| Petitions and applications docketed on January 21, 2026 | |||||||
| type | Caption | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Counsel's Address | Recent Filings | QP |
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| paid | Daniel Otu
v. Anita Whyte-Otu |
25-864 | Court of Appeals of Georgia, No. A25D0162
Judgment: January 02, 2025 |
Daniel Otu | 3110 Fareed St.
Douglassville, GA 30135 |
[Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDl. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitioner’s violation of conditions and terms from a prior temporary protective judicial order that is effectively facially unenforceable, void, invalid, and legally inoperative?
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| paid | Perles Law Firm, P.C.
v. Qatar National Bank |
25-865 | District of Columbia Circuit, No. 25-7029
Judgment: October 17, 2025 |
Robert F. Serio | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166-0197 |
[Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document] [Main Document] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED28 U.S.C. § 1782 allows foreign litigants to seek discovery in federal district courts “for use in foreign tribunals.” Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 542 U.S. 241, 247 (2004). Respondents Qatar Charity and Qatar Bank filed an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia seeking discovery against Perles Law Firm, P.C. But a binding protective order issued by a federal district court in another Circuit prevented Qatar Charity and Qatar Bank from accessing the very materials they sought under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Despite Perles’s argu- ments that § 1782 may not be used as a forum-shop- ping, end run around a binding protective order, the D.C. district court granted the § 1782 application, and the D.C. Circuit affirmed. The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding protective order issued by a federal district court in another Circuit. |
| paid | Charles Wright
v. Monica Marie Wright |
25-866 | Court of Appeals of Michigan, No. 372221
Judgment: August 29, 2024 |
Charles Wright | 7963 Magnolia Sq.
Sandy Springs, GA 30350 |
[Appendix] [Petition] [Certificate of Word Count] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a state court’s destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant’s _ due-process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and this Court’s holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.5.108 (1985). , , 2. Whether a state court’s reliance on unsworn and knowingly false or contradictory testimony, despite a documented record to the contrary, violates the due- | , process guarantees recognized in Napue v. L//inois, —- 860 U.S. 264 (1959). 3. Whether a state court’s refusal to correct a ; judgment procured through fraud on the court | despite verified transcript evidence of judicial misconduct conflicts with this Court’s decision in Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-E'mpire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944), and undermines the integrity of the judicial process. | , 4, Whether the summary dismissal of verified constitutional claims, without findings or hearing, | satisfies the procedural-due-process standards _ articulated in Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 (1976), particularly where the petitioner was barred | | from further filings after exposing misconduct. 1 |
| paid | Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
v. Christopher Coleman |
25-867 | Fourth Circuit, No. 20-7083
Judgment: November 21, 2025 |
Erika Lauren Maley | Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 |
[Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
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| paid | Brandon Hughes
v. National Football League |
25-868 | Second Circuit, No. 24-2656
Judgment: June 20, 2025 |
Joshua Ian Hammack | Bailey & Glasser, LLP
1055 Thomas Jefferson St. N.W., Suite 540 Washington, DC 20007 |
[Main Document] [Petition] [Certificate of Word Count] | Question(s) presenteda QUESTION PRESENTEDThe Video Privacy Protection Act (“V PPA”) prohibits a “video tape service provider” from “knowingly disclos[ing], to any person, personally identifiable information concerning any consumer of such provider.” 