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25-919 Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence …
25-6331 Anthony Roland v. NBC Subsidiary (WMAQ-TV) LLC Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending IFP complaint-interpretation due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review privacy-violation video-evidence Whether the lower courts deprived the Petitioner of due process by failing to acknowledge or examine video evidence properly incorporated into the com…
25-5983 Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice due-process evidentiary-standard police-testimony victim-declaration witness-statement Whether and to what extent the Criminal Justice System tolerates police officer testimony beliefs on victim declarations and statements specifically r…
25-511 William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of an evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian American plaintiff conflicts wi…
25-5540 Brayan Alexander Contreras-Avalos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cooperator-testimony criminal-conviction evidentiary-standard prosecutorial-burden sufficiency-of-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Government's reliance solely on cooperator testimony without physical or forensic evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Contreras-Avalos …
25-5215 Otoniel Cornejo v. California California 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-inference evidentiary-standard firearm-ability force-application legal-sufficiency substantial-evidence Does the record lack substantial evidence to support an inference that petitioner had the present ability to apply force with a firearm when that fire…
24-879 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split evidentiary-standard federal-rule-evidence fifth-amendment state-of-mind-exception witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3) conflicts with other circuits' understanding and should be corrected by…
24-6340 Bruce E. Alexander v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception statement-against-interest Whether FRE 804(b)(3)(B)'s requirement of 'corroborating circumstances' necessitated consideration of the 'totality of circumstances' prior to the 202…
24-6048 Cheryl Christin Kissentaner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split diaz-precedent evidentiary-standard federal-evidence-rule judicial-review legal-interpretation Should this Court clarify its prior decision in Diaz v. United States to resolve the ongoing circuit split concerning the interpretation of Federal Ev…
24-491 Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2) conclusory-allegations evidentiary-standard federal-civil-procedure fifth-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit's ruling conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment standards under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a)
24-5838 Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine…
24-255 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Amici (5) deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar…
24-225 B. S. v. D. S. California 2024-08-29 Denied constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Does the preponderance of the evidence standard for Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in California violate due process under the Fourteenth Amendm…
23-1224 Laila N. Hirjee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be drawn …
23-6183 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing Whether a claim of attorney abandonment of material omissions in the record may justify the granting of a motion to recall the mandate of an appellate…
23-6120 Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a…
23-569 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2023-11-28 Denied Relisted (11) affirmative-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard gateway-innocence habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review reasonable-doubt schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Whether it violates due process to require a petitioner pursuing a gateway-innocence claim to prove with 'affirmative evidence' that a particular theo…
23-408 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP v. Suzanne Ivie Ninth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-procedure claim evidentiary-standard final-pretrial-order judicial-process litigation-procedure pretrial-order rule-16 Whether a party may generally contest the opposing party's burden of proof on a claim or affirmative defense in a final pretrial order under Rule 16, …
23-5020 Christopher Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is 'inextricab…
22-1112 Avail Vapor, LLC, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious evidence-standard evidentiary-standard fda fda-regulation marketing-authorization premarket-applications tobacco-product-regulation tobacco-products Whether FDA's marketing denial order was arbitrary and capricious
22-1011 Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause violate Illinois v. Gates?
22-6857 Cynthia J. Rowe v. Penny J. Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights crime-scene criminal-procedure defendant-presence documentary-evidence due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standard jurisdiction standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court erred in its ruling
22-5924 Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing claims a standard and scope of constitutional dimension prohibit an appellate court from …
22-271 M. N. v. A. A., et al. Kentucky 2022-09-22 Denied abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness whether-ky-rev-stat-ann-§-199.502-violates-the-fourteenth-amendment's-due-process-clause
22-5622 Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark Nevada 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-wife-has-standing-to-act-as-private-prosecutor-against-husband
22-40 Isiah Dozier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1791 criminal-defendant criminal-defense evidentiary-standard knowledge-requirement prohibited-object rock-v-arkansas rock-v-armenia sixth-amendment witness-testimony Can a Trial Court prohibit a criminal Defendant from calling a witness in his own defense, by weighing the probative value of the expected witness tes…
21-8128 Duane Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard mandatory-conditions revocation-hearing standard-conditions supervised-release witness-testimony Whether the district court erred by revoking Mr. Williams' supervised-release-status-and-returning-him-to-prison
21-1417 Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy Federal Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief?
21-6679 Juan Jarmon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b)
21-5559 Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea Whether possession of a firearm is 'in or affecting commerce' when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha…
20-8162 Bralen Lamar Jordan v. C. Rivers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP admissibility circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-malpractice medical-records pharmacy-records procedural-challenge What is the legal issue being raised?
20-7905 Christopher K. Skagen v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standard lawyer-discipline procedural-due-process substantive-due-process Question not identified
20-7774 Kevin Johnson v. Texas Texas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction Whether the court of appeal erred in allowing the use of statements of unaddressed witnesses as basis for expert opinions and presenting their finding…
20-7697 Matthew Berckmann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule evidence-rule-404(b) evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence motive-opportunity-intent propensity-evidence rule-404b same-victim victim-testimony Whether other act evidence under Rule 404(b) involving the same 'victim' is automatically admissible
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does USPS Form 3811 meet 28 USC 2244 evidentiary standard for equitable tolling?
20-5496 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo Whether evidence of actual innocence provides a legal reason to reopen 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion proceedings to establish constitutional violations
19-8887 Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s…
19-1383 Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment Does the First Amendment alter the weight to be accorded a libel plaintiff's evidence, rendering the plaintiff unable, by his or her sworn statement o…
19-8031 James Allen Gregg v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure credibility credibility-determination district-court due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review magistrate-judge procedural-fairness witness Is a defendant's due process rights adequately protected when a district judge rejects a magistrate judge's proposed findings on credibility when thos…
19-1088 Gerson Irving Fox v. Elissa Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied admissible-evidence bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-727(a)(3) civil-procedure competent-evidence debtor-discharge discharge evidentiary-standard judicial-discretion recordkeeping recordkeeping-requirements summary-judgment Whether a justification for recordkeeping 'under all of the circumstances,' where supported by competent, admissible evidence, may be weighed and over…
19-7620 Bradley Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss Whether Petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on the kidnapping charge should have been granted where there was no evidence that Petitioner us…
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings Whether new evidence establishes the petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust
19-7096 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction Whether petitioner is entitled to a remand with instructions for the district court to order the case dismissed with prejudice because the prosecution…
19-456 John Buncich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo…
19-276 Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Did the panel err in determining that the signs posted by Respondent were too 'inexact' and 'nebulous' in meaning to constitute municipal policy for §…
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu…
18-9132 Earlie Dickerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a motion for new ba…
18-9110 Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-05-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances What spectrum of evidence is required to prove actual innocence claim?
18-8404 Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after…
18-8372 Dominique Green v. Texas Texas 2019-03-11 Denied IFP appellant-rights civil-procedure civil-rights court-determination due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fact fact-and-law informal-marriage legal-sufficiency marriage marriage-evidence standing Did she Loust of Anpeads eccod Wwhen it derermincd aod Vert WHS leqarlyy \\asudlicient evidence to Estaalish a inloramnal Wnarrage Wer Ween Appatank A…
18-1049 Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Amici (3) criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi…
18-7464 Carlton E. Gary v. Florida Florida 2019-01-16 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence Whether the expert witness's report was improperly influenced by the witness's actions, resulting in a violation of due process
18-5916 Juan Flores v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat…
18-5479 Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty Whether a state court's failure to make findings on controverted and unresolved issues requires a federal court to find counsel ineffective without fi…
18-5242 Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l…