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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6089 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-precedent due-process panel-rule stare-decisis statutory-right Whether the Eleventh Circuit's recent iteration of its "prior panel precedent rule"—which requires rigid adherence to prior circuit precedent, even if…
24-6709 Brad Keith Sigmon v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-03-05 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process execution-method lethal-injection prisoner-rights statutory-right Does South Carolina's compressed timeline and arbitrary denial of information necessary for a condemned prisoner to exercise his statutory right "neve…
24-6505 Jerome Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen…
24-685 Susan McBrine, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Amici (1) camp-lejeune justice-act mandamus-relief statutory-right trial-by-jury united-states 1. Whether plaintiffs who bring actions against the United States under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 have the right to trial by jury. 2. Whet…
24-97 Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied causal-nexus federal-defense federal-forum federal-immunity federal-officer-removal statutory-right Georgia has brought a criminal prosecution against a former White House Chief of Staff for actions that he took in the West Wing to assist the Preside…
23-6442 Pedro Hernandez Zarate v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-hearing meaningful-review statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal writ-of-certiorari Wherther Duye Process and the statutory right to appeal, requires the Court of Appeals to adequately explain the decisions made in a defnedant's case …
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection to the period of delay after his motion to dismiss for…
22-435 Renetrice R. Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied Amici (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split emotional-distress fair-debt-collection-practices-act intangible-injuries intangible-injury psychological-harm statutory-right Whether a plaintiff who suffers emotional or psychological distress and confusion from a debt collector's unlawful attempt to collect a debt has Artic…
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…
21-648 Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-03 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness In Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, this Court will determine whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Kentucky Attorney General's m…
21-5802 David A. Bridgewater v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brooklyn-savings-bank compassionate-release contractual-principle department-of-justice first-step-act plea-agreement public-interest statutory-right statutory-waiver 1. Does the rule of United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196 (1995), that a statutory right is waivable in a plea agreement absent an affirmative ind…
20-7316 Jose Luis Morales v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review district-court-discretion effective-counsel first-appeal post-conviction post-judgment-appeal sixth-amendment state-statutory-right statutory-right 1. Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel on appeal apply to when the appeal takes place years after conviction and the defendant had a s…
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…
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act In Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, this Court held that a plaintiff does not automatically satisfy Article III's "injury-in-fact requirement whenever a statut…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari I what remedies is available for petitioner when Court appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in deference to the pe…
19-5331 Michael Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its "prior panel precedent rule" – effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right t…
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…
18-9331 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, …
18-8599 Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING…
18-6969 Brandon Bivins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review prior-panel-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal three-judge-panels Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its "prior panel precedent rule" — effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right t…