Petitions and applications docketed on January 21, 2026
type Caption Docket No Court Below Petitioner's Counsel Counsel's Address Recent Filings QP
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 PRESENTED

l. 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?

  1. Whether federal firearm prohibitions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) constitutionally apply— consistent with the Second Amendment as interpreted in United States v. Rahimi—when the underlying permanent protective order was predicated on an alleged violation of terms and conditions of unenforceable, void, and invalid prior TPO judicial order and was not lawfully and constitutionally issued?

  2. Does a_ state court violate’ the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause when it summarily denies a motion to dismiss a permanent protective order within three days—which restricts permanent freedom rights, parental rights and triggers federal firearm prohibitions—without granting a hearing, considering newly discovered evidence, or providing findings of fact and conclusions of law to support its decision?

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 PRESENTED

28 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
  1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Anti- terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habeas relief based on its de novo review of the state court’s decision.

  2. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated AEDPA and the party-presentation principle by grant- ing habeas relief on a state-court judgment that was not before it.

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 PRESENTED

The 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 PRESENTED

In 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:

  1. Whether police officers executing a search war- rant must provide Miranda warnings to an individual who is detained pursuant to the search warrant and interrogated?

  2. What are the criteria for identifying “special circumstances’ or for determining when a detention is “prolonged” in relation to a search warrant detention?

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 PRESENTED

I 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]
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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
  1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment entitle an Petitioner in a PCRA Petition, Notice of Appeal and Allowance of Appeal where the state court’s failed to address and correct improper denial of a claims for an evidentiary hearing, withdrawal guilty plea, new trial, invoke insanity defense, competency hearing and sanity commission, and | subsequent resentencing based on Defendant true military psychiatric medical history based on newly discovered evidence of clear and convincing

| 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)

  1. Whether the State Government erred in fact or law deny PCRA petition due to 1988 diagnosis was available?

  2. Whether Petitioner raised incompetency for the first time in 2023 before the PCRA Court ? ,

  3. Whether the State Court are benefiting from Federal concealment, error, crimes and evidence deprivation?

  4. Whether the State Court refual to review Petitioner Petitions liberally asa Pro se litigant.

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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
  1. Should a defendant’s juvenile status at the time of the offense qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason for a modification of a term of imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)G)?

  2. Should the reduction in a codefendant’s sentence years after sentencing, either alone or along with a defendant’s juvenile status at the time of the offense, qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason for a modification of a term of imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)@)?

  3. Should a defendant’s multiple convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) within the same case under the First Step Act qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason for a modification of a term of imprisonment 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)G)?

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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 -

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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 PRESENTED

Border 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.

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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 REVIEW

Section 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?

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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

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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