18 U.S.C. § 2710(b)(1). The statute defines “consumer” to include a “subscriber of goods or services from a video tape service provider.” Jd. § 2710(a)(1). It defines “personally identifiable information” to include information that “identifies a person as having requested or obtained specific video materials or services from a video tape service provider.” Id. § 2710(a)(8). The National Football League (“NFL”) is a “video tape service provider.” It has never argued otherwise. Brandon Hughes is the NFL’s “consumer” because he subscribed to the league’s online newsletter and to NF’L4, a premium video-streaming service. After Mr. Hughes watched videos on NFL.com, the NFL disclosed his video- watching history to Facebook. Facebook understood the disclosed information to identify Mr. Hughes as having requested or obtained those videos. The NFL knew Facebook would understand the disclosed information that way. The Second Circuit dismissed Mr. Hughes’s VPPA claim, however, because an “ordinary person” would not also have understood the disclosed information. The question is whether information that, to one recipient, “identifies a person as having requested or obtained specific video materials or services from a video tape service provider” counts as “personally identifiable information,” even when a hypothetical “ordinary person” would not understand the information to do so. |
| paid | James T. Weiss
v. United States |
25-869 | Seventh Circuit, No. 23-3094
Judgment: August 28, 2025 |
Ilia Usharovich | 224 S. Milwaukee Avenue Suite E
Wheeling, IL 60090 |
[Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDIn Michigan v. Summers, 452 U. 8S. 692, 704-05 (1981), this Court held that pursuant to a lawfully ex- ecuted search warrant, officers have a limited author- ity to detain an individual during the search. How- ever, this Court did not address the issue of custodial interrogation during such a detention. See United States v. Kim, 292 F.3d 969, 976 (CA9 2002). This Court also has not provided “criteria for identifying “special circumstances’ for determining when a deten- tion is “prolonged”; in particular, it fails to tell law en- forcement officers whether a detention will always be permissible, however protracted, so as 1t does not ex- ceed the length of the search ***.” See Summers, 452 U.S. at 712 (Stewart J. dissenting, Brennan and Mar- shall JJ., joined). This case tests whether federal agents exceeded this limited authority when they de- tained and then interrogated the target of a search warrant for one hour and forty-minutes without read- ing him his rights pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona by presenting the following questions:
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| paid | In Re Delmart Vreeland | 25-870 | NA, No. —
Judgment: — |
Robert L. Sirianni Jr. | Brownstone, P.A.
P.O. Box 2047 Winter Park, FL 32790 |
[Petition] [Certificate of Word Count] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDI WHETHER THIS COURT’S POWER TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN A STATE PRISONER IS CONFINED BY A COURT WITHOUT JURISDICTION AND IS SERVING ASENTENCE FOR CRIMES NOT INCLUDED IN THE INDICTMENT DUE TO FABRICATED EVIDENCE AND REPEATED CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS. |
| paid | Thomas Bryon Cattell
v. Victoria Deeks |
25-873 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-2857
Judgment: May 07, 2025 |
Jesse Lev London | London and Paris, LLP
1711 Willamette Street Ste 301 PMB 733 Eugere, OR 97401 |
[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Certificate of Word Count] | Question(s) presentedii LIST OF PARTIES All parties to the proceeding are name in the caption of the case before the Court. |
| ifp | Alveto Rivera
v. Mark Gray |
25-6632 | Eighth Circuit, No. 25-2757
Judgment: October 03, 2025 |
Alveto Rivera | 100 Freeman Drive
St. Peter, MN 56082 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| a a | | ; : | QUESTION PRESENTED Oo oo _ : | Whether the plaintiff's allow to sue his formal attorney under the color of state law, and to where the violation occurred while the defendant acted under the | color of statelaw. | a | | PARTIES 7 a , SO | The plaintiff is Alveto Rivera, a prisoner at MSOP St. Peter Facility in St. Peter oo | Minnesota, 100 Freeman Drive, St. Peter, MN 56082. The Defendant is Mark Gray. an attorney that represent the plaintiff in a civil commitment trial. | | ' , | oo oe | TABLE OF CONTENTS | - 7 | , , _ PAGE ’ - Question Presemted jsecssssssansnisistunttsansnntstussusuenasessiansessineneesinnseee a | © PALTIOS.. eesccseessssseeecssejecesntesssseessssneseesusssssssasesuseesssseesssseesssseessseccenssessessessnnsessnnsesseaal a , Table of AUthOritieS.......ccccccccccccscsecssceeccesesseecsecoessesssssusessuecsssessscerecsecseensesceeeceeseeeell a DeciSIONS BIOW......cslesscsecsssessessseersetsesssecssensesesssercsensssssanesnecersetseaeeeetecnseeesesaneeesee : JULISAICtION .ccsessesscssessuclecssescssce cesses seaccsccrecaccacsucsscsessecsesutsnesnessessesessessssesesesseseesseseeeee dL } - Constitutional and Statutory PrOViSIONS INVOIVE........ esssseesesecssceeeesereeeereeree oo _ Statement Of the CASO... ciccceeccsssecsecesssecssseecsesesssecesasedseseseneseeasseaaee soaseensenseseseed a : Basis for Federal JUriSdiCtiON..susssessseuesanisesnenenniesnenetinenetuenpeinenneiennneed , Reasons for Granting the WTrit.........scsecsessessssesesessenesnesnesesesnessseseseneseaenentD : - A. Conflicts with Ddcisions of Other COULTS....... sees cesses . SO B. Importance of the Question PreSONTe en. ceccssesccestsccssessssssssssessessssssssesssseene : ee | OS oe CONCIUSION .nenssnrnpanennenisnnninnnnnnninnnninnaninnaninnaninneninanied , . . Appendix | ; oo . , Decision of the United states Court of Appealls.......cussccsssuescssssiessemch 9 | Order of the United|States Court of Appeals Denying Rehearing....................0Ne , Order of the United/States District COUMt........cssesstecssseeserteneeeseseeeeeteaeseneeeeed 7 | 1 i | —- | | 7 |
