uniformity
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-1019 | CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity | 1. Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must, as a matter of law, give district court decisions granting class ce… |
| 21-344 | Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur | This Court has recognized that while the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) reflects a federal policy of favoring arbitration, "there is no federal policy … |
| 21-5272 | Gary Todd Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity | 1. When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme… |
| 20-1185 | Douglas Edwards v. Solomon and Solomon P.C. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | concurrent-jurisdiction district-court eleventh-circuit fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-courts federal-district-courts inconsistent-decisions renewal-statute state-courts uniformity | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of the District Court's refusal to apply Georgia's renewal statute was in error when that refusal nullif… | |
| 20-5446 | Jin H. Zheng v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity | Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order has previously been granted the Government (in a separate case) by the Seventh Circuit. Petitioner… |
| 19-8898 | Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity | Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation… |
| 19-8719 | Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-7382 | Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity | I. Whether a generic aggravated assault as defined in United States Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2 requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness, … |
| 18-1167 | Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity | Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-553, … |
| 18-632 | Sherilyn J. LeRoux v. NCL (Bahamas), Ltd. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | comparative-negligence federal-circuits general-maritime-law maritime-law open-and-obvious recovery recovery-standard tort-liability uniformity | Under the General Maritime Law of comparative negligence, should a finding of "open and obvious" act as a complete bar to recovery or merely serve as … |
| 18-5322 | Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity | Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th… |