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Search, seizure, trial rights, sentencing, habeas, and criminal enforcement cases.

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151 casesUpdated Jul 29, 2026

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16 cases

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25-1108

Christopher Zook, et al., Petitioners v. Scott Fuqua

1. Whether a district court may, or must, consider objective video evidence at the motion-to-dismiss stage when that evidence is central to the compla...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-1246

Richard Vasquez, Petitioner v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) impose a “reasonable attorney” or a “reasonable applicant” test for due diligence? If the former, are there excep...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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25-7503

Eddie Scott, Petitioner v. Crystal Blanton, et al.

1. Does the Younger Doctrine violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution by denying citizens their Bill of Rights protections gua...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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25-7363

Wen Chen, Petitioner v. Lyndam Hill II Homeowners Association, Inc.

from the Supreme Court of Virginia.

DetailedOT 2025
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Supreme Court of VirginiaOpen

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25-1205

Michael Mendenhall, Petitioner v. City and County of Denver, Colorado

Should this Court overrule Jones v. United States, 362 U.S. 257 (1960) and hold that the Fourth Amendment prohibits courts from issuing warrants based...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

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25-1314

Eric Gomez, Petitioner v. David Saccoccio

Whether combining general principles from two factually dissimilar cases conflicts with this Court’s precedents requiring lower courts to define right...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-7660

Ruben Andre Garcia, Petitioner v. United States

Under Chavez-Meza v. United States, 585 U.S. 109 (2018), can a district court ignore a party’s post-sentencing rehabilitation when deciding a sentence...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-7698

Reshod Jamar Everett, Petitioner v. United States

The question for the Court is whether a circuit court errs as a matter of law and fact, and ignores this Court’s precedent, in failing to certify issu...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

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25-7683

Derek Hahn, Petitioner v. United States

THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY SENTENCING MR. HAHN EXCESSIVELY BASED ON THE STATUTORY CONSIDERATIONS IN 18 U.S.C. §3553(a)?

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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25-7165

Price Montgomery, Petitioner v. United States

1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(1)(C), which criminalizes killing a person with intent to prevent them from telling authorities about a federal crime, ...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

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25-7651

Zenia Chavez, Petitioner v. United States

Whether an appeal waiver, that waives “the right to appeal the . . . sentence on any ground, including . . . term of supervision and conditions,” bars...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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25-7302

Dale D. Mitchell, Jr., Petitioner v. United States

1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional in all its applications or is it subject to as-applied challenges? 2. If as-applied challenges are...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

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25-7609

David E. Jackson, III, Petitioner v. Indiana Parole Board

1. Whether a court of appeals, in denying a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 case dismissed on procedural grounds, may rely solely o...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitOpen

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25-7697

Nathaniel David Struening, Petitioner v. United States

1. Whether the appellate court violated Petitioner's constitutional right to proceed pro se by ignoring his proceed pro se in September 2024 before th...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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25-7702

Sean Jarred Davis, Petitioner v. United States

Whether Due Process requires district courts to assess if the Government has committed an implied breach through the totality of its conduct at senten...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

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25-1424

Dennis Birkley, Petitioner v. United States, et al.

1. Whether Petitioner’s Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated when FBI Special Agent Kathryn Graham testified as a summary witness by su...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitOpen

Recent decisions

123 cases

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24-5438

Michael Bowe, Petitioner v. United States

The Court vacated and remanded a case involving federal sentencing guidelines. The 5-4 decision, authored by Justice Sotomayor, addressed how courts s...

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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24-5774

Dwayne Barrett, Petitioner v. United States

The Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress did not authorize convictions under both 18 U.S.C. §§924(c)(1)(A)(i) and (j) for a single act that vi...

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

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24-482

Holsey Ellingburg, Jr., Petitioner v. United States

The Court unanimously reversed and remanded an Eighth Circuit decision. Justice Kavanaugh authored the 9-0 opinion addressing federal criminal law que...

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2025
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Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

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24-993

Gabriel Olivier, Petitioner v. City of Brandon, Mississippi

The Court is considering a civil rights case about qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. The case addresses the standard courts use to eval...

