Petitions and applications docketed on April 14, 2026
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paid Shawn Matthew Kearns

v. Virginia

25-1169 Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 250402

Judgment: January 07, 2026

Joseph Abraham Sanzone Sanzone & Baker, LLP. 1106 Commerce St, Suite 3A P.O. Box 1078 Lynchburg, VA 24505 [Petition] NA
paid Marion Alexander Lindsey

v. South Carolina

25-1176 Supreme Court of South Carolina, No. 2019-001271

Judgment: November 05, 2025

Paul Whitfield Hughes McDermott Will & Schulte LLP 500 North Capitol Street NW Washington, DC 20001 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedi CAPITAL CASE QUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. Whether courts evaluating ineffective-assis- tance-of-counsel claims may evaluate only each error in isolation—or whether they are obligated to consider the prejudice resulting from the cumulative effect of counsel’s deficiencies.

  2. Whether a trial court’s wholesale adoption in a capital case of the State’s proposed order without providing any judicial guidance or substantive change violates the Due Process Clause or Eighth Amend- ment.

paid reVamped LLC, a Minnesota Limited Liability Company

v. City of Pipestone, Minnesota

25-1177 Eighth Circuit, No. 25-1076

Judgment: December 23, 2025

Erick G. Kaardal Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson P.A. 150 South Fifth Street, Suite 3100 Minneapolis, MN 55402 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. When a government’s appeal process is illusory or non-existent to allow a party to challenge a gsovernment’s total closure of a business resulting in the loss or taking of property, and the government further impedes the process, implicating a Takings Clause claim, whether the illusory appeal process 1s a per se violation of procedural due process under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requiring no need to exhaust state remedies before the claim becomes ripe for federal adjudication under this Court’s legal principle as explained in Knick v. Twp. of Scott, 588 U.S. 180, 185 (2019) and Patsy v. Board of Regents of State of Fla., 457 U.S. 496 (1982).

  2. There is a Circuit split regarding the existence of categorical “police power” exceptions in the context of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits hold that there are categorical police-power exceptions to the Takings Clause. The Fourth, Sixth and Federal Circuit have held that Supreme Court’s jurisprudence recognizes that Government actions taken pursuant to the police power are not per se exempt from the Takings Clause. The question presented 1s:

Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment contains a categorical “police power” exception immunizing the government from providing just compensation.

ifp David Lopez Gonzales

v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona

25-7186 Ninth Circuit, No. 24-2281

Judgment: November 17, 2025

David Lopez Gonzales 284159 P.O. Box 3500 Florence, AZ 85132 [Petition] [Appendix]
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ifp Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton

v. United States

25-7187 Federal Circuit, No. 2024-2200

Judgment: August 14, 2025

Jernice Hamilton 202 St. James Ave 16-E Goose Creek, SC 29445 [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTED I Whether a military separation 1s void ab initio when the Department of the Army fails to provide the mandatory ‘Full and Fair Hearing “required by 10 U.S.C. 1214, based upon an official government record (VA BIRLS) erroneously reporting the service Member as ‘Deceased? II. Whether the government violates the Due Process Clause and 10 U.S.C. 1214 when it administratively declares a living service member "deceased," subsequently denying benefits based on "no- shows" for evaluations the Petitioner was legally barred from attending, and whether such a "state-created barrier" requires a mandatory finding of Constructive Active- Duty Service for the period of the error. III. Whether a reviewing court commits reversible error by failing to apply the 5 U.S.C. 706 "Hard Look" standard—an omission conceded by the Government - thereby insulating a 38-year-old structural error (including five misdiagnoses and a false death report) from the full retroactive relief now mandated by Soto v. | United States (2025). IV Whether the Adamo Wrecking Doctrine and 5 U.S.C.706 require a reviewing Court to set aside a military discharge as Void Ab Initio when the Government's own record admits the Petitioner met medical referral standards " prior to discharge “But was denied the mandatory " full and fair hearing " required by 10U.8.C.1214 2
ifp Joseph Wuensch Ray

v. Texas

25-7188 Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, No. 05-24-00455-CR

