discovery-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-70 Ilya Kovalchuk v. City of Decherd, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied civil-rights discovery-standard due-process fourth-amendment monell-claim monell-liability municipal-liability plausibility-standard section-1983 twombly-iqbal This dispute concerns municipal liability in a § 1983 action against the City of Decherd, Tennessee ("City"), and a Decherd police officer. The office…
22-1154 Winglet Technology, LLC, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict defamation discovery-standard government-certification government-liability limited-discovery personal-spite scope-of-employment westfall-act 1. Where the FAA disowned as verifiably false its employee's defamatory statements about petitioners and questioned his decision to publish them in th…
22-364 Ryan Noah Shapiro v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived agency-bad-faith civil-procedure discovery discovery-standard federal-civil-procedure foia foia-request motion-for-summary-judgment rule-56(d) rule-56d standing summary-judgment 1. Must a plaintiff facing a motion for summary judgment provide evidence that the movant has acted in bad faith before obtaining discovery under Rule…
21-549 Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training 1a. This Court has permitted "limited discovery" in cases where the defendant has asserted the affirmative defense of qualified immunity in its answer…
19-1353 AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations There is no uniformity among the Circuit Courts as to the meaning or application of the ERISA statute of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty, 29 …