litigation-strategy

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24-825 WC Realty Group, Inc., dba Century 21 WC Realty v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) copyright-infringement fee-motion litigation-strategy meritorious-defense statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a …
23-1353 Kansas, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-rule-making collusive-settlements federal-government federal-government-defense intervention litigation-strategy ninth-circuit standing sue-and-settle Did the Ninth Circuit err when it denied States with sufficient interests the ability to intervene as defendants after the federal government stopped …
23-1179 United States, ex rel. Regie Salgado, et al. v. TruConnect, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied civil-procedure fact-issue litigation-strategy self-serving self-serving-testimony summary-judgment testimony uncorroborated uncorroborated-evidence Whether a party's own testimony can create a fact issue to defeat summary judgment when the testimony is uncorroborated and self-serving.
23-6634 Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States First Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2 A. What is the appropriate standard of review when an appellate court improperly grants a motion for summary dismissal that has the practical effect o…
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing 1. Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule when they sought to do so within days of the federal government's unprecedent…
21-586 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment 1. Is the Seventh Circuit decision, requiring that claims between the parties that occur after the filing of a lawsuit must be filed in a pending laws…
21-5537 John Creech v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy?
19-1272 Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy Whether under the doctrine of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases, as the Fi…
18-1155 James Michael Murphy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata Is a second defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of the first lawsuit, where key information about additional, later, widespre…
18-897 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Marlene Nally, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Nally, Sr., Deceased Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle jury-findings litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-doctrine res-judicata standing tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-788 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Gwendolyn E. Odom, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Juanita Thurston Florida 2018-12-20 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny jury-findings legal-procedure litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-principles res-judicata standing tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
24A729 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-discretion judicial-procedure litigation-strategy mandate-recall ninth-circuit pro-se Question not identified.