defendant-conduct

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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…