circuit-court-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A601 Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete circuit-court-interpretation custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-custody parental-custody Question not identified.
24-5685 Okwuchukwu Jidoefor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation contract-law criminal-procedure government-breach judicial-review plea-agreement Whether the Eighth Circuit's holding that the government could cure its breach of a plea agreement in a criminal case can be cured by a partial retrac…
23-919 Kristin DiCroce v. McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived buckman-ruling buckman-v-plaintiffs-legal-committee circuit-court-interpretation federal-food-drug-cosmetic-act federal-preemption implied-preemption medtronic-precedent medtronic-v-lohr state-law-causes-of-action state-law-claims statutory-interpretation Whether the First, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits' holdings that state law claims based on violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act are impliedly…
23-5678 Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. …
23-5031 Marc Anthony Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law? If yes, are the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other circuits applying Apprendi incorrectly which viola…
22-6760 David Lassegue v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals case-law-analysis circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standards precedent procedural-rights standing third-circuit-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Violated Lassegue's rights when it ignored this: Courts precedent in Kwai Funwong V. Beebe 752…
22-440 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction This case presents the following question: whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts …
22-5913 John Berman v. Kristin Draper District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-interpretation continuity extortion fund-freezing hj-standard judicial-review legal-standard ongoing-entity predicate-acts regular-way-of-doing-business rico rico-continuity 1. Does the DC Circuit 's statement on RICO continuity directly contradict the HJ standard: "the threat of continuity may be established by showing…
22-320 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied 18-usc-666 circuit-court-interpretation federal-program-fraud intentional-misapplication kelly-v-united-states property-deprivation prosecutorial-scope regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the elements of the offense of federal program fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A) differ under a theory of intentional misapplication and st…
22-20 John Klaas v. Allstate Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived allstate benefit-termination circuit-court-interpretation contract-interpretation early-retirement eleventh-circuit employee-rights erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits In an issue of critical importance affecting approximately hundreds of Allstate retirees, as well as ERISA beneficiaries elsewhere, who retired early …
21-7192 Thomas Johnny Wilkins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP circuit-court-interpretation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-evidence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-supervisory-power Question not identified.
21-5982 Marcus Matthews v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Does a conviction under Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA") § 1613-30 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of enhancing a …
21-5769 Joseph R. Dickey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation 1. In light of the fact that actual innocence supported by newly discovered evidence acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus by applying 2244(b…
21-5725 Sergio Amaya-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.s.-991(b) 5th-circuit circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing role-adjustment sentencing-fairness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court has qualified the minor and minimal role adjustment commentary under U.S.S.G. §3 B1.2 such that the sentences in cons…
20-8448 Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, …
20-1802 Joyce Rowley v. City of New Bedford, Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied animal-welfare-act breeding captivity circuit-court-interpretation de-novo-review endangered-species harassment-exception preliminary-injunction usda-aza-substitution 1.A. Does the harassment exception only apply to members of endangered species in captivity for breeding to promulgate the selected species to meet th…
20-1252 Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights United States Supreme Court precedent requires that union members be awarded attorneys' fees where the employer wrongfully blocked access to quick and…
20-308 La Boom Disco, Inc. v. Radames Duran Second Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-court-interpretation federal-communications-commission hobbs-act human-intervention random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-definition telephone-consumer-protection-act 1. Does the statutory definition of ATDS encompass any device that can "store" telephone numbers, even if the device does not "us[e] a random or seque…
20-5312 Sharrieff Brown v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation discovery-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations summary-reversal Petitioner Sharrieff Brown filed a claim for the ineffective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to locate critical impeachment mat…
20-5018 Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the District Court for the Northern District of Florida apply f…
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 …
19-8215 Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role 1. In the a bsence of a definiti on of the terms, can a defendant receive a mana ger, or sup ervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1. 1 when t he evi…
19-7568 Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7130 Fabio Morel v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 …
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection I. Does the Precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict United States Supreme Court precedent of Schindler Elevator Co…
18-1090 Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity Does Section 230 of the CDA immunize web site operators for their own negligent or tortious conduct from all civil lawsuits any time a third party has…
18-781 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adea-enforcement age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent circuit-court-split discretionary-authority judicial-discretion pension-plan pension-plans retroactive-relief statutory-interpretation I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that a retroactive award of monetary relief is mandatory under the ADEA in this pension case, A. becau…
18-6522 Robert Prunty v. DeSoto County School Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education educational-rights federal-regulations first-amendment free-speech standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent DOES THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS THREE JUDGE PANEL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CREATE CONFLICTS AMONGST THE CIRCUITS WHEN IT UNILATERALLY CHANGED THE SUPR…
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's…