federal-circuits
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-333 | Tangtang Zhao v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution | What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, … |
| 25-289 | Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment | Courts in every federal district apply Rule 56 to 2255 motions; the application, however, is uneven. In the Second Circuit, the summary-judgment rules… |
| 22-433 | The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing | A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court … |
| 21-729 | Shirene Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | The Court avoided a "vagueness shoal" in Skilling by holding that 18 U.S.C. § 1346's prohibition on schemes targeting "the intangible right of honest … |
| 19-1453 | Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller | Michigan | 2020-07-02 | Denied | acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts | The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court… | |
| 18-9798 | Craig A. Lee v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice | Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits, in particular Drew v. United States… |
| 18-632 | Sherilyn J. LeRoux v. NCL (Bahamas), Ltd. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | comparative-negligence federal-circuits general-maritime-law maritime-law open-and-obvious recovery recovery-standard tort-liability uniformity | Under the General Maritime Law of comparative negligence, should a finding of "open and obvious" act as a complete bar to recovery or merely serve as … |