-rights statutory-interpretation takings wild-and-scenic-rivers-act |
1. Whether an agency can advance an interpretation of a statute for the first time in litigation and then demand deference for its view under Chevron.… |
| 18-6359 |
Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. The mandatory five year minimum under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U. S.C. 3661 and 3553(a) becaus… |
| 18-6360 |
Jocelyn Faurisma v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
After Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __ , 135 S. Ct. 2551 and Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), can reasonable jurists debate whether ar… |
| 18-6385 |
Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6363 |
Calvin Bernhardt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
1. A person can be guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) if he "corruptly persuades" someone else to withhold testimony or an object from an official proce… |
| 18-6369 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-494 |
Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of … |
| 18-482 |
Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
|
bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for constructi… |
| 18-6331 |
Vernon Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
did the 1st Diothict Count of appeal departiment from the essentinl reluinement of law ts Mandate By the uvited States Supreme the count muotmake A ex… |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-6343 |
Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-6346 |
Mark A. Dubarry v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 18-6349 |
Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6292 |
Anthony Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6322 |
Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-481 |
Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation |
1.Does the statutory term "confidential" in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, thus requiring the Government to withhold all "commercial or f… |
| 18-468 |
SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on whether the § 325(d) Multiple-Proceedings rule applies and bars an IPR's institution when (1) the a… |
| 18-6302 |
Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as set forth as a predicate felony offense in Count 4 of the Second Superseding Indictment qualifies as a "crime of violence… |
| 18-6303 |
Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6274 |
Robert Klein v. Centennial Ranch and Aspen Mountain Ranch Association |
Colorado |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-obligations constitutional-rights court-orders discrimination due-process judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-procedure legislative-intent prevailing-party-rights pro-se-litigation standing state-courts-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether state courts are following what the legislators have put in place through the statutes? Have the legislators put Statutes in place for reasoni… |
| 18-6277 |
Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony |
The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… |
| 18-6299 |
Jonathan Wade Dunning v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appraisal appraisal-disclosure criminal-intent duty-to-disclose joint-ownership market-value property-purchase property-sale purchase-price scheme-or-artifice-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. For purposes of the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, has a defendant engaged in a "scheme or artifice to defraud" when the defendant, without … |
| 18-460 |
Walter Daniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rebekah Daniel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine medical-malpractice military-discipline military-exigencies service-member service-members stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
In Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950), and its companion medical malpractice cases, Jefferson v. United States, and United States v. Griggs, … |
| 18-447 |
Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers |
Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a
State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use
tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to
transport goods interst… |
| 18-6282 |
Iseal Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-6228 |
John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement |
Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou… |
| 18-6232 |
Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness |
Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
In light of Johnso… |
| 18-6241 |
Edward Jewell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's holding in Mathis v. United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of Whether a prior convicti… |
| 18-6248 |
Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2
Whether Congress … |
| 18-6249 |
Markos Pappas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the certificate of appealability ("COA") requirement of 228 U.S.C. § 2253(c) that explicitly applies to motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, also appl… |
| 18-6256 |
William Wise Mock v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach to determine if a defendant is a career offender, the sentencing court can use a Presentence Investig… |
| 18-442 |
Jesse R. Benton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE MATERIALITY REQUIREMENT IN 18 USC SECTION 1001 CAN BE TURNED INTO A MERE FALSITY REQUIREMENT IN THE FEC REPORTING CONTEXT OR WHETHER TH… |
| 18-6215 |
Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6198 |
Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation |
Is a defendant guilty of social security fraud pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B) – which prohibits "falsely represent[ing] a number to be the socia… |
| 18-6222 |
Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez |
Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |
| 18-420 |
United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
The question presented is whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circui… |
| 18-418 |
United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter |
Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d… |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-431 |
United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6181 |
