| 25-6726 |
William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error |
1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req… |
| 25-867 |
Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
|
aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe… |
| 25-6344 |
Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause de-novo-review internet-crime jurisdictional-element rule-29 sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether a general challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, pursuant to Rule 29(a), preserves for de novo review the full range of sufficiency … |
| 25-666 |
Samantha Estefenia Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
child-abduction clear-error de-novo-review habitual-residence hague-convention well-settled-defense |
Is a trial court's determination that a child is "well settled" subject to de novo review, or is it reviewed for clear error? |
| 25-604 |
Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
This case involves an attempt by several law enforcement officers to detain and arrest Respondents' decedent Jeffery Krueger on July 1, 2019. On that … |
| 25A523 |
Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
aedpa de-novo-review deferential-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5934 |
David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-law circuit-court de-novo-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fails to distinguish
between issues raised in the trial court and arguments there made, as this… |
| 25-5742 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. University of Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law de-novo-review freedom-of-speech sovereign-immunity state-law |
The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and
should be applied to unofficial acts and the Constitutional ri… |
| 25-5386 |
Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default |
(1) Petitioner properly presented thirteen claims of constitutional
violations and sub-issues to each state court including the Michigan
Supreme Cou… |
| 25A176 |
James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abuse-of-discretion de-novo-review judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-petition standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5311 |
Winston Sylvester Oliver, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights de-novo-review fifth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
1. Whether a District Court's decision allowing a witness called by a criminal defendant to refuse to testify based on his claimed Fifth Amendment pri… |
| 25A162 |
Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
affirmative-defense burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence de-novo-review federal-railroad-safety-act protected-activity |
Whether a district court's determination that an employer met its burden to prove, by "clear and convincing evidence," that it would have taken the sa… |
| 25-5161 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. Internal Revenue Service |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-proceedings constitutional-law de-novo-review federal-theft-laws sovereign-immunity supreme-law-of-land |
The questions presented for review include whether sovereign immunity is constitutional.
This is a question of law, de novo, because when sovereign i… |
| 24-7083 |
Raul Otero Cazares v. Jason Johnson, Director, Division of Adult Parole Operations, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-precedent criminal-procedure de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Petitioner Raul Otero Cazares was convicted of the rape of his long-time domestic partner ("Doe") in a trial where they told very different stories re… |
| 24-7011 |
Donald Turner v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review de-novo-review plain-error rule-12 second-amendment sentencing-proceeding |
Whether the standard for appellate review of a Second Amendment claim raised before a sentencing proceeding and decided on the merits by the district … |
| 24-6492 |
Rufus Young v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus-petition probable-cause |
Does a district court abuse its discretion when it denies a habeas petitioner an evidentiary hearing where the state record remains undeveloped, where… |
| 24-6064 |
Johnny Nunez Garcia v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-review firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release |
Whether the term of supervised release prohibiting possession of firearms violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-323 |
Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment |
A federal court must review a habeas petition de novo if the state court's adjudication on the merits was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable app… |
| 24-5230 |
Victor Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error-review constitutional-rights de-novo-review mixed-questions mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact sixth-amendment speedy-trial standard-of-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Standard of Review for Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Rights That Involve "Mixed Questions of Law and Fact" Conflicts Wit… |
| 24-61 |
Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights de-novo-review deference deferential-standard due-process erisa plan-administrator procedural-violation procedural-violations standard-of-review |
In Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, the Court set forth the standard of review for denials of benefits provided by employers under the Employment… |
