| 24-7406 |
Doug Kisaka v. University of Southern California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-court-interpretation judicial-discretion res-judicata |
(a) . "In a case originating in federal court, can a district court judge in the final and 5th Action, rely on a state court 's intermediate interpret… |
| 24-602 |
Daniel Graff v. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, aka Brighthouse Financial Life Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-interpretation separation-of-powers state-law-deference statutory-construction |
1. Whether a Federal Court, in disregard of state law and of rules in decisions made by the highest court in a state, can interpret a statute such tha… |
| 22-7312 |
Jackie Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-panel criminal-history domestic-violence federal-circuit-court federal-court-interpretation federal-implications panel-decision sixth-circuit-rule state-court-interpretation state-law state-law-interpretation |
To resolve a federal defendant's criminal history, must a circuit court panel use the current state court interpretations of state conviction, or may … |
| 20-522 |
Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
|
categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c… |
| 19-870 |
Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code |
Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s… |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the "ministerial exception" … |