appellate-courts
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5462 | Deandre Wilson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-courts constitutional-rights criminal-defendants due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence | Are the divided federal appellate courts applying too stringent a standard when evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidenc… |
| 23-1248 | Keresa Richardson v. Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-courts constitutional-law election-law equal-protection judicial-elections one-man-one-vote state-representation texas voting-districts | Question 1: Does the Equal Protection Clause's one man, one vote requirement apply to the election of Texas appellate court justices so as to requi… |
| 22-7386 | Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)IFP | appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.? 2. Is the theft… |
| 21-1311 | Rinaldo Pierno v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC | Second Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-courts article-three circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-power judicial-precedent non-precedential-decisions precedent | In the year 2000, Judge Richard S. Arnold in the Eighth Circuit noticed something was not quite right in the United States federal appellate courts. A… |
| 20-5645 | Virgil Nickens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano | In Rehaif, v. United States, this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense only if … |
| 19-1446 | Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation | The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was promulgated by this Court in Helvering… |
| 19-5206 | Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant | How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist … |