| Petitions and applications docketed on July 02, 2025 | ||||||
| Caption | type | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Recent Filings | QP |
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| Dawn Keefer v.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
paid | 25-7 | Third Circuit, No. 24-1716
Judgment: March 04, 2025 |
Erick G. Kaardal | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedErick G. Kaardal Counsel of Record Gregory M. Erickson MOHRMAN, KAARDAL & ERICKSON, P.A. 150 South Fifth Street, Suite 3100 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 Tel: (612) 341-1074 kaardal@mklaw.com erickson@mklaw.com Counsel for Petitioners |
| Matthew Clark v.
United States |
paid | 25-8 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-20271
Judgment: March 13, 2025 |
Brent Evan Newton | [Petition] | Question(s) presenteda QUESTIONS PRESENTEDI. Whether the undefined statutory language, “intangible right of honest services,” in 18 U.S.C. § 1846 is unconstitutionally vague. II. Whether the undefined statutory terms, “fictitious sale” and “not a true and bona fide price,” in 7 U.S.C. § 6e(a) are unconstitutionally vague. ITI. Whether the government’s criminal prosecution of petitioner for insider-trading under 7 U.S.C. § 9(1) and 17 C.F.R. § 180.1 — the first such prosecution in the United States — violates due process because ordinary people were not on fair notice at the time of the charged offense that § 9(1) and § 180.1 made insider-trading in the commodity futures context a criminal offense. IV. Whether the criminal prosecution of petitioner under § 9(1) and § 180.1 violates the separation-of-powers doctrine because (1) Congress may not constitutionally delegate to an executive agency the power to define what primary conduct is subject to criminal liability and (2) § 9(1) does not provide an intelligible principle for delegation of legislative authority to define criminal conduct to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. |
| Keith M. Wilkins v.
Stev. Herron |
paid | 25-9 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-80
Judgment: December 23, 2024 |
Stephen J. Joncus | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presented_j- QUESTION PRESENTEDWhen Congress amended the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FFDCA”) in 2004 to permit emergency use authorization of certain experimental drugs in a declared emergency, they did not forget to include the right of informed consent. However, since 19388, the FDCA has required that all actions under the FDCA shall be in the name of the United States. The Ninth Circuit in this case, and all other courts to have considered the issue, reject private enforcement of an individual right to informed consent for KUA authorized experimental drugs. QUESTION: May an individual bring a lawsuit via 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for violation of his right to informed consent to the administration of an EUA experimental drug or device? |
| Rodney Dale Harmon v.
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
paid | 25-10 | Eighth Circuit, No. 25-1184
Judgment: April 02, 2025 |
Jeffrey Marx Rosenzweig | [Petition] | Question(s) presenteda QUESTION PRESENTEDWhether the District Court or the Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability when the issue in habeas is the ineffectiveness of counsel in failing to contest a search conducted in flagrant violation of this Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even though the illegality was previously decided in a civil and not criminal context. |
| Margaret M. FitzGerald v.
Michael Alan Knaub |
paid | 25-11 | Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District, No. 110 MM 2024
Judgment: February 12, 2025 |
Margaret M. Fitzgerald | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented |
| Stephen T. Aguiar v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5008 | Second Circuit, No. 23-6573
Judgment: January 22, 2025 |
Stephen Aguiar | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED
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| Timothy Lynn Allen v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5010 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-40507
Judgment: May 15, 2025 |
Gregory Don Sherwood | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQuestion Presented for Review Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner’s vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), and does the Fifth Circuit’s opinion conflict with contrary rulings from the Sixth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma? 1 |
| Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v.
Officer Jimenez |
ifp | 25-5011 | Third Circuit, No. 24-2389
Judgment: December 04, 2024 |
Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presented1. QUESTION (S) PRESENTED | 1. Procedural due process violation of Rule 8 on statement of claim. The supreme court standard held that Plausible claims cannot be dismiss regardless of the substantive law they invoke. 2. Fourth amendment Constitutional due process right violation because the plaintiff did not ~ commit any crime that will warrant a search, arrest, confiscation of passport, and 10 months unlawful imprisonment. The current Unlawful permanent confiscation and unlawful | possession of Plaintiff three international passport in one set that does not belong to United | States but to Nigeria violates due process constitutional right. | : List of Parties Plaintiff: Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani Defendant: Jimenez, DHS/ICE Arresting Officer., Jannelle Maloney, DHS/ICE Arresting Officer; Mark Ramotowski, DHS/ICE Arresting Officer; John Tsoukaris DHS Field officer director. | | 2 |
| Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v.
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General |
ifp | 25-5012 | Third Circuit, No. 21-2210
Judgment: October 21, 2024 |
Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1. QUESTION (S) PRESENTED | :
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| Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5013 | Eighth Circuit, No. 23-3777
Judgment: April 01, 2025 |
Michael Tasset | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDA jury returned a general verdict finding Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr., “guilty” of violating 18 U.S.C. §924(o0) where only one of the two predicate offenses alleged to support that firearms conspiracy charge was legally valid. A divided panel of the Eighth Circuit affirmed the conviction, finding the instructional error, though plain, did not affect Patterson’s substantial rights. The question presented is: Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in determining the two alleged predicate offenses were “so inextricably intertwined that no rational juror could have found Patterson… possessed firearms in relation to one predicate but not the other.” 1 |
| Phillip R. Durachinsky v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5014 | Sixth Circuit, No. 23-4019
Judgment: April 02, 2025 |
Kevin Michael Schad | [Petition] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Where defense counsel reasonably believes that their client may be incompetent, but the defendant disagrees, does the Sixth Amendment require a district court to appoint “special counsel” to advocate for the defendant’s position at any competency proceeding? ii |
| Justin Dale Little v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5015 | Tenth Circuit, No. 23-5077
Judgment: October 11, 2024 |
Cristen Thayer | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQuestions Presented for ReviewLaw enforcement officers have long been tasked with learning “what is required of them under Fourth Amendment precedent” and conforming “their conduct to these rules.” Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229, 241 (2011). This principle undergirds the rule of law and determines when law enforcement may not invoke an exception to the exclusionary rule. But not in Oklahoma. In 2017, before McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 8. Ct. 2452 (2020), the Tenth Circuit held in a published, binding opinion that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation had not been disestablished and Oklahoma state authorities could not assert jurisdiction over the reservation for murder cases. Murphy v. Royal, 875 F.3d 896 (10th Cir. 2017). The Circuit nevertheless excused Oklahoma law enforcement’s continued assertion of jurisdiction in a suspected murder on the reservation in 2018. The Circuit found that law enforcement acted in good-faith reliance on its historical assertion of jurisdiction because the Circuit had stayed the mandate in Murphy until 2020. The questions presented are:
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| General Parker v.
Department of Housing and Urban Development |
ifp | 25-5016 | Seventh Circuit, No. 24-2567
Judgment: February 28, 2025 |
General Parker | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Summary | General Parker, a disabled African American male, alleges a series of civil rights and constitutional violations stemming from events following a fire in his low-income housing in 2020. After sustaining second-degree burns while | extinguishing the fire, Parker was allegedly battered by his building manager, Marsha Moses, who kicked in his door the day after the fire. This incident initiated | a series of events that Parker claims involved conspiracy, collusion by state agents, | and repeated violations of his rights. Key allegations include: ¢ Police Misconduct: Parker called the police on Moses after the initial assault, but they refused to respond after learning Moses was white. A week later, Moses allegedly trespassed and assaulted Parker again, but instead of arresting her, police arrested Parker for battery. « Retaliatory Eviction: Three months later, Parker faced eviction proceedings based on false statements by Moses and her attorney, allegedly | violating Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. Parker claims the judge in the eviction case lacked jurisdiction and improperly pressured him to discuss his criminal battery case. ¢ Prosecutorial Misconduct: Parker alleges the prosecutor pursued a baseless battery case against him for 18 months, during which his court- appointed attorney and the prosecutor allegedly colluded to pressure him into |
| Brant Davis v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5017 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-20258
Judgment: March 31, 2025 |
Rosa Victoria Garcia-Cross | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
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| Lakeith Lynn Washington v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5018 | Fifth Circuit, No. 22-10574
Judgment: February 18, 2025 |
Adam Ryan Nicholson | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTEDPetitioner Lakeith Lynn Washington was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) to 180 months of imprisonment, despite the fact that the indictment never charged, no jury ever found, and he never admitted that he incurred three qualifying convictions committed on separate occasions. Although this conviction was initially affirmed by the court of appeals, this Court granted Petitioner’s prior petition for certiorari, vacated the prior opinion of the court of appeals, and remanded the case to the court of appeals for reconsideration in light of Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024). On remand, however, the court of appeals applied the harmless error test from Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999), and again affirmed. Mr. Washington asks whether, as several courts of appeal have held, all Apprendi errors including Erlinger violations should be treated as trial errors subject to the harmless-error test from Neder, or, whether, as the Third Circuit has held, at least some Apprendi errors should be treated as sentencing errors and evaluated under the harmless-error test from Parker v. Dugger, 498 U.S. 308 (1991)? i |
| Chat Lowe v.
Palm Tran |
ifp | 25-5019 | District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District, No. 4D2024-1005
Judgment: December 19, 2024 |
Chat Lowe | [Appendix] [Petition] [Petition] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED | 1). Should litigants cases be dismissed with prejudice for dereliction of responsibilities on part of their Counsel and no fault or doing of the litigants?9). Did the litigant here establish the requirements for Equitable Tolling? (1). He | has been pursuing his rights diligently. (2) Some extraordinary circumstances stood in his way and prevented timely filing? _ 3). In Tolling a Statue of Limitation, is it an unreasonable request? Especially, when the untimely filing is no fault or doing of the litigants. | | List of Parties Chat Lowe, Pro Se, Petitioner . V. | Palm Tran et al, Respondents : | |
| Dan L. Bozeman v.