DetailedCivil RightsOT 2025
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Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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25-297

Zorn v. Linton

The Court held that a Vermont state police sergeant was entitled to qualified immunity after using a wristlock to remove a protester who refused to le...

DetailedOT 2025
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

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24-7351

Terry Pitchford, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al.

Did the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably decide—under the standards set by federal habeas law—that Terry Pitchford gave up his right to argue th...

TrackingCriminal LawOT 2025
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Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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24-556

Joe Fernandez, Petitioner v. United States

The Court is considering a federal criminal law question about the scope of a federal statute and its application to the defendant's conduct.

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

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24-820

Daniel Rutherford, Petitioner v. United States

The Court is considering a federal criminal sentencing question about how courts should calculate the applicable guidelines range when multiple convic...

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2025
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Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

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25-5146

Ahmad Abouammo, Petitioner v. United States

Is venue proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute’s intent element “contemplates” effects that could occur the...

TrackingCriminal LawOT 2025
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Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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24-1063

Munson P. Hunter, III, Petitioner v. United States

The Court considered whether a defendant who agreed not to appeal his sentence as part of a plea deal could still challenge a supervised-release condi...

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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25-112

Okello T. Chatrie, Petitioner v. United States

This case is about whether police violated the Fourth Amendment when they used a geofence warrant to make Google turn over location-history data for e...

DetailedFourth AmendmentOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

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95-8836

Felker v. Turpin

Ellis Felker challenged the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, arguing that its restrictions on second or successive habeas corpus...

DetailedOT 1995
Decided
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Court pendingOpen

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21-778

Ramirez v. Guadarrama

This case arises from a Section 1983 lawsuit by the family of a man in a mental-health crisis who was soaked in gasoline and was set on fire and kille...

DetailedOT 2021
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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21-511

Shoop v. Twyford

This case asks whether a federal court handling a state prisoner’s habeas case may order the State to transport the prisoner for medical testing to lo...

DetailedOT 2021
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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21-5099

Guerrant v. United States

This case asks whether a prior state drug conviction can be used to increase a federal sentence under the Sentencing Guidelines' career-offender rule ...

DetailedOT 2021
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

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21-1587

Shoop v. Cunningham

This case asks whether the Sixth Circuit wrongly granted federal habeas relief to an Ohio state prisoner despite AEDPA’s strict limits on overturning ...

DetailedOT 2021
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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21-147

Egbert v. Boule

This case asked whether an inn owner could sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent for money damages after the agent allegedly used excessive force against him...

DetailedOT 2021
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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20-940

Alaska v. Wright

This case asked whether Sean Wright could use a federal habeas petition to challenge his old Alaska sex-abuse convictions after he had fully finished ...

DetailedOT 2020
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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20-7480

Thomas v. Payne

This habeas case asks whether the Eighth Circuit could raise and decide a procedural defense on its own after Arkansas stopped pressing that defense o...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

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20-6400

Sanders v. United States

This case is about whether police could enter Kenneth Sanders’s home without a warrant during a welfare check after reports of a domestic fight and he...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

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20-701

Calvert v. Texas

This capital case asks whether Texas violated James Calvert’s constitutional rights by letting him represent himself at a death-penalty trial despite ...

DetailedOT 2020
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Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasOpen

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20-5904

Terry v. United States

This case was about whether people convicted before August 3, 2010 of low-level crack cocaine offenses under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) could get shorte...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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20-5279

Wooden v. United States

This case asked whether William Wooden’s 10 burglary convictions, all arising from one night of breaking into multiple units in a single storage facil...

DetailedOT 2020
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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20-1704

Simmons v. United States

This case asks when a federal court may throw out a prisoner's late habeas petition under AEDPA without a hearing. Simmons says the government created...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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20-1668

City of Tahlequah v. Bond

This case arose after Tahlequah police officers responding to a call about an intoxicated man at a home shot Dominic Rollice in a garage when he picke...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

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20-157

Caniglia v. Strom

This case asked whether police may enter a home and seize firearms without a warrant under the Fourth Amendment’s so-called “community caretaking” doc...

