discretionary-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6271 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretionary-standard district-court pro-se-representation standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the standard of review of a district court's decision to allow a defendant to proceed pro se at a supervised release revocation hearing is de …
21-248 Philip E. Berger, et al. v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-08-23 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-representation civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-standard intervention intervention-as-of-right judicial-review litigation-intervention standard-of-review standing state-agent state-sovereignty Whether a state agent authorized by state law to defend the State's interest in litigation must overcome a presumption of adequate representation to i…
19-1217 Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19…
19-6983 Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review Whether the trial court was required to hold a hearing on McKinney's motion to recuse
19-6224 Philong Huynh v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-statutes court-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception discretionary-standard due-process government-oversight investigation-power judicial-review legal-interpretation Whether the government oversight function, including the power of investigation, is subject to the discretionary function exception under congressiona…
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976