| 24-27 |
Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections |
1. Can arguments in support of a court's subject-matter jurisdiction be waived?
2. The Federal Magistrates Act provides that a "judge of the [distric… |
| 23A937 |
Azariah M. Ellington v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
de-novo-review en-banc-petition judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit section-1983 trust-litigation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6734 |
C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay substantial-rights |
1. Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of ap… |
| 23-837 |
Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace |
1. Are employer statements on religious dis crimination that are included in the complaint and
admitted in the answer binding judicial admissions in … |
| 23-6617 |
Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process free-speech judicial-review medical-assistance standing |
1. Did the DC apply de novo review to A.'s Complaint? Does its opinion take all A.'s factual allegations as true? Viewed all reasonable inferences in … |
| 23-757 |
Relish Labs LLC, et al. v. Grubhub Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review clear-error de-novo de-novo-review likelihood-of-confusion multifactor-test standard-of-review trademark-infringement |
1) Whether the determination of a likelihood of confusion for trademark infringement is a factual finding, reviewable for clear error, or a legal conc… |
| 23-699 |
Anthony Emposimato v. Stephen N. North |
New Jersey |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consideration consideration-in-contract-law constitutional-rights contract-law de-novo-review due-process Friedman-v-Tappan-Dev-Corp legal-precedent mutual-assent uniform-application-of-contract-law-across-jurisdi |
Did the Superior Court and the Appellate Division of New Jersey violate the Defendant's constitutional rights by disregarding established precedent (c… |
| 23A512 |
Kimra Bowers v. Payson City |
Utah |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review de-novo-review disorderly-conduct final-judgment jurisdiction justice-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5983 |
Eric Spencer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 23A339 |
Norman F. Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
38-USC-7261 benefit-of-the-doubt-rule de-novo-review PTSD-disability-rating standard-of-review veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5784 |
Aaron Lee Porter v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-doctrine clear-error de-novo-review fourth-amendment question-of-fact question-of-law search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Is a finding that an object has been abandoned within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment a question of law subject to de novo review, or a purely fac… |
| 23-5633 |
Demetrius Verardi Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process factual-error judicial-procedure magistrate-judge objection-standard report-and-recommendation waiver |
In United States v. Raddatz , 447 U.S. 667 (1980), this Court made clear that the designation of authority to a magistrate judge to conduct evidentiar… |
| 23-5569 |
Francisco Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing |
Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record? |
| 23-5268 |
Marc Amouri Bakambia v. Paul Schnell, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation summary-judgment |
I. Whether the provision of the 28 U.S.C. 636 requires the district court judge to
prevent the assigned magistrate judge from issuing a report and re… |
| 22-7701 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-1131 |
Brenda R. Blalock v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure de-novo-review iccta-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-review legal-standing procedural-forfeiture rollins-v-home-depot standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Interstate Commerce Commission
Termination Act's granting of exclusive jurisdiction to
the Surface Transportation Board is a jurisdictiona… |
| 22-7370 |
Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t… |
| 22-7293 |
Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal |
I. Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to "review" w… |
| 22-970 |
James H. Griffith, Jr., dba CJ's Sports Bar, et al. v. Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
|
copyright-act copyright-infringement de-novo-review exclusive-licensing idea-of-work licensing-rights right-to-sue sua-sponte summary-judgment tangible-medium |
I. Whether the plain language of the U.S. Copyright Act ("Act") authorizes the exclusive licensing of rights under the Act in an idea of a work of aut… |
| 22-7121 |
Christopher Barret v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur |
1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc… |
| 22-7111 |
Tony Khong v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-vs-maryland de-novo-review evidence-suppression giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-vs-whitley materiality ninth-circuit united-states-vs-bagley |
Did the Ninth Circuit's de novo disposition of Petitioner's Brady claim in the habeas corpus context, which focused exclusively on Bagley's earlier ru… |
| 22-929 |
BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con… |
| 22-6779 |
Jong Sung Kim v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule brady-violation de-novo-review due-process fifth-amendment giglio-rule giglio-violation sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
I) Whether due process and the Fi fth and Sixth Amendments require circuit courts to review Brady and Giglio violation claims de novo , rather than fo… |
| 22-6059 |
Maurice Oparaji v. Municipal Credit Union |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process electronic-fund-transfer-act rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-judgment supplemental-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the district court erred in dismissing Oparaji's complaint under Fed. R. Civil P. 12(b) (6), alleging that .Oparaj i sets no factual allega… |
| 22-322 |
Zia Shaikh v. Madeline F. Einbinder, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights de-novo-review due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity section-1915 standing vexatious-litigant |
1. Did the Third Circuit err in not doing a De Nova Review of the Federal District Court Dismissal Order when the dismissal was pertaining to 28 USC 2… |
| 22-194 |
Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
|
arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver |
1. Did Ninth Circuit Court err in de-novo review of summary judgment in deciding disputed issues of fact as the district court had done, that 5-years … |
| 21-8016 |
John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement |
Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma… |
| 21-1433 |
Faye Boatright v. U.S. Bancorp, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review deemed-admitted discrimination due-process retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
1. Whether Diebold and the Seventh Amendment prohibit a circuit court reviewing a grant of summary judgment from sanctioning a non-movant under a loca… |
| 21-7649 |
In Re Jamaal A. McNeil |
|
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-court giglio-law letter-of-rogatory standing tort-claims |
/defendant, would like to ask and request to the Court of Appeals may the ground (s) and;grounds presented be denovo reveiw, ack-nowledged, and determ… |
| 21-7629 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
article-iii-judicial-officer civil-procedure de-novo-review diversity-jurisdiction due-process full-and-fair-review magistrate-referral report-and-recommendation standing substantial-rights summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari |
I. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari on appealability.