DetailedOT 2020
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitOpen

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20-1009

Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez

This case involved two Arizona death row prisoners who argued in federal habeas proceedings that their trial lawyers were ineffective, even though tho...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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20-1084

Dunn v. Reeves

This case involves a death-row inmate’s claim that his trial lawyers were ineffective at sentencing because they did not present expert evidence about...

DetailedOT 2020
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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19-8207

In re Brown

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court under the name In re Brown. Specific details regarding the underlying legal dispute are not...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Court pendingOpen

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19-8110

Albritton v. Clarke

This case involves a pending petition for a writ of certiorari from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The specific facts and ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

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19-7902

In re Moon

In this original habeas petition, Moon asked the Supreme Court to order his release from custody, arguing that his conviction and sentence were uncons...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Court pendingOpen

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19-8072

Cervantes v. Biter

This is a pending case where the petitioner is asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision while also requesting permission to proceed w...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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19-8066

Lara-Cervantes v. United States

Whether a crime that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a “crime of violence” under United States Sentencing Guideline § ...

TrackingOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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19-8054

Vineyard v. United States

A petition for a writ of certiorari has been filed in this case, along with a request to proceed without paying court fees, asking the Supreme Court t...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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19-8040

Meas v. Vidal

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Jerry Meas against Osvaldo Vidal. The specific legal issues and facts of the case are ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7931

Lopez v. United States

A petition for a writ of certiorari has been filed in this case arising from the Fifth Circuit, along with a request to proceed without paying court f...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7862

Coonce v. United States

This case involves a federal death-row inmate who argues that he cannot be executed because he is intellectually disabled, even though the lower court...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

Docket

01-8047

Perez v. United States

This case considers whether police officers can search a person's backpack or luggage without a warrant after the person has been arrested and the bag...

DetailedOT 2001
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Court pendingOpen

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19-7770

In re Williams

This case involves a petition filed at the Supreme Court by a party named Williams. The specific details and legal issues of the case are not availabl...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

12-207

Maryland v. King

The Supreme Court held that law enforcement officers can constitutionally collect DNA samples from individuals arrested for serious crimes as part of ...

DetailedOT 2012
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Court of Appeals of MarylandOpen

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19-7717

Wilson v. Inch

A petition has been filed asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision, along with a request to proceed without paying standard filing fe...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Supreme Court of FloridaOpen

Docket

19-7715

Castillo-Reyes v. Ingalls

This is a pending case between Castillo-Reyes and Ingalls that originated in the Virginia state court system. The Supreme Court is currently reviewing...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Supreme Court of VirginiaOpen

Docket

19-7393

In re Gulbrandson

This case involves an original petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed directly with the Supreme Court. The specific facts and legal claims of the ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-6156

Halprin v. Davis

Randy Halprin, a Texas death row prisoner, says his murder trial was tainted because the judge who presided over it was openly racist and anti-Semitic...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-5421

Davis v. United States

This case concerns whether a federal judge could make Charles Davis’s federal prison sentence run consecutively to a state sentence that had not yet b...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-5755

Crutsinger v. Davis

This case asks whether a Texas death-row inmate can reopen the judgment denying his federal habeas petition under Rule 60(b). He argues that a later c...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-292

Torres v. Madrid

This case arose after New Mexico police officers shot Roxanne Torres as she tried to drive away, but she escaped for a time before being arrested late...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-1302

Shinn v. Kayer

The case concerns an Arizona death-row inmate’s claim that his lawyers were ineffective at the sentencing stage for failing to properly investigate an...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-1301

Bovat v. Vermont

This case asks whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by going into semiprivate areas around Clyde Bovat’s home and looking around without a war...

DetailedOT 2019
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Supreme Court of VermontOpen

Docket

17-7153

Richard Gerald Jordan, Petitioner v. Mississippi

This case involved a Mississippi death-row prisoner who argued that keeping him incarcerated for more than 40 years while repeatedly seeking to execut...

