objective-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A827 | John A. Amster, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Application | administrative-interpretation dodd-frank enforcement-action objective-standard sec-regulations whistleblower-award | 1. This case presents an important question regarding whether the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is entitled to reinterpret its own regulati… | |
| 23-7123 | Ivan Isho v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions mental-state objective-standard recklessness stalking true-threats | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision below violated the standard this Court announced in Counterman—that true threats prosecutions require a mental st… |
| 23-728 | Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response Waived | employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities | Under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, an employer who discriminates on compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of race, r… |
| 23-210 | Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee | To successfully state a constitutional claim for inadequate medical care, a pretrial detainee must show that a correctional healthcare provider was de… |
| 22-707 | Barry J. Cadden v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement | 1. Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point "vulnerable victim" enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, abse… |
| 22-598 | Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness | Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an… |
| 22-449 | Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. | Washington | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal | 1. Whether judges in Washington State must specifically address the judicial partiality claims actually asserted by the parties against judicial offic… |
| 22-374 | Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-21 | GVR | Relisted (5) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard | Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 22-138 | Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-08-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (20)Relisted (5) | first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats | Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively k… |
| 22-5217 | Ramell Markus v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective | Like other Sentencing Guidelines provisions involving violence, the Guidelines for kidnapping offenses (USSG §2A4.1) enhance a defendant's sentence wh… |
| 22-5036 | Raleigh Figueras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2106 circuit-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review objective-standard prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. When a circuit court unambiguously and erroneously applies a subjective standard in assessing whether a habeas petitioner has established the preju… |
| 21-1210 | Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test | Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad… |
| 20-8178 | Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal | 1. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal's criticism regarding the infamous Chicago 7 trial includes that "in comparable situations, the judge likely to… |
| 20-7612 | Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop | To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may … |
| 20-5149 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing | 1. Did The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Commit an Abuse of Discretion By: (a) Exceeding the Scope of Review Defined By 28 USC. § 1355) (b) Failure … |
| 19-7729 | Aaron New v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit 's opinion contradict this Court 's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 19… |
| 19-935 | Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction | On February 5, 2016, Hamilton County Coal, LLC ("HCC") notified 158 full-time employees, approximately 50 percent of its full-time workforce, that the… | |
| 19-7368 | Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud | Materiality is one of the essential elements of mail and wire fraud. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999). A false statement is "material" if… |
| 19-7098 | Antonio Shaw v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony | (1) Whether defense Counsel's performance in failing to inform client of important witness against him fell below an objectively reasonable Standard o… |
| 19-6983 | Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review | Question not identified. |
| 19-293 | TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury | Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I… |
| 18-752 | Edward Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats | The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the "true threats" doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is s… |