| 23-7297 |
Marcus Bennett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 22-6062 |
Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of 'organize' within the context of the… |
| 21-6099 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing |
Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 19-1446 |
Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'right for the wrong reason' doctrine allow federal appellate courts to violate due process? |
| 19-1291 |
Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte |
Is qualified immunity an affirmative defense that state actors must assert, as nine circuits hold, or may federal appellate courts raise the defense s… |
| 18-6184 |
Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word concurrently' in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing sen… |