DetailedOT 2017
Decided
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Supreme Court of MississippiOpen

Docket

18-6943

Banister v. Davis

This case asked whether, after a federal court denies a state prisoner’s habeas petition, the prisoner’s timely Rule 59(e) motion asking the court to ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

18-1109

McKinney v. Arizona

This death penalty case asked what Arizona had to do after a federal habeas court ruled that the state had failed to properly consider James McKinney’...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Supreme Court of ArizonaOpen

Docket

17-155

Hughes v. United States

This case was about whether a federal defendant who accepted a plea deal for a specific sentence under Rule 11(c)(1)(C) can later ask for a reduced se...

DetailedOT 2017
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

18-9674

Terence Tramaine Andrus, Petitioner v. Texas

from the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasOpen

Docket

18-1259

Jones v. Mississippi

This case involved Brett Jones, who was 15 when he killed his grandfather and was later resentenced to life without parole after the Court’s juvenile ...

DetailedOT 2020
Decided
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Court of Appeals of MississippiOpen

Docket

22-7871

In re Bowe

This case involves whether a specific legal restriction on successive habeas corpus petitions applies to federal prisoners. The government conceded th...

DetailedOT 2023
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-7871

In re Woodson

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court by an individual named Woodson. The specific legal details and background of the dispute ar...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

18-1287

Alexander L. Baxter, Petitioner v. Brad Bracey, et al.

1. Does binding authority holding that a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he uses a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrend...

TrackingOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

17-8491

Robert Ira Peede, Petitioner v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.

1. Whether a defendant who is deemed “difficult”, yet who in no way prohibited his counsel from investigating or presenting mitigation at the penalty ...

TrackingOT 2017
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

16-9493

Rosales-Mireles v. United States

Florencio Rosales-Mireles pleaded guilty to illegal reentry, but his sentencing range was miscalculated due to an error in his criminal history score....

DetailedOT 2017
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

16-1027

Collins v. Virginia

In this case, a police officer entered a home's driveway without a warrant to lift a tarp and search a motorcycle parked near the house. The Supreme C...

DetailedOT 2017
Decided
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Supreme Court of VirginiaOpen

Docket

22-842

NRA v. Vullo

The Court unanimously held that the NRA plausibly alleged a First Amendment violation by claiming New York's financial regulator coerced banks and ins...

DetailedCriminal LawOT 2023
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Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7017

Williams v. Bell

1. Can Petitioner under the 4th & 14th Amendment be denied his right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure? 2. Was the Court in this case i...

TrackingOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8274

Scott v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in forma pauperis by the petitioner against the United States following a decision by the...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8282

In re Watson

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court under the title In re Watson. The specific legal issues and facts are not detailed in the a...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-8310

Haynes v. Peters

Haynes v. Peters is a case appealed from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in which the petitioner filed for a writ of certiora...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7805

Holloman v. Clarke

Holloman v. Clarke is a case appealed from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in which a petition for a writ of certiorari was ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7230

In re Lopez

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court by a party named Lopez. The specific details and legal issues of the petition are not avail...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-7413

Clancy v. Fla. Dep't of Corr.

This case involves a petition filed by an individual against the Florida Department of Corrections following a decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7971

Lewis v. Illinois

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court regarding a decision by the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District. ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
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Appellate Court of Illinois, Second DistrictOpen

Docket

19-7374

In re Wallace

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court under the name In re Wallace, though specific details about the underlying dispute are unav...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-7882

Harris v. May

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari and a motion to proceed in forma pauperis filed with the Supreme Court, originating from the Fo...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8345

In re Ciotta

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court under the title In re Ciotta. The specific legal issues and facts of the dispute are not de...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-7885

In re Findlay

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court under the title In re Findlay, though specific details regarding the underlying legal dispu...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-7841

In re Johnson

This case involves a petition filed with the Supreme Court by a party named Johnson. The specific legal issues and background facts are not available ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-7217

Thompson v. United States

The Supreme Court ruled that a federal law prohibiting false statements to financial institutions does not apply to statements that are merely mislead...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7296

In re Martinez

1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to a writ of habeas corpus because he is actually innocent of the crimes for which he was convicted? 2. Whether Pet...

TrackingOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

19-8275

Swinton v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Swinton against the United States following a decision by the Second Circuit Court of ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

23-7483

Edgardo Esteras, Petitioner v. United States

The Supreme Court ruled that when a district court decides whether to revoke a defendant's supervised release and impose a prison sentence, it cannot ...

DetailedOT 2024
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

23-1002

Tony R. Hewitt, Petitioner v. United States

The Supreme Court ruled that the First Step Act's reduced sentencing penalties apply to defendants whose original sentences were imposed before the Ac...

DetailedOT 2024
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7627

Martinez v. Shinn

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari from the Ninth Circuit that was submitted to the Supreme Court for review.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8393

Tucker v. United States

This case asks whether an agreement between a defendant and the government to address a factual question at sentencing for a mandatory minimum also im...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8196

Gentry v. Arizona

Larry Gentry filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division OneOpen

Docket

19-7941

Doe v. United States

This case asks whether a judge can consider standard sentencing factors when deciding how much to reduce a defendant's sentence for providing substant...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8060

Doe v. United States

This case asks whether a judge can consider general statutory sentencing factors when deciding how much to reduce a defendant's sentence for providing...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8117

White v. Morgan

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Sixth Circuit regarding the application of...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7856

Djerf v. Shinn

This is a case appealed from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Supreme Court was asked to review the lower court's decisio...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7368

Kuzmenko v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The specific ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7361

Shevtsov v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Shevtsov against the United States, appealing a decision from the Ninth Circuit.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-6926

Campbell v. United States

This case asks whether a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses is violated when a trial court stops them from cross-examining accompl...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-6657

Smith v. Scott

This case considers whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for using bodyweight pressure on a suspect before handcuffing them. It ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

19-737

Douse v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed with the Supreme Court following a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

22-5891

Burns v. Mays

This capital case involved a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during the sentencing phase, specifically regarding whether attorneys failed t...

DetailedOT 2022
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-982

Bryant v. United States

This case asks whether a specific Sentencing Guidelines policy statement restricts a judge's ability to grant compassionate release when a defendant r...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8399

Tolliver v. United States

This is a case appealed from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit involving the United States, in which the petitioner sought Supr...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

22-49

Lora v. United States

Efrain Lora was convicted under a federal statute for his role in a drug-trafficking-related murder. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal ...

DetailedOT 2022
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

19-7964

Aizupitis v. Delaware

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Delaware. The specific facts and legal issues are not detailed in the ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Superior Court of DelawareOpen

Docket

19-7832

Pierce v. California

Pierce v. California is a case appealed from the Supreme Court of California to the U.S. Supreme Court. The petitioner filed for a writ of certiorari ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Supreme Court of CaliforniaOpen

Docket

19-7900

Miller v. Michigan

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to review a decision by the Court of Appeals of Michigan.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court of Appeals of MichiganOpen

Docket

19-8021

Jackson v. Utah

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Jackson against the state of Utah, originating from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

Docket

22-6389

Justin Rashaad Brown, Petitioner v. United States

The Supreme Court ruled that a state drug conviction qualifies as a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if the drug was ...

DetailedOT 2023
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8219

Medrano v. Frauenheim

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Medrano against Frauenheim, originating from the Ninth Circuit. The Supreme Court was ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

22-7386

McIntosh v. United States

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a district court's failure to enter a preliminary forfeiture order before sentencing, as required by federal ...

DetailedOT 2023
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

22-982

Thornell v. Jones

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision to grant habeas relief to a death row inmate, ruling that the Ninth Circuit failed to properly app...

DetailedOT 2023
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

23-50

Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio

The Supreme Court ruled that a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim can proceed regarding a baseless criminal charge, even if other valid char...

DetailedOT 2023
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8385

Quintero v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by an indigent individual appealing a decision from the United States Court of Appeals fo...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

22-340

Pulsifer v. United States

This case involves a dispute over the interpretation of the "safety valve" provision in federal sentencing law, which allows judges to bypass mandator...

DetailedOT 2023
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

Docket

23-1239

Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased, Petitioner v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al.

The Supreme Court unanimously struck down the Fifth Circuit's "moment of the threat" doctrine, ruling that Fourth Amendment excessive force claims mus...

DetailedOT 2024
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

24-517

Lance Shockley, Petitioner v. David Vandergriff, Warden

This case involves a habeas corpus petition where the petitioner argued his legal counsel was ineffective for failing to call witnesses during a mistr...

