retroactive-statute

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-601 Ralston Brown v. Mellekas, Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process judicial-estoppel megan's-law plea-agreement retroactive-statute Weather the Respondent violated the Petitioner Constitutional Rights By acting under color of law? Whether the New York Court of Appeals, overlooked …
21-660 Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response Waived counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law For at least a decade, the petitioner has been using the registered and now-incontestable trademark "Freelancer" in commerce with various goods and se…
18-8975 Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation 1) WAS PETITIONER SMILEY WRONGFULLY CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED WITH BREAKING A SPECIFIED STATUTE, (PC:607, GCD)), WHICH CHANGED THE LEGAL CONSEQ…
18-5737 Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation The Court of Appeals has adopted and applied a "Fifth Circuit Principle" that "changes in the discretionary. ules, affecting. parole suitability canno…