constitutional-infirmity
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-324 | Christina Paylan v. Florida | Florida | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics | This petition exposes the vacuum in Florida's appellate judicial disqualification mechanism that creates a constitutional infirmity for all Floridians… |
| 22-7119 | Vincent Alonzo Corson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-03-27 | Denied | IFP | carrier-standard cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process habeas-corpus mccleskey-abuse-of-writ preclusive-effect retroactivity state-court-proceedings | 1. If a State Post-Conviction proceeding is conducted in a manner that does not afford an Applicant a full & fair hearing —Due Process —leaving the Co… |
| 21-7431 | William Nobles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war… |
| 20-5749 | Elijah Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu… |
| 20-5035 | Octavius McLendon and Henry Lee Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brady-violation constitutional-infirmity joint-trial new-trial-relief principal-conviction | Where a Brady violation has rendered constitutionally infirm the conviction of a defendant who was alleged to be the principal in the commission of an… |
| 19-7154 | In Re Corey Devon Eaton | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve | ISSUE I (A) WHETHER CONSTITUTIONAL, STATUTORY INFIRMITIES, AND VIOLATIONS OF RULE 11 MAY HAVE RENDERED COREY DEVON EATON'S PLEA AGREEMENT, AND HIS PL… | |
| 19-7053 | Jason Dean Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity | Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers… |
| 19-6886 | Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief | Q.1 DOES COMMONWEALTH V. DESCARDES, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) VIOLATE FEDERAL PREEMPTION IN FOREIGN POLICY AND IMMIGRATION LAW? Q2. ARE THE FOLLOWING P… |
| 19-6605 | Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction | Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES CONSTITUTIONALLY 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4); 42 Pa C,S. §9542; 42 Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(… |
| 19-6628 | Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction | Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4): 42 Pa G.S. §0542; 42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);… |
| 19-6487 | Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | DOES TREATING "CIVIL RIGHTS " AS CUMULATIVE RENDER THE ENFORCEMENT OF 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(l) AND 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) TO BE CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM … |
| 18-1503 | Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes | This Court has never addressed two important questions in class action litigation. First, whether nonclass counsel is entitled to an award of counsel … |