gatekeeping-function
6 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |