Petitions and applications docketed on August 20, 2026
type Caption Docket No Court Below Petitioner's Counsel Counsel's Address Recent Filings QP
paid Mara Nathan, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Child, M. N.

v.

Alamo Heights Independent School District

26-221 Fifth Circuit, No. 25-50695

Judgment: —

Jonathan K. Youngwood Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP 425 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017 [Main Document] [Petition] NA
paid Cup Foods, Inc.

v.

City of Minneapolis, Minnesota

26-222 Court of Appeals of Minnesota, No. A25-1219

Judgment: February 23, 2026

Benjamin Henry Farrow V Anderson, Williams & Farrow LLC 7515 Halcyon Pointe Dr. Montgomery, AL 36117 [Petition] NA
paid Donald J. Trump

v.

Cable News Network, Inc.

26-223 Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-14044

Judgment: November 18, 2025

Richard C. Klugh Jr. Ingraham Building 25 S.E. Second Ave., Suite 1100 Miami, FL 33131 [Main Document] [Written Request] [Petition] NA
ifp Jeffrey Francis Barry

v.

Amy Kathleen Schwender

26-5351 Appellate Court of Maryland, No. 2522, September Term, 2024

Judgment: August 14, 2025

Jeffrey Francis Barry 3502 East Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21224 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED , 1. Whether a state court's failure to apply the "Appearance of Impropriety" standard established in Rippo v. Baker (2017) represents a structural error that: fe | . mandates vacatur when a judicial insider is employed as the assistant to the |

Head Administrative Judge, and who maintains a direct professional and

| personal relationships with the specific judges overseeing Judicial Assignment and the adjudication of the insider’s own family matter ?

  1. Whether a procedural two-step custody framework under which a state court : | first (1) determines if a fit parent has shown ‘sufficient change’ to permit | amendment, then second (2”) conducts evidentiary fact-finding, in effect forecloses on the court a reasonable opportunity to hear timely evidence of child best interests, and whether that thereby creates a structural fairness issue ! protected against by the Fourteenth Amendment ? |
  2. Whether a state’s failure to utilize a presumption favoring rebuttable equal custody rights constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of parental liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment ? | |
ifp Harrius Johnson

v.

Miami-Dade County, Florida

26-5352 Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-12676

Judgment: March 19, 2026

Harrius Johnson 17180 SW 94th Avenue #702 Palmetto Bay, FL 33157 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED | 1. Whether U.S. Const. art. III, Fed. R. Civ. P. 56, U.S. Const. amend. XIV and - U.S. Const. amend. V due Process Clauses, and U.S. Const. amend. VII preservation clause permit a federal appellate court to affirm summary judgment on an undeveloped record after a district court’s four-year-and-eight- month post-remand freeze on all hearings, discovery, and case management, while leaving unresolved preserved disputes over governmental authority, record authenticity, mandatory investigation safeguards, disavowed authorship, and material jury inferences concerning a public employee’s protected property interest. ,
  1. Whether Article III courts may apply McDonnell Douglas at summary judgment as a rigid evidentiary filter that weighs, divides, and rejects preserved pretext and circumstantial evidence in isolation, rather than reviewing the whole record, drawing reasonable inferences for the nonmovant, and reserving disputed inferences for the jury.

  2. Whether Article III permits a federal court to rely on the law-of-the-case doctrine to avoid correcting preserved Fifth Amendment, Seventh Amendment, and Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 violations where exceptions were preserved, material facts remained for a jury, the district court imposed a post-remand discovery freeze and violated the mandate rule, and the record supported correction despite an admitted incomplete review by the Eleventh Circuit which affirmed judgment.

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ifp Robert Allen Joshua

v.

United States

26-5353 Eighth Circuit, No. 25-1337

Judgment: May 21, 2026

Heather Rae Quick Federal Public Defender Office - Iowa 222 Third Avenue SE Suite 290 Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(83)—which permanently prohibits all unlawful users of controlled substances and all drug addicts from possessing firearms, without any pre-deprivation process or individualized finding of dangerousness—is consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and this Court’s historical-tradition test established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, United States v. Rahimi, and United States v. Hemant.

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ifp Nelson Omar Torres

v.

Florida

26-5354 District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District, No. 4D2025-0323

Judgment: May 20, 2026

Benjamin Nathaniel Paley Office of the Public Defender 421 3rd Street West Palm Beach, FL 33401 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), should be overturned and the right to a twelve-person jury restored. Because the Court has granted certiorari in a case that raises the same question presented here, see Kian v. Florida, No. 25-6623, 2026 WL 1718018 (U.S. June 15, 2026), the Court should hold this case in abeyance until it issues its decision in Kian. i
ifp De MONT Kalai Manaole

v.

Office of Hawaiian Affairs

26-5355 Ninth Circuit, No. 26-3298

Judgment: —

De MONT Kalai Manaole 86-044 Hoaha Street Wai’anae, HI 96792 NA
ifp Bradley Lane Croft

v.

United States

26-5356 Fifth Circuit, No. 25-50634, 25-50816, 25-50957, 25-50951

Judgment: June 29, 2026

Bradley Lane Croft 91543-080 14439 NW Military Hwy Suite 108-105 San Antonio, TX 78231 NA
ifp George A. Richardson

v.

United States

26-5357 Eighth Circuit, No. 25-2251

Judgment: May 18, 2026

Becky Kurz Federal Public Defender Office 1000 Walnut, Suite 600 Kansas City, MO 64106 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) 1s constitutional in all its applications or subject to as-applied challenges? Il. If as-applied challenges are prohibited, 1s 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially invalid because it is substantially overbroad and violates the Due Process Clause? 1
ifp Mehmet Emin Tatas

v.

Ali Baba’s Terrace Inc.

26-5358 Second Circuit, No. 24-1543

Judgment: November 06, 2025

Mehmet Emin Tatas 43 Vine Street Lynbrook, NY 11563 [Main Document] NA
ifp William Ronald Clark

v.

Wyoming Department of Corrections

26-5359 Tenth Circuit, No. 25-8020

Judgment: November 21, 2025

William Ronald Clark #35276 WMCI 7076 Road 55 F Torington, WY 82240 NA
app Steven Clark Lefemine

v.

United States

26A232 Fourth Circuit, No. 24-4419

Judgment: —

Jim Brown Law Offices of Jim Brown, P.A. 1600 Burnside Street, Suite 100 Beaufort, SC 29902 [Main Document] NA
app Phillip Walter Simon

v.

Deborah A. Cumba, former Commissioner, Superior Court of California, San Diego County

26A233 Ninth Circuit, No. 25-1727

Judgment: —

Phillip Walter Simon 1922 NorthStar Way #147 San Marcos, CA 92078 [Main Document] NA
app Applications in Internet Time, LLC

v.

Salesforce, Inc.

26A234 Federal Circuit, No. 2025-2026

Judgment: —

Charles Wizenfeld Hecht Partners LLP 125 Park Avenue, 25th Floor New York, NY 10017 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] NA
app Martin Akerman

v.

United States District Court for the District of Nevada

26A235 Ninth Circuit, No. 26-4931

Judgment: —

Martin Akerman P.O. Box 100057 Arlington, VA 22201 [Main Document] NA
app Fox Logistics and Construction Company

v.

United States

26A236 Federal Circuit, No. 24-2150

Judgment: —

Hal A. Emalfarb Emalfarb Law PO Box 2011 Northbrook, Il 2d fl Northbrook, Il, IL 60062 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] NA
app Chiddy Golden

v.

Transunion, LLC

26A237 Ninth Circuit, No. 26-3990

Judgment: —

Chiddy Golden 825 S. Hill Street #906 Los Angeles, CA 90014 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] NA