national-importance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6210 Andrew Pierson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exclusionary-rule foreign-searches fourth-amendment joint-venture judicial-conscience national-importance shocks-the-judicial-conscience 1. Whether exceptions exist for the general proposition that the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule does not apply to foreign searches and seizure. An…
23-79 Palani Karupaiyan v. Lee Solomon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process national-importance parental-rights property-rights section-1982 takings writ-of-mandamus Petitioner 's prayed reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly…
21-7865 Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant Whether, absent the presentation of evidence demonstrating an "independent source" at the district court level and absent specific findings of an "ind…
21-1213 Michael Broaden v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 38-usc-4311 employment-rights federal-agencies federal-agency job-qualification job-qualifications military-discrimination military-status-discrimination national-importance uniformed-services-employment uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig veterans-protection Whether federal agencies can l) formulate job position qualifications that violate federal laws that prohibit military status discrimination per the U…
21-695 Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a "fine" for purpose…
20-1268 Michael Suarez v. Alf J. Aanonsen Florida 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-court-conflict appellate-court-decision business-nexus federal-question foreign-corrupt-practices-act national-importance supremacy-clause 1. IS THE OPINION REND ERED BY THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA IN ALF J. AANOSEN, APPELLANT v MICHAEL A. SUAREZ ETC. APPELLEE , (CASE NO…
20-562 John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad…
20-5417 Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence based on a retroactively erased felony violates Due Process of Law, and the denial of a Certificate of Appealab…
19-1306 United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation 1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses…
19-415 Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived 8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether a grant of TPS to an alien by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") constitutes a lawful admission into the United States fo…
18-1192 The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing Since 2011, the federal courts have repeatedly considered whether forcing religious objectors to provide health plans that include contraceptive cover…
18-7686 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-prohibition national-importance separation-of-powers standing 1. Are the issues Presented important and beyond the fucticular Facts and Parties involved ? a. Does there exist a Conflict between Courts of appeals…
18-5962 Theadene Mattis v. Florida Florida 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings When police know that a "confidential informant" being used to secure a search warrant is a suspect's spouse, is the failure to note the spousal relat…