constitutional-precedent

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7083 Raul Otero Cazares v. Jason Johnson, Director, Division of Adult Parole Operations, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-precedent criminal-procedure de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the lower courts erred by holding that any imagined reason for counsel's conduct rendered said conduct beyond review, even on de novo review a…
24-6455 Ernest Murphy v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's 'favorable' definition that is incongruent with well-established Const…
23-6926 Pidy T. Tiger v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-precedent federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-law jurisdictional-dispute native-american-rights statutory-interpretation treaty-abrogation treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Can the Kansas Act 18 U.S.C. 3243 be read to abrogate the Creek Nation Treaty of 1856?
22-7860 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents
22-1166 D. K. Williams, Warden, et al. v. Rafiq Sabir, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-01 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process group-prayer inmate-rights prison-policy qualified-immunity religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether RFRA claims are exempt from the requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality
22-787 Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer North Carolina 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1) 11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio…
22-5277 Leila Nasser Asr v. Karen Eady-Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aliens aliens-rights civil-rights constitutional-precedent courts due-process human-rights international-law judicial-conduct jurisdiction Do the United States courts have jurisdiction to hear aliens' cases or aliens must file their lawsuits against United States citizens in courts of the…
21-1350 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-sanctions constitution constitutional-precedent free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-review petition precedent strict-scrutiny Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate the APA, Constitution, and precedent
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications
21-6753 Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-04 GVR Relisted (3)IFP apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St…
21-5874 Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 GVR Relisted (3)IFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the 'as if' language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti…
21-5069 William Paul Burch v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process judicial-overreach jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Is a Circuit court allowed to establish new precedence by disregarding and/or overruling twenty-four statutes written by the Congress of the United St…
20-6696 La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights Does the Federal Rule [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a law of a State tha…