precedent-interpretation
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-815 | Siddharth Kode v. Joseph Pargin, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | contract-discrimination post-formation precedent-interpretation retaliation-claims statute-of-limitations time-barred | |1.| Whether a court's ruling that §1981 postformation discrimination/retaliation claims are time-barred because of its application of 2Y-SoL rather t… | |
| 25-340 | Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the lower court failed to properly weigh Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad's "spite" and "improper… | |
| 23A1046 | Desiree Martinez v. Channon High | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger | Are government officials entitled to qualified immunity in cases not involving time-pressured decisions so long as there is no prior precedent recogni… | |
| 22-7635 | Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 22-6603 | Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 21-7724 | Anthony Fields v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop | 1. Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring com… |
| 21-7220 | Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing | I. For more thn 180 pours this court hs held that the priv Juisicition o 4h0 cquistie ro discretionary; it is a mundatory limitation on a courts juris… |
| 21-6676 | Mario Murillo-Mora v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review precedent-interpretation roe-v-flores-ortega | Whether Circuit Courts of Appeals can Properly Summarily Deny Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability to a Habeas Petitioner when the District Cour… |
| 21-6504 | Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault | (1) Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized … |
| 21-338 | Gary S. Christensen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 16th-amendment criminal-tax due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction irs-determination precedent-interpretation restitution sixteenth-amendment tax-liability | Where no determination of federal tax liability has been made by the IRS and the court of appeals has ruled patently contrary to this court's decision… |
| 21-140 | Rosemary Garity v. APWU National Labor Organization | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | ada-discrimination circuit-court-conflict circuit-courts civil-rights discrimination due-process precedent precedent-interpretation pro-se-considerations summary-judgment union-liability | 1. Is "But for" the standard for ADA discrimination claims as determined here? 2. Did the Ninth Circuit err, in contrast to all other Courts of Appea… |
| 21-5250 | Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller | Whether this Court should grant Certiorari because the Eighth Circuit opinion overlooked the binding precedent set forth in U.S. v. Miller when determ… |
| 20-6755 | Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-1307 | Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect | Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part… | |
| 19-6453 | James E. Lang v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation | When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it's statutory law committed by it's lower appellate Court, that has affirmed a c… |
| 18-1147 | Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. | Utah | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing | 5. Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence, under the doctrine of equitable maxim, that contradicts its own precedence's by freel… |