legal-argument
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6465 | Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error | 1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a… |
| 24-6810 | Faouzi Jaber v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | claim-dismissal constitutional-rights court-ruling judicial-procedure legal-argument procedural-due-process | WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS WHEN THE LOWER COURTS ENTEREDERULING DISMISSING HIS CLAIM WITHOUT PROVIDING HIM AN OPPORTUNIT… |
| 23-5662 | Charles Keith Wampler v. Alicia Handwerk, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-laws due-process interpretation judicial-interpretation judicial-writing legal-argument legal-interpretation legislative-drafting legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-laws word-definition | It is an established fact that some laws, whether they be statutory laws or case laws, can be written in a way that is confusing to the lay person. Wh… |
| 22-5668 | Thomas Guerriero v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule, which bars consideration of arguments not raised or decided previously, should be overturned. |
| 22-5602 | Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony | 1. Whether, in direct conflict with other federal and state decisions, the Missouri Court of Appeals correctly held that under the Sixth Amendment, tr… |
| 20-5107 | Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware | Delaware | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing | Whether the State Court allowed an illegal and unconstitutional search, without Probable Cause at the inception, based on an affidavit containing an o… |
| 19-7377 | Gerald Adger v. New York | New York | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence | 1. WAS THE APPELLATE ATTORNEY DAVID R. JUERGENS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING ANY LEGAL ARGUMENT AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE? … |
| 18-6813 | Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California | California | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant | was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court… |
| 18-5141 | Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas | Texas | 2018-07-05 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules | Should Mr. Frederiksen continue to suffer and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction, when the lower state courts fail to compl… |