federal-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5892 Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of …
24-1294 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law This is a diversity jurisdiction case, where award of attorney's fees was made under the Florida State "offer of judgment" procedure rule, in derogati…
24-5275 Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-recantation Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Motion for a New Trial under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure …
23A847 Richard Alan Costanzo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion confrontation-rights criminal-procedure federal-rule hearsay-evidence probation-revocation Question not identified.
23-6680 Mark Mayo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
22-7352 Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing In Henderson v. United States, this Court held that "it is enough that an error be plain at the time of appellate consideration" to meet the second pr…
22-937 VNG Corporation v. Lang Van, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rule internet-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(2) specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether traditional due process principles apply to the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over defendants based on their universally acces…
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing 1. Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule when they sought to do so within days of the federal government's unprecedent…
21-5995 Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment I. Whether an unrecorded conference in chambers is a "hearing or trial," or "proceeding," under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(c) such that a …
20-8290 Anthony Leon Waits v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-court federal-rule forfeiture forfeiture-judgment indictment indictment-notice statutory-basis Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) prohibit a district court from entering a forfeiture judgment when the indictment does not give notice…
20-8189 Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d…
19-8380 Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib…
19-5142 Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf…
18-9365 Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule…
18-9304 Abel De Leon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea pre-acceptance right-to-withdraw rule-11 withdrawal Whether a formal motion to withdraw a guilty plea is required to invoke the protections of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d)(1)