agency-relationship

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A42 Edward Mangano v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-10 Presumed Complete agency-relationship criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud official-act public-official Whether a public official can be criminally liable for honest services fraud when lacking a formal agency or fiduciary relationship with the governmen…
24-6668 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP agency-relationship federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-exhaustion Whether attorney abandonment in state PCR proceedings excuses a petitioner's failure to develop factual basis of a claim under 28 U.S.C § 2254(e)(2)
23-7227 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity…
22-2 Susan M. Boltz-Rubinstein v. Bank of America, N.A. Third Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-362 agency-relationship automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay contractual-control damages damages-limitation lift-stay mortgage-servicer Whether a purported agency relationship between a lift stay beneficiary and a mortgage servicer is a defense to an uncontested stay violation under th…
18-1183 Dorothy A. Smulley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived agency-liability agency-relationship circuit-procedures conservatorship due-process fannie-mae federal-instrumentality fhfa internal-operating-procedures mortgage-servicers mortgage-servicing regulatory-oversight rico vicarious-liability Whether Fannie Mae is a federal instrumentality subject to due process requirements, whether FHFA as conservator of Fannie Mae is vicariously liable f…
18-6659 James Rodwell v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-relationship criminal-informant criminal-procedure government-agent implicit-agreement jailhouse-informant massiah massiah-doctrine sentencing-benefits sixth-amendment Whether an in-custody criminal informant who has repeatedly benefited monetarily and received lesser sentences from previous cooperation with the gove…