Petitions and applications docketed on December 30, 2025
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paid PACEM Solutions International, LLC

v. Small Business Administration

25-763 Fourth Circuit, No. 24-2082

Judgment: August 04, 2025

Milton Christopher Johns Executive Law Partners, PLL C

11130 Fairfax Boulevard, Suite 303

Fairfax, VA 22030

[Petition] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document]
Question(s) presenteda QUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand this case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did so on January 13, 2025, in Santana v. Garland, No. 24-46: “the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024).” Inits August 4, 2025, Opinion the 4“ Circuit does not mention Loper, even though the appellant squarely presented Loper in its appeal: “The panel decision of August 4, 2025, is contrary to Loper Bright Enters. v. Ravmondo, 144 8. Ct. 2244, 2261 (2024) (overruling Chevron and holding that ‘courts, not agencies, will decide ‘all relevant questions of law’ arising on review of agency action… even those involving ambiguous laws’). Instead of “decid[ing] ‘all relevant questions of law’ arising on review of agency action” in the face of an at best ambiguous provision the CARES Act, the panel deferred to the District Court, which had in turn deferred to the SBA, on four questions of law presented by appellant Pacem Solution International, LLC. The Court of Appeals denied rehearing on September 30, 2025, without an opinion.

  2. Now that “Chevron deference” has been overruled, should this Court direct lower courts to utilize the final article of the Bill of Rights for the purpose explained in the Preamble to the Bill of Rights – “in order to prevent

paid Flintco, LLC

v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

25-764 Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Third Division, No. 122,098, 122,281

Judgment: March 26, 2025

James Earle Weger Jones, Gotcher & Bogan, P.C.

15 E. 5th St.

Suite 3800

Tulsa, OK 74103

[Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document]
Question(s) presented1 QUESTION PRESENTED

The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) reflects “a liberal federal policy favoring arbitration agreements.” CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood, 565 U.S. 95, 98 (2012) (quoting Moses H. Cone Mem Hosp. v. Mercury Constr. Corp., 460 U.S. 1, 24 (1983)).

In the case below, the signatories to a contract agreed to arbitrate any claim “arising out of’ the contract, and suit was subsequently brought relating to the performance of that contract.

The Question Presented is:

Whether placing the “tort” label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties’ contract.

paid Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation

v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District

25-765 Ninth Circuit, No. 22-55908

Judgment: July 31, 2025

Scott James Street JW Howard Attorneys, Ltd.

201 South Lake Avenue

Suite 303

Pasadena, CA 91101

[Main Document] [Petition] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document] [Main Document] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document] [Certificate of Word Count]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. Does this Court’s opinion in Jacobson ov. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), limit a court’s review of government mandated medical treatments to the highly deferential rational basis review or does Jacobson require heightened scrutiny based on a balancing test, as the Court held in Cruzan v. Director of Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990)?

  2. If, as the Ninth Circuit held, Jacobson limits courts to rational basis review, should it be overruled or limited to its specific facts because it is inconsistent with modern constitutional scrutiny, including this Court’s opinions in Cruzan and Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), which explicitly recognized a person’s fundamental interest in rejecting unwanted medical treatments?

(i)

paid Justyna Jensen

v. Maryland Cannabis Administration

25-766 Fourth Circuit, No. 24-1216

Judgment: October 01, 2025

Chad Eric DeVeaux Bartko Pavia LLP

1100 Sansome Street

San Francisco, CA 94111

[Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document]
Question(s) presented1 QUESTION PRESENTED

Whether a state statute discriminates against nonresidents in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause if it confers eligibility for a business license upon individuals who attended a university “in the state” where 40% or more of the students are eligible for Pell Grants but denies eligibility to individuals who attended universities 1n other states where 40% or more of the students are eligible for Pell Grants.

ifp Carmine Amelio

v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee

25-6443 Appellate Court of Connecticut, No. AC48074

Judgment: December 04, 2024

Carmine Amelio 32 Main St.

New Milford, CT 06776

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate matter (AC 47676) is pending, and then refuses to adjudicate the Petitioner’s Motion to Vacate for lack of jurisdiction. 2. Whether a judge’s subsequent recusal—based expressly on having acted in violation of the appellate stay—requires retroactive invalidation of the tainted rulings, reinstatement of the Motion to Vacate, and restoration of appellate review obstructed by the same | judge’s improper actions. | 3. Whether Connecticut courts violated due process by refusing to address jurisdiction after the trial judge acknowledged the pending appeal, mischaracterized the Motion to Vacate, and continued to act without authority, in conflict with this Court’s precedents requiring strict jurisdictional compliance. "-.- +2. . 4,. Whether a state supreme court violates the Fourteenth Amendment .- °- ” a ae Cc when it declines to remedy a lower court’s unconstitutional refusal. . 7 . oe —_ a | a an o ‘to hear jurisdictional motions—even after the judge was later .— . " | oo ; . | ] ; | a | 7 recused ‘for bias directly connected to those same proceedings. 7 | | . 7 . | 5. Whether jurisdictional defects—non-waivable under this Court’s decisions in Steel Co., Arbaugh, and Capron—may be ignored by both | i
ifp Rashid Muhammad Abdullah

