Supreme Court Report

Order list

Monday, October 15, 2018

128 denied · 3 habeas denied · 2 mandamus denied · 2 rehearings denied · 8 in pending cases · 1 order · The Court’s PDF · 586 U.S.

Orders in pending cases8

  1. 18M50LYON, LeFLORIS V. CANADIAN NAT. RAILWAY, ET AL.
  2. 18M51ZAREMBA FAMILY FARMS, ET AL. V. ENCANA OIL & GAS INC.
  3. 18M52REID, WILLIAM S. V. UNITED STATESThe motions for leave to file petitions for writs of certiorari with the supplemental appendices under seal are granted.
  4. 18M53SMITH, TRACEY V. FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGANThe motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for a writ of certiorari out of time is denied.
  5. 18M54McGHEE, TIMOTHY J. V. DAVIS, WARDENThe motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal is granted.
  6. 18M55RAFI, SYED K. V. BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSP., ET AL.The motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for a writ of certiorari out of time is denied.
  7. 18-5621Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig
  8. 18-5982Todd F. Britton-Harr v. United StatesThe motions of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma pauperis are denied. Petitioners are allowed until November 5, 2018, within which to pay the docketing fees required by Rule 38(a) and to submit petitions in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.

Orders1

  1. 18-5184Ahmad Sayed Hashimi v. United StatesThe motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U. S. ___ (2018).