II. Whether the district court should provide complete record on appeal (ROA)… |
| 21-1347 |
Kevas L. Ballance v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination… |
| 21-7594 |
Orin Kristich v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
1. Whether the Appellant's Appeal Counsel, Mr. Acton, can tell the court that the Appellant agrees to dismiss the Appeal without ever talking to the A… |
| 21-1244 |
Beijing Shougang Mining Investment Company, Ltd., et al. v. Mongolia |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-investment-treaty civil-procedure de-novo-review first-options-doctrine first-options-v-kaplan judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-objections |
Whether, as the Second Circuit held, participating in arbitration—including agreeing to a scheduling order as to the timing of jurisdictional objectio… |
| 21-7142 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction article-iii-court civil-procedure de-novo-review dispositive-motions due-process judicial-review magistrate magistrate-referral standard-of-review |
1. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari regarding denial of the timely request for the substantial right of de novo determination by Art… |
| 21-6906 |
Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure de-novo-review employer-capacity erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty motion-to-dismiss plan-amendment plan-sponsor settlors-function two-hats-doctrine |
Question 1: Did the district court requiree the Defendants to adhere to the rules regarding a Motion12(b)(6) which prohibits claims asserted in a prio… |
| 21-6752 |
Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
1. Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a pr… |
| 21-879 |
Gregory Mayer v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
benefit-determination benefit-determinations choice-of-law commerce-clause de-novo-review erisa erisa-preemption judicial-review preemption |
1) Is a state law prescribing de novo judicial review for
challenged benefit determinations, regardless of any
discretion the Plan grants to the admin… |
| 21-5852 |
Jay Warren Arnold v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas pro-se-litigation procedural-inquiry state-collateral-review |
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a COA in this Cause by applying Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) in a vague and conclusory ma… |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 21-137 |
Amanda P., et vir, as Parents and Next Friends of T. P., a Minor Individual with a Disability v. Copperas Cove Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clear-error de-novo-review endrew-f-standard endrew-f-v-douglas-county free-appropriate-public-education individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-deference retrospective-assessment standard-of-review |
1. Whether de novo review or clear error is the standard of review applicable to the question of whether a school district has provided a free appropr… |
| 20-8476 |
Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations |
Whether a state of appellants' responsibility should issue where the district court failed to adequately review of the portions of the Report and Reco… |
| 20-1802 |
Joyce Rowley v. City of New Bedford, Massachusetts |
First Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
animal-welfare-act breeding captivity circuit-court-interpretation de-novo-review endangered-species harassment-exception preliminary-injunction usda-aza-substitution |
1.A. Does the harassment exception only apply to members of
endangered species in captivity for breeding to promulgate the
selected species to meet th… |
| 20-1695 |
Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees callon-petroleum-v-frontier civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review frcp-60(b) frcp-60b4 jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements rule-41-dismissal rule-54 standard-of-review |
I.) Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the denial of a FRCP
60(b)(4) (lack of jurisdiction) motion under the "de novo " standard of
review… |
| 20-8133 |
In Re Silas Wilson, Jr. |
|
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process inadequate-hearing judicial-discretion mandamus misreading-of-motion pro-se rule-60 rule-60(b)(4) standard-of-review |
1. Whether this Court has jurisdiction to issue a Writ of Mandamus, directed to the court of appeals, on the basis that it has abused its discretion i… |
| 20-1616 |
ComicMix, LLC, et al. v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof circuit-split copyright-act copyright-law de-novo-review exclusive-rights fair-use market-effect |
(1)
Whether fair use is a right of authors, thus placing the burden on plaintiffs to prove that fair use does not apply on defendants who assert that … |
| 20-1488 |
Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge, on de novo review of objections to a magistrate's report, to refuse to consider a motion to cert… |
| 20-7724 |
John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings |
Is a state court's ruling that a criminal defendant's guilty plea was "voluntary" a constitutional question under the Fourteenth Amendment, subject to… |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the … |
| 20-1181 |
Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review |
When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema… |
| 20-1106 |
Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Whether, on de novo consideration of an ERISA benefits claim, summary judgment must be denied if there is a genuine dispute of material fact.
