affirmative-defenses

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6029 Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department Fourth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 1. Discovery Rights in § 1983 Cases: Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defe…
23-422 Shirley T. Sherrod, et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Seventh Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defenses amendment civil-procedure erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duties rule-15 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the underlying rulings contradict the plain text of the applicable ERISA provisions in finding a breach of Petitioners' fiduciary duties and d…
20-1296 Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent Does precedent in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allow defendants to circumvent FRCP 15 and FRCP 16 requirements for amendin…
19-6826 Jennifer Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense?
18-987 McKesson Corporation, et al. v. True Health Chiropractic, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defenses burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-certification federal-rules-of-civil-procedure halliburton-v-erica-p-john-fund predominance rule-23 Whether the burden at class certification shifts to the defendant when predominance turns on affirmative defenses
18-901 Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas Texas 2019-01-11 Denied affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual suffi…
18-74 Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board Sixth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Does the D'Oench, Duhme doctrine permit the NCUA to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative defenses, and federal law?