trial-court-procedure
14 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |