federal-courts-of-appeals

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-1018 Jeffrey L. Moeser v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection federal-courts-of-appeals fourth-amendment general-warrants individual-liberty law-enforcement oath-affirmation oath-or-affirmation probable-cause warrant-requirement Whether a sheriff who indisputably did not make an oral or written oath or affirmation to anyone and who falsely signed a preprinted affidavit stating…
20-5645 Virgil Nickens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif jury verdicts be reconciled with one another?
20-5433 Gregory Wind v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind?
19-5922 Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?