trial-court-procedure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6259 Sam Boyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey…
25-32 Mason Binion v. United States District of Columbia 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-obligation criminal-competency defendant-rights due-process harmless-error trial-court-procedure Whether a procedurally inadequate inquiry into a criminal defendant's competence is rendered constitutionally harmless if defense counsel does not con…
24-6007 Warren Dale Watson v. Dave Bergman, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP faretta-guidelines judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-procedure 1. Mr. Watson alleges that the District State Court failed to follow the requirements in which Watson made a clear and unequivocal request for self-re…
24-5924 Elliot Morales v. New York New York 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure trial-court-procedure waiver Does a criminal trial court violate Iowa v. Tovar in failing to advise a defendant, before he waives his right to trial counsel, of the sentencing exp…
23-1271 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Wendy Rincon, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration arbitration-stay civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim paga-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-1272 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Jessica Reyes Whitt, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claim standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
22-5786 Foroud Foladpour v. City of Upland, California California 2022-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability judicial-discretion negligence standing trial-court-procedure judicial discretion Rearview on a writ of certiorari is not a matter of right Is judicial discretion discretion is abused power of official to act th…
22-5086 Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut Connecticut 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure 1- Plaintiff invoked the violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution of the United States as to the fact that he was not served with a due pr…
21-7879 Stanley Cookston v. Florida Florida 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial retrospective-determination trial-court trial-court-procedure The Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed and remanded this case for the trial court to determine whether it could conduct a hearing to determine Co…
21-7513 Jonathan Carvalho v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-effective-death-penalty-act arbitrary-decisions constitutional-reliability due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard lower-courts supreme-court trial-court-procedure Does the Supreme Court's leeway, and the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") deference, for lower courts to determine due process viol…
21-6696 L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure 1. Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401 2. Did an agreed Recess of trial to allow Respondent to conti…
21-501 James Vincent Liott v. U.S. Bank National Association Pennsylvania 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure concise-statement concise-statements-of-errors due-process ejectment ejectment-action legal-errors preliminary-objections standing trial-court-procedure Did the trial court properly rule on Petitioner's Preliminary Objections to the Ejectment Action; Answer : NO The trial court did not consider the Pet…
20-7070 Jeremy S. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review 1. Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a ju…
18-8387 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicting-rulings defendant-rights due-process forfeiture implied-waiver intelligent judicial-discretion knowing right-to-counsel trial-court-procedure voluntary waiver waiver-of-counsel Whether a trial court violates this Court's requirement that any waiver of counsel be knowing, voluntary and intelligent when it forces a defendant to…