procedural-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A531 John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application appellate-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal merits-determination party-presentation procedural-rule sua-sponte Question not identified.
24-1294 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law This is a diversity jurisdiction case, where award of attorney's fees was made under the Florida State "offer of judgment" procedure rule, in derogati…
24-7392 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the …
24-783 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Granted Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(1).
24-5775 Timothy Robert Ronk v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment 1. Does the failure of death penalty defense counsel to seek funding for an independent expert, coupled with the failure to challenge the State's flaw…
23-7397 Diamond L. Barnes v. Felicia Adkins, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure concealed-carry constitutional-right due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure procedural-rule second-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction I. A procedural § 2244 one(l)-year statute-of-limitation(s) ruling (Doc.l)(Doc. 1875) (Doc. 1893) governed by Federal Rule 36 of Appellate Procedure …
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, 1 to apply a 2023, decision (Howell v. State.) 2 case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi 's proc…
23-6086 Luis Alberto Marcano-Godoy v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-defendant criminal-procedure government-defense opening-brief procedural-rule reply-brief Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
22-6199 In Re Cornell White 2022-12-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition 1. Can a federal district or appeals court deny habeas corpus relief without factual finding on the record, that a states asserted procedural default …
22-5396 Timothy J. Hill v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law mcgirt-case native-american-rights oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-ruling Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
21-7885 Charles Deon Ladd v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mcgirt-case oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity standing substantive-rule supreme-court takings Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
21-7857 Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
21-6732 Julio Cesar Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mandates nonfrivolous-claims notice-and-opportunity procedural-rule slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court supreme-court-mandate 1. HAS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS EFFECTIVELY ESTABLISHED A PROCEDURAL RULE TO EFFACE yMUli ABRIDGE . OR ABROGATE THE SUPREME COURT*S • MANDAT…
21-5961 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-10-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure To clarify if what the United States Court held in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26 (B)(1) which requires a defendant to …
20-7545 Tyrone Robinson v. Christopher Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing fact-reduction hearing-standard legal-standing plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-rule sentencing standard-of-review standing state-court-jurisdiction SEn+edno,, J)oes+hE nesdd? ptaJe <x reeepnahiE P/Miti-ty of ac^(ii'HL c>r Joe& he orShE (We fo pr&Ve a rsagpncibLE © hEafifig) -for -fad-f redA^'i^c^…
20-270 Irma Rosas v. R.K. Kenzie Corp., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived 7th-circuit case-law civil-complaint civil-procedure dismissal george-v-smith judicial-precedent pleadings procedural-rule seventh-circuit standing WHETHER A CIVIL COMPLAINT CAN BE DISMISSED SOLELY PURSUANT TO GEORGE v. SMITH, 507 F.3D 605 (7TH CIR. 2007)
19-8734 In Re Ren Y. Deng 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the …
19-1348 Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-06-09 Granted Amici (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the phrase "prescribed by the law of the State" in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to…
19-6714 Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law 1. Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collate…
18-8868 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP clerical-error commitment court-filing criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-36 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-correction judicial-error procedural-rule record I. Is It Error For The District Court To File An Order Granting A Petition To Correct A Clerical. Error In The Judgment Under Fed. R. Crirn. P. 36, Bu…
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Is the decision announced in State v. Ronald-Smith, a new susbtantive rule of law that the Federal Constitution requires to be applied retroactively t…