constitutional-principles

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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Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law …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…