evidentiary-presumption
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-187 | Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York | Second Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption | In 2021, Petitioner discovered that New York City had issued him a notice of violation in 2015. When he filed this lawsuit to challenge the constituti… |
| 23-5816 | Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity | The West Virginia Supreme Court interpreted a statute to create an unconstitutional evidentiary presumption. Specifically, the West Virginia Supreme C… |
| 19-7100 | Damon Jones v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-presumption evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment specific-intent transferred-intent | In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 309 (1979), this Court held "(t]he Constitution prohibits the criminal conviction of any person except upon proo… |
| 19-5609 | Marlin Chin and Patrick E. Lee v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | decades-old-case evidentiary-presumption judicial-discretion missing-evidence motion-for-new-trial new-trial presumption-of-impropriety trial-court-error witness-fees witness-vouchers | Whether the trial court erred in denying a Motion for New Trial when witness vouchers issued for payment of witness fees in a decades old case could n… |