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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6941 Michael Wayne Reynolds v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa clear-and-convincing evidentiary-hearing factual-deference habeas-corpus state-court-review When a state court refuses to conduct an evidentiary hearing, will its factual findings be entitled to deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), and mus…
23-7314 S. C. v. Vermont Vermont 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment
22-544 Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art Whether an inference that a device that could have existed before the invention thereof by an inventor is properly treated as an anticipatory referenc…
21-6694 Lawrence S. Brantley, Jr. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion clear-and-convincing Colorado-v-New-Mexico due-process evidence-standard legal-precedent parental-rights trial-court-discretion witness-testimony Did the trial court abuse its discretion by allowing a witness with no firsthand knowledge to testify, conflicting with Oakley v. State?