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25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction.
25A826 Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-conviction procedural-challenge sentencing-review tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25A812 Jesus Herrera-Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application court-appointed-counsel criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-appeal tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-747 Matthew Cline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-23 Denied 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…
25-702 CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis…
25-675 Lawrence Rudolph v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c…
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…
25A607 Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25A517 Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-05 Application certiorari criminal-sentence federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit time-extension Question not identified.
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.
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…
25-216 Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit Under this Court's well-established qualified-immunity framework, courts conduct a two-part analysis to resolve an officer's qualified-immunity defens…
25A127 Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith Tenth Circuit 2025-07-30 Presumed Complete civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25A85 Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-sentence extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25A2 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-1214 Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased Tenth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon as in …
24-1126 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Relisted (2) district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming that the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after December 3, 2020 without the filin…
24-6956 Jimmy Dale Stone v. David Louthan, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit 1) Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Due Process Clause by denying Jimmy Dale Stone's petition for a COA and fin…
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? …
24-6315 Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit In the grant of Qualified Immunity, the Tenth Circuit applied the 2017 vacatur of Pauly I by White v. Pauly, 580 U.S. @ 78 to the 2016 shooting of Mr.…
24A697 Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24-6239 Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals approached this matter of first impression, re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, …
24A704 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-01-01 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24A572 Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-appeal procedural-due-process supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A559 Alexander Nicholaus Sweet v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-appeal petition-for-rehearing supreme-court-procedure tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A555 Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-06 Presumed Complete criminal-case extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court-rule tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
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.
24A504 United States v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-21 Presumed Complete environmental-intervention federal-rules-civil-procedure intervention-of-right right-of-way scope-of-litigation tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24-5722 Buta Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied IFP custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran…
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…
24A183 Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal federal-public-defender pro-se-pleadings sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24A85 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit Question not identified.
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…
24A7 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-determination employment-status judicial-review tenth-circuit worker-classification Question not identified.
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.
23-1288 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…
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.
23-7465 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit Does a federal habeas court's failure to review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) the last reasoned state court decision adjudicating a federal claim's merits…
23-7361 Sean A. Gray v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus military-habeas military-justice suspension-clause tenth-circuit This Court, in Burns u. Wilson, 1 stated that a federal civilian court may not consider a military habeas petitioner 's claim "when a military decisio…
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
23A830 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-statute supreme-court-review tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23A744 Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2024-02-12 Presumed Complete academic-proceedings civil-rights employment-discrimination tenth-circuit title-vii university-liability Question not identified.
23A693 Jabari J. Johnson v. Correctional Officer Giles, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete civil-rights dismissal prisoner-litigation pro-se procedural-due-process tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23A694 Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen Tenth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23A571 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete criminal-sentencing federal-appeal federal-public-defender supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A443 Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete federal-courts fifth-circuit litigation-workload tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A398 Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter Question not identified.
23-5897 Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit 1. Cedric Mack brings forth whether The United States District Court of Kansas and The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, questiona…
23A365 United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D.K., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete administrative-record benefits-denial erisa medical-providers substantial-evidence tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23A373 Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time judicial-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari whether the federal courts lack jurisdiction to consider the prosecution's use of a woman's plainly irrelevant sexual history to assess guilt and puni…
23A363 Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-23 Presumed Complete criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-extension tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A359 Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-20 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker Question not identified.
23-5762 Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec…
23-5584 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-review merits-determination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit threshold-question (1). DID THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT A REVERSIBLE ERROR WHEN IT RESOLVED THE MERITS OF YOUR PETITIONER'S CRIMINAL DIRECT APPEALS REVIEW…
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court For the Northern District of Oklahoma erred in denying Petitioner Ashton a Certificate of Appealability when …
23-5065 Mario Reynoso v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process methamphetamine-distribution standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari DID THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERROUNEOUSLY FIND THAT THE COURTS LACKED SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION AND THAT YOUR PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR APPO…
22-1084 Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing 1. Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned under a district court's inherent authority for asserting standing on behalf of voters for damages aga…
22-7166 Anthony H. Warnick v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit Can subject matter jurisdiction be raised at any time? I. Is an issue of subject-matter jurisdiction subject to the one-year limitation II. proscribe…
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…
22-6719 Michael Anthony Conage v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit 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…
22-6683 Terrell Javon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit 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…
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.
22-6468 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.
