| 23-1092 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review |
Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc-pro-tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's-choice |
| 23A461 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review |
Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel can constitutionally deny an indigent defendant representation by forcing a choice between direct a… |
| 23A460 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review |
Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel violates a defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel by forcing the defen… |
| 20-5118 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-07-21 |
Dismissed |
ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation |
Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints? |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
Is the underlying case moot? |
| 19-7573 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness |
What is the appropriate enforcement mechanism for 38 U.S.C. §4215? |
| 19A764 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Dauphin County Solicitor's Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A742 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6886 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Dismissed |
constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief |
Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law? |
| 19A621 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6605 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction |
Are the following Pennsylvania statutes constitutionally infirm? |
| 19-6628 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction |
Whether the Pennsylvania statutes 42 Pa.C.S. §9542, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(a)(1)(ii), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(a), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(b)(1), and 18 Pa.C.S. §2709(a)(4… |
| 19A491 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A488 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6487 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does treating 'civil rights' as cumulative render the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) to be constitutionally infirm w… |
| 19-5808 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-anti-injunction-act retaliation retaliatory-prosecution second-amendment selective-prosecution standing takings |
Whether the actions described in the email are protected by the US Second Amendment |
| 18-8716 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services |
What services are owed to all veterans by states that accept federal funding under the US Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)? |