| Petitions and applications docketed on May 05, 2026 | |||||||
| type | Caption | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Counsel's Address | Recent Filings | QP |
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| paid | Bart Xavier Pestarino
v. Danielle Tetrault Pestarino |
25-1249 | Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1, No. 86578-1-I
Judgment: April 21, 2025 |
Bart Xavier Pestarino | P.O. Box 1078 Carson City, NV 89702 | NA | |
| paid | Karina Sigalovskaya
v. Abigail Braden, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security |
25-1250 | Second Circuit, No. 23-7625
Judgment: August 27, 2025 |
Joseph Aaron Pace | J. Pace Law PLLC 30 Wall Street 8th Floor New York, NY 10005 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDIn Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), the Court recognized an implied cause of action under the Fourth Amendment against Federal Bureau of Nar- cotics agents who entered the plaintiff’s home without a warrant, conducted a search, and then arrested him—in front of his children— without probable cause. In this case, federal law enforcement officers entered Petitioner’s home without a warrant, searched the premises, and separated her from her children. While inside the house, one of the officers falsely claimed that Petitioner had just confessed to a crime and used that as a pretext for taking her into custody. As in Bivens itself, no probable cause existed for the arrest. The questions presented are:
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| paid | City of Marathon, Florida
v. Rodney Shands |
25-1251 | District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District, No. 3D2021-1987
Judgment: February 05, 2025 |
Carter G. Phillips | Sidley Austin LLP 1501 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDWhether a taking has occurred under the categor1- cal rule announced by this Court in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1008 (1992), even though the regulated property retains significant market value for both its transferable development rights and recreational uses. (1) |
| paid | Ronald Geddis
v. United States |
25-1253 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-11721
Judgment: January 08, 2026 |
Katherine Earle Yanes | Kynes, Markman & Felman, PA 100 S. Ashley Drive Suite 1300 Tampa, FL 33602 | [Main Document] [Petition] | NA |
| paid | Judith L. Harvey, as Trustee of the David T. & Judith L. Harvey Trust, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David T. Harvey, Deceased
v. City of Reno, Nevada |
25-1254 | Supreme Court of Nevada, No. 88962
Judgment: September 08, 2025 |
Luke Andrew Busby | Luke Andrew Busby, Ltd. 316 California Ave. Reno, NV 80509 | [Petition] | NA |
| paid | The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
v. Salamon Gimpel |
25-1255 | Second Circuit, No. 23-7612
Judgment: September 29, 2025 |
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar | Cooley LLP 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20004 | [Main Document] [Petition] | NA |
| ifp | Charles Mobley
v. Amazon |
25-7310 | Supreme Court of Washington, No. 103670-1
Judgment: February 18, 2025 |
Charles Mobley | 1701 Figueroa St. Los Angeles, AL California | NA | |
| ifp | Eric Krieg
v. United States |
25-7317 | Seventh Circuit, No. 24-3267
Judgment: December 18, 2025 |
Eric Krieg | 17161-027 USP McCreary P.O. Box 3000 Pine Knot, KY 42635 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented. QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1) Does an appeals court:order denying a claim with the terse phrase : that it was “without merit", with no other explanation, violate Concepcion v. United States, because there is no evidence that the : * well argued claim was considered?: Krieg answers "yes". | 2) Must the government provide a “historical analogue" to the Rational- Basis Test before it uses it to regulate Krieg's due process and | equal protection rights under the United States Constitution? Krieg answers "yes" q ‘ < ‘ ‘ -j1i- |
| ifp | Terrence Temple
v. Illinois |
25-7318 | Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, No. 1-24-0917
Judgment: August 08, 2025 |
James E. Chadd | Office of the State Appellate Defender 203 North LaSalle Street 24th Floor Chicago, IL 60601 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEWThis Court has repeatedly held that the Second Amendment protects a general right to bear arms in public for self-defense. New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 33 (2022). Our Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation includes restrictions on possession in certain “sensitive places,” which have been identified as schools, courthouses, legislative assemblies, and polling locations. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 626-27 (2008); Bruen, 597 U.S. at 30. This Court has cautioned however, that “expanding the category of ‘sensitive places’ simply to all places of public congregation that are not isolated from law enforcement defines the category of ‘sensitive places’ far too broadly.” Bruen at 31. But courts have done just that. Illinois’ First District Appellate Court has upheld a ban on firearms in public parks that imposes felony penalties for possession of any ready-to-use firearm, finding such a ban constitutional because public parks are a sensitive place. App.1. The First District adopted the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning in Wolford v. Lopez, 116 F.4th 959 (9th Cir. 2024), cert. granted in part, 146 S. Ct. 79, 222 L. Ed. 2d 1241 (2025) to justify the decision below. The question presented is whether the Second Amendment permits a state to criminalize the possession of any ready-to-use firearm in all public parks by imposing felony penalties, including two to five years in prison, on violators. i |
| ifp | Edward Allen Moore
v. Gregory Hancock, Warden |
25-7319 | Eighth Circuit, No. 24-3410
Judgment: July 28, 2025 |
Edward Allen Moore | #185492 Southeast Correctional Center 300 East Pedro Simmons Drive Charleston, MO 63834 | [Main Document] | NA |
| ifp | William Topp Maxwell
v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline |
25-7320 | Supreme Court of Texas, No. 25-0191
Judgment: October 24, 2025 |
William Topp Maxwell | 71944-279 FCI Beaumont P.O. Box 26020 Beaumont, TX 77720 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented, 5 QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Maxwell, a Texas licensed attorney (SBN# 24028775), was convicted in a foreign district, New Jersey, in 2014, TheCommission for Lawyer Discipline (CLD) has alleged such conviction requires mandatory disbarment under Texas Law (without a meaningful opportunity to be heard in any forum). This practice in Texas of denying an opportunity to be heard prior to the imposition of collateral consequences violates this Court’s teaching in Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371, 377-79 (1971); Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, 51 (1917) and Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356, 176 L.Ed.2d 284, 293 (2010) among others and this Court’s guidance is required as follows: I. The question for this Court is whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution (U.S. CONST. AMENDS. V; XIV) as explained in Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371, 377-79 (1971) requires notice and an opportunity to be heard before the imposition of collateral consequences (here disbarment)? | Il. The question for this Court is whether the minimum Due Process afforded in attorney compulsory discipline cases is that which is described in selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, SL (1917)? III. The question for this Court is whether the Court’s holding in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356, 176 L.Ed.2d 284, 293, 130 S.Ct. 1473 (2010) requires an opportunity to be heard under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 689 (1984) prior to collateral consequences (here disbarment)? -j- | |
| ifp | Crystal Maye, as Trustee, F.S. 736082, on Behalf of Blanche Bale Irrevocable Living Trust for Trustor, Deceased Perelena Douce
v. Brevard County Tax Collector |
25-7321 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-11344
Judgment: September 18, 2025 |
Crystal Maye | 50 East 191st St., Apt. 4M Bronx, NY 10468 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented" QUESTION | : 1 whether the constitutional rights of the plaintiff's, grand jury due process right pursuant 7" 5° 14" Amend, were violated or pursuant to, Article 3 Section, 2. Cl .3. grand jury was deprived. |
| ifp | Ruslan Kirilyuk
v. United States |
25-7322 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-3429
Judgment: October 30, 2025 |
Gene David Vorobyov | 2309 Noriega St, Suite 46 San Francisco, CA 94122 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQuestions Presented Questions Presented
Law Office of Gene Vorobyov Respectfully submitted, Attorney for Petitioner RUSLAN KIRILYUK 1 |
| ifp | Richard Dewayne Lewis
v. United States |
25-7323 | Fourth Circuit, No. 22-4291
Judgment: January 21, 2026 |
Joseph Stephen Camden | Office of the Federal Public Defender 701 East Broad Street Suite 3600 Richmond, VA 23219 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether an intervening decision of this Court that renders a court of appeals' judgment demonstrably wrong can constitute an “extraordinary circumstance” warranting recall of the mandate under Calderon v. Thompson, 523 U.S. 538 (1998), and if so, whether the court of appeals abused its discretion by denying recall where the petitioner was diligent, the sentence is still executory, and no reliance or finality interest weighs against recall. |
| ifp | Ronald Damone Jenkins, Jr. and Japree Lortez Brooks
v. United States |
25-7324 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-4220, 24-4221
Judgment: March 12, 2026 |
Paul Graham Beers | Glenn, Feldmann, Darby & Goodlatte 111 Franklin Road, S.E., Suite 200 P.O. Box 2887 Roanoke, VA 24001-2887 | [Petition] | NA |
| ifp | Jose Antonio Camacho-Flores
v. United States |
25-7325 | Fifth Circuit, No. 25-50460
Judgment: February 02, 2026 |
Bradford Wayne Bogan | Federal Public Defender, Western District of Texas 300 Convent Street Suite 2300 San Antonio, TX 78205 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedH QUESTION PRESENTED Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| ifp | Marcus Roosevelt Taylor
v. United States |
25-7326 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-6996
Judgment: March 25, 2026 |
Brent Evan Newton | 19 Treworthy Road Gaithersburg, MD 20878 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED During petitioner’s jury trial, two essential prosecution witnesses test1- fied about a key event concerning petitioner’s alleged involvement in the charged offenses in a manner that was flatly contrary to (1) their pretrial statements given to the two trial prosecutors (reflected in FBI memo- randa); (2) the factual basis of the plea agreement of a codefendant, which had been prepared by the two trial prosecutors and executed shortly before petitioner’s trial began; and (8) a passage from a book published by the lead trial prosecutor several years after the trial. Alt- hough petitioner’s trial counsel possessed the FBI memoranda and the codefendant’s plea agreement during the trial, petitioner’s trial counsel did not make the FBI memoranda or the codefendant’s plea agreement part of the trial record that was used on petitioner’s subsequent direct appeal. As a result, petitioner’s new counsel on his direct appeal could not have raised a due process perjury claim at that juncture. For that reason, petitioner first raised a due process perjury claim in subsequent post-conviction proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The district court and Fourth Circuit both held that petitioner’s perjury claim was proce- durally defaulted for purposes of his § 2255 motion because petitioner had not raised the perjury claim on his direct appeal. In view of the foregoing, the questions presented are: I. Whether the Fourth Circuit’s decision — that petitioner procedurally defaulted his due process perjury claim by not raising it on his direct appeal despite the undisputed fact that the evidence supporting peti- tioner’s perjury claim was “dehors the record” on direct appeal, Waley v. Johnston, 316 U.S. 101, 104 (1942) (per curiam) — conflicts with this Court’s well-established precedent, most recently reflected in Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614, 621-22 (1998) (citing Waley). II. Whether this Court should vacate the Fourth Circuit’s judgment and remand with instructions to order an evidentiary hearing on peti- tioner’s perjury claim.il |
| ifp | Stanley J. Carter
v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
25-7327 | Supreme Court of Arkansas, No. CV-25-728
Judgment: February 05, 2026 |
Stanley J. Carter | #111939 P.O. Box 970 Marianna, AZ 72360 | NA | |
| ifp | Lisa Ann Deweese
v. United States |
25-7328 | Federal Circuit, No. 2026-1349
Judgment: March 20, 2026 |
Lisa Ann Deweese | 8010 Constitution Ave NE Apt. #102B Albuquerque, NM 87110 | NA | |
| ifp | Carter Stephens
v. City of Pasadena Fire Department |
25-7329 | Supreme Court of California, No. S290200
Judgment: May 28, 2025 |
Carter Stephens | PO Box 361271 Los Angeles, CA 90026 | NA | |
| ifp | James Gould
v. United States |
25-7330 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-4192
Judgment: January 02, 2026 |
Lex Alan Coleman | Office of the Federal Public Defender 300 Virginia Street East Room 3400 Charleston, WV 25301 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedI. QUESTIONS PRESENTED
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