affirmative-defenses
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6029 | Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 | 1. Discovery Rights in § 1983 Cases: Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defe… |
| 23-422 | Shirley T. Sherrod, et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | affirmative-defenses amendment civil-procedure erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duties rule-15 standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the underlying rulings contradict the plain text of the applicable ERISA provisions in finding a breach of Petitioners' fiduciary duties and d… |
| 20-1296 | Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent | Does precedent in the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which allows defendants to raise affirmative defenses in a motion for summar… |
| 19-6826 | Jennifer Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 18-987 | McKesson Corporation, et al. v. True Health Chiropractic, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | affirmative-defenses burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-certification federal-rules-of-civil-procedure halliburton-v-erica-p-john-fund predominance rule-23 | This Court has repeatedly said that a plaintiff seeking class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) bears the burden of proving… |
| 18-901 | Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas | Texas | 2019-01-11 | Denied | affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict | 1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factualsuf… | |
| 18-74 | Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-13 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations | 1. Does this Court's holding in D'Oench, Duhme & Co., Inc. v. FDIC permit the NCUAB to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative de… |