inferences
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-1224 | Laila N. Hirjee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference | I. What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be dra… |
| 22-5060 | Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment | 1. Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegation… |
| 22-16 | Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC v. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. | Second Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal inference-drawing inferences judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleadings rule-12b6 state-of-mind twombly-standard | Whether the courts below deviated from and disregarded this Court's holding in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), by granting dismissal … |
| 21-1586 | Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment | I. Did the Fifth Circuit, in accepting the District Court's findings of fact, probable cause of the fall and legal authority, violate the basic princi… |