misinformation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-965 | Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation | Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso… |
| 24-6230 | La'Tesa Cobbs v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2025-01-03 | Denied | IFP | appeals-board good-cause misinformation procedural-error resignation unemployment-insurance | 1. Does the false information Petitioner received about the position with J. Paul Getty Trust explain why she declined the security officer position o… |
| 24A368 | Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Presumed Complete | content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-censorship misinformation social-media-platforms | Question not identified. | |
| 22-5562 | Christopher Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process first-step-act government-response judicial-discretion misinformation reply section-404 sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance | Whether Petitioner was denied his due process rights when the district court granted his Section 404 of the First Step Act motion, but imposed upward … |
| 21-7726 | Michael Charles Sartin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari | Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi… |
| 21-6749 | Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty | May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding … |
| 19-5274 | Anthony James Hill v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker | Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 18-7367 | Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment | In light of this court's decision in Lee v. United States, 198 L. Ed. 2d 476 (2017) was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing whe… |
| 18-6112 | Opherro G. Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6138 | Lance Fox v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |