exceptional-importance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7554 Rawtavious Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)?
23A845 C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-18 Presumed Complete constitutional-argument exceptional-importance page-limits procedural-justice substantial-rights supreme-court-rules Whether the Supreme Court's page limit rules unduly restrict a litigant's ability to fully present arguments of exceptional constitutional significanc…
21-7598 Irvin Garces v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines whether-the-fifth-circuit-violated-federal-law
21-1032 Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether additional evidence of claims occurring while a judgment is pending and immediately after case closure merit recall of a mandate
21-6176 Dwaine Collymore, aka Twin v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery crime-of-violence exceptional-importance federal-criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery falls outside the definition of a 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
19-1049 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immunity …
19-379 Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-importance federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit perjury public-employee rule-60 standing Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision imposes an erroneous and unjustifiable standard for 'Fraud Upon The Court'
18-1334 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (2) appointments-clause article-iv constitutional-law exceptional-importance federal-government-structure federal-officers financial-oversight-and-management-board merits-review oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers supreme-court territorial-government Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide if Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state court …