gatekeeping-function

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
24-580 Richard Cotromano, et al. v. RTX Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion daubert-standard dose-reconstruction environmental-exposure expert-testimony gatekeeping-function Whether the abuse of discretion standard requires the Circuit Courts to assess whether a trial court performed its gatekeeping function adequately rat…
22-6491 Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification Due process prohibits any "suggestive and unnecessary identification procedure" that does not possess "sufficient aspects of reliability." Manson v. B…
22-5734 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from …
21-7309 Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability Whether district courts, serving as Daubert/Kumho Tire gatekeepers, have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as ex…
21-6225 Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding 1. Whether the First Circuit misapplied this Court's rulings on RICO Conspiracy by approving an instruction allowing a jury to convict if it determine…