clearly-erroneous-standard

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25-5973 Eric Michael Schuster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl…
24-5866 Edward Moses v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-sanctions clearly-erroneous-standard constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity tribal-recognition Whether Emperor Moses is entitled to an injunction barring state officials from operating within the Atakapa Indian Nation based on the constitutional…
22-6223 Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review Whether the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court of Appeals on the sa…
19-8372 Abdul Hakiym Ismaiyl v. Donald C. Nugent Sixth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard factual-findings frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion record-review standard-of-review Whether a Circuit court abdicates its duty by accepting clearly erroneous factual findings without reviewing the record
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination?
19-6483 Carl Robinson v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat Third Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard clearly-erroneous'-rule-52(a),exhaustion-of-remedi conviction court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-independence judicial-procedure legal-remedy procedural-due-process standard-of-review statute supplemental-response timeliness unfairness Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in vi When there is no authority for the preparation of an opinion by the attorney for either side, should the Court of Appeals have applied the 'clearly-er…
18-8216 Zavia L. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o…