legal-uniformity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5886 Kevin Scott v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and rules to similarly situate state prisoners violate the Due Process and Equal Pro…
24-899 Milos Product Tanker Corporation v. Valero Marketing and Supply Company Ninth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived cargo-freight carrier-exception dominion-over-cargo legal-uniformity maritime-law shipping-commerce Under maritime law, a receiver of cargo who has not paid freight, and who (before exercising dominion over the cargo) is given notice to pay freight t…
22-6809 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues?
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h…
19-5195 Cleo Hines v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeal civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-case-law legal-uniformity The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution requires the law to treat identically situated persons in the same…
18-1371 Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent 1. Should Morley v. CIA, 894 F.3d 389 (D.C. Cir. 2018) ("Morley XI") be reversed because it is in direct conflict with Dept. of Justice v. Tax Analyst…
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Question not identified.