2. W… |
| 20-1032 |
Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review |
The Panama Convention and the New York Convention authorize the courts of Contracti ng States to refuse enforcement of an arbitral award where enforce… |
| 20-769 |
GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Until the Federal Circuit's decision in this patent case, every Circuit had held that an issue resolved on partial summary judgment, and not reopened … |
| 20-6021 |
William Allen v. Candice Batts, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alexander-v-louisiana constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-discrimination habeas-corpus jefferson-v-morgan systematic-exclusion |
1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief where he was indicted by a grand jury from which African-Americans were systematically exclu… |
| 20-484 |
Patricia L. Woods v. Robert Storms, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-estoppel equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment ninth-circuit-review pro-se-complaint statutes-of-limitation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit decision should be reversed and remanded because the panel erred by failing to conduct de novo review affirming the final ju… |
| 20-433 |
Mark Anthony Jenkins v. Timothy O'Rourke, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-custody-dispute civil-rights conspiracy de-novo-review due-process judicial-conspiracy res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-lawsuit subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio |
The federal district and circuit courts failed to conduct a de novo review and incorrectly denied jurisdiction to this 42 U.S.C.* sec. 1983 lawsuit. I… |
| 20-145 |
Carl Skidmore v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error de-novo-review district-court evidentiary-hearing fact-finding habeas-corpus post-conviction speculative |
I. Whether a certificate of appealability should have issued to address the question whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition as "sp… |
| 20-29 |
Sara Discepolo v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rights foia-review freedom-of-information-act judicial-presumption national-security presumption-of-good-faith summary-judgment |
In all Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA ") cases,
the federal courts apply a deferential "presumption of good
faith " to agency declarations and fo… |
| 20-9 |
Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, et al. v. Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights corporate-law de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment ministerial-exception standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
1. May a Court of Appeals on de novo review of summary judgment refuse to decide a claim predicated on a failure of two non-religious corporations, wi… |
| 19-1320 |
Veronica M. Johnson v. Rock Solid Janitorial, Inc., et al. |
Virginia |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
|
appeal civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-to-dismiss remand standing |
Whether the second Judge who presided in Plaintiffs civil case violated the Constitution by denying Plaintiffs demand for a jury trial, again, after t… |
| 19-1302 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (9) |
aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr… |
| 19-7943 |
J. H. v. E. R. S. |
Colorado |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights |
1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li… |
| 19-7818 |
Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington |
I.
WHETHER UNDER §2254(e)(l) DISTRICT COURT REQUIRED TO GIVE DEFERENCE TO STATE
APPELLATE COURT'S FINDING OF HISTORICAL FACTS AND UPON FINDING THAT P… |
| 19-7800 |
Donald Sheman Bush v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review |
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) provides that "evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to sh… |
| 19-7085 |
Ratha Oeur v. County of Los Angeles, California |
California |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-support continuance de-novo de-novo-review due-process family-law income-expense-declaration standard-of-review unexpected-event |
Does this Court of Appeal's Opinion, to affirm the Trial Court's decision to make or modify a child support order without a current Income and Expense… |
| 19-789 |
Maghreb Petroleum Exploration, S.A., et al. v. John Paul DeJoria |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retroactivity-provisions civil-rights constitutional-law de-novo-review due-process erie-doctrine federal-constitution foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgment judicial-review retroactive-application retroactive-legislation retroactivity texas-constitution texas-law texas-legislature uniform-foreign-country-money-judgments-recognitio |
1. Respondent John Paul DeJoria is a billionaire who co-founded a Moroccan company, was found liable in Moroccan court for defrauding Petitioners and … |
| 19-6983 |
Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 19-662 |
Thomas Sander v. City of Dickinson, North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process evidence seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
1. Whether a civil litigant's right to trial by jury under the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is violated when a United St… |
| 19-6608 |
Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
This non-capital habeas case arises out of Steve Romero's 2006 conviction in the state court of California for attempted murder and the Ninth Circuit'… |
| 19-5429 |
Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances |
In the context of the Fourth Amendment, this Court has characterized the voluntariness of consent to a search as "a question of fact to be determined … |
| 19-5122 |
David Alan Westerfield v. California |
California |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review |
A. Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell (1964) 384 U.S. 333 at page 362, that appellate courts, reviewing the measures taken by the trial… |
| 18-9675 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence |
As recognized in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of a… |
| 18-9611 |
Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal |
How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th… |
| 18-1508 |
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
|
claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz |
1. Where the district court properly instructed the jury to give a claim limitation its "plain and ordinary meaning as viewed from the perspective of … |
| 18-9201 |
Galen Lemar Amerson, et al. v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-rule civil-procedure conceivable-effect de-novo-review due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction testate-estate wills-and-trusts withdrawal-of-reference |
This is the second time the court has seen this case. The issue to be considered is subject matter jurisdiction, and did it ever exist in this long ru… |
| 18-9002 |
David Curtis Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa de-novo-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Petitioner was prejudiced under the Sixth Amendment due to trial counsel's failure to object to a concededly erroneous jury instruction an… |
| 18-8788 |
Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review |
WHERE A STATE COURT DENIES A PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH THE NECESSARY FACTUAL RECORD TO SUPPORT A CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL,… |
| 18-8348 |
Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review |
1. The prejudice component of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), presents a mixed question of law and fact. Id. at 698. When a district co… |
| 18-8320 |
Darius Andre Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states |
This Court should grant the writ because the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring … |
| 18-1046 |
Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 18-7703 |
Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination |
1)
DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO
UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE
TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO… |
| 18-935 |
Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (3) |
child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review |
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires that any child wrongfully removed from her country of "habitual re… |
| 18-7265 |
Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure |
I.
Is a motion for a directed verdict an
objection that preserves an issue for and
mandates de novo
review?
Petitioner answers,
"Yes."
Respondent has … |
| 18-795 |
William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must… |
| 18-769 |
Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris |
I. The question presented is whether the principles
enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny
require a federal court, having properly before it… |
| 18-6939 |
Jonathan S. Nelson v. Joe Norwood, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography conviction-reversal de-novo-review due-process first-amendment obscenity scienter |
Concerning a violation of KSA 21-3516a(2), given that the images' nature was reasonably disputed, does the right to a de novo review demand the revers… |
| 18-6744 |
Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p |
Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea?
Whether the Unite… |
| 18-6738 |
Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing |
This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is… |
| 18-616 |
Roger Nepal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law |
Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th… |
| 18-452 |
Jesse L. Wesley, III v. Town Square Media West Central Radio Broadcasting, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review motion-to-amend standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's decision on a motion to
amend a summary judgment should be reviewed with
the standard of abuse of discretion or de novo. |
| 18-6109 |
Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a thus resulting in a severe departure from the typica… |
| 18-6066 |
Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review |
I Whether the Fifth Circuits cursory, review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. s 3Bl.2 d… |
| 18-5622 |
Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction |
Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C. 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253?… |
| 18-5605 |
Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability |
1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence?
2. May the United States Courts of Appeal… |
| 18-5255 |
Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility |
In de novo review of a Brady claim, where the Commonwealth suppressed evidence of inducements provided to its witnesses, may a court find the suppress… |