defendant-conduct
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-912 | InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2026-02-03 | Pending | civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction | Whether a plaintiff's claim "relates to" a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,… | |
| 24-6072 | John Rogers v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-conduct Does U.S.S.G. §3E1.1 apply when a defendant has vo plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction voluntary-termination | 1. Whether the two clauses in 18 U.S.C. §924(c) creates two separate crimes or a single crime and whether the conflation of the elements of the two di… |
| 22-757 | Jonathan Roberts, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | Relisted (5) | civil-rights defendant-conduct due-process emergency-approval equal-protection injury-in-fact legal-standing predictable-events racial-discrimination standing | During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval for lifesaving oral antiviral treatments. Facing a seve… |
| 21-683 | John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation | Under the Class Action Fairness Act's "local controversy" exception, a federal district court must decline jurisdiction over a class action in which, … | |
| 19-8914 | Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind | Principle of strict statutory construction requires that term "fear" should not be construed broadly to include any non-violent acts of "economic loss… |