| 25-578 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome |
Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims regarding scientif… |
| 24-580 |
Richard Cotromano, et al. v. RTX Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion daubert-standard dose-reconstruction environmental-exposure expert-testimony gatekeeping-function |
Whether the abuse of discretion standard requires the Circuit Courts to assess whether a trial court performed its gatekeeping function adequately rat… |
| 22-6491 |
Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification |
Whether the subsequent in-court identification violated the defendant's due process rights given the district court's failure to conduct its gatekeepi… |
| 22-5734 |
Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Question not identified |
| 21-7309 |
Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability |
Whether district courts have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as experience-based experts |
| 21-6225 |
Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding |
Whether the First Circuit misapplied RICO-conspiracy, RICO-predicate-offenses, general-understanding, specific-understanding, equipoise, accessory-aft… |