federal-circuits

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-333 Tangtang Zhao v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response Waived criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a 'thing of value of the United States' once distributed to a private, non-government, …
25-289 Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response Waived 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment Whether Rule 56 summary-judgment standards apply uniformly to 2255 habeas motions across federal circuits
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response Waived 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court Whe…
21-729 Shirene Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether after Skilling, the 'right of honest services' described in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 must be defined in relation to a specific fiduciary duty against …
19-1453 Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller Michigan 2020-07-02 Denied acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts Should this Court grant certiorari to settle the conflict of authority between state courts and the federal circuits, and among state courts themselve…
18-9798 Craig A. Lee v. United States District of Columbia 2019-06-25 Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits
18-632 Sherilyn J. LeRoux v. NCL (Bahamas), Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived comparative-negligence federal-circuits general-maritime-law maritime-law open-and-obvious recovery recovery-standard tort-liability uniformity Whether a finding of 'open and obvious' should act as a complete bar to recovery or merely a factor in apportioning fault under general maritime law