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35 results for “United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia”

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25A667 Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC District of Columbia 2025-12-08 Application certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25-206 Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-20 Rehearing anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction 1. The primary question presented is whether a criminal court in a state can renege on the dismissal of criminal cases when a prior judge and/or the…
25A147 Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association clarifies the standard for statutory preemption of stat…
24-6327 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2025-01-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-litigation Did the D.C. Circuit Court violate constitutional rights and improperly dismiss a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against a judge under 42 U.…
24-514 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-06 Denied circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus-relief military-detention whistleblower-protection Whether the D.C. Circuit improperly bifurcated the petitioner's joint submissions and restricted access to judicial review for a military detainee's h…
24-451 Peter K. Navarro v. United States District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied documentary-materials executive-office presidential-records-act remedial-action replevin-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the United States may avail itself of unrelated state replevin statutes to seek the return of Presidential records
24-239 Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University District of Columbia 2024-09-03 Denied administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of…
24A109 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar Whether a notice of appeal filed beyond the 60-day period established in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(1)(B) can be deemed timely when the …
23-1187 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Judgment Issued administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place …
23-1087 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process federal-judges federal-law federal-offenses free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether federal law or the U.S. Constitution authorize federal judges to penalize persons for stating federal judges violated rights
23-981 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-07 Denied agency-abuses agency-report article-iii-standing constitutional-right-of-access-to-the-courts constitutional-rights havens-realty-corp-v-coleman informational-standing judicial-oversight organizational-standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erroneously nullify the doctrine of organizational-standing,by-conflating-…
23A803 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement Whether the Due Process Clause requires a heightened standard of proof for sentencing enhancements that substantially increase a defendant's sentence …
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing Whether petitioner has standing to file a habeas and mandamus petition
23A600 Ali Hamza Al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-jurisdiction due-process guantanamo-bay inchoate-crimes military-commission war-crimes Whether a military commission's prosecution of a Guantanamo Bay detainee for inchoate war crimes violates constitutional due process protections and t…
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires plaintiffs to trace property exchanged for expropriated assets to esta…
23A473 Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete ballot-access campaign-finance equal-protection minor-party presidential-election public-funding Whether Section 9032(6) of the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act violates the Equal Protection Clause by arbitrarily terminating minor…
23A313 Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A279 Steven M. Greenbaum, on Behalf of Himself Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-29 Presumed Complete judgment-execution section-1610 sovereign-immunity statutory-waiver terrorism-risk-insurance-act terrorist-assets Whether the United States' assertion of sovereign immunity under the common law sovereign immunity canon can override an unambiguous statutory waiver …
23A226 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-09-11 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A190 Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete congressional-discipline justiciability member-pay separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment Whether Congress may impose fines on individual members enforced through salary reduction for violations of House rules enacted without an intervening…
23-59 Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-21 Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election
22-5971 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-02 Dismissed access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing Denial of meaningful access to prison law library due to COVID-19 restrictions
21-7633 Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication government-misconduct judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-treatment pro-se-representation self-representation Was the Supreme Court ruling in Faretta vs California violated or trampled
21-93 Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-23 Denied 9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such …
20-7738 Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Validity-of-indictment-with-foreman-signature-only
20-6995 Floyd Clark v. United States District of Columbia 2021-02-01 Denied appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment johnson-precedent motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence recanting-affidavit residual-clause Whether there was a sufficient final determination by the trial court such that the Circuit Court could have reached a determination of the substantiv…
20-931 Wynship W. Hillier v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-11 Denied administrative-procedure agency-declaration agency-records civil-rights classified-records judicial-review privacy-act summary-judgment terrorism Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a Privacy Act suit to compel notice of records existence based on agency declaration
20-5713 Jean Dufort Baptichon v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-17 Denied appellate-review counsel-rights district-court-ruling evidentiary-rulings frivolousness frivolousness-standard in-forma-pauperis procedural-discretion procedural-rulings reconsideration-amendment Question not identified
19-1376 Algignis, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2020-06-15 Denied administrative-law administrative-state agency-jurisdiction catch-22 civil-rights environmental-law innovation innovation-barriers judicial-review private-enterprise regulatory-capture regulatory-risk standing standing-doctrine Do small, relatively unknown groups have standing to try to solve their own local environmental problems that the government has failed to solve?
19-7525 Gregory Joel Sitzmann v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-03 Denied conflict-of-laws conflict-with-other-courts-of-appeals conflict-with-supreme-court court-of-appeals criminal-procedure drug-smuggling evidence federal-sentencing foreign-drug-smuggling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-evidence pro-se-petition prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction over evidence of foreign drug smuggling and whether the United States Court of Appeals for the District…
19-6589 Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Denied attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions on the requirements …
19-6548 Julian Marcus Raven v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-08 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parties standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Court should require de novo review (or at a minimum, review for clear error) of sentencing fact-findings based entirely on uncorroborated…
19-5021 Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-01 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia is in conflict with the circuit courts on the issue of preclusion
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2