22-5087 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit I. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as …
21-1561 Vickie Brooks v. Philadelphia Insurance Companies Tenth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine stare-decisis summary-judgment tenth-circuit Did The Tenth Circuit Court fail to follow stare decisis by failing to follow its own ruling in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and affirm…
21-7905 Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-18 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit I. UkdrKw ^iako^aCcartoftrUUal Appeals useof a mud W-rdr 0CLCik^ kfiUnus -Sub^ecf^affar jafisdhftoa dal mis UvalfJ &£ d-A Lx tost Facto Mklatka © P …
21-1315 Deborah Lingenfelter v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived business-judgment-rule employer-liability employment-discrimination employment-law fmla fmla-retaliation retaliation summary-judgment tenth-circuit truthfulness In an employment case, where the plaintiff disputes the truthfulness of the employer's asserted reason for termination, may a court immunize that reas…
21-7383 Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied IFP abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho…
21-7366 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance mandate-recall tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari (1). WHAT REMEDY IS AVAILABLE FOR PETITIONER WHEN HIS COURTAPPOINTED (CJA) ATTORNEY FAILED TO INFORM, ADVICE OR FILE A TIMELY PETITION FOR A WRIT OF …
21-1225 The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit impermissibly expanded the judicially-created doctrine of qualified immunity to shield an officer where there is a subs…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, ... as to call for an exercise of this Cour…
21-6847 John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit When a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, there are various procedural bars that often preclude relief on the merits. …
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit In 2012, an Oklahoma jury convicted Alonzo Cortez Johnson of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced him to life in prison i…
21-5811 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Virginia Page, et al Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process judicial-mandate prison-litigation ross-v-blake ross-v-rlake tenth-circuit 1) Do the mandates stated by this Court in Ross v. Blake, 136 S.Ct. 1850 (2016) require the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Dist.…
21-5670 Elijah Vines v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent WHETHER A THIRD PARTY POSSESSES AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE SEIZURE OF ANOTHER'S CELL PHONE WHEN THAT PHONE IS PASSWORD PROTECTED, THE OWNER OF THAT P…
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…
20-8458 Patrick Eugene Stein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-act jury-selection standing tenth-circuit weapon-of-mass-destruction Does this practice substantially violate the plain language of the Jury Act under 28 U.S.C. § 1861, and was the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrong t…
20-7949 Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition, err in holding that evidence admitted at trial essentially established wha…
20-7278 Charles Dennis Friedman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit A. Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision departs so vastly from the accepted course of judicial proceedings —by forcing a litigant to challenge a decis…
20-7102 Toheed Ahmed v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence seized during and derived from an August 26, 2015 tra…
20-6792 Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit The Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive conspiracy prosecutions when the conspiracy underpinning a subsequent prosecution is part of the same …
20-5967 John Elisha Mayville v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop Whether an officer can spend his time conducting unrelated investigations, such as a dog sniff, while he is waiting for the results of a twelve minute…
20-5798 Jose Velasquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019) this Court determined that the definition of robbery contained in the Armed Career Criminal Act (A…
20-5774 Archie Manzanares v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony 1. The "categorical approach" determines whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The rele…
20-5291 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar Tenth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality 1. TENTH CIRCUIT'S FAILURE TO SATISFY ITSELF OF DISTRICT COURT'S JURISDICTION RESULTED IN IT EXCEEDING ITS DISCRETION AND JURISDICTION 2. What Tenth …
20-83 Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh Tenth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit I. Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing…
19-1359 Michelle Dawn Murphy v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied an abuse of discretion because it violates the pa and wrong factually about the issue it reached ou which was based on an issue not presented on appe abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process party-presentation sineneng-smith standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit united-states-v-sineneng-smith Is the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of summary judgment in favor of Defendant -Appellee City of Tulsa, which was based on an issue not presented on appe…
19-1222 Nathan Duckworth v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-concerns controlled-substances-act due-process property-rights seizure-of-currency standing substantial-connection-test takings tenth-circuit Whether the government is required to show a substantial connection between money it has seized and an intended violation of the Controlled Substances…
19-1213 Buck Leon Hammers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found, failing to apply this Court's authority and contrary to other courts of appeals and other of its own pr…
19-1106 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Relisted (2) adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit 1. Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that Moore I and Moore II were mere applications of Atkins that could be applied retroactively on collatera…
19-943 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Health and Hospital Authority, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) age-discrimination anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-selection employment equal-protection summary-judgment tenth-circuit Does the Tenth Circuit affirming in favor of Respondents' summary judgement conflict with Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., where in Tolan v. Cotton, t…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v…
19-382 John Teets v. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied civil-rights disgorgement due-process erisa fiduciary-duty harris-trust party-in-interest plan-assets tenth-circuit May an ERISA plan participant or beneficiary seek disgorgement of unreasonable profits derived from a plan contract from a nonfiduciary party in inter…
18A1239 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete extension-of-time federal-public-defender jurisdiction supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-9459 Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang…
18-9259 Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning, as the Tenth Circuit did in …
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether The Tenth Circuit Erred In Failing To Address In Its Order Denying A Certificate Of Appealability, The Unconstitutionality Of Use And Carry Of…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations. Whether the Tenth Circuit …
18-8451 Luciano Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with…
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis…
18-8061 Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Does Microsoft v. Baker, 137 S.Ct. 1702, 198 L.Ed. 2d 132 (2017) mandate that only plaintiffs who litigate their individual claims to a final judgment…
18-7442 Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision – that the "beyond the reasonable doubt" standard does not apply to the critical and prerequisite finding by Okla…
18-7322 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Jason Bryant, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness federal-appeal indigent-defense sixth-amendment tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit Court erred in holding - in conflict with the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, the D.C., and other Circuit Courts - that The Dis…
18-6511 In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy (1)WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXPAND THE FRAME-WORK DECIDED IN "UNITED STATES V. HAHN",IN THE TENTH CIRCUITS DETERMINATION OF A KNOWING AND VOLUNTARILY…
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…
18-6257 Edward Dean McCranie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender …
18-6139 Julia Monique Frias v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights government-delay judicial-review prejudice pretrial-incarceration reduced-sentence sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-sentence tenth-circuit I. Whether a defendant's lost opportunity to seek a reduced state sentence under state law can constitute prejudice under Barker? II. Whether to show…
18-6097 Leonard G. Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C…
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…
18-5618 Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit Where the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit leaves open the question of whether or not a plain error affects the petitioner's subst…
18-5538 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo…
25A231 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit Denied dissolution judgment-enforcement personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming that the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after December 3, 2020 without the filin…