Michael Patino v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
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I. Whether, in a murder trial, under the Rhode Island general murder statute, there was a
deprivation of the accused's right to Due Process provided i… |
| 18-6188 |
Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections |
Colorado |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused it's discretion in it's Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secu… |
| 18-6195 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Natasha Doe, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 18-6207 |
Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held - in conflict with the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3005 and in conflict with a 45-year split between … |
| 18-6208 |
Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants, 18 U.S… |
| 18-6184 |
Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "concurrently" in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing se… |
| 18-411 |
Cindy Omidi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-5317 31-usc-5324 civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture jurisdictional-basis money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation structuring |
1. Does 31 U.S.C. § 5317 give a district court authority to enter a personal money judgment against a person who has violated only 31 U.S.C. § 5324(a)… |
| 18-413 |
David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue |
Arizona |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration |
May a, "non-federal," / "recipient agency," (as defined in the Privacy Act of 1974)
purport to act under authority of 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) pursuant to … |
| 18-6156 |
Hector Medina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply § 3553(a)(6), which requires consideration of "the need to avoid unwarrante… |
| 18-6121 |
Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction qualifying an enhanced … |
| 18-6080 |
Abraham J. Bonowitz, Douglas A. Pagitt, Lisa S. Harper, Suezann K. Bosler, Arthur J. Laffin, Randy Gardner, Derrick W. Jamison, Thomas W. Muther, Jr., Shane A. Claiborne, Sam R. Sheppard, and John M. Travers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
40-usc-6135 assembly constitutional-law display first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-forum statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the open-air, public space surrounding the Supreme Court a traditional public forum, despite a flawed, constitutionally suspect challenged law t… |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 18-6106 |
James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6117 |
Josette Buendia v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney |
In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t… |
| 18-389 |
Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws |
Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui… |
| 18-384 |
Papierfabrik August Koehler SE v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-record adverse-facts-available antidumping-duty commerce-department corroboration facts-available judicial-review statutory-interpretation tariff-act |
Whether a court may rely on the Tariff Act's perceived purpose to override its specific statutory requirements for selecting antidumping duty rates. |
| 18-6100 |
Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
The district court enhanced Pliego-Hernandez' sentencing guideline range on the strength of a prior conviction for attempted robbery. Nothing in the t… |
| 18-6057 |
Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6069 |
Joel Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United … |
| 18-6073 |
Tramain Deon Price v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute (… |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-370 |
Marlon Haight v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) who has three previous convictions for … |
| 18-6063 |
Craig Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran… |
| 18-6036 |
Donald S. Harden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-5978 |
John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 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… |
| 18-6004 |
Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university |
civil prosecution?
2. Is having sex without divulging an infected partner's HIV status
considered attempted murder?
3.Is Yale University considered a … |
| 18-6006 |
Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materia ls used to
produce child pornog raphy once crosse d state lines at an unspeci… |
| 18-346 |
Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits |
1. In the face of Scheuer v. Rhodes, whether the trial court could have properly determined that the Estate's complaint must fail?
2. Whether 38 U.S.… |
| 18-5950 |
Artis Ryan Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5976 |
In Re Jaame Amun Re El |
|
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis |
Qustin.Is t ueditat's duty toterret a ta?
Question. Are Banking statutes appropriate for alleged banking violations?
Can a Federal prisoner seek rel… |
| 18-5997 |
Francisco Burciaga v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
All University Englh Dictionaries define/describe as follows:
heroin— a derivative of morphine
morphine— a derivative of opium
What is heroin hydro… |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida whom all are equally situated under the statutory schemes and criteria's of… |
| 18-5965 |
Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force. |
| 18-5967 |
Matthew Wade Howard v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of
U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's te… |
| 18-5981 |
Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights |
New York |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Should the Supreme Court have transferred the Article 78 to the Appellate Division without a hearing?
Should the lower court have denied full discove… |
| 18-5930 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. |
Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5944 |
Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc |
I.
Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18
U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing… |
| 18-5945 |
David Chiddo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts |
1. Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea?
2. Where a plea agreement provides that stipulated facts present an adequ… |
| 18-5923 |
Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force. |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion to Dismiss the Petitioner's Appeal? |
| 18-5935 |
Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-5942 |
Darren K. Byler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure clean-water-act de-minimis-standard environmental-law refuse-act sewage-discharge statutory-interpretation water-pollution |
1. Does 33 U.S.C. 407, The Refuse Act, apply to sewage?
2. Does 33 U.S.C., 407, The Refuse Act. require discharges, into the water, to be morE than d… |
| 18-314 |
Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U… |
| 18-292 |
Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-297 |
Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
New York |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
The decision below ruled that New York's promise to the Seneca Nation of Indians to refrain from assessing taxes "for any purpose whatever, upon any I… |
| 18-5844 |
Rocco Tinoco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation |
whether a mental state of recklessness - absent
Subjective intent to threaten - in conveying a threat is
sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U… |
| 18-5915 |
Michael Hill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony |
The Armed Career Criminal Act treats as a violent felony felonies that require the use of force. In Illinois, as in many states and as for many federa… |
| 18-5919 |
Lance R. Martin v. Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr., et al. |
California |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5882 |
Daniel Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-5884 |
Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor |
1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment… |
| 18-5900 |
Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-288 |
Philip A. Mearing v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his "sentence" covers an appeal of… |
| 18-5866 |
Nathan Mosley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. In accord with the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, should a conviction under the Hobbs … |
| 18-5875 |
John Vivo, III v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation |
1. DID THE STATE COURT OF LAST RESORT ERROR BY DECLINING TO REVIEW THE PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR REVIEW UNDER PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE THE APPLICATION OF §… |
| 18-5877 |
Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5840 |
George Stoney v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5854 |
Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces… |
| 18-267 |
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights congressional-intent due-process federal-election-commission-v-akins federal-question federal-statute informational-injury injury-in-fact judicial-review munsingwear-doctrine munsingwear-vacatur privacy public-disclosure standing standing-injury-in-fact statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to … |
| 18-5817 |
Jermaine Moorer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5835 |
Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5838 |
Hosea Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony |
1. Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by th… |
| 18-5839 |
James Frederick Rebmann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5831 |
Willie Riley Curry v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation |
The Fourth Amendment has continuously been applied to cases like the one here. The Sixth Circuit failed to follow that jurisprudence. Does Carpenter a… |
| 18-5808 |
Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment because it concludes that the crutial question… |
| 18-5816 |
Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5827 |
Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal?
Did… |
| 18-5828 |
Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-5770 |
John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con… |
| 18-5771 |
Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a conflict among the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and find that the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming Petitioner… |
| 18-5788 |
James Everett Dutschke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment |
1-Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as… |
| 18-5795 |
Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to establish that the bright line "Blockburger" double jeopardy test accepted in Dixon is the one a… |
| 18-5801 |
Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Did claim(s) state a cause of action? |
| 18-5804 |
Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.- Whether the District Court failed where did not granted his motion for acquittal because the Government failed to produce sufficient evidence to s… |
| 18-255 |
George Briscoe v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness |
Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has… |
| 18-256 |
Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cercla-preemption circuit-court-review circuit-court-summary-order civil-rights common-law-tort common-law-tort-claims congressional-intent cts-corp-v-waldburger due-process environmental-law judicial-precedent preemption statutory-interpretation torts toxic-exposure |
1) Did the Circuit Court's Summary Order, which held that CERCLA preempts Petitioners' common law tort claims, directly contradict this Court's decisi… |
| 18-244 |
Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act |
This Court often has emphasized the importance of statutory interpretation. But a significant split has developed among the Circuits as to whether and… |
| 18-5746 |
Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
IS FLORIDA. STATUTE 784.045 IMPERMISSIBLY VAGUE AND/OR DOES IT ENCOURAGE ARBITRARY AND DISCRIMINATORY ENFORCEMENT? |
| 18-5773 |
Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-5732 |
James LaConte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process-clause florida-robbery florida-robbery-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida's State § 812.13 robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is categor… |
| 18-5737 |
Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation |
The Court of Appeals has adopted and applied a "Fifth Circuit Principle" that "changes in the discretionary. ules, affecting. parole suitability canno… |
| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the… |
| 18-5740 |
In Re Mark Clark |
|
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process relief separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether U.S.S.G. Amendment (790), a retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, calls into serious question the Seventh Circuit … |
| 18-5762 |
Pedro Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-241 |
Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
This Court held in Reich v. Collins, 513 U.S. 106, 108 (1994) that "due process requires a 'clear and certain' remedy for taxes collected in violation… |
| 18-5686 |
Dwight Mundle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony |
Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th… |
| 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… |
| 18-5725 |
Alfred Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure |
Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-5730 |
Terrence Denmark v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,statutory-interpretation,retroa retroactivity statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-confinement |
1) Should there be a two-part test for the 28 U.s.C. § 224l instead
of a Five-part test, and should the test be based on (l) illegal
unconstitutional … |
| 18-5706 |
Hugo Islas-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-cfr-100.4 8-cfr-100.4(a) 8-usc-1325 8-usc-1325(a)(1) administrative-law administrative-regulation entry federal-code geographic-designation immigration immigration-law port-of-entry statutory-interpretation |
Whether immigration officials "designate[d]" geographic areas or physical port facilities for "entry" in 8 C.F.R. § 100.4(a) for purposes of 8 U.S.C. … |
| 18-5673 |
Eugene Smalls v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5678 |
Lee Andrew Paul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with the Supreme Court's opinion in Burrage v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 881 (2014), which held that … |
| 18-5684 |
Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague following the Supreme Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2… |
| 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… |
| 18-216 |
Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation |
Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667, 686 (2000), because, as Justice Thomas's dissent predicted, the lower cour… |
| 18-5646 |
Syrus Martin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements |
Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child. |
| 18-5655 |
Cory D. Foster v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5666 |
Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO STATE PRISONER ARTHUR DENNISON TO CHALLENGE THE DENIAL OF HIS … |
| 18-5620 |
Mario Zuniga v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I.
Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… |
| 18-5626 |
Bruce Wishnefsky v. Jawad Salameh, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-appeal prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-provision |
Whether the "three strikes" provision of the federal in forma pauperis statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), bars a prisoner from appealing in forma pauperis … |
| 18-5636 |
Edgar Searcy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro… |
| 18-5642 |
Miroslav Fejfar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal |
Whether the plain language of the relevant statutes and the Due Process
Clause prohibit extradition of an alien who has claimed in immigration court
… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-206 |
Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross |
Almost 80 years ago, in Yearsley u. W. A. Ross
Const. Co., 309 U.S. 18, 21-22 (1940), under seemingly
innocuous facts, this Court created a defense to… |
| 18-5606 |
Hagop Demirjian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288… |
| 18-192 |
J. B. R. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
|
age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment |
Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that … |
| 18-195 |
William S. Poff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
GVR |
|
exemption exemptions federal-seizure-law government-seizure incarceration-payments mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-enforcement seizure service-connected-disability statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation substantial-resources veterans-disability-benefits |
Petitioner is a disabled military veteran currently serving a federal prison sentence. While incarcerated, Petitioner is entitled to approximately $13… |
| 18-5552 |
Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 |
Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… |
| 18-5554 |
Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-5577 |
In Re Adam D. Boylen |
|
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether petitioner, as a truck driver for an independent "person" Congress exclusively defined in the Clean Water Act to only mean any "source" an… |
| 18-5548 |
Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt… |
| 18-5549 |
Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-5550 |
Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation |
In United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828 (1987), this Court held that a defendant may not be convicted of illegal reentry after a prior order o… |
| 18-5520 |
James Morris Sellers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5534 |
Juan Carrasquilla-Lombada, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation testimonial-evidence |
Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 18-5504 |
William Lem Posey, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the U.s. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and Committed reversable error in dismissing Ebroni's 42 U.s.C. 5 1983, Appeal, finding no reve… |
| 18-5483 |
Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all … |
| 18-5467 |
Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light … |
| 18-5445 |
Jason Lee Pyles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
L Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erroneously
held that Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member
… |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Is it the District Court's duty or to determine under 4 ) the dg quantity Atributable to, D reasonably "Pinkertan" instructions on Co-conspirater when… |
