substitution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-137 Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant was its intent clear that a substituted appellant cou…
22-7383 Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution Can the Court Oua front Substitute the Underlying under the Pertinent §§ of the Contract & Discrimination Regarding State of Employment? Can the Cour…
21-6156 Vilasini Ganesh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP calendar-management conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict counsel-substitution criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process sixth-amendment substitution trial-court-discretion A. Do Sixth Amendment safeguards require trial courts to inquire into existing conflicts between counsel and the defendant before a trial court may de…
21-5932 Michael R. Burns v. United States First Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody civil-rights dna-fabrication due-process evidence-substitution evidence-tampering fabrication forensic-evidence forensic-integrity laboratory-procedure substitution Whether the Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review whether petitioner's conviction was obtained through the fabrication of DNA and fingerpr…
21-5527 Kerry Kotler v. L. Jubert, Deputy Superintendent of Security, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure incarcerated-plaintiffs motion-to-substitute rule-25 service-of-process statement-of-death substitution successor successor-or-representative When a party dies, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(a) permits the party's successor or representative to be substituted by motion "within 90 days a…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution 1) If several states following close versions of Rule 25 (FRCP) have held that judgments without jurisdiction of the decedent are a nullity, and tho…
18-1129 Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution 1. Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78p(b), must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction o…
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Did the DC Circuit err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ("District Court") substituting the United State…