| ifp | Leihinahina Sullivan
v. United States |
25-6633 | Ninth Circuit, No. 25-565
Judgment: July 25, 2025 |
Leihinahina Sullivan | #09779122
Victorville Camp FCI Med 1 PO Box 5300 Adelanto, CA 92301 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document] | Question(s) presented| QUESTION(S) PRESENTED | | (‘) wnetnerv detendant Arold ve Granted & sentence reduction under status points Amendment 821 and that under SUS .C.& 265A aX), vequinng the court 4 consider "the need 4o avoid unwawainted sentence disparihes amona defendants with similar recovas who lave been found quilty of cipatt wy conduct” wich the Court did Xo (2) Whether Distict Court committe legal evvor when analy 2nq the (2 usc, S 5 ane la) facov> AS frozen w Time and cannot deny reliel on the arwund that relazse iS not appropriate under thes2492a) if the Court Pas not considered “the need to avoid unwavramed sentence dispavihes arnond, defercants with Similar records Wo nave been found guilty of similar conduct "2 : | - (3) Whether Defendants sentence snowlA be ad A yistea Loy status—pois when Distneck Court Stated to Delendant Hat if she pled out to 4. , Counts +nat the other counts - et dismissect : : : (THE COURT. —— WE Go ive al His , all dose other counts ae dismisses . TWhey've Joe Y a : q Nhen i+ was not as IT was charged wits all counts (24). |
| ifp | Joseph D. Reaves
v. Pennsylvania |
25-6634 | Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Office, No. 2455 EDA 2023
Judgment: October 17, 2024 |
Joseph D. Reaves | PO Box 30769
Philadelphia, PA 19104-0769 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document] | Question(s) presented‘4 uf . QUESTION PRESENTED
| evidence in the nature of military law mandates and defendant psychiatric diagnosis of Military PTSD and Schizophrenia. The clear materiality of the newly discovered evidence goes to the : (1) Trial or verdict; (2) Withdrawal of Guilty Plea; (3)
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| ifp | Jose Amaury Sanchez-Jimenez
v. United States |
25-6635 | First Circuit, No. 24-1364
Judgment: October 20, 2025 |
Javier A. Morales-Ramos | Law Offices of Javier A. Morales-Ramos
326 Pasadena San Juan, PR 00926 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] | NA |
| ifp | Donnie Bryant
v. United States |
25-6636 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-3093
Judgment: July 21, 2025 |
Angela Helen Dows | Cory Reade Dows & Shafer
1333 North Buffalo Drive Suite 210 Las Vegas, NV 89128 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedTHE QUESTIONS PRESENTED
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| ifp | Elizabeth A. Hughes
v. Pennsylvania |
25-6637 | Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Office, No. 218 EDA 2024
Judgment: April 29, 2025 |
Aaron Joshua Marcus | Defender Association of Philadelphia
1441 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA 19102 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether the voluntary consent exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies where a person arrested for driving under the influence agrees to a blood test in response to statutory warnings of substantial civil consequence if the test is refused? 1 |
| ifp | In Re Michael Kenny Carter | 25-6638 | NA, No. —
Judgment: — |
Michael Kenny Carter | Reg. No. 32308-171
FMC Butner P.O. Box 1600 Butner, NC 27509 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presenteda | QUESTION(S) PRESENTED -~—6NLack of Subsect Motter Jurisdicton Ty nch “Qurisdicton does wat afficmatvely APPeacr awy whee ON Yhe face of the Celord? 2 whether Orn Specific CovurTsé ot Conducr Not Within tho Purview of the Charaina Stolute is a \urisdictional detect M |
| ifp | In Re Deon D. Colvin | 25-6639 | NA, No. —
Judgment: — |
Deon D. Colvin | 743 Fairmont Street, NW
#211 Washington, DC 20001 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED , 1. Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter? 2. Did the Special Panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have the authority to dismiss | the case? 3. Isa writ of mandamus directing the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to send the case back to the district court appropriate for this case? T } |
| ifp | Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar
v. United States |
25-6640 | Ninth Circuit, No. 23-3201
Judgment: July 09, 2025 |
Zandra Lopez | Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.
