expert-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-639 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe…
25A419 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete antitrust class-certification damages-class-action expert-evidence federal-rule-civil-procedure predominance Question not identified.
24-1251 Nicole Gilbert-Daniels v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response Waived copyright-infringement due-process expert-evidence ninth-circuit substantial-similarity summary-judgment 1. Substantial Similarity and Summary Judgment: Does the Ninth Circuit's application of the extrinsic test and its requirement of striking similarity …
24-926 John R. Stensrud, et al. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority New York 2025-02-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation expert-evidence federal-law just-compensation legal-preemption state-regulation This case is the consequence of the state courts' elevation of a state regulation over federal law. Thus, the question presented is: whether a state r…
24-6134 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard Petitioner Joshua Villalobos was convicted largely on the unchallenged testimony of a medical examiner, Dr. Alex Zhang, who concluded that the victim …
23-1286 Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Amici (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split equal-access-to-justice-act expert-evidence federal-agency judicial-review litigation-standards substantial-justification Whether the government's decision to take a case to trial is "substantially justified" (28 U.S.C. § 2412) when the government's case relies solely on …
23-1243 Kirk Johnston v. Chad Kroeger, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access access-evidence copyright-infringement damages damages-discovery expert-evidence expert-testimony musicology substantial-similarity summary-judgment My name is Kirk Johnston, and I brought suit against the members of Nickelback and Warner Chappell for copyright infringement upon learning that my so…
20-8279 Kirk Cottom v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation computer-logs due-process expert-evidence fabrication falsification indictment ineffective-assistance perjured-testimony perjury 1) Is it a due process violation for the government to obtain an indictment based on perjured testimony about fabricated, and falsified computer log…
18-5938 Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence 1.) Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with…