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25-559 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-07 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evid…
23-7296 George E. Lacey v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance joinder right-to-counsel status-charges 1. Whether, and to what extent, the joinder of status charges with non-status charges in a single trial denies criminal defendants the right to a fair…
23-7098 Jeffrey Rivard v. Town of Brattleboro, Vermont Vermont 2024-03-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure consolidation joinder negligence police-misconduct standing supreme-court-review The first question is toward a Rules of Civil Procedure of Vermonts own ▼ r rt \T m W7-+ m /I h S' ittiI Iy i/iic ixcyviaixc vv xuuiiaiii uuuxi njivu …
23-5891 Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Petitioner Hidalgo made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the failure of counsel t…
23-5668 Maurice Bellamy v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion I. Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment II. Whether the cruel, heinous and atr…
22-483 Paige Lee, et al. v. Anthony Lawrence Collection, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied civil-procedure federal-rules infringement joinder licensing nonparty-joinder rule-19 standing trademark trademark-joinder trademark-licensing Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 19(a), the joinder of IP owners/licensors as plaintiffs alongside licensees is required to prevent double recov…
21-911 Dan V. Sharp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date. Whether the Court erred in requiring the Appellant to appear in shackles in front of …
21-5668 Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal Trujillo's trial was rendered fundamentally unfair due to the joint trial of unrelated charges and the admission of highly prejudicial gang evidence r…
20-1734 Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees intervention joinder prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing I. Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires each prisoner filing a lawsuit to pay a separate filing fee. II. Whether the Prison Litigation R…
20-1651 Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu…
20-7066 William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness WHETHER ECHOLS WAS DENIED A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL DUE TO SEVERAL MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS THAT INCLUDED AN IMPROPER JOINER O…
20-6782 Juan Carlos Guadron-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-communication civil-procedure criminal-joinder extortion-conspiracy gang-related-crime interstate-facilities joinder prejudice severance travel-act 1. Do federal joinder laws permit the expansive joinder of two unrelated cases with no factual commonality apart from one defendant's involvement in b…
20-5239 Junior Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct joinder severance 1. Whether courts must consider allegations of "bad faith" by the government when deciding motions to join counts pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 8(a), o…
19-7539 Shamir Kane v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hobbs-act joinder severance witness-tampering 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in upholding the District Court's joinder, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 8, of counts in an indictment related to one Hobbs A…
19-900 Jessica Vennie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response Waived conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act Whether charging two defendants with participating in the conduct of a single legal enterprise that has many legal purposes is sufficient to permit jo…
18-8054 Michael Kenneth Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out…
18-5527 Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense 1. The Fourth Circuit contends in its decision that the Appellant failed to establish that the alleged Brady violation was material. Is the decision b…
18-77 Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure federal-circuit involuntary-plaintiff joinder patent patent-law rule-19 standing supreme-court Did the Federal Circuit properly create an exception to Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in patent law, requiring a dismissal of a case…