Judgment: June 20, 2025

Joseph Wuensch Ray #2510040 Robertson Unit 12071 FM 3522 Abilene, TX 79601 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED | Whether Texas Penal Code 21.02 violates theS$ixth and Fourteenth Amendments right to an unanimous jury verdict and requires a burden of proof that is significantly less than 'beyond a reasonable doubt'? \
ifp Edward Earl Robinson

v. Thomas Valdez, Acting Warden

25-7189 Ninth Circuit, No. 24-6143

Judgment: May 09, 2025

Edward Earl Robinson #AR0601 California CI - Tehachapi PO Box 1906 Tehachapi, CA 93581 [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix]
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ifp Jonathan Mendez-Escobar

v. United States

25-7190 Fifth Circuit, No. 25-50076, 25-50079

Judgment: January 07, 2026

Joseph Jeff Ostini National Defense Law 756 Brohard Rd Ray, OH 45672 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Federal courts frequently impose terms of supervised release on defendants who are concededly deportable and will be removed from the United States upon completion of their custodial sentences. The Sentencing Guidelines instruct that such terms ordinarily should not be imposed absent a case-specific justification, yet district courts often impose supervised release without explanation. On appeal, courts routinely affirm these sentences under plain-error review, even where the record contains no individualized reasoning. The result is that supervised-release terms are imposed in a manner that evades meaningful appellate scrutiny and undermines this Court’s requirement of reasoned sentencing. The questions presented are: 1. May a sentencing court impose supervised release on a deportable defendant without providing a case-specific justification? 2. May a court of appeals affirm such a sentence under plain-error review despite the absence of any individualized explanation? 1
ifp Calvin Gary Walker

v. Texas

25-7191 Fifth Circuit, No. 26-40010

Judgment: March 20, 2026

Calvin Gary Walker 3710 Roland Rd. Beaumont, TX 77708 NA
ifp Shain Gordon Shaw

v. Florida

25-7192 District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District, No. 4D2024-1010

Judgment: August 13, 2025

Jeffrey L. Anderson Office of the Public Defender 421 Third Street 6th Floor West Palm Beach, FL 33401 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
  1. Whether the state court erred in upholding, contrary to U.S. v. Bajakajian, 524 U.S. 321 (1998), and the Excessive Fines Clause, a mandatory fine pursuant to a statute that does not allow any proportionality considerations?

  2. Whether the state court erred in affirming, contrary to the holdings of the supreme courts of other states and the Excessive Fines Clause, fines and surcharges imposed under statutes that do not allow consideration of the defendant’s ability to pay?

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ifp Jesus Ramiro Gomez

v. United States

25-7193 Ninth Circuit, No. 23-435

Judgment: January 13, 2026

Todd W. Burns Burns & Cohan 501 W Broadway Suite 1510 San Diego, CA 92101 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether a purely legal Sentencing Guidelines error is sufficient, by itself, to establish the plainness prong of plain-error review under United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1993). 1
ifp Alfred L. Carpentier

v. Idaho

25-7194 Ninth Circuit, No. 25-4383

Judgment: February 25, 2026

Alfred L. Carpentier #125273 Idaho State Correction Center P.O. Box 70010 Boise, ID 83707 NA
ifp Quintell Dewayne Gladney

v. United States

25-7195 Fifth Circuit, No. 25-30162

Judgment: January 08, 2026

Cristie Gibbens Office of the Federal Public Defender 102 Versailles Blvd. Suite 816 Lafayette, LA 70501 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED

Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the controlled substances definitions must produce actual state court decisions (i.e., show reasonable probability of prosecution) showing non-generic application of a facially overbroad statute—as the Fifth Circuit alone requires—or whether the statutory text suffices to demonstrate overbreadth—as every other circuit holds?

LIST OF PARTIES PURSUANT TO RULE 14.1(b) Petitioner: Quintell Dewayne Gladney Respondent: United States of America 2

ifp Enriqueta Martinez

v. United States

25-7196 Ninth Circuit, No. 23-4290

Judgment: August 22, 2025

Zandra Lopez Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. 225 Broadway Suite 900 San Diego, CA 92101 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether the invited error doctrine applies to situations where a party who does not induce or provoke an initial error but proposes curative actions to attempt mitigation of the prejudice caused by the error waives issues regarding the effectiveness of the curative actions. prefix
ifp Felipe N. Gomez

v. E*Trade Securities LLC

25-7197 Seventh Circuit, No. 21-1597

Judgment: December 09, 2025

Felipe N. Gomez PO Box 9263 Lombard, IL 60148 NA