federal-state-balance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1208 Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case "substantial," such that it would give rise to federal question jurisdiction …
21-171 Joel Zupnik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag…
20-1594 Murray Rojas v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 GVR Amici (1) criminal-statute drug-dispensing drug-regulation fdca federal-criminal-law federal-state-balance federalism lenity medical-practitioner statutory-interpretation young-v-united-states Whether the FDCA's felony prohibitions on "dispensing" drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local…
20-8064 Derrick Grant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits assaulting any person "designated in section 1114 of this title." Section § 1114 designate…
19-5556 Regina Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b) Did my arrest and prosecution violate the narrow federal-state…