v. City of Plant City, Florida

25-6444 Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-1391

Judgment: September 09, 2025

Rashid Muhammad Abdullah 808 West Madison St.

Plant City, FL 33563

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presented7 rae . Me _ a : _ QUESTIONS PRESENTED: The questions presented for review are: oo
  1. Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual

— determinations resolved in the petitioner’s favor during prior criminal and civil traffic proceedings when those determinations are central to a subsequent civil negligence action?

  1. Whether repeated warrantless seizures and the final taking of a vehicle after multiple dismissals or acquittals raise a federal question under the

| Fourth and Fourteenth Amenaments?

  1. Whether a vehicle previously recognized by state courts as exempt under state law may be subjected to renewed seizures and a taking

, without implicating federal constitutional limits?

  1. Whether continued withholding of a vehicle following dismissal or acquittal of all related charges, without a prompt post-seizure hearing,

| Satisfies due process requirements?

  1. Whether a state supreme court’s refusal to review an unelaborated per curiam affirmance prevents meaningful consideration of federal | questions that were properly raised and preserved?

  2. Whether a summary judgment order that provides no findings and does not address judicially noticed facts satisfies the minimum procedural protections required by the Due Process Clause?

, Petition for Writ of Certiorari: i

ifp Charlie Bullock

v. Virginia

25-6445 Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 250170

Judgment: September 03, 2025

Charlie Bell Bullock #1071668

VA DOC Centralized Mail Distribution Center

3521 Woods Way

State Farm, VA 23160

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presented| , _ QUESTION(S) PRESENTED , (1). In claim number two of petitioner’s state “Motion to Vacate”, was the petitioner’s 14" ° - : : Amendment Due Process Rights violated when Detective Cuffley gave false testimony at trial regarding : alleged bullet holes in Brittney Carmon’s SUV? | | | | (2). In claim number five of petitioner’s state “Motion to Vacate”, was the petitioner’s 14" | | _ Amendment Due Process Rights to Fundamental Fairness violated when Brittney Carmon, petitioner’s . girlfriend, was used as a witness at trial and testified that petitioner fired the first shot when actually , Brittney’s brother, the victim admitted to police that he blacked out and fired the first shot and kept , - shooting until his clip was empty? | | _ (3). In claim number seven of petitioner’s state “Motion to Vacate”, was petitioner’s 5", 6", and 14t

Amendment Due Process Rights violated when the Commonwealth refused to call the victim to testify at |

| trial, although victim was present in court, thus, preventing petitioner from facing his accuser? ,

ifp David Allen Benson

v. Superior Court of California, Orange County

25-6446 Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, No. G065840

Judgment: August 14, 2025

David Allen Benson 1645 W. Orangewood Ave.

Orange, CA 92868

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED | | 1. Was Petitioner denied his right to speedy trial, even his criminal , Trial has been delayed for six years without his consent? 2. Did Petitioner suffer ineffective assistance of counsel when his | forced-upon appointed attorney refused.to file a Motion to . Dismiss in the Respondent Superior Court? , } - , , | Petition for Writ of Certiorari-Benson v. ; Superior Court-2 , 7
ifp Torrence Belcher

v. Joshua Wallen

25-6447 Seventh Circuit, No. 25-1547, 25-1619

Judgment: July 24, 2025

Torrence Belcher #244707

Indiana State Prison

One Park Row

Michigan City, IN 46360

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presented2 QUESTIONS pg. |
  1. How isn’t an official being responsible for an inmate’s death not a basis for suing them??

  2. Ifitis possible to hypothesize a set of facts consistent with the complaint then why : wouldn’t relief to the plaintiff be entitled??

  3. Soa failure to protect claim may sound against a “high level” official if that “high level” official (A) demonstrated deliberate indifference towards a prisoners safety needs (B) showing that the inmate was incarcerated under condition posing a substantial risk of serious harm and (C) that that “high level” prison official had subjective knowledge of the risk of harm, which they personally disregarded????

  4. What if non-official customs resulted in the death of an inmate?? Or the non-enforcing of certain policies??

  5. Would or could that be consider a 14 amendment violation???? Pertaining to question four’.

  6. A correctional officer assigned to check on our well-being never walked the range. So what if I don’t know who was working the range the day that young man killed himself???

