discretionary-authority

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A414 Monterial Wesley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review discretionary-authority extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court has discretionary authority to reduce a federal criminal sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) when a defendant demonstrat…
23-5198 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the statutory penalty for petitioner's offense, so that petitioner is eligible for a sentence reduction under…
21-6311 Curtis R. Gaylord v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law congressional-intent constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process fifth-amendment property-rights public-policy va-proceedings va-regulations veterans-benefits Are Veterans benefits a property right/interest protected under the United States Constitution, Fifth Amendment?
20-653 Henry Hamilton v. City of Hayti, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived arrest-warrant arrest-warrants discretionary-authority fourth-amendment gerstein-v-pugh judicial-immunity municipal-court probable-cause quasi-judicial-immunity Did the court clerk unconstitutionally exercise a judicial function under the Fourth Amendment and Gerstein v. Pugh
19-8713 Michael K. Bailey v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus liberty-interest parole parole-board prosecutorial-misconduct Can a state prisoner be incarcerated forever based on falsehoods to prejudice parole decisions?
18-781 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adea-enforcement age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent circuit-court-split discretionary-authority judicial-discretion pension-plan pension-plans retroactive-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that a retroactive award of monetary relief is mandatory under the ADEA in this pension case