DetailedOT 2024
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

Docket

23-1345

Danny Richard Rivers, Petitioner v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

The Supreme Court held that any federal habeas petition filed after a district court has entered judgment on a first petition counts as a "second or s...

DetailedOT 2024
Argued
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8151

Roa v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Roa against the United States following a decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Ap...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

19-6922

Bates v. United States

This case asks whether a judge resentencing a defendant under the First Step Act is allowed to consider the defendant's current, legally correct Sente...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8211

Banks v. Braun

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in forma pauperis to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seco...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8121

Thompson v. United States

The Supreme Court ruled that a federal law prohibiting false statements to financial institutions does not extend to statements that are merely mislea...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8294

Johnson v. Mississippi

Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentence ...

TrackingOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court of Appeals of MississippiOpen

Docket

19-8154

Stamp v. United States

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Stamp against the United States, originating from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8112

Ali v. Oberlander

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari submitted to Justice Alito regarding a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the T...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8052

Almahmmody v. Tennessee

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a petitioner seeking review of a decision by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennesse...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern DivisionOpen

Docket

19-871

Johnson v. Kiser

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia in the matter of Johnson v. Kiser.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Supreme Court of VirginiaOpen

Docket

19-8232

Jackson v. Mississippi

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in forma pauperis to review a decision by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Supreme Court of MississippiOpen

Docket

19-8128

Buckner v. Davis

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where the petitioner sought leave ...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8214

Atkins v. Crowell

This case involves a petition for review of a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, accompanied by a request to procee...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

19-8304

McVay v. Illinois

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by McVay seeking review of a decision by the Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District,...

DetailedOT 2019
Decided
Updated
Appellate Court of Illinois, Third DistrictOpen

Dismissed

12 cases

Docket

25-7296

In Re Patrick Starzenski

This case appears to come from a pro se habeas corpus filing in which Patrick Starzenski claims he is being unlawfully detained and that federal court...

DetailedOT 2025
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

25-7502

In Re Gurjot Singh Dhaliwal

This petition challenges California’s handling of Gurjot Singh Dhaliwal’s criminal case. He argues that the state lacked probable cause to charge or k...

DetailedOT 2025
Updated
Court pendingOpen

Docket

25-7243

Huong Gilmer Giaccio v. Ray Davis

1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits municipal code-enforcement officers to enter a private home without a warrant, consent, or judicial authorizat...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-7191

Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas

1. Did the District Court err in denying relief? 2. Did the District Court err in denying Mr. Walker’s habeas application without holding a hearing o...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-7005

Kenneth Colvin, Jr. v. Russ Rurka, Warden

1. THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SHOULD HAD HEARD KENNETH COLVIN, JR.'S MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT (RULE 60(d) MOTION) BASED ON FRAUD UPON THE...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-6155

Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida

1. Should the unsettled issue in Heck v. Humphrey and Spencer v. Kenma^where this court has not definitively ruled that criminal defendants may use a ...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

Docket

25-5620

Terry Duane Qualls v. United States

Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object.

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-7113

Gurjot Singh Dhaliwal, Petitioner v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County

1. Can local, states and/or federal government to circumvent the constitution of the United States, due process and equal protection of the law, and t...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-7105

John Deonarine, Petitioner v. Monica Aguilar, Erroneously Sued as Lopez, et al.

1. Whether a court may grant summary judgment in a Fourth Amendment false-arrest action by treating body-camera footage as conclusive evidence of prob...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-7096

Douglas Dean Scyphers, Petitioner v. Washington

1. Does evidence qualify as newly discovered and material under federal standards when a defendant discovers evidence post-trial - including statement...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3Open

Docket

25-6799

Salena Nicole Glenn, Petitioner v. Erin Maldonado, Warden

1. Does the warrantless seizure, arrest, and no search warrant of a legally parked vehicle occupant-without probable cause or reasonable suspicion! vi...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-6611

James E. Frantz, Petitioner v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al.

1. Did the District Court error by failing to recognizing substantive claims as cognizable under habeas corpus and failing to exercise its equitable a...

TrackingOT 2025
Updated
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

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