trier-of-fact

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5771 Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois Illinois 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact 1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de…
23-6177 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did…
22-6818 Jessica Page Weber v. Cigna, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standing social-security standing trier-of-fact The duty to report and the duty to advise is codified in the United States Constitution, the highest court in the land. Litigation is a contentious ma…
21-7384 Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the jury's verdict as to Count One should be reversed as the evidence against Mr. Lane was constitutionally…
19-5933 Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o…
19-33 Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation The anti-retaliation provision of the Sarb­anes-Oxley Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1514A(a), forbids retaliation against an employee because he or she disclosed t…
18-369 Fidencio Valdez v. Texas Texas 2018-09-20 Denied circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony 1. When a defendant knows or should know that a prosecutor has used or introduced false or perjured evidence before the trier-of-fact, is there an obl…