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25-6426 In Re Tamas Hampel 2025-12-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-process petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is required to docket a timely filed petition for rehearing submitted pursuant to Fed…
25-6052 David D. Richardson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S JUDGMENT WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO AP…
25-5866 Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-10 Pending IFP miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal 1. DOES ENFORCEMENT OF APPELLANT'S WAIVER OF APPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE MOTION OF MR. BECKFORD'S SENTENCE CONSITUTE A MISCARRIAGE …
25-5764 James Edward King v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing third-circuit ups-package WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT KING LACKED A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN THE PACKAGE ADDRESSED TO "ALEXANDIRA SALCEDO" AT…
25-318 Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether the District Court should …
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Question not identified.
25A256 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction precedential-opinion supreme-court third-circuit time-extension Question not identified.
25A258 Tonnesha Kidd v. Lourdes Medical Center at Burlington, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete employment-law pro-se-litigation race-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment third-circuit Question not identified.
25-5502 Aisha Asha Bradley v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-1443 federal-appellate-court jurisdiction-determination removal-procedure statutory-directive third-circuit Did the Federal Appellate Court for the Third Circuit, ignore statutory directive 1443(1), by NOT doing a jurisdiction determination under 28 U.S.C. §…
25-5444 Steven Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissed-charges district-court judicial-review sentencing-colloquy third-circuit WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRED IN DETERMINING THAT THE SENTENCING COLLOQUY OF THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT UNAMBIGUOUSLY SHOW THE DISTRICT COURT CONSID…
25A121 James Taric Byrd v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court life-imprisonment notice-of-appeal third-circuit Question not identified.
25-5082 Jake Bylsma v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP appellate-review bankruptcy-fraud judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud state-corruption third-circuit At its base root; this case involves a Real Estate and Bankruptcy Fraud racket OPERATED BY select members of the Pennsylvania judicial elite that incl…
24-7444 Jameel Ibrahim v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291—without remanding to the district co…
24-7361 Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress.
24-1188 Over the Line, LLC, et al. v. Christine Thompson Third Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud-allegation rule-9b summary-judgment third-circuit 1. Can the Third Circuit United States Court of Appeals raise and rule on a non-jurisdictional or dispositive argument alleging fraud, that was expres…
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability?
24-1053 In Re Sara Ann Edmondson 2025-04-07 Denied Relisted (2) article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court will exercise the power enumerated and entitled in Insurance Company v. Comstock to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit t…
24-665 John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response Waived due-process judicial-violations procedural-rules rule-60d summary-dismissal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit deprive me of due process when, prior to any briefing in that current appellate case before it, the Third Circuit summarily …
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 …
24-585 Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart Third Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic injuries violates the letter and s…
24-6033 Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit 1. Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evident…
24A427 Cornel West v. Pennsylvania Department of State Third Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied administrative-action ballot-access constitutional-rights election-law third-circuit voter-registration Question not identified.
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…
24-5586 Ziyao Jiang v. Liu Yuan, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review court-departure judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-conflict procedural-error third-circuit 1. Conflict between the Third Circuit Court and U.S District Court. 2. The Court of Appeal departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
24-5555 Jermall Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review government-motion judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-action summary-judgment third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion for Summary Action.
24A162 Reuben McDowell v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-notice stone-v-powell third-circuit Question not identified.
24-5209 Charles S. Renchenski v. Frederic J. Ammerman, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Clearfield County Third Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP due-process impartiality objective-bias public-confidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-bias third-circuit HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, AS WELL AS THE WESTERN DISTRICT COURT FOR PENNSYLVANIA, ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE…
23A1127 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit Question not identified.
23-7658 In Re Robert Gene Rega 2024-06-07 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Ciricuit's failure to issue a dispositive order disposing of Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corp…
23-7298 Jonathan Wayne Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure third-circuit Whether petitioner's jury was adequately "warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence," in accordance with due process, where his jury…
23-1123 In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit The patchwork of nonuniform District Court local rules that deny general admissions privileges to lawyers licensed in forty-nine states is challenged …
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23A680 Robert J. Rice v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied criminal-procedure federal-appeal incarceration legal-review third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6406 Jamal Eberhardt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive.
23A605 Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-567 Superior Well Services, Inc. v. American Home Assurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived commercial-general-liability commercial-liability faulty-workmanship federalism insurance-law occurrence state-law third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision below violated core principles of federalism by rewriting Pennsylvania state insurance law regarding applicati…
23-6020 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. District Attorney of Berks County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-mistake rule-60(b)(1) rule-60b statute-of-limitations successive-petition third-circuit In Kemp v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1856, 213 L. Ed. 2d 90 (2022), this Honorable Court held that a "mistake," pursuant to Rule 60(b) (1), included a…
23-5947 Kraig M. Trotter v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph…
23-5701 Dennis L. Walls, Sr. v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit in denying Petitioner a COA (Appendix A) substantially deviate from this Court's established procedures in Miller-El v. Cockr…
23-244 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process free-speech judicial-admission local-rules nonuniform-standards professional-speech standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Has the Petitioner established good cause for this Court to issue a writ of certiorari before judgment because the nonuniform local rules directly con…
23-5464 Patrick Okeyo v. USCIS, Newark Office, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review case-reopening civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing third-circuit The Appellant is petitioning to reconsider the decision to reopen case #22-1875 from the third Circuit Court. Respondent seeks eligibility for relief …
23-5409 Peter Fratus v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence-admissibility kars4kids prejudicial-effect probative-value rep-waters third-circuit I. Whether the Third Circuit did not properly weigh the probative value with the prejudicial effect when admitting the messages to Kars4Kids and Rep. …
23-5333 Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit 1. WHETHER OR NOT, THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ERRED IN THEIR DECISIONS WHI…
23-114 Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit 1) Did the decision of the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of …
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit DID THE APPEALS COURT FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERROR BY DENYING PETITIONERS CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE APPELLATE COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASS…
22-7101 Charles Eugene Nolden v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing federal-statute sentence-reduction sentencing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abused its discretion in denying Nolden's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reduction …
22-858 John W. Fink v. Jonathan L. Bishop, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process impartiality judicial-bias plenary-hearing rule-12(b)(6) rule-60(d) standing third-circuit Did the Third Circuit judges repeatedly fail to impartially decide my underlying appeal case, as well as other previous appeal cases of mine? Did the…
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…
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii 1. Is it an important federal question of law for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether U.S. Courts of Appeal should be permitted to issue "NOT P…
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-5255 Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition 1.) Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Err in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as Untim…
22-5104 Nakia Adams v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession indictment speedy-trial third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit error by not dismissing Mr. Adams' indictment on speedy trial ground and/or the Government's failure to prove that he is a fe…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeal s for the Thi rd Ci rcuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judi cial proceedi ngs, or sancti oned such a de…
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…
21-8253 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…
21-8218 Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a dicision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup…
21-7951 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3582-motion community-safety compassionate-release criminal-sentencing danger-to-community district-court due-process sentence-reduction sentencing-factors third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit or District Court Erred in Denying Petitioner § 3582(c)(1)(A) Release or Reduction of Sentence Due to Danger To The Communit…
21-7694 Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme…
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred when the Court dismissed Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability when other juri…
21-989 Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit? Must procedures be instituted to assure that Appellate…
21-6733 Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability…
21-6069 Artavius Horne v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review supervisory-power third-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departur…
21-5788 Paul Joseph Begnoche, Sr. v. Melinda Adams, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mercer, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-neglect judicial-partiality jurisdiction statutory-jurisdiction third-circuit This case before the Honorable Court through its Materiality of (5) years of impermissible Inordinate Delays presents important issues in the interest…
21-5397 Jesse Carey v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi…
21-5188 Malik Nasir v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit Question not identified.
20-1549 Jeffrey B. Broadhurst v. Citimortgage, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection contract deposition-testimony due-process loan-modification standing summary-judgment third-circuit UTPCPL Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Granting Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment by finding …
20-7797 Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis…
20-1460 Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-16 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT TO JUSTIFY AFFIRMANCE OF THE RICO CONSPIRACY CONVICTIONS ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE PROVING SOMETHING QUIT…
20-7709 Alvin Henry v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states prejudice-standard reasonable-probability third-circuit trial-counsel trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit's focus on trial counsel's effective use of Brady/Giglio material at trial is consistent with this Court's uniform precedent…
20-1414 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit This Court has long held that whether a worker is an employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") turns on the "economic reality" of…
20-1389 Kaboni Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10 affords litigants multiple tools to ensure a complete appellate record. Rule 10(c) states that if a hearing tra…
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…
20-1058 National Board of Medical Examiners v. Jessica Ramsay Third Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived academic-performance-evaluation ada ada-disability-standard disability disability-diagnosis medical-licensing medical-licensing-exam reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations standardized-testing-accommodation standardized-tests third-circuit Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), a "disability" is "a physical or mental impairment," 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1)(A), that "substantially l…
20-997 Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for s…
20-817 Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether the District Court should ha…
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…
20-667 Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied civil-litigation civil-procedure federal-action federal-procedure procedural-waiver state-procedural-mechanisms statute-of-limitations third-circuit waiver writ-of-summons 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the court below, erred in determining that the failure of defendants to contest, …
20-6234 Karen Moynihan v. West Chester Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process endrew-f-v-douglas-cty-sch-dist individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review special-education standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit third-circuit-court Did the United States District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disregard this Honorable Court's Opinion on the Individuals with Disabilities Ed…
20-6184 I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit I. WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATED BUCK V. DAVIS, 580 U.S.__, 137 S.CT. 759, 197 L.ED.2D 1 (2017) WHEN IT DENIED A CERTIFICATE OF …
20-6169 Tykei Garner v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use a decade old New York Ci…
20-5983 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016.
20-5818 Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL ("COA") BASED UPON A FAILURE TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF, DESPITE SATISFYING THE REQUIR…
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…
19-1426 Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial p…
19-8826 Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit (i) Was it manifest error for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition for Rehearing, which in e…
19-8465 Earl T. Moore v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness third-circuit timeliness writ-of-habeas-corpus 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Petition for a Writ of Hab…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-1183 Odyssey Contracting Corp. v. L & L Painting Co., Inc. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived -appeal-waiver -judicial-interpretation -procedural-waiver -stipulation-rights -third-circuit-ruling #NAME? appeal appeal-right civil-procedure consent-judgment final-judgment standing third-circuit thomsen-v-cayser united-states-v-procter-gamble waiver 1. Whether a stipulation that is not a consent judgment and simply establishes a mechanism under which the district court will resolve certain claims,…
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…
19-1087 Charles M. Hallinan v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as…
19-1049 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit 1. Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immuni…
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing "1) whi…
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO…
19-6925 Sulaiman Taalibdin v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court due-process final-decision habeas-corpus motion-timeliness rule-60(b) rule-60b standing third-circuit Pursuant to U.S.C.S. § 1291 did the Circuit Court possess appellate jurisdiction when the district court ruled petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion untimely…
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not applying the Davis ruling to Mr Williams firearm habeas corpus petition towards his firearm co…
19-558 Montville Township Board of Education v. Zurich American Insurance Company Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure coverage-evaluation diversity-action duty-to-defend four-corners-rule insurance insurance-coverage new-jersey-law sl-industries state-law third-circuit Although the law of the State of New Jersey, which applies to this diversity action, removed from State Court on that basis, imposes a broad duty on a…
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
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…
19-5874 David Kirkland v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial 1. Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information that cost defendant a three-point sentencing reduction for acceptance…
19-5789 Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-03 GVR Relisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit 1. Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Senten…
19-190 Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees Third Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit 1. After Third Circuit had affirmed an Order in favor of an ERISA plan by recharacterizing it as a monetizing of a lien rather than a personal money j…
19-5387 Shevaun E. Browne v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE THIRD CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS NOT INEFFECTIVE FOR FA…
18A1368 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete controlled-substance crime-of-violence felon-in-possession motion-to-suppress sentencing-guidelines third-circuit 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. §…
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, Fed. R. Crim. P. 24(c)(3) dictates proceedings to follow. Does the Thi…
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond…
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Was it clear error for the Third Circuit to fail to address the issue of whether the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") had the jurisdiction to rend…
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.…
18-9064 Adonijah Lindsay v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion §-924(c)-conviction 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit vagueness writ-of-certiorari Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiorari on the same question of law establish a per se ground for obtaining a certificate of appealabilit…
18-1343 Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit In accordance with Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463 (1978) and Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, _ U.S. _, 137 S.Ct. 1702 (2017), the Federal Circui…
18-8639 Anthony Franklin v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection faretta-hearing faretta-v-california habeas-corpus pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment third-circuit third-circuit-law Whether the district court err in denying a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Petitioner, and by Holding that Petitioner's multiple interjections did not amoun…
18-7676 Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am…
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…
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was it clear error for the Third Circuit to fail to address the issue of whether the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") had the jurisdiction to rend…
18-7009 Jimmy Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure notice notice-requirement procedural-due-process supervised-release third-circuit Whether Mr. Davis was denied procedural due process as required under the Constitution of the United States and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedur…
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…
18-6733 Laura Shauger v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit This case raises a pressing issue of national importance: In applying for a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal from the denial of a motion u…
18-6719 Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice (1) Did the Third Circuit err i rendering petitioners's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and "THE END OF THE MATTER," without, the Pennsyl…
18-529 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process case-merger civil-procedure consolidation consolidation-of-cases due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins hall-v-hall informed-consent judicial-consolidation judicial-practice standing third-circuit Whether the decision of the Third Circuit conflicts with the Supreme Court decision by holding in this instant case that the District Court effectivel…
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 …
18-6232 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…
18-6123 Ameen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal legal-standing notice-of-appeal procedural-error standing third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in dismissing Mr. Green's Notice of Appeal?
18-6024 Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit (1) Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contrevene Buck. v. Davis,85 U. S.L.WI 4037,2017 BL :54115 (U.s.2/22/17) because the 3rd Circuit …
18-5791 Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY APPLY, ENLARGE AND/OR IGNORE SEVERAL ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAWS IN DENYING PETITIONER RELIEF?
18-5561 Jose Nieves-Galarza v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-career-act johnson-v-united-states new-york-penal-law new-york-penal-law-160.15(1) new-york-robbery-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement serious-physical-injury third-circuit violent-felony violent-force For a prior conviction to qualify as a predicate for an enhanced sentence under the Armed Criminal Career Act, it must be for an offense that is a "vi…
18-151 Alfred J. Petit-Clair, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,tort,dismissa civil-procedure,standing,tort-claims,individual-de civil-rights district-court due-process municipal-defendant settlement settlement-enforcement standing third-circuit tort tort-claims 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the District Court for the District of New Jersey's judgment dismissing …
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari 1. WHETHER A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE PROPER REMEDY TO COMPEL THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO RULE ON HIS INDEPENDENT ACTION FRAUD ON THE COURT"T…
18-70 William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson California 2018-07-12 Denied attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit Whether, contrary to the decision of the California Court of Appeal, an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been pub…