225 Broadway Suite 900 San Diego, CA 92101 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Certificate of Word Count] [Main Document] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDBorder patrol agents found Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar walking in a heavily populated residential and commercial area close to a large mall—places near the border where U.S. citizens often go. They arrested him on suspicion of illegally entering the United States. The question presented 1s: Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude facts that show a likelihood of innocent behavior when weighing the totality of the circumstances. prefix |
| ifp | Ervin Thornton, II
v. United States |
25-6641 | Sixth Circuit, No. 23-1635
Judgment: August 01, 2025 |
Matthew A Monahan | Federal Community Defender Office
613 Abbott Street Suite 500 Detroit, MI 48226 |
[Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis] [Petition] [Appendix] [Main Document] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEWSection 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The act’s text limits relief to those individuals convicted of a “covered offense.” And “covered offense” means “a violation of a Federal criminal statute, the statutory penalties for which were modified by section 2 or 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.” In the mine run of drug distribution cases, it isn’t hard to determine the statutory penalty: the indictment and verdict form will contain drug type and quantity. But what about a pre-Apprendi case, before drug type and quantity became elements of the substantive offense? In those cases, the indictment and verdict form may, as here, say nothing helpful about drug type and quantity. This case addresses the interplay between Apprendi and Section 404 of the First Step Act, an issue that has split the circuits. Succinctly stated, the question presented is: in a pre-Apprendi case, how does a district court decide a person’s statute of conviction and thus determine § 404 eligibility? 1 |
| app | Ernest D. Suggs
v. Florida |
25A828 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2024-0660, SC2024-0702
Judgment: — |
Robert R. Berry | Law Office of Robert R. Berry
1521 Highland Drive Tallahassee, FL 32317 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Albert Whitney Coburn
v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
25A829 | Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1, No. 86808-0
Judgment: — |
Albert Coburn | 7001 Seaview Ave. NW
Suite 160-836 Seattle, WA 98117 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Eduardo Luciano
v. United States |
25A830 | Seventh Circuit, No. 24-1251
Judgment: — |
Eduardo Luciano | USP McCreary
PO Box 3000 Pine Knot, KY 42635 |
[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| app | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr.
v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building |
25A831 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-10451
Judgment: — |
Samuel Lee Smith Jr. | 16614 SW 99 Court
Miami, FL 33157 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr.
v. Reynaldo Poveda |
25A832 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-11073
Judgment: — |
Samuel Lee Smith Jr. | 16614 SW 99 Court
Miami, FL 33157 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr.
v. Andres Garcia |
25A833 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-11144
Judgment: — |
Samuel Lee Smith Jr. | 16614 SW 99 Court
Miami, FL 33157 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Abigail Lauters
v. Robert B. Evnen, Nebraska Secretary of State |
25A834 | Eighth Circuit, No. 25-2245
Judgment: — |
Abigail Lauters | 127 E. 14th Street
Hastings, NE 68901 |
[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| app | Vikram Valame
v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
25A835 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-369
Judgment: — |
Vikram Valame | 3700 O Street NW
Washington, DC 20057 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr.
v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building |
25A836 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-10448
Judgment: — |
Samuel Lee Smith Jr. | 16614 SW 99 Court
Miami, FL 33157 |
[Main Document] | NA |
| app | Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Bestwall LLC
v. Bestwall LLC |
25A837 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-1493
Judgment: — |
David C. Frederick | Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick
1615 M Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036-3209 |
[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| app | United States
v. Jason Robert Hopson |
25A838 | Tenth Circuit, No. 23-5056
Judgment: — |
D. John Sauer | Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 |
[Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |