district-courts
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-860 | Johnnie Markel Carter v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Granted | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | district-courts extraordinary-and-compelling federal-prisoners nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission | Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider a nonretroactive change in … |
| 23-5838 | Mario Reynoso, aka Mario Hernandez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility-of-evidence character-evidence district-court-discretion district-courts evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence non-propensity-purpose reasoning rule-404(b)(2) rule-404b ultimate-decision | Whether Rule 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence permits district courts the use of reasoning to reach an ultimate decision whether to admit th… |
| 21-1153 | Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitral-awards article-iii chapter-1 chapter-2 district-courts federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitral-awards new-york-convention secondary-jurisdiction separability-doctrine | Whether Article III of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards requires U.S. district courts to implement the pro… |
| 20-7685 | Terrance Heard v. Grady Perry, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ATC-claim constitutional-claim district-court-review district-courts factual-development ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard Martinez-v-Ryan Miller-El-Cockrell-standard procedural-default | Whether the Tennessee District Courts are correctly considering whether a procedurally defaulted ATC claim is substantial, having merit, presented und… |