| Petitions and applications docketed on July 24, 2025 | ||||||
| Caption | type | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Recent Filings | QP |
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| Angela DeBose v.
United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
paid | 25-94 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-10350
Judgment: October 28, 2024 |
Angela DeBose | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED | The question(s) are: | | (1) Whether the district court properly dismissed and closed the case if the Plaintiff-Petitioner filed in the wrong court, rather than transfer it to the correct court in the interest of justice. | (2) Whether the magistrate judge erred by considering matters outside the "four corners" of the complaint when reviewing the complaint and making recommendations on a motion to dismiss, converting the motion to dismiss for | reasons of jurisdiction to a summary judgment motion. (3) Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly considered administrative error pursuant to Rule 65 in this judicial appeals, examining whether the district court’s actions were | arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise contrary to law, including procedural violations. | | |
| Michael Pung, Personal Representativ.
for the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan |
paid | 25-95 | Sixth Circuit, No. 22-1919, 22-1939
Judgment: January 28, 2025 |
Philip Lee Ellison | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTEDIsabella County confiscated the Pung Estate’s private home for approximately $2,200 in taxes and fees (that were never actually owed). The lower courts used the artificially depressed auction sale price rather than the property’s fair market value as the starting point for its damages calculation. The Sixth Circuit and others have held that the “fair market value” taken is not what is owed to begin to fulfill the constitutional compensatory obligation imposed by the Fifth Amendment. That defies this Court’s precedents. And if it is not taken within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment, it 1s otherwise an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment by imposing a punishment by pilfering far more than ever needed to satisfy a small debt. The questions presented are:
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| Maryville Baptist Church v.
Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky |
paid | 25-96 | Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5737
Judgment: March 25, 2025 |
Mathew D. Staver | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDThis case presents a classic vehicle for this Court to clarify that a judicial decision which changes legal precedent cannot be applied retroactively to divest a private party of vested rights. A judicial decision that changes legal precedent should only be applied retroactively where private rights have not vested. This critical question cannot be presented more clearly than in this case. Here the Court can compare side-by-side two cases involving the same facts, same law, same injunction, same judicial panel, but different results solely because the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals retroactively applied this Court’s recent decision in Lackey v. Stinnie,145 8. Ct. 659 (2025), and its new construction of 42 U.S.C. §1988, to deprive Petitioners of their vested rights. The Questions Presented are as follows:
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| Susan M. Smith v.
Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security |
paid | 25-97 | Tenth Circuit, No. 24-6118
Judgment: September 20, 2024 |
Susan M. Smith | NA | |
| Matthew Lee Caylor v.
Florida |
ifp | 25-5184 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. 2023-0338
Judgment: January 30, 2025 |
Barbara Jane Busharis | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedCAPITAL CASE QUESTIONS PRESENTEDI. Whether accepting a defendant’s waiver of the right to a trial by jury and the jury’s full consideration of mitigating evidence 1n a death penalty case violates a defendant’s fundamental rights to a fair trial, individualized sentencing determination, and due process, as well as this Court’s requirement of voluntary, knowing, and intelligent waivers of constitutional rights, when the waivers are based on misinformation about an existing fact and that misinformation is not corrected before the waivers are accepted. II. Whether, considering the operation and effect of Florida’s capital sentencing scheme, the Due Process Clause requires the factfinder to determine beyond a reasonable doubt that sufficient aggravating factors exist and that aggravating factors outweigh mitigating circumstances before the sentencer can choose to impose the death penalty, pursuant to Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 476-85, 490, 494 n.19 (2000) and Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584, 603-05, 609 (2002). 1 |
| George W. Smith, Jr. v.
Florida |
ifp | 25-5185 | District Court of Appeals of Florida, Sixth District, No. 6D2024-1086
Judgment: April 15, 2025 |
George W. Smith Jr. | [Appendix] [Petition] | Question(s) presentedUESTIONS PRESENTED ~ : 1. When the question of subject matter jurisdiction is raised, if the trial court does not answer, is it a violation of 5" and 14" Amendment of the United State Constitution.— 2. When the trial court is constituted by authority, and fails to address an asserted claim under associated authority, does this violates due process of the United States Constitutions 5” and 14 Amendments?
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| Donna Ellar v.
City of Mesa, Arizona |
ifp | 25-5186 | Ninth Circuit, No. 23-3118
Judgment: October 23, 2024 |
Donna Ellar | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| QUESTION(S) PRESENTED | Ld ey lower. Courts “DOiD Not ACKVUow lela ¢ TRue Evidesne Hoes Lower CovkTe And ATTORWey Cau JestePy Hous Cra ordetitutiona | Rieers CAN Violated WwHty houler. CuaTs kee WoT smoasrtored blows CA fotice cffiter> Rea te a death Skeet fté End {VES |
| Shantell Lewis v.
Hernan Castro |
ifp | 25-5187 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-13679
Judgment: January 16, 2025 |
Shantell Lewis | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedvy QUESTION(S) PRESENTED
4, Can Administrative Tribunal Judge have Immunity for their non judicial activities who knowingly violates a persons civil rights?
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| Bethzaeli Safier v.
Thelma Woolridge |
ifp | 25-5188 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-0072
Judgment: January 17, 2025 |
Bethzaeli Safier | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED
4, Whether judicial misconduct and apparent bias by the lower courts resulted in arbitrary and capricious rulings that deprived Petitioner of fundamental rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5189 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-10184
Judgment: July 30, 2024 |
John Douglas Lloyd | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED I.A geofence warrant, directed at a company such as Google, is a law enforcement tool used to obtain location history of user accounts via applications or programs active on someone’s cell phone or other device within a geographic area. Warrants of this nature are sweeping as they are limited only by geographic and temporal parameters. The Fifth Circuit has held that such warrants are categorically prohibited as they constitute general warrants in violation of the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Smith, 110 F.4th 817, 888 (5th Cir. 2024). But the Fourth Circuit, in United States v. Chatrie, 136 F.4th 100 (4th Cir. 2025) (rehearing en banc) (memo), and the Eleventh Circuit in this case, have rejected Fourth Amendment challenges, on varied and fractured grounds, to the use of geofence warrants. Is review warranted to resolve this discord among the circuits? Il. Does the record taken as a whole demonstrate improper collusion between federal and state law enforcement to make Davis’s arrest by state officers subject to the federal presentment requirements set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 8501(c) and Rule 5(a), Fed. R. Crim. P.? III. Whether Davis’s motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted on the three carjacking counts for want of sufficient evidence that Davis had the intent to kill or seriously injury anyone? ia |
| Curtis Dickerson v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5190 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-4418
Judgment: April 24, 2025 |
Peter L. Goldman | [Petition] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTEDI. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Dickerson’s appeal, where the District Court improperly entered a $2,400,000.00 Order of Monetary Forfeiture based on insufficient evidence consisting of hearsay from felons and co-conspirators, speculation, guesswork, and “extrapolations” from so-called experts and Government witnesses? ail |
| Steven Edward Stein v.
Florida |
ifp | 25-5191 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2022-1787
Judgment: September 19, 2024 |
Dawn Brandi Macready | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedCAPITAL CASE QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s determination that “equally accessible” evidence has not been suppressed by the State 1s contrary to Brady and its progeny because it places an onerous burden on the defense to uncover evidence that the prosecution has suppressed? 2. Whether a court’s materiality determination must take into account the whole record which includes the evidence the jury heard? 1 |
| John Patrick Fletcher v.
Bryan Coleman, Warden |
ifp | 25-5192 | Supreme Court of Colorado, No. 2024SA111
Judgment: February 18, 2025 |
John Patrick Fletcher | NA | |
| Samuel San Miguel v.
Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas |
ifp | 25-5193 | Fifth Circuit, No. 22-50413
Judgment: August 08, 2023 |
Samuel San Miguel | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Written Request] |
NA |
| Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v.
Florida |
ifp | 25-5194 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-1009
Judgment: July 22, 2025 |
Lisa Marie Fusaro | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedCAPITAL CASE QUESTION PRESENTEDPetitioner received two sentences of death due to a bare majority jury recommendation of 7-5. On the third count, the jury recommended a life sentence without the possibility of parole. However, the trial judge decided to override the jurys vote and sentence Petitioner to death on the third count as well. Out of approximately 267 total death row inmates in Florida, Petitioner appears to be one of only 17 inmates whose death sentence results from a 7-5 bare majority jury vote, and/or a judicial override of a life sentence. The following question is presented: Given that it 1s illegal to sentence an individual to death as the result of a bare majority jury vote or judicial override of a life sentence anywhere in this country, is 1t unconstitutional to execute Petitioner when his death sentences stem from jury votes of 7-5 and 6-6? 1 |
| Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v.
United States |
app | 25A99 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 22-12077
Judgment: — |
Tracy M. Dreispul | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Veronica Marquand v.
Department of Defense |
app | 25A100 | Federal Circuit, No. 2024-1474
Judgment: — |
Veronica Marquand | [Main Document] | NA |
| John Allen Rubio v.
Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
app | 25A101 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-70004
Judgment: — |
Jeremy Don Schepers | [Main Document] | NA |
| Maryland v.
3M Company |
app | 25A102 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-1218, 24-1270
Judgment: — |
Victor M. Sher | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| National Institutes of Health v.
American Public Health Association |
app | 25A103 | First Circuit, No. 25-1611; 25-1612
Judgment: — |
D. John Sauer | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v.
Florida |
app | 25A104 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-1009
Judgment: — |
Lisa Marie Fusaro | [Main Document] | NA |