state-court-certification

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6760 Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis…
21-694 Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure business-interruption certification-motion civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations insurance-contract insurance-contract-law judicial-discretion standing state-court-certification supreme-court-jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion and so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
18-6747 Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat…