family-member
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-7174 | Antonio Lopez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements | 1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, re… |
| 20-813 | James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests | 1. Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a "person aggrieved" for purposes of Title VII only … | |
| 20-5598 | Gary Richardson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by … |
| 18-8145 | Desmond Farmer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender | Whether the court erred in deeming the petitioner as a 'violent offender' instead of a 'drug abuser' and using that as a reason to deny a sentence red… |
| 18-6911 | Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the longs… |