bodily-harm
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6122 | Frank E. Reid v. Corizon Health Services, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | IFP | bodily-harm civil-rights damages-claim incarceration-conditions medical-negligence prisoner-rights | Whether a prisoner can seek damages for alleged medical negligence that resulted in partial paralysis during incarceration |
| 23-688 | Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity | Can the doctrine of qualified immunity ever apply when force is used maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm in violation of… |
| 22-7153 | Tamar Devell Harvey v. Frederick Russell, Assistant Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety prison-official prison-officials risk-of-serious-harm substantial-risk | Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claim for failure to state a claim |
| 21-5105 | Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States that a carjacker's intent to seriously harm or kill the driver can be conditioned on th… |
| 19-8132 | Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County | Illinois | 2020-03-31 | Denied | IFP | bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether concurrent sentences are mandated by statute when the petitioner was found to have caused bodily harm, not severe bodily injury |
| 19-557 | Cedric L. McDonald v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault | Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices |
| 19-6131 | Derrick Estell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional | Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a 'crime of violenc… |
| 18-9812 | Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon | What is the correct definition of 'dangerous weapon' under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3): (1) an object used in a manner likely to endanger life or inflict gr… |
| 18-1146 | Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment bodily-harm civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations damages due-process eighth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing statute-of-limitations | Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and Eight… |
| 18-7443 | Wallace Thornton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the … |
| 18-6870 | James Frederick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force | Whether causation of harm necessarily entails the use of 'violent force' under Curtis Johnson |
| 18-6711 | Ricardo Deleon Colon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm criminal-sentencing curtis-johnson eleventh-circuit johnson-standard predicate-offense united-states-v-castleman united-states-v-vail-bailon violent-force | Does the causation of bodily harm necessarily entail the use of 'violent force'? |
| 18-5408 | Norberto Serna v. California | California | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity | Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause and Eighth Amendment by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists than on… |