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23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review 1. Are a district court's findings that a habeas corpus petitioner's attorney abandoned him "from the beginning" and "for the entirety of [his] state …
23-323 Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (10) abandonment aedpa gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus indigent-representation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b) second-or-successive-petition Whether a Rule 60(b) motion claiming that habeas counsel's abandonment prevented the consideration of a petitioner's claims should always be recharact…
22-271 M. N. v. A. A., et al. Kentucky 2022-09-22 Denied abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness (1) whether K Y. REV. STAT. ANN. § 199.502 violates the Fourt eenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because it fails to articulate a clear and convinci…
21-1525 Antonio Daron Futrell v. Virginia Virginia 2022-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-exception cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search Police conducted a warrantless search of the digital data on a cell phone appellant left at a restaurant. The lower courts held that the search did no…
21-5162 Andrew Cox v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Third Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment civil-procedure communications due-process prosecution standing I. Does 2* VfcC HSSfr) fcyitt cfcs<yU^W W\V\« vV\a^ 5et.uV^ ex ^ CoW\vA\)A\ttvV\'oAS W\Wv YW v*\\tA S\ovVe5 'Vf> \Vj-vv\oaVU OvVacIomAwV o? ^c^cvAaYm …
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement In the present case, a man's cell phone was searched without a warrant and the trial court ruled that the phone was abandoned and that the Defendant h…
20-6968 Kenton Lance Light v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied IFP abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence tha…
20-739 Isaac Levin v. Kenneth J. Frank, Individually and as Corporation Counsel for the City of Binghamton, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Relisted (2) abandonment conflict-of-law grandfathered-rights municipal-ordinances property-rights zoning This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the existing conflict of law which exists as to the application of abandonment to a property which was g…
19-1353 AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations There is no uniformity among the Circuit Courts as to the meaning or application of the ERISA statute of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty, 29 …
19-7605 Vincent Kane v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones fourth-amendment intent-to-reclaim password-protected property-rights public-place reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure I. WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF ABANDONMENT APPLIES TO PASSWORD PROTECTED CELL PHONES FOUND IN A PUBLIC PLACE? II. WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF ABANDONMENT APP…
19-979 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality 1. This Court has well settled that use of "fabricated evidence" by a State "virtually" voids a criminal judgment ab initio. But what effect does th…
19-7545 Willie Palmer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment abandonment effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions postconviction-relief rule-3.850 sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-7392 Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement in response to police questioning should not alone be d…
19-5011 Danny P. Phipps v. New York New York 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-property burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-selection pro-se-representation property-abandonment search-and-seizure standing 1. Can Appellate Division develop a rule that shifts the burden from the People to a defendant to prove he or she did not abandon property making it…
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Was it clear error for the Third Circuit to fail to address the issue of whether the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") had the jurisdiction to rend…
18-1102 Askia Cuff v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived abandonment coercion counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voluntariness voluntary voluntary-waiver withdrawal Was Appellant's waiver of his Sixth Amendment right to trial, pursuant to a plea agreement, freely and voluntarily made or the product of coercion – t…
18-350 Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Fourth Amendment doctrine permits police to freely search ordinary objects deemed "abandoned." No suspicion, or warrant, or exigency is required. But …