daubert
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-5524 | Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review | A government witness who testifies as both an investigative fact witness and as an expert witness, pursuant to Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Eviden… |
| 23-5489 | Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-08-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test | 1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United St… |
| 22-6331 | Lance Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether Green's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation was violated by the procedures utilize… |
| 22-279 | Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. | Georgia | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment | 1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,… |
| 22-5308 | Lashawn Lewis v. New York | New York | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony frye-standard scientific-evidence | Petitioner's conviction was predicated on the testimony of a so-called blood spatter expert. Defense counsel objected to the admission of this testimo… |
| 21-7870 | Greg Cantoni v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-court-standards daubert discovery-violation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jencks-act prosecutorial-discretion | 1. Which standard, among those currently in use at the circuit court level, must be applied to determine whether a government attorney's violation of … |
| 21-5301 | Justin Lane Foust v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-evidence general-acceptance handwriting-analysis handwriting-comparison judicial-reliability kumho-tire scientific-methodology | Can the admissibility of expert testimony about the supposed author of a forged writing be upheld on a record that shows little (if anything) more tha… |
| 21-5032 | Paris Poe v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison | Whether this Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower cou… |
| 20-533 | Jeffrey Boudreau, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wendy Boudreau v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. | First Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | business-invitee daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony foreseeability kumho premises-liability rule-702 summary-judgment | 1. When a legal duty exists in a premises lability context to protect business invitees from reasonably foreseeable harm, is the question of foreseeab… |
| 19-7652 | Steven Craig Whyte v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire | Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent "drug experts" testifying regarding plain-English exc… |
| 19-7235 | Trevon Gross v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion | 1. Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness by supplying one of several possible accounting methodologies, an… |
| 19-6277 | Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review | When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its "gatekeeping" role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v… |
| 18-1153 | Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion dismissing Rizzo's Experts (Dr. Wang, Dr. Miloslaysky, Dr. Hodgman) in conflict with the … |
| 18-7971 | Kilunnun Adyden Chivoski v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility admissibility-threshold child-sexual-abuse daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony expert-witness gate-keeping-hearing kumho-tire peer-review psychological-testimony | Should a district court be required to conduct a hearing under Daubert to consider the admissibility of expert testimony when the proffered expert adm… |
| 18-7505 | Demian Pina v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial | Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology, not available to the general public, to intrude into a home or curtilage (KYLLO) without pr… |
| 18-327 | N. K., an Infant, By His Mother and Natural Guardian, Tanja Bruestle-Kumra v. Abbott Laboratories | Second Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | alternative-causation alternative-cause causation-opinion daubert daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow differential-diagnosis expert-testimony expert-testimony-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-702 genetic-causation genetic-testing rule-702 | For an expert's causation opinion to be admissible, do Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and Daubert require additional testing of a plaintiff to eliminate… | |
| 18-213 | H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order | 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c… | |
| 18-5546 | Billie Wayne Coble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-sentencing constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony future-dangerousness reliability | 1. Have the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to cat… |