fairness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5054 Amir Aqeel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias culpability due-process equal-justice fairness Involuntary-Plea-Agreement mandatory-guidelines nationality nationality-bias plea-agreement religion sentencing sentencing-disparity Violation-of-Policy-5H1.10 Sentencing-Disparity
23-7430 Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant based on its application of the 'willful blindness' doctrine and abuse …
23-7277 Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the plaintiff's claims of civil rig…
23-6538 Ye-Ying Cen v. Oliver Wilfred Cass Minnesota 2024-01-23 Denied IFP alimony-tax-law cognitive-impairments due-process fairness fiduciary-duty guardian-ad-litem legal-ethics procedural-fairness spousal-support Informed-consent-breach-of-fiduciary-duty
22-554 Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as 'fair, reasonable, and adequate' under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial…
22-5907 Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney Maryland 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th Amendment to t…
21-7001 Adam J. Tenser v. Beth Silverman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-interpretation legal-solicitude liberal-construction pro-se self-representation slander standing Whether this Court's articulation of the pro se liberal construction rule in Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 529 (1972) implies a general withdrawal of the…
21-521 Foster Wheeler, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2021-10-08 Denied civil-procedure deposition-time-limit due-process fairness fairness-doctrine judicial-remedies mesothelioma mesothelioma-litigation time-limits Whether newly enacted California Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.295 violates fundamental principles of fairness and decency when it imposes an i…
20-7510 In Re Leonard English 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fairness fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-discretion ninth-amendment Does any judge have the discretion to arbitrarily pick what relevant written & verified facts to consider and not apply them to governing laws for no …
20-6616 In Re Theresa Romain 2020-12-14 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certiorari-petition civil-procedure constitutional-fairness due-process fairness finality-of-legal-process legal-process standing state-interest void-order Whether a void order within the meaning of the Constitution can automatically restrain a petition to Certiorari?
19-8515 Michael Munday v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a 12-year upward departure sentence that violates due-process, double-jeopardy, reaso…
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States have a right to 'Due Process' under the law
19-7530 Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny adequately allows consideration of the fundamental unfairness of a trial absent…
19-6421 Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers Whether the district court violated due process and public policy by imposing the statutory maximum sentence despite the government's plea agreement t…
19-560 Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation Whether the scénes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the…
19-6376 Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence before understanding the right
19-163 Margaret A. Norton v. Colgate Palmolive Company New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-judgment due-process fairness judgement judicial-mistake legal-procedure mistake-of-fact precedent right-of-fairness standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court failed to apply Supreme Court Precedent, when an acknowledged mistake by the court resulted in an improper judgem…
18-6692 Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence imposed on the petitioner was procedurally unreasonable
18-6113 Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that re…
18-6075 Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas Texas 2018-09-21 Denied IFP adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review Whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process when a state has repudiated a false theory of criminal liability on which it based…
18-5618 Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings…