fairness
21 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5054 | Amir Aqeel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias culpability due-process equal-justice fairness Involuntary-Plea-Agreement mandatory-guidelines nationality nationality-bias plea-agreement religion sentencing sentencing-disparity Violation-of-Policy-5H1.10 | 1. **Sentencing Disparity:** Whether a significant disparity in the sentencing of co-defendants violates the principle of equal justice under the law,… |
| 23-7430 | Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness | Plain Error; Summary Judgment; Willful Blindness; Abuse of Discretion; Fairness; Integrity and Public Reputation of Judicial Proceedings. |
| 23-7277 | Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness | Plain Error; Summary Judgment; Willful Blindness; Abuse of Discretion; Fairness; Integrity and Public Reputation of Judicial Proceedings; Ends of Just… |
| 23-6538 | Ye-Ying Cen v. Oliver Wilfred Cass | Minnesota | 2024-01-23 | Denied | IFP | alimony-tax-law cognitive-impairments due-process fairness fiduciary-duty guardian-ad-litem legal-ethics procedural-fairness spousal-support | 1) The Minnesota Lower Court's Disregard for Informed Consent and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Eroded the Petitioner's Rights and the Integrity of the Leg… |
| 22-554 | Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (4) | class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval | Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as "fair, reasonable, and adequate" under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial… |
| 22-5907 | Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney | Maryland | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action | 1. Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th. Amendment … |
| 21-7001 | Adam J. Tenser v. Beth Silverman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-interpretation legal-solicitude liberal-construction pro-se self-representation slander standing | Whether this Court's articulation of the pro se liberal construction rule in Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 529 (1972) implies a general withdrawal of the… |
| 21-521 | Foster Wheeler, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | California | 2021-10-08 | Denied | civil-procedure deposition-time-limit due-process fairness fairness-doctrine judicial-remedies mesothelioma mesothelioma-litigation time-limits | Where a mesothelioma plaintiff sues more than 100 defendants, and the plaintiff's health would not be endangered by the deposition process, does newly… | |
| 20-7510 | In Re Leonard English | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fairness fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-discretion ninth-amendment | 1) Does any judge have the discretion to arbitrarily pick what relevant written & verified facts to consider and not apply them to governing laws for … | |
| 20-6616 | In Re Theresa Romain | 2020-12-14 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment certiorari-petition civil-procedure constitutional-fairness due-process fairness finality-of-legal-process legal-process standing state-interest void-order | 1. Whether a void order within the meaning of the Constitution can automatically restrain a petition to Certiorari ? 2. Whether a mob trial process c… | |
| 19-8515 | Michael Munday v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment | In affirming the 12-year upward departure sentence, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of ju… |
| 19-7992 | Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 | Alabama | 2020-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights | Whether a Citizen of the United States, have a right to "Due Process " under the law. Whether the fundamental principle of Fairness and Justice in al… |
| 19-7530 | Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida | Florida | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review | 1. Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny which establishes review of claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, ade… |
| 19-6421 | Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers | Whether in affirming the imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of 360 months on Ralph Fox, where (1) Petitioner Fox entered a guilty plea and (… |
| 19-560 | Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation | Whether the scènes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the… |
| 19-6376 | Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights | 1. Whether, consistent with the Due Process Clause, a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 19-163 | Margaret A. Norton v. Colgate Palmolive Company | New Jersey | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-judgment due-process fairness judgement judicial-mistake legal-procedure mistake-of-fact precedent right-of-fairness standing supreme-court-precedent | Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court failed to apply Supreme Court Precedent, when an acknowledged mistake by the court resulted in an improper judgem… |
| 18-6692 | Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines | Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, this Court should determine that the sentence imposed on… |
| 18-6113 | Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that… |
| 18-6075 | Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas | Texas | 2018-09-21 | Denied | IFP | adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review | This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a S… |
| 18-5618 | Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit | Where the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit leaves open the question of whether or not a plain error affects the petitioner's subst… |