inferences

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 …