discovery-rules

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6605 Julian Francis Bates v. General Motors, LLC, dba GM Sixth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP burden-shifting discovery-rules employee-resource-group employment-discrimination gender-bias summary-judgment Can a party fail to cooperate in discovery, disobey court rules, interrupt the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green burden-shifting evidence approach and …
25-140 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, where the di…
25-65 Royal Suites Health Care & Rehabilitation, et al. v. Joseph S. Ingemi, Jr. New Jersey 2025-07-18 Denied Response Waived discovery-rules healthcare-litigation hipaa-privacy individually-identifiable-information medical-records patient-confidentiality Whether the patient privacy provisions of HIPAA protect against discovery of 'individually identifiable health information' of non-parties in a neglig…
23-7469 Kenneth Del Signore v. Nokia of America Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rules due-process false-claims-act medical-records pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing summary-judgment whistleblower-retaliation Should a Pro Se Plaintiff be granted special considerations by Federal Judges based on their lack of experience with the Federal Rules?
23-6777 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case?
22-5436 Oraine D. Brown v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process judicial-discretion new-jersey-court-rule pre-indictment-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motion speedy-trial trial-commencement trial-postponement Can a trial judge postpone a trial on its commencement date at the prosecutor's motion for additional discovery without establishing how the opposing …
20-1474 Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentiary …
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o…
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance Whether the withholding of recorded statements by the government violates due process and Brady v. Maryland
18-8481 Ricky Thompson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process government-disclosure government-investigation materiality sealed-affidavit sealed-records Did requiring the assertion of detail known only to the government to show 'materiality' impermissibly raise the threshold?
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment Whether summary judgment was proper where the respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. moved to dismiss before filing an answer, no discovery had …
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution?