contributing-cause
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19-5115 | Cordero Robert Seals v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit | I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISINTERPRETED THE BUT-FOR CAUSATION TEST IN LIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN, AND INAPPROPRIATELY APPLIED THE CONTRIBUT… |
| 18-8625 | Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Illinois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a "contributing c… |