dismissal-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6397 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-standard judicial-consistency procedural-fairness rule-12b6 The standard for dismissing claims under Rule 12 (b) 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is variable across the circuit courts. It is as variabl…
24A628 Shaheryar Khan v. Nancy K. Curry, Trustee Ninth Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete civil-liberties court-procedure dismissal-standard frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit Question not identified.
23-7255 Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine 1. Whether the 11th Circuit Court erred when it did not consider Horace's medical records and expert witness statements raised in argument to the Dist…
22-723 Jonathan VanLoan v. Nation of Islam, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-baseless-standard denton-v-hernandez dismissal-standard factual-allegations frivolous neitzke-v-williams section-1983 subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the legal standard for dismissal of a plaintiffs 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case, for factual allegations deemed "fantastical " by the court, the "clearly…
22-235 Paul S. Morrissey, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (2) appellate-circuit-split case-termination civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-standard federal-rules prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review statute-of-limitations willful-noncompliance Whether a discretionary dismissal without prejudice, which nevertheless functions as a dismissal with prejudice because it would end a case forever, i…
21-6914 Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process fifth-circuit-interpretation judicial-proceedings pro-se-representation standing successive-petitions supervisory-power Question No. one: The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has entered a decision involving denial of a Constitutional Right which is…
21-6291 Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia…
19-1312 Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation 1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test…