substantive-law
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-1308 | Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC | Florida | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law | This Petition presents the question of whether state law supersedes the federal substantive law of res judicata in determining whether a federal final… |
| 24-480 | Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law | 1. Did the June 6, 2024, decision of the Eleventh Circuit fail to comply with the rule that a federal court, in a case in which jurisdiction is founde… |
| 24-5732 | In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster | 2024-10-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation forum-transfer judicial-misconduct procedural-rules substantive-law writ-of-prohibition | 1. Why have Judge's of the Western District of Louisiana (Lake Charles) Division been Practicing Law? 2. Why have Plaintiff substantive rights been v… | |
| 23-741 | Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Denied | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law | Whether the cross-appeal rule, which prohibits the granting of a remedy in favor of an appellee absent the filing of a cross-appeal, is jurisdictional… | |
| 22-7481 | Anthony Allen v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition | I. Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the .law and facts by failure to brief and raise the following issues on appeal constitutes … |
| 22-953 | Pablo Calderon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law | Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated … |
| 22-6495 | Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-01-09 | Denied | IFP | colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga | Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply rule of substantive law retroactiv… |
| 22-252 | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law | Whether, under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), federal courts sitting in diversity should apply federal or state law to determine t… | |
| 22-57 | Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-21 | Denied | Response Waived | church-organization constitutional-law constitutional-mandate integrated-auxiliary iRS-subpoena jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge non-organization-private-church procedural-error subpoena substantive-law | Whether both the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction not given and declined to exercise jurisdiction given by denying Petition… |
| 22-18 | Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law | Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum State's choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rule… |
| 21-8285 | Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2022-06-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty | 1.) Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule? 2.) Should McGirt be applied retroactively? |
| 21-1508 | David Dotson v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response Waived | choice-of-forum day-in-court erie-doctrine federalism forum-selection insurance-litigation res-judicata substantive-law | Did the court of appeals violate the federalism principle of Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) when it refused to apply Louisiana's substant… |
| 21-7936 | Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law | Does a disabled veterar have a "personal stake, interest, or standing" on seing that his wlthheld 20% bereFit, dve to his incarcerator, recelve a 'spe… |
| 21-919 | Rodenburg LLP, dba Rodenburg Law Firm v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | boilerplate-exclusion commercial-liability commercial-liability-policies illusory-coverage insurance-coverage jurisdictional-split north-dakota-law policy-interpretation property-rights split-of-authority substantive-law | 1. Did the court of appeals' expansive reading of a boilerplate exclusion used nationwide by insurers in their commercial liability policies, a readin… |
| 21-872 | Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response Waived | aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law | 1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence? … |
| 21-5967 | Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Relisted (11)IFP | collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver | Pursuant to this Court's holding in Class, does an unconditional guilty plea, by itself, waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under §… |
| 21-5393 | Hemy Neuman v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal | Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl… |
| 21-5356 | Joel Dale Wright v. Florida | Florida | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 20-1566 | David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law | Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive… |
| 20-7228 | Leroy Pooler v. Florida | Florida | 2021-02-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the… |
| 20-814 | James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law | This Court has recognized three immutables: 1. Appellate courts are limited to reviewing the trial court record for errors of law and do not decide is… |
| 20-6518 | Blaine Milam v. Texas | Texas | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law | 1. Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review and, if so, did the Texas Court of Criminal Ap… |
| 20-6515 | Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida | Florida | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law | 1.Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause … |
| 20-6043 | Robin Lee Archer v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 19-1070 | Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search | Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D… |
| 18-9378 | In Re Tae Hon Chon | 2019-05-22 | Dismissed | IFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law | Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio… | |
| 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… |
| 18-8090 | Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-22 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo… |
| 18-7133 | Paul Burks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty | Contrary to the rule in James v. United States, 366 U.S. 213 (1961), is the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law … |
| 18-616 | Roger Nepal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law | Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th… |
| 18-174 | Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. | Nebraska | 2018-08-08 | Denied | arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law | "Congress adopted the [Federal] Arbitration Act in 1925" because "courts were unduly hostile to arbitration." Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 161… | |
| 18-108 | David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent | Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme… | |
| 24A1261 | Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi | Mississippi | Denied | capital-punishment due-process ex-post-facto-clause res-judicata substantive-law successive-petition | Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court's inconsistent application of Mississippi law—holding that all legislation is substantive law under Howell and R… |