discretionary-power

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5109 In Re Maria Dolores Navarro Martin 2025-07-15 Dismissed IFP discretionary-power due-process federal-declaratory-judgment immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court had jurisdiction under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act and whether the Attorney General and Immigration officials exer…
25A1 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete bad-faith civil-procedure discretionary-power eighth-circuit rule-11-sanctions standard-of-review Whether a federal district court may impose Rule 11 sanctions against a party without individualized findings of bad faith
22-7748 Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure default-judgment discretionary-power evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review motion-to-dismiss rico rico-statute Whether it is an abuse of discretion to exclude relevant evidence in a RICO case
22-5280 Raj K. Patel v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1491(a) big-tucker-act contract-breach discretionary-power due-process due-process-cl-prejudice federal-claims-court judicial-review u.s.-const.-amend.-v united-states-v.-mitchell united-states-v.-navajo-nation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit abused its discretion or erroneously reasoned and concluded that the claim of breach of United St…
21-6259 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity Whether a lower court can rule that a verdict was not affected by juror misconduct when the exact websites and content viewed by the juror are unknown…
20-556 Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County West Virginia 2020-10-27 Denied arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due-process, vagueness
19-1456 KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied asset-sale bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-discretion bid-procedures debtor-asset debtor-estate debtor's-estate discretionary-power higher-better-offer higher-bid maximize-value-estate private-sale public-bid-procedures sale-maximization Does a bankruptcy court abuse its discretion when it cancels public bid procedures and approves the private sale of a debtor's principal asset, even t…
19-8327 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-21 Dismissed IFP case-processing certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-power due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the District Court should have granted a Certificate of Appealability
19-7648 Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the district court abused its discretion when it found that petitioner Harris was not eligible for a sentence reduction under Section 404?
19-699 Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discretionar…