  7. What if an injury occurred as a result of a denied grievance?? The un-insuring of adequate remedy??

  8. If I make a complaint to a higher authority that a hole is around the corner and they tell me to shut the hell up, then a man walks around the corner and falls in that hole and dies, how isn’t that higher authority liable when he was made aware??

  9. What does indigent mean to failing to pay a filling fee without the means to do so?

  10. Does the constitution and its amendments only apply to those poverty stricken?

  11. Are the wealthy above the law??

  12. How did Joshua Wallen somehow (only) checked the wrong side??

  13. How isn’t a suicide that went unchecked because of neglect not consider a physical

injury??

  1. Does 42 U.S.C §1997 (e)e specify- explicitly if the physical injury has to occur to me,

personally??

  1. How isn’t a death that occurred as a result of not enforcing the policy not consider a .

physical injury?? ;

  1. How isn’t leaving a depressed person unattended too for more than an hour not seen as a

physical injury on some level??

  1. Is there occasion to consider the meaning of the statutory term “Physical injury” or

whether what, I, the plaintiff Belcher, was alleging could fit into it??

  1. How isn’t the plaintiff Belcher personally involved when he complained about the

neglect that killed a young man?

  1. Does paraphrase and construe have the same meaning?

  2. How can the courts reword their own explanation when it pertains to the meanings of

plainly stated statutes or pleadings?? |

  1. How is it proper or ethical to construe anything when it comes to court proceedings??

  2. Doesn’t construe mean to guess or assume without clarity??

ifp Torrence Belcher

v. Terri Hale

25-6448 Seventh Circuit, No. 25-1548, 25-1620

Judgment: July 24, 2025

Torrence Belcher #244707

Indiana State Prison

One Park Row

Michigan City, IN 46360

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presentedae | | | | : Questions | pg.1 1. Should the intervening circumstances be consider when questioning the Continuing Validity or soundness of this case’??? _. 2, What is good reasons to change a rule or policy that helps gives _ prisoners incentive to stay conduct free?? 3. Why doesn’t the constitution require state actors to enforce their | own policies and regulations? | 4. And how isn’t that consider discrimination if they do for some and | not ALL?? 4 5. Can privately owned prisons choose to feed us sometimes and not . allthe time? — , 6. Why aren’t prisoners entitled to showers or hygiene products? 7. Doesn’t the 14 amendment forbid states from creating laws that | | abridge privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States? a g. Which one of the 50 states doesn’t have to follow the | constitution?? - _-9. Does all the states have to follow the federal law?? , | 7 i0. If a state would to create a law and for that law to be approved it - has to fall in line with the 14 amendment, or that would be | consider a 14" amendment violation, if it didn’t right?? 11. What does equal protection of the law mean? | - 12. What does abridging privileges mean? 13. If an employee of the State of Indiana makes a statement that there ~ | | isn’t enough jobs for everyone then hires a new employee would | a that make them bias or prejudices??? oo | os - 14. How can a state law violation, not be a constitutional violation?? «45. Can a law be created, state or federal that doesn’t adhere to the constitution?? | | | 7 16. How isn’t a state law violation, not a constitutional violation?? 17. What is the definition of discrimination? And does that definition _ change depending on where you are located at in the United | States?? | | - 18. How can a person be discriminated against according to state law , and not federal law??
ifp Cynthia Lynn Pollick

v. Pennsylvania

25-6449 Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Office, No. 1452 MDA 2022

Judgment: May 16, 2024

Cynthia L. Pollick PO Box 724

Clarks Summit, PA 18411

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document] [Main Document]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. Whether Petitioner’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania when it failed to honor this Court’s precedent that requires a pro se litigant be provided with legal counsel at the start of her misdemeanor _

: disorderly conduct jury trial when she was jailed in her divorce one week before her criminal trial and had no access to electronic evidence, jury instructions or the prison law library; and therefore, she was not given a fair trial in violation of Fourteenth and Sixth Amendments?

  1. Whether the Due Process Clause was violated when the court | in Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania refused to quash the criminal information when it did not state a crime but rather allowed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to amend in violation of her constitutional rights provided by the Fourteenth, Fourth and First Amendments?

  2. Whether it violated the Fourteenth and First Amendments

’ when Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania allowed Petitioner to be charged with a crime when she was not in “public” but rather purportedly one step off her rural driveway onto the rural road with farm equipment in the field across her driveway and miles from the nearest public bus stop?

