constitutional-principles
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5213 | Cimeon Dion Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-principles criminal-procedure mental-illness post-plea-misconduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court may deny a reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1 based solely on uncorroborated allegations of post p… |
| 24-7452 | Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart | California | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participa… |
| 23-6111 | Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Jennifer Shaffer, et al. | California | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-principles criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legislative-intent sentencing sentencing-law | Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law … |
| 22-6869 | Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas | Kansas | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability | Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 22-5375 | Nathaniel Waugh v. A. Ralph, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-principles court-procedure due-process evidence-application judicial-review legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice standing | Court proceeded (l auordt^ -}o Justice" Or deprived p^frfioner o-f0) whiMitr lower '■S^Ws-farrtW rights? CX) k ^editr Congress J * ^ o4^ [auf Conducte… |
| 21-5870 | Kirby Gant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standard standing state-courts takings | the governments and the courts duty to snsure the long standing legal principle of fair notice in lighto this Courts decision in Rehaif? Question 2: … |
| 20-6689 | Matthew J. Kwong v. Cheswold (TL), LLC, et al. | Connecticut | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-principles due-process foreclosure judicial-order legal-precedent property-rights republic-design statutory-interpretation | Whether the Connecticut Superior Court's Order of Judgment of Foreclosure by Sale on September 14, 2018 in favor of the respondent against the petitio… |
| 19-7218 | Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California | California | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | 1. In the context of the dying declaration exception of the hearsay rule, where that declaration is otherwise testimonial hearsay within the ambit of … |
| 19-6735 | Kwok Cheung Chow, aka Raymond Chow, aka Ha Jai v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles counsel-of-choice courtroom-closure government-interest governmental-interest harmless-error overriding-interest public-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. In Presley v. Georgia, 558 U.S. 209 (2010), this Court held the right to a public trial in criminal cases extends to the entire trial, and any clos… |
| 19-5942 | Wade Lay v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | IFP | administrative-due-process brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process federal-intervention federalism judicial-review standing state-governance substantive-due-process takings | I. HAS SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, AS A JUDICIAL DOCTRINE, WITH AMELIORATING STATUTES OVER TIME, SO ALTERED THE VITAL PRINCIPLES OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM,… |
| 19-5846 | Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas | Texas | 2019-09-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure | Whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution once he grants an Order on motion for New T… |
| 18-845 | Scott M. Seidel v. Century Surety Company | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | bankruptcy constitutional-principles crime due-process federal-declaratory-judgment imputation insurance-coverage judicial-review state-court-judgment tort-facts | Jane Doe, at 18 and recently her high school's valedictorian, was raped in a lonely motel room after she passed out from drinking alcohol at Pastzaios… |