findings-of-fact

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5694 Eric Brenes-Colon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous findings-of-fact judicial-discretion record-support standard-of-review Whether a district court's findings of fact must be reversed when they are unsupported by the record?
25-5050 Carlos Caraballo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense…
23-1335 Harley Marine Financing, LLC v. Tug Construction, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bareboat-charter clearly-erroneous contract-breach evidentiary-support findings-of-fact maritime-law trial-record vessel-condition Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar…
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23-7484 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et ux. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration civil-procedure constitutional-requirement due-process finding-of-fact finding-of-law findings-of-fact findings-of-law motion-to-compel trial-court Does the United States Constitution require the trial court to make a finding of fact and law in the granting or denying a motion to compel arbitratio…
23-6707 Sean Robert Wathen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in connecti…
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether the First Amendment right to petition requires a trial court to make specific findings of fact and law when ruling on a motion to compel arbit…
22-574 Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis Whether Federal District Court judges properly comply with FRCP 52(a) in conducting complex bench trials
22-6040 William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Finding of Fact…
22-5515 Jose Agapito Salas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated the congressional mandate under 28 U.S.C. §2255(b) by denying a federal prisoner's first-time habeas motion withou…
21-1586 Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower courts violated the standards set in Tolan v. Cotton, Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, and Eastman Kodak v. Image Technical Services when …
21-7557 Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance Does the Speedy Trial Act require specific findings of fact when excluding days from a criminal defendant's speedy trial clock?
21-7539 John P. Higley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal-out-of-time case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact ineffective-assistance Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Higley's 14th Amendment right to Due Process?
21-6677 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas 2021-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-review conclusions-of-law constitutional-rights due-process findings-of-fact habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process texas-criminal-appeals trial-court-findings Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is violating procedural due process by denying relief to habeas applicants without explanation when the tr…
21-6260 Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a 'particularly defer[entional]' standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv…
20-1798 Sylvanus Rene v. Texas Texas 2021-06-25 Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility Does the appellate court's rejection without explanation of a trial court's favorable, dispositive findings of fact based on witness credibility deter…
20-1020 Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the…
20-6293 Raymond Alan Griffin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-law findings-of-fact motion-to-suppress threshold-determination May a district court make findings of fact resolving contested issues in determining that the threshold for holding an evidentiary hearing on a defend…
20-6107 Larry Michael Maples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights controversial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts pillow state-evidence Whether an accused's Due-Process Rights are violated when all lower courts deny an Evidentiary Hearing on controversial evidence and picture of a pill…
19-486 Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity
19-5151 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 16th-amendment due-process findings-of-fact grand-jury-access income-definition irs-actions standing standing-precedent stare-decisis tax-assessment tax-assessments tax-levies Can the IRS/United States government Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on the d…
19-34 Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis New Hampshire 2019-07-03 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact in …
18-9345 Billy Gene Drake v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process findings findings-of-fact judicial-review lower-court lower-court-decisions procedural-rights standing Was the petitioner's procedural due process violated by the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to adopt the lower court's findings?
18-8881 Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion Whether the district court failed to provide findings of fact and conclusions of law as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a)(1) in denying petitioner's F…
18-8374 Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless-error-analysis
18-7953 Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. New Hampshire 2019-02-14 Denied IFP appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a…
18-7236 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Christopher La Rose, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alternative-grounds appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clear-error-of-findings-of-fact district-court-discretion federal-civil-procedure federal-civil-rule-60(b) federal-civil-rule-60(d) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60 Do a Habeas Corpus petitioner need to obtain a Certificate of Appealability(COA) from the denial of a federal civil rule 60(b) and (d)?
18-6902 Scott Mansfield v. Florida Florida 2018-12-03 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction …
18-6693 Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing
18-5479 Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty Whether a state court's failure to make findings on controverted and unresolved issues requires a federal court to find counsel ineffective without fi…