missouri-law
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5869 | Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-13 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor | 1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation… |
| 23-305 | Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment | I. Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing. II. Whether the court can decide t… |
| 22-7699 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | due-process illiteracy juror-qualification juror-qualifications jury-selection missouri-law right-to-fair-trial voir-dire | Michael Tisius was sentenced by a Missouri jury that included an individual who was not qualified to serve under Missouri law. This juror was, and is … |
| 22-5602 | Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony | 1. Whether, in direct conflict with other federal and state decisions, the Missouri Court of Appeals correctly held that under the Sixth Amendment, tr… |
| 19-6348 | Billy J. Griffin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation | Question 1. Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statue indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state cou… |
| 18-9462 | Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender | 1. Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was… |
| 18-7583 | In Re Bill Herron | 2019-01-28 | Denied | IFP | adjudicatory-procedures administrative-procedure deprivation-of-property due-process judicial-review logan-v-zimmerman-brush-co mandamus missouri-administrative-procedure-act missouri-law property-interest property-rights | Question 1: Where the District Court has repeatedly refused to address or adjudicate claims raised by a party, in this and other cases filed by Missou… | |
| 18-675 | Lisa M. West v. Missouri | Missouri | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion admissibility conviction-and-sentence criminal-appeal daubert-review daubert-standard evidence-admissibility expert-witness judicial-review missouri-law scientific-testimony standard-of-review trial-court-discretion | 1. Whether this court should require a de nova review of the trial court's handling of scientific testimony to determine whether Daubert v. Merrell Do… |