merger-doctrine
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6264 | Suresh Munshani v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud | 1. The following question is presented here. Does the merger of Petitioner's money laundering conspiracy conviction with Petitioner's wire fraud consp… |
| 24-537 | Canadian Standards Association v. P.S. Knight Company, Limited, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Amici (3) | copyright-law government-edicts intellectual-property legal-protection merger-doctrine statutory-interpretation | Whether the government-edicts and merger doctrines strip concededly copyrighted and copyrightable works of protection under the Copyright Act merely b… |
| 23-988 | Justin Holder v. Jeffrey Young, et al. | Maryland | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment fifth-amendment in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction land-transfer merger-doctrine municipal-power police-power property-rights subdivision-ordinance taking takings | The Town of Keedysville, Maryland's (the "Town') Subdivision Ordinance defines a "subdivision," wherein that definition, in its pertinent part, exclud… |
| 20-7315 | Ursula Owens v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability | Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
| 19-6606 | Ryan T. Root v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION? II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED… |