James R. Schiebner, Warden |
ifp | 25-5020 | Sixth Circuit, No. 24-1973
Judgment: April 02, 2025 |
Dan Larkin Bozeman | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented4, .Questions Presented To The Court Issue 1: ls A Defendant Considered To Be Given A Full And Fair Consideration Of A 4th Amendment Claim At Both “Trial” And “Direct Appeal” As Required By Stone V. Powell, 428 U.S. 465 (1976) If Trail And Appellate Counsel Failed To Raise The Issue, Forcing A Defendant To Raise The Issue For The First Time Pro Se In A Post Appeal Relief From Judgment Motion That Was Ruled On The Merits Only Once By Trial Court And Then Denied Leave Or Denied A Review Of The Merits In Every Following State | And Federal Court? | Was There Probable Cause To Arrest The Defendant Without A Warrant; And Was The Identification Evidence And Testimony Given By The Victim Thomas Jackson At Trial Fruits Of A | Poisonous Tree? | | Issue II: Was The Defendant Denied Effective Assistance Of Counsel When: Defense Counsel Failed To Move For Suppression Of Pretrial Photographic Identification | From Complainant Thomas Jackson On Grounds Of The Identification Being Direct “Fruit” Of An Illegal Arrest In Violation Of Defendant’s State And Federal Constitutional Protections? Appellate Counsel Failed To Bring The Above Issues Forth On Direct Appeal; As They Are Stronger Than The Claims Raised? ’ 7 Issue III: Was Petitioner Denied His State And Federal Constitutional Rights To Fair Trial By The Trial Judge, Who Permitted Witness Against Co-defendant Lepper Only To Testify In Tne Presence Of Petitioners Separate Jury? |
| Dajavan Speaks v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5021 | Third Circuit, No. 24-1968
Judgment: November 04, 2024 |
Samuel J. B. Angell | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTEDDajavan Speaks is a gainfully employed young man with a singular non-violent underlying conviction for gun possession. A victim of a prior drive-by shooting, he had a readily understandable self-defense interest at the time of his arrest for the underlying conviction and his current conviction. His best friend was killed at that time and he and his cousin were injured. He has no juvenile criminal record, no gang affiliation, no drug convictions, was not subject to supervision or a restraining order at the time of his arrest. He had never been charged with using a gun in any way, only with the possession of one. He challenges the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) as applied to him, and the questions presented are as follows:
RELATED PROCEEDINGS United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: United States v. Dajavan Speaks, No. 2:22-cr-00154-MAK (Mar. 28, 2024) United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: United States v. Dajavan Speaks, No. 24-1968 (Feb. 20, 2025) 1 |
| Shemica Taylor v.
Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
ifp | 25-5022 | Seventh Circuit, No. 24-2132
Judgment: February 25, 2025 |
Shemica Taylor | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED In Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. __ (2024) whether a (former) officer of the Executive branch is entitled to immunity from prosecution requires distinguishing “official and unofficial actions” with “no immunity for unofficial acts.” :The question presented 1s: 1. Whether an officer of the Judicial branch must be subject to a different standard to determine entitlement to immunity from prosecution.: In Kemp v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1856 (2022), a “mistake” under Rule 60(b)(1) is held as inclusive of a judge’s errors of law, per the text, structure and history, for relief. The question presented is: .
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| Mychal Andra Reed v.
Superior Court of California, San Diego County |
ifp | 25-5023 | Supreme Court of California, No. S287202
Judgment: February 11, 2025 |
Mychal Andra Reed | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| , QUESTION(S) PRESENTED a ft | | 1) Can the Superior court rightfully force petitioner to except | court appointed counsel for his P.C. Section 745(a) RACIAL | | | | Justice Act proceedings that is not his direct (initial) appeal | | nor a Death penalty appeal, that pertains to a petition that petitioner generated for Relief that the court (Superior court) | has already ruled it has merit via Order To Show Cause (OSC). | : 2) Can the Superior court deny petitioner's 6th amendment Rights © to self-representation (pro sé) when he is not on Direct appeal : (appellate review) of his conviction and sentence. P.Cc. Section| © : | 745(a) petition was filed 43 years after petitioners Direct/ . initial appeal. | | ; |
| Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v.
Mary Boyle |
app | 25A11 | Fourth Circuit, No. 25-1687
Judgment: — |
D. John Sauer | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Main Document] |
NA |
| City of Huntington Beach, California v.
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California |
app | 25A12 | Ninth Circuit, No. 23-3694
Judgment: — |
Michael Joseph Vigliotta | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |