| Petitions and applications docketed on August 05, 2025 | ||||||
| Caption | type | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Recent Filings | QP |
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| Kelvin Fortenberry v.
Esther Shack |
paid | 25-135 | Court of Appeals of Michigan, No. 368802
Judgment: July 25, 2024 |
Kelvin Fortenberry | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
5S. How can a judge be allowed to violate your constitutional and civil rights?
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| Francis Palardy v.
AT&T Services Inc. |
paid | 25-136 | Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, No. 05-24-00130-CV
Judgment: December 27, 2024 |
Francis Palardy | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
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| Jaden T. Floyd v.
United States |
paid | 25-137 | United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, No. 25-0126
Judgment: May 06, 2025 |
Nicole Jean Herbers | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTION PRESENTEDSenior Airman (SrA) Jaden T. Floyd pleaded guilty to and was convicted of one charge and specification of larceny of military property. The trial lasted one day. SrA Floyd was sentenced the day of his conviction, December 18, 2023. The sentence included a punitive separation, triggering automatic review by the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals (Air Force Court). Despite the short nature of the proceedings and knowing the case had to be forwarded to the Air Force Court for review, the Government created a presumptively unreasonable pre-docketing delay on appeal. During this period of pre-docketing delay, SrA Floyd developed neurological symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis. By the time the Government docketed his case, he was experiencing deficits in memory, had tremors in and spasticity of his upper and lower extremity muscles, and developed scanning speech with dysphonia. SrA Floyd’s ability to assist in his appeal was limited by these symptoms. SrA Floyd’s first opportunity to demand speedy appellate review with the Air Force Court was at docketing. Although he later asked for additional time post-docketing to finalize his brief to the Air Force Court, SrA Floyd did not contribute in any manner to the pre-docketing delay. The question presented 1s: Whether, in evaluating a claim for a pre-docketing due process violation, a court can effectively require an appellant to assert the right to speedy appellate review prior to the docketing of his case on appeal and find no prejudice if an appellant requested and received a post-docketing delay. |
| Margo Roman v.
Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine |
paid | 25-138 | Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, No. SJC-13653
Judgment: May 06, 2025 |
Thaddeus Alan Heuer | [Petition] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTION PRESENTEDIn its coming Term, this Court will address occupational speech issues in the pending matter of Chiles v. Salazar (No. 24-539), cert. granted, 145 8. Ct. 13828 (2025). Meanwhile, at least three other certiorari petitions in cases involving occupational speech are being held pending the decision in Chiles Gncluding Crownholm v. Moore (No. 24-276), 360 Virtual Drone Servs. LLC v. Ritter (No. 24-279), and Hines v. Pardue (No. 24- 920)). In this case raising similar legal issues as Chiles, the question presented is: whether a_ state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor incidental to conduct simply because the speaker was_ subject to professional licensure. |
| Michele A. Cornelius v.
CVS Pharmacy, Inc. |
paid | 25-139 | Third Circuit, No. 23-2961
Judgment: April 02, 2025 |
Michele A. Cornelius | NA | |
| Jennine Labuzan-Delane v.
Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated |
paid | 25-140 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-60393
Judgment: February 21, 2025 |
Jennine Labuzan-Delane | NA | |
| Robert L. Schwalb v.
Justices of the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District |
ifp | 25-5268 | Supreme Court of Illinois, No. 131238
Judgment: December 03, 2024 |
Robert L. Schwalb | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented- QUESTION(S) PRESENTED a | 1h Qieh he foumth Orstareh Cpplcr ut | of ALLinoss Ursolale The, JU Qrendmert | | of the US. Canstitér anol the Gm | Pro kttior Clase ohen ip {qe As oShone. Te T'S Barhea Pia, on Plope uz Ngee, R023 22 /2FW7 us oP Hearn Panke at thet post-Convxter Coumre| hos a oh, | Ve P7120. {CltEsna ble. CO&sSS stance wn (eBerang Ke Claws in an Qrmendet Pate, I” — Gdel ter Ze As yms TAcT origncked on Phe | @ Dye! M12, Ko beet L, Schwa le awn ps | | a) Uctm Cheha lvaadbagr Fell bebtl aA erers\ RX of The fo Fo Mento! — OCELs te |
| Michael D. Miller v.
Florida |
ifp | 25-5269 | District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, No. 1D2024-2273
Judgment: May 09, 2025 |
Michael D. Miller | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED . Did the Fiegt Diskeict Covucrt of Nopeals | Violate he Petitioner’s tight to due | process of \ ow hy IMPOSING a habitual | a Senvence Wn violation o€ specitic an statutory SVG. \A3 (5) requirements, Z |
| Lawrence Newman, et ux. v.
Heritage Village West Condominium Association, Inc. |
ifp | 25-5270 | District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District, No. 2D2024-0811
Judgment: January 10, 2025 |
Lawrence T. Newman | NA | |
| Soleiman Mobarak v.
Jay Forshey, Warden |
ifp | 25-5271 | Sixth Circuit, No. 24-3611
Judgment: December 16, 2024 |
Soleiman Mobarak | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQuestions Presented
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| Michael A. Powell v.
Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
ifp | 25-5272 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-10851
Judgment: February 10, 2025 |
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| Jordan Padilla v.
New Mexico |
ifp | 25-5273 | Court of Appeals of New Mexico, No. A-1-CA-40123
Judgment: July 15, 2024 |
Jordan Padilla | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due to Prosecutor inadvertence before filing an application for a warrant. |
| Eleuterio Zubia-Melendez v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5274 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-50432, 24-50439
Judgment: May 02, 2025 |
Joseph Jeff Ostini | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether, in light of Class v. United States, 1388 8S. Ct. 798, 200 L. Ed. 2d 37 (2018), a guilty plea forecloses a defendant’s ability to raise, on direct appeal, a Fourth Amendment challenge to suspicionless, technology-driven surveillance— such as license-plate readers at unmanned checkpoints—where the legal basis for the claim was unsettled at the time of the plea. 1 |
| Kayla Williams v.
Pennsylvania State University |
ifp | 25-5275 | Third Circuit, No. 23-3180
Judgment: April 01, 2025 |
Kayla Williams | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedIN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES QUESTIONS PRESENTED: oe |1.) Does the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require public universities to allow accused students a meaningful opportunity to cross examine adverse witnesses when the credibility is central to the outcome, as held by Sixth Circuit, or may universities deny that opportunity to cross examine without violating due process, as held by Third Circuit in this case at hand? . 2.) Are the federal circuit courts split on the proper application of the forfeiture doctrine, with some circuits (including 3rd circuit) strictly barring appellate review of improperly | preserved constitutional issues, but other circuits allowing flexibility when fundamental rights, constitutional issues and/or plain error are involved? 3.) Does the strict application of the forfeiture doctrine by 3rd Circuit in this case at hand, where 3rd circuit completely barred issues regarding constitutional issues and fundamental rights raised on appeal because the issues were not clearly stated at district court level, conflict with other circuits that allow review of constitutional arguments on appeal that weren’t perfectly preserved? | | 4.) Does the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require appellate courts to review the denial of judicial recusal where a judge granted summary judgment in favor of a party with whom the judge has a close personal connection, and where other circuits would have required recusal and/or vacated the judgment under similar circumstances? 5.) In cases where the judge’s failure to recuse himself from a case involving a party which he has substantial ongoing ties to, which violates 28 U.S.C 455(a) and litigants 14th | Amendment Due Process rights, are circuit courts required to bypass forfeiture doctrine and impose sanctions when brought to circuit court’s attention, like many circuits do, or Williams 1 |
| David Leroy Earls v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5276 | Tenth Circuit, No. 22-7051
Judgment: February 21, 2025 |
Stuart W. Southerland | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED
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| Oliser Hernandez-Villalobos v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5277 | Ninth Circuit, No. 23-2362
Judgment: April 22, 2025 |
Kara Lee Hartzler | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether a judge may force an accused to choose between his due process right to exculpatory evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1969), or his constitutional rights to a speedy trial and to avoid unlawful seizure. | prefix |
| Reynaldo Alberto Peña v.
Texas |
ifp | 25-5278 | Court of Appeals of Texas, Eighth District, No. 08-23-00303-CR
Judgment: December 04, 2024 |
Abner Burnett | [Petition] | Question(s) presentedQuestion PresentedIf a Trial Court admitted into evidence inculpatory statements made by a defendant during the post-interview portion of a polygraph examination, but excluded all evidence relating to the circumstances surrounding the defendant’s inculpatory statements, wouldn’t that deprive a defendant of his fundamental Constitutional right to a fair opportunity to present a defense, both under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and under the Compulsory Process and Confrontation Clauses of the Sixth Amendment? Reynaldo Alberto Pefia Petition for Writ of Certiorari ii |
| Evan McCarrick Jerald v.
Arizona |
ifp | 25-5279 | Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division Two, No. 2 CA-CR 2021-0105
Judgment: April 15, 2024 |
Tobias Samuel Loss-Eaton | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Written Request] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDUnder Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment “prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sen- tence on a juvenile offender who did not commit hom- icide.” 560 U.S. 48, 82 (2010). And Miller v. Ala- bama held that, even in homicide cases, “the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that man- dates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders.” 567 U.S. 460, 479-80 (2012) (emphasis added). The question presented is: Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits consecu- tive term-of-years sentences—either mandatory or discretionary—that guarantee a juvenile’ non- homicide offender will die in prison. (1) |
| Philip J. Marquis v.
Massachusetts |
ifp | 25-5280 | Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, No. SJC-13562
Judgment: March 11, 2025 |
Kathryn Hayne Barnwell | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED 1. Does Massachusetts’ firearms licensing regime, which grants a police colonel the power to deny any nonresident traveler a temporary firearms license based upon that officer’s judgment of “unsuitability,” violate nonresident travelers’ constitutional rights to keep and bear arms and to interstate travel? ia |
| Tony Lamons Gooch, III v.
Tennessee |
ifp | 25-5281 | Supreme Court of Tennessee, Middle Division, No. M2022-01395-SC-R11-CD
Judgment: November 20, 2024 |
Tony Lamons Gooch III | NA | |
| Jackson Daniel Bowers v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5282 | Ninth Circuit, No. 23-902
Judgment: March 04, 2025 |
Molly Marie Winston | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] |
Question(s) presentedQuestion PresentedIn United States v. Haymond, 139 S. Ct. 2369 (2019), a 4-1-4 decision, this Court left undecided the question of how the Sixth Amendment’s jury-trial right applied in federal supervised-release proceedings. Justice Gorsuch, writing for the plurality, recognized that traditional parole and probations systems (where a defendant owes time remaining on a sentence) was fundamentally different from supervised release (where a defendant owes no time)—and that “structural difference bears constitutional consequences.” In dissent, Justice Alito highlighted the unresolved question left in Haymonds wake: whether “the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to any supervised release revocation proceeding.” That 1s the issue presented here. _ji- |
| Deandre Blackman v.
United States |
ifp | 25-5283 | Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5517
Judgment: May 01, 2025 |
Jarrod James Beck | [Petition] [Appendix] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEWThe supervised-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), lists factors from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for a court to consider when sentencing a person for violating a supervised-release condition. In that list, Congress omitted the factors set forth in § 3553(a)(2)(A)—the need for the sentence to reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect for the law, and provide just punishment for the offense. As a result, this Court recently held that courts cannot rely on those § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when revoking supervised release. See Esteras v. United States, 145 S.Ct. 2031 (June 20, 2025). The question presented in this case 1s closely related: Whether courts may rely on the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when determining the length and conditions of additional supervision following a supervised release revocation? l |
| Bobbie Ray Edwards v.
Milton Graham, Warden |
ifp | 25-5284 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-6883
Judgment: December 27, 2024 |
Bobbie Ray Edwards | NA | |
| Ronnie Coleman v.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. |
app | 25A142 | Fifth Circuit, No. 24-20244
Judgment: — |
Michael M. Berger | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Justin Baggett v.
Texas |
app | 25A143 | Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, No. WR-96,337-01
Judgment: — |
Josh Barrett Schaffer | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Stephen K. Bannon v.
United States |
app | 25A144 | District of Columbia Circuit, No. 22-3086
Judgment: — |
R. Trent McCotter | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Jeremy Baum v.
Missouri |
app | 25A145 | Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District, No. WD85148
Judgment: — |
James Christopher Egan | [Main Document] | NA |
| Winston R. Anderson v.
Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee |
app | 25A146 | Ninth Circuit, No. 22-16268
Judgment: — |
Matthew W.H. Wessler | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representativ.
of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
app | 25A147 | First Circuit, No. 24-1862
Judgment: — |
Louis Carl Schneider | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Harry Barnett v.
City of Chicago, Illinois |
app | 25A148 | Seventh Circuit, No. 23-2509
Judgment: — |
Harry Barnett | [Main Document] | NA |
| Julien P. Champagne v.
Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
app | 25A149 | Federal Circuit, No. 2023-1047
Judgment: — |
Jaime Ann Santos | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| Maurice Cruz-Webster v.
Brian Emig, Warden |
app | 25A150 | Third Circuit, No. 24-3378
Judgment: — |
Maurice Cruz-Webster | [Main Document] | NA |
| Rosemary Morgan-Lee v.
Therapy Resources Management, LLP |
app | 25A151 | First Circuit, No. 23-2070
Judgment: — |
Jeremy Loren Friedman | [Main Document] | NA |