Certiorari denied128

  1. 17-1575Alwasi Yong v. Pennsylvania
  2. 17-1624Citizen Potawatomi Nation v. Oklahoma
  3. 17-1713Emerson Electric Co. v. Superior Court of California, Orange County
  4. 17-7929Arthur Brown, Jr. v. Texas
  5. 17-8462Jonathan Khalid Petras v. United States
  6. 17-8495Robert Velez v. United States
  7. 17-8853Deante Dixon v. United States
  8. 17-9326Donald Charles Kornse v. United States
  9. 17-9436Juan Francisco Vega v. Robert W. Germaine
  10. 17-9458Leron Porter v. Rhode Island
  11. 18-84ConAgra Grocery Products Company v. California
  12. 18-86The Sherwin-Williams Company v. California
  13. 18-124Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
  14. 18-167MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. v. Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., dba Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co.
  15. 18-176Conestoga Trust Services, LLC, as Trustee of the Conestoga Settlement Trust, dated May 1, 2010 v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
  16. 18-181Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck
  17. 18-198Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education
  18. 18-200Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones
  19. 18-201Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer
  20. 18-205Northern California Water Association v. California State Water Resources Control Board
  21. 18-224Luke O. Pickens v. Brevard Police Testing and Selection Center
  22. 18-258Hatem El-Khalidi v. Arabian American Development Company
  23. 18-293Janos Farkas v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, L.L.C.
  24. 18-303Henryk Oleksy v. General Electric Company
  25. 18-342City of Maplewood, Missouri v. Cecelia Roberts Webb
  26. 18-368Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi
  27. 18-5168Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States
  28. 18-5191Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States
  29. 18-5222Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States
  30. 18-5529Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley
  31. 18-5530Victoria Elia Kaldawi v. State of Kuwait
  32. 18-5557Matthew Joseph Bussing v. Michigan
  33. 18-5558Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford
  34. 18-5562Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden
  35. 18-5563Peter Cain Bruton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  36. 18-5569Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  37. 18-5570Ilich Vargas v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County
  38. 18-5571Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Contra Costa County, California
  39. 18-5572John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden
  40. 18-5581George Jenewicz v. New Jersey
  41. 18-5582Donald Lee Kissner v. Michigan
  42. 18-5584Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland
  43. 18-5586William Knight v. Florida
  44. 18-5589Victor O. Dema v. Allegiant Air LLC
  45. 18-5590Veronica M. Johnson v. Virginia
  46. 18-5591Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  47. 18-5592Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden
  48. 18-5595Keith L. Williams v. Kul Sood
  49. 18-5596George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden
  50. 18-5602Stephen D. Leonard v. Florida
  51. 18-5608Andres Mata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  52. 18-5610Ram Saxena v. Nabilsi Yunes Abud
  53. 18-5611Phillip Dewayne Stewart v. Ronald John Stukey
  54. 18-5619Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden
  55. 18-5625Arrion Lee Crew, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden
  56. 18-5627Carl Anthony Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  57. 18-5628John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona
  58. 18-5629Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  59. 18-5632Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
  60. 18-5635Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  61. 18-5637Afelix Desir v. Florida
  62. 18-5643Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison
  63. 18-5668Thomas Blackledge v. United States
  64. 18-5677Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  65. 18-5728Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden
  66. 18-5769Edward Smith v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden
  67. 18-5794Ronnie Keith Davis v. Benjamin Maddie
  68. 18-5857Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  69. 18-5859Epifanio Martinez Perez v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General
  70. 18-5868William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  71. 18-5889James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  72. 18-5902Terrence Javon Allen, Sr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  73. 18-5905Cortez Moore v. Illinois
  74. 18-5922Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
  75. 18-5937Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama
  76. 18-5941Robert Earl Tippens, Jr. v. Virginia
  77. 18-5949Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  78. 18-5950Artis Ryan Miller v. United States
  79. 18-5956James E. Whitney v. Arkansas
  80. 18-5957Raul Arcila v. United States
  81. 18-6016Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States
  82. 18-5964Nicholas Hacheney v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex
  83. 18-5966Joseph Faulkner v. United States
  84. 18-5967Matthew Wade Howard v. United States
  85. 18-5970Allen D. Gorion v. United States
  86. 18-5971Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution
  87. 18-5972Assane Faye v. United States
  88. 18-5973Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States
  89. 18-5978John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States
  90. 18-5979Malik Derry v. United States
  91. 18-5983Louis Charlton v. United States
  92. 18-5987Ajohntae Hammond v. United States
  93. 18-5992Amilcar C. Butler v. United States
  94. 18-5994Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas
  95. 18-5996Gene Lemay Barris v. United States
  96. 18-5997Francisco Burciaga v. United States
  97. 18-6006Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States
  98. 18-6007Valerie Louise Williams v. United States
  99. 18-6008Anibal Pagan-Romero v. United States
  100. 18-6010Babubhai Patel v. United States
  101. 18-6012Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden
  102. 18-6014Javier Vega-Orozco v. United States
  103. 18-6020Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden
  104. 18-6023Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden
  105. 18-6024Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States
  106. 18-6028Maurice Baum v. United States
  107. 18-6030Jason M. Smith v. United States
  108. 18-6031Noah R. Robinson v. United States
  109. 18-6033Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden
  110. 18-6036Donald S. Harden v. United States
  111. 18-6041Robert Burse v. United States
  112. 18-6042Ronald Eric Ary v. United States
  113. 18-6046Michael Skillern v. United States
  114. 18-6049Robert Wallace Smith v. United States
  115. 18-6060James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden
  116. 18-6063Craig Alexander v. United StatesThe petitions for writs of certiorari are denied.
  117. 17-508Rivka Livnat, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ben-Yosef Livnat v. Palestinian Authority, aka The Palestinian Interim Self-Government AuthorityThe petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  118. 17-1656Violet Dock Port, Inc., LLC v. St. Bernard Port, Harbor, & Terminal DistrictThe motion of NFIB Small Business Legal Center, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
  119. 17-8368Gregory Molette v. United States
  120. 17-8637Bobby Jo Gipson v. United States
  121. 17-8746Carlos Wilson v. United StatesThe petitions for writs of certiorari are denied. Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in Brown v. United States, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
  122. 17-8775Jason Greer v. United StatesThe petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in Brown v. United States, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting). Justice Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  123. 17-9045Robert Homrich v. United States
  124. 17-9379Charles Chubb v. United States
  125. 17-9400Terrance Smith v. United States
  126. 17-9411John Elwood Buckner v. United States
  127. 17-9490Paul Lewis v. United StatesThe petitions for writs of certiorari are denied. Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in Brown v. United States, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
  128. 18-5998Keith Lapell Biggins v. United StatesThe petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

Habeas corpus denied3

  1. 18-6048In Re Daniel A. SpottsvilleThe motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
  2. 18-6054In Re Michael BooneThe motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is dismissed. See Rule 39.8. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and this petition.
  3. 18-6065In Re Eric M. RichardsonThe motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is dismissed. See Rule 39.8.

Mandamus denied2

  1. 18-5968In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-CantuThe petition for a writ of mandamus is denied.
  2. 18-6018In Re Gary Ivan TerryThe motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of mandamus is dismissed. See Rule 39.8. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and this petition.

Rehearings denied2

  1. 17-7972Carolyn Barnes v. TexasThe petition for rehearing is denied.
  2. 17-6147William Sappington v. Bill Oldham, Sheriff, Shelby County, TennesseeThe motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing is denied.