| Petitions and applications docketed on August 28, 2026 | |||||||
| type | Caption | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Counsel's Address | Recent Filings | QP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| paid | Soumya Rudra
v. United States |
26-259 | Sixth Circuit, No. 25-3040
Judgment: January 09, 2026 |
Kimberly Kendall Corral | Law Office of Kimberly Kendall Corral 4403 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland, OH 44103 | [Petition] | NA |
| paid | Madelyn Marina Quiroz
v. Eduardo Hernandez |
26-260 | Fifth Circuit, No. 25-40032
Judgment: December 31, 2025 |
U.A. Lewis | The Lewis Law Group, PLLC P.O. Box 27353 Houston, TX 77227 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] | NA |
| ifp | Andrew Hackett
v. United States |
26-5416 | Ninth Circuit, No. 23-595, 25-2247
Judgment: May 27, 2026 |
Carlton Frederick Gunn | 1751 Colorado Blvd., #384 Los Angeles, CA 90041 | [Petition] | NA |
| ifp | Lorenzo Dominic Richardson
v. Gerald Baker |
26-5417 | Fourth Circuit, No. 25-2068
Judgment: March 30, 2026 |
Lorenzo Dominic Richardson | 3108 Fields Drive Raleigh, NC 27603 | NA | |
| ifp | Robert Michael Fall
v. United States |
26-5418 | Fourth Circuit, No. 24-7131
Judgment: February 23, 2026 |
Robert Michael Fall | 4729 Adler Avenue Virginia Beach, VA 23462 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| Question PresentedWhether the government creates the “classic penalty situation” forbidden by Minnesota v. Murphy, 465 U.S. 420 (1984), where it is undisputed that a federal supervisee retains a valid Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination as to offense conduct, yet restoration of his access : to constitutionally protected expression is conditioned, under threat of revocation, on potentially incriminating admissions in treatment or polygraph examination. i |
| ifp | Edward Hoid
v. Gray Media Group, Inc., dba CBS KKTV 11 |
26-5419 | Tenth Circuit, No. 25-1058
Judgment: November 10, 2025 |
Edward Hoid | 1030 31st Ave. Greeley, CO 80634 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented, QUESTIONS PRESENTED
_ Fourteenth Amendments by upholding a “void judgment” based on forged news scripts, thereby operationalizing a “Public Death Warrant” that incites vigilante violence, vehicular assaults, and “Shoot-on-Sight” responses against a disabled U.S. Citizen.
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| ifp | Winston Calder
v. Richard Comerford, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
26-5420 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-10309
Judgment: February 13, 2026 |
Janice L. Bergmann | Federal Public Defender’s Office 1 E. Broward Blvd. Suite 1100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301-1100 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEWUnder the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief “with respect to any claim adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings unless the adjudication of the claim” meets certain strict prerequisites. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (emphasis added). If a “claim” is not adjudicated on its merits in the state court proceedings, however, federal review of the claim is de novo. Cone v. Bell, 556 U.S. 449, 472 (2009). The question presented 1s: When the deficient performance prong of a claim of ineffective assistance under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 688 (1984), is misconstrued by the state courts and therefore not adjudicated on the merits in the State court proceedings, is the state courts’ determination as to Strickland’s prejudice prong nonetheless entitled to deference under § 2254(d)? 1 |
| ifp | Maria Carmen Morin-Moreno
v. United States |
26-5421 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-1531
Judgment: May 22, 2026 |
Jessica Agatstein | Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. 225 Broadway Ste. 900 San Diego, CA 92101 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDThe government prosecuted Ms. Morin under a statute with undisputed racist origins. Congress criminalized illegal reentry into the United States in 1929 at the urging of “proud” white supremacists, nativists, and eugenicists to keep the American bloodline “white and purely Caucasian.” It reenacted the provision in 1952 while considering what one senator called, in the Congressional Record, the “Wetback Bill.” 82 Cong. Rec. 791 (1952). The core focus of the illegal reentry provision has remained substantively the same ever since. Ninety-nine percent of its prosecutions are against Latin- Americans. The circuit courts have upheld the law based on its reenactment in 1952, as well as its non-substantive amendments in the 1980s and 1990s. None has seriously grappled with the law’s “uncomfortable past.” Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83, 99 n.44 (2020). This case poses important questions about the role of appellate courts in applying the framework from Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation, 429 U.S. 252 (1977), to a statute charged in over one- third of all federal criminal prosecutions last year. The question presented is: Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment and amendment when the law was originally adopted for an impermissible discriminatory purpose. prefix |
| ifp | Jersom Andu Mena
v. United States |
26-5422 | Eighth Circuit, No. 25-1143
Judgment: April 29, 2026 |
Heather Rae Quick | Federal Public Defender Office - Iowa 222 Third Avenue SE Suite 290 Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDWhether 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. in |
| ifp | Raymond Bright
v. Florida |
26-5423 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2023-1735, SC2024-0876
Judgment: February 26, 2026 |
Robert R. Berry | Law Office of Robert R. Berry 1521 Highland Drive Tallahassee, FL 32317 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED CAPITAL CASEAre a trial or appellate court’s analyses of 1) the weight of evidence of guilt and/or 2) the gravity of aggravators proven beyond a reasonable doubt appropriate factors in evaluating the effectiveness of trial or appellate counsel when it comes to Strickland’s application to the process underlying a jurys recommendation following the weighing of ageravating and mitigating factors, – a necessarily moral judgment? 1 |
| app | Larry Jay Bean
v. Florida |
26A266 | District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, No. 1D2023-1229
Judgment: — |
Michael Robert Ufferman | Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A. 2022-1 Raymond Diehl Road Tallahassee, FL 32308 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] | NA |
| app | Cyrus Mark Sanai
v. Leondra R. Kruger, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California |
26A270 | Ninth Circuit, No. 25-2937
Judgment: — |
Cyrus Mark Sanai | 9440 Santa Monica Blvd. #301 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 | [Main Document] | NA |
| app | Cyrus Mark Sanai
v. George S. Cardona, in His Official Capacity as Chief Trial Counsel for the California State Bar |
26A271 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-6708
Judgment: — |
Cyrus Mark Sanai | 9440 Santa Monica Blvd. #301 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 | [Main Document] | NA |
| app | Corcept Therapeutics, Inc.
v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. |
26A272 | Federal Circuit, No. 2024-1346
Judgment: — |
John Franklin Bash | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 300 West 6th Street, Suite 2010 Austin, TX 78701 | [Main Document] | NA |