| 23-1224 |
Laila N. Hirjee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference |
What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be drawn … |
| 22-5060 |
Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegations a… |
| 22-16 |
Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC v. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal inference-drawing inferences judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleadings rule-12b6 state-of-mind twombly-standard |
Whether the courts below deviated from and disregarded this Court's holding in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly |
| 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 … |