incorporation-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6437 Sean Blaine James v. Oregon Oregon 2025-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-clause incorporation-doctrine sentence-enhancement Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 1. Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury? 2. Whether dism…
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment …
23-6767 Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect rights against state intrusion?
22-468 Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California California 2022-11-18 Denied bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian Whether a state court erred by failing to apply the factors set out in United States v. Bajakajian in evaluating whether a civil penalty is unconstitu…
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
19-5599 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts?
18-9130 Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon Oregon 2019-05-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-8897 Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-5924 Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?