  1. Whether 18 Pa. C.S. § 5503 misdemeanor disorderly conduct is unconstitutionally vague, overbroad and allows discriminatory application since Petitioner was charged with the crime the moment she purportedly stepped off her rural driveway onto the rural road because “persistent” disorderly conduct criminalized constitutionally protected activity on her property?

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ifp Samuel Lee Smith, Jr.

v. Carlos Rosado

25-6450 Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-10532

Judgment: August 14, 2025

Samuel Lee Smith Jr. 16614 SW 99 Court

Miami, FL 33157

[Main Document] [Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED

Did the lower Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner’s appeal

because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access

to the Court as a result of his indigency. Also did the Court violate the Petitioner’s constitutional right by denying the undersign due

process and procedural due process which is guaranteed in the

14th Amendment that ensures fair legal proceedings. |

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ifp Thomas Steven Sanders

v. United States

25-6451 Fifth Circuit, No. 15-31114

Judgment: March 27, 2025

Sarah Sargent Gannett Federal Public Defender District of Arizona

250 N. 7th Avenue

Suite 600

Phoenix, AZ 85007

[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document]
Question(s) presented| QUESTION PRESENTED

In a 2014 federal capital trial, Mr. Sanders was convicted of the 2010 kidnapping and killing twelve- year-old L.R. In accord with the jury’s verdict, the district court sentenced him to death on one count of kidnapping resulting in death and one count of use of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence (kidnapping) resulting in death. Mr. Sanders timely appealed, challenging his convictions and death sentences, and his appeal was argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2020. While the appeal was pending, on December 28, 2024, President Biden commuted Mr. Sanders’s death sentences to life in prison. Months later, on March 27, 2025, the Fifth Circuit decided Mr. Sanders’s appeal, vacating the use of a firearm conviction and otherwise affirming the judgment of the district court.

Mr. Sanders’s appeal raised thirteen issues for review. Some of these concerned both his convictions and death sentences, but some concerned only the death sentences, which were no longer in effect by the time the Court of Appeals issued its opinion. Nonetheless, finding that “[the commutation] did not necessarily moot the issues Sanders has raised in his appeal,” the Fifth Circuit proceeded to decide the death-penalty-related issues. It did not explain why the issues were “not necessarily” moot, given that the President had commuted the death sentences Mr. Sanders had challenged.

Mr. Sanders moved for panel rehearing, arguing that the rulings on the death-penalty-related issues should be withdrawn as advisory opinions, since he was no longer facing the federal death penalty, which

ifp Juan Manuel Monroy-Vega

v. United States

25-6452 Fifth Circuit, No. 25-10608

Judgment: October 07, 2025

Adam Ryan Nicholson Office of the Federal Public Defender

525 South Griffin Street, Suite 629

Dallas, TX 75202

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant’s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either admitted by the defendant or proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? 1
ifp Rai Martinez

v. United States

25-6453 Eleventh Circuit, No. 22-12981

Judgment: September 25, 2025

Tracy M. Dreispul Federal Public Defender, Southern District of FL

150 West Flagler Street

Suite 1500

Miami, FL 33130

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) exceeds Congress’s authority under the Felonies Clause by authorizing the United States to exercise criminal jurisdiction over foreign nationals for wholly foreign conduct on the high seas based solely on a foreign nation’s failure to “affirmatively and unequivocally” confirm a vessel’s nationality. 1
ifp Derek Capozzi

v. United States

25-6454 First Circuit, No. 22-1243

Judgment: July 02, 2025

Dana Goldblatt Law Office of Dana Goldblatt

P.O. Box 85

Northampton, MA 01060

[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document]
Question(s) presentedia I. QUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. Whether, to qualify under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 for relief from a sentence enhancement imposed by operation of the now- abrogated residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i1), a criminal defendant must prove that the sentencing court relied “solely” on the residual clause to impose the enhancement or whether it is sufficient to establish that that the sentencing court “may have” relied on the residual clause.

  2. Whether retroactive relief from a sentence enhancement based solely on the now-abrogated residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(G1) 1s available under Welch v. United States, 578 U.S. 120, 184-185 (2016), to a criminal defendant who did not challenge the enhancement until after this Court abrogated the enhancement in Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015).

app Samuel Lee Smith, Jr.

v. Natasha Katherina Smith

25A753 Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-1523

Judgment: —

Samuel Lee Smith Jr. 16614 SW 99 Court

Miami, FL 33157

[Main Document] NA
app Martez Abram

v. Mississippi

25A754 Supreme Court of Mississippi, No. 2023-DP-00614-SCT

Judgment: —

Greg Richard Spore Office of the State Public Defender

239 N. Lamar Street, Suite 604

Jackson, MS 39201

[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] NA