| 18-5426 |
Gabriel Rivero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5434 |
Troy Victorino v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death… |
| 18-5435 |
Martin Michael Ybarra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-felony |
I. Is federal bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which can be accomplished by "intimidation," a violent felony under the elements clause u… |
| 18-5439 |
Adam Longoria v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Under the ACCA, can a sentencing court rely solely on non-elemental facts to infer that a defendant's temporally overlapping and related offenses were… |
| 18-5444 |
Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
I. This Court and individual Justices have increasingly explained that Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize conduct otherwise fal… |
| 18-5407 |
Mladen Mitrovic v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF
UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO
PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione… |
| 18-5391 |
Daniel Sexton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question I. Does this Court's reasoning of Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what… |
| 18-5420 |
Tyler T. Heagy v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process filing-restrictions habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-as-applied |
Was 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9543 (a)(1)(i) unconstitutional as applied to Petitioners case?
Were 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9545 (b) and (c) unconstitutional as applied to … |
| 18-132 |
Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
|
appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Activ… |
| 18-5393 |
Shane McMahan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-5371 |
Michael Ellis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute |
Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (71h Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-5383 |
James Rodney Shuman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… |
| 18-127 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 biotechnology enablement federal-circuit innovation patent-law possession statutory-interpretation written-description |
Whether the standard for determining the adequacy of the "written description of the invention" should be as the statute says—that the description mus… |
| 18-114 |
G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., in His Official and Individual Capacity v. Jeffrey O'Neal, et ux. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-duty due-process notice notice-requirements property-rights qualified-immunity service-of-notice state-auditor statutory-interpretation tax-deed tax-lien tax-lien-purchaser |
1. Whether a Deputy State Auditor is entitled to qualified immunity because no previous court had interpreted the State's statutory scheme as imposing… |
| 18-5292 |
Armando Angeles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop |
Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's… |
| 18-5314 |
Shannon Dale Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5335 |
Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance |
Virginia |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents |
Which policy did Kwon contract original policy?
Kwon filed policy exhibit I page 002089-002 102 that Kwon contracted.
Erie filed policy exhibit A pa… |
| 18-5310 |
Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5313 |
Joseph Steele v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ… |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5329 |
Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-5334 |
Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result. |
| 18-107 |
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33)Relisted (14) |
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender |
1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's
prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42
U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and
in… |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a means rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of Joh… |
| 18-5321 |
Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-5293 |
George Anthony Autobee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness |
1. Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the
constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was
timely because it … |
| 18-5304 |
Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an uns… |
| 18-5260 |
Mike McGlocklin v. FNU Blankenship, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis motions procedural-posture standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S MOTIONS AND REQUEST
TO PROLEEΔ IN FORMA PAUPERIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN
GRANTED BASED ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND,THE
PROCEDURAL POSTU… |
| 18-5257 |
Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso… |
| 18-5269 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-5230 |
John Parker Murphy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-5250 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Ground One
The District Court, Appeals Court for the Districtof Columbia Circuit committed reversible legal error, by improperly categorizing and misa… |
| 18-80 |
Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments |
Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence.
Whether the Federal Circuit's decision conflicts with this Court… |
| 18-5241 |
Victor Maturino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The Sentencing Guidelines in § 2K2.1 setting forth provisions concerning unlawful possession of firearms and specific offense characteristics provide … |
| 18-5234 |
Marcos Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness.
Whether the granting of a request to join in motions of a co-def… |
| 18-5215 |
Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the 5th Cir. Ct. ignore that Det. Mends inferences identified petitioner as in co-possession of recent stolen property and thus implicated petitio… |
| 18-5219 |
Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did quH circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with ioth circuit court of Appeals decision where determining factor significantly substantiate … |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ?
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… |
| 18-5210 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation |
Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … |
| 18-5170 |
Ijaz Khan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully signed to Shabsan before he became Naturalized?
2. Whether an authorize… |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. §4Bl.2(a)(2), a clause identical to that of the res… |
| 18-5191 |
Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(D) can consider the current understanding of the nat… |
| 18-5194 |
Teofil Brank v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation |
Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… |
| 18-5107 |
Willard Quinn v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force |
Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of "crime of violence" can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting.
Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 18-5161 |
Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
The plain error of the State of Texas Appeals Courts on direct collateral review. The use of Jackson standard of view in the light most favorable to t… |
| 18-5164 |
George Adrien Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |
| 18-5167 |
Levar Brown v. California |
California |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
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Tow Home, ALse, A was. HANDED 7D … |
| 18-39 |
Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola… |
| 18-40 |
Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici… |
| 18-29 |
Shailendra Bhawnani, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
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criminal-procedure criminal-restitution fraud judicial-discretion legal-scope mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation victim-definition |
Whether the definition of "victim" under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. 3663A(a)(2), includes all victims directly and proximately h… |
| 18-5114 |
Nigel L. Faison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
failed to review 4CCA when entered Claim .5 hualidated due to that 0lea insufficlent factuar basis. e founs whea it 4CCA that shcofret erned drug quan… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … |
| 18-5135 |
Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling |
WAS HONISH'S FIRST STATE HABEAS WRIT "APPLICATION" PROPERLY FILED WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), AND REQUIRED TO BE TOLLED?
DID THE FIF… |
| 18-5109 |
Reggie Rankins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-5083 |
Rahman Fulton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner comes forth with Question base under Graham v. United States ; U.S., No. 16-6308, friend of the Court brief filed 10/28/16. To Be Held ThAb… |
| 18-10 |
Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
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appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer |
Whether a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee is "a United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity" for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(… |
| 18-15 |
James L. Kisor v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33) |
administrative-law agency-deference ambiguous-regulation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review regulatory-interpretation retroactive-benefits statutory-interpretation substantive-canons veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Court should overrule Auer and Seminole Rock.
2. Alternatively, whether Auer deference should yield to a substantive canon of construc… |
| 18-5033 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… |
| 18-5035 |
Sandra Grazzini-Rucki v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure coerced-testimony constitutional-law defense-evidence due-process false-statements jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5036 |
Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i… |
| 18-5038 |
Neil Sweeney v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should resolve the differing applications of the Circuit Courts as it applies to the use of Federal Rule of Evidence 414 … |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… |
| 18-5043 |
Guy St. Amour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Title 49, United States Code, Section 46306 (b)(9), makes it a felony offense to knowingly "operat [e] an aircraft with a fuel tank or fuel system tha… |
| 18-5047 |
Keith Lamont Tutt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility corporate-liability criminal-procedure-due-process discretion due-process environmental-regulations fair-opportunity officer-responsibility plea-bargaining regulatory-compliance sentencing statutory-interpretation withdraw-guilty-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
1) Whether the district court Prejudiced the defendant by denying him due process of a concerning his reasons for Wanting to withdraw his guilty plea … |
| 18-5056 |
Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career
Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the
modified categorical ap… |
| 18-5001 |
John Theodore Hancock v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe-
ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply
tracking the statutory lang… |
| 18-5022 |
Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states |
In Stokeling v. United States, No. 17-5554, this Court has granted certiorari to resolve whether a state robbery offense that requires a purposeful us… |
| 18-5028 |
Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering |
Appellant was indicted for witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), which states someone is guilty if they "knowingly use intimidation, threate… |
| 18-3 |
Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
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alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation |
1) Labor Management Relations Act Section 302(e)
grants federal courts jurisdiction to restrain violations of the statute. 29 U.S.C. § 186(e). The Cou… |