state-court-ruling

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-503 Matthew D. McMaster v. Arthur McCracken, et al. Georgia 2025-10-23 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-code federal-preemption lease-termination residential-lease state-court-ruling 1. Whether the Bankruptcy Clause of the United States Constitution and 11 U.S.C. § 365(e)(1) preempt a state court ruling that a residential lease and…
24A650 PCJV USA, LLC, et al. v. Shakey's Pizza Asia Ventures, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete federal-court-conflict full-faith-and-credit preclusive-effect res-judicata state-court-ruling trademark-dispute Question not identified.
23-6439 Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity by …
23-6110 Eulandas J. Flowers v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus miller-claim miller-v-alabama postconviction-proceedings procedural-default state-court-ruling state-postconviction In state postconviction proceedings, Mr. Flowers challenged his life-without-parole sentence as violating Miller v. Arizona, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), thre…
22-7870 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas Texas 2023-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-7704 Theresa Marshall v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing state-court-ruling Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
21-1587 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling 1. AEDPA generally prohibits courts from awarding habeas relief to state prisoners. It lifts that prohibition with respect to prisoners in custody bec…
21-1437 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct non-final-orders probate-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-orders state-court-ruling Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two incomplete, non final, non court approved proposed State Court Rulings produced by a former Associate Jud…
20-8063 Darius Theriot v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP case-by-case-review constitutional-error federal-constitutional-error federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error state-court-ruling unpreserved-claim Whether a state court's ruling that an unpreserved claim of federal constitutional error does not meet the requirements of the "plain error" standard …
20-7787 Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling Jurisdiction for federal habeas? Why Appellant Constitutional error should be cognizable in a petition for Habeas Corpus? Whether errors by courts i…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
18-8871 Roy L. Rambo v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act asset-freezing counsel-of-choice criminal-prosecution due-process personal-assets sixth-amendment state-court-ruling 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated when a state court issued an order which froze the defendant's lawfully acquire…