legislative-amendment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5797 Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado Colorado 2025-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing 1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of jus…
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh…
21-6512 Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w…
21-6391 Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w…
20-203 LaDonna Degan, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Fifth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights dallas-pension-statute federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment legislative-amendment property-interest retirement-funds takings-clause Prior to 2017, retired Dallas police and firefighters had the right to withdraw the earned and accrued retirement funds deposited in their Deferred Re…
19-5301 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca Bad Bertrand? In this first degree murder prosecution, the jury returned an eleven-to-one…
18-9135 Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction of (10) years when the (O.G.S.) offense gravity score was changed from Felony (1) t…
18-8093 John Ferreira v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta…
18-1092 Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination 1. Does a plausible allegation that a facially "neutral" law acts as a proxy for viewpoint discrimination state a valid claim for relief under the Fir…