inherent-power

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-165 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response Waived district-court equitable-relief inherent-power injunctive-standards treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether a district court has "inherent equitable power" to enter a coercive "decree" restricting an Indian tribe's treaty rights without its consent a…
24-839 Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules inherent-power judicial-discretion mandamus I. Whether a district court may rely on its "inherent power" to contravene an express provision of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 16, where t…
20-8466 Paul Anthony Ashby v. United States District of Columbia 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-liability constitutional-limitations criminal-law dc-charter district-of-columbia inherent-power judicial-power legislative-authority pinkerton-doctrine separation-of-powers As both the United States and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals recognized in this case, the Pinkerton doctrine of co-conspirator liability is…
19-6921 Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness 1. Is the term "same transaction" unconstitutionally vague? 2. How would two incidents separated by four months constitute the "same transaction"? 3…
19-5643 Raymont Wright v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal inherent-power inherent-power-of-courts judicial-integrity jury-deadlock mistrials prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers trial-court-discretion trial-court-power Whether a trial court possesses inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following serial mistrials for jury deadlock or whether the exe…
19-59 Loop AI Labs, Inc., et al. v. Anna Gatti, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-sanctions due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-power national-hockey-league-v-metro-hockey-club nonmonetary-sanctions punitive-sanctions rule-37 standing Does Nat'l Hockey League v. Metro. Hockey Club authorize a court to issue punitive nonmonetary sanctions under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b)(2) and its inhere…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law
18-5794 Ronnie Keith Davis v. Benjamin Maddie Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-procedure civil-rights-proceeding evidentiary-hearing first-national-bank-v-lustig fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass inherent-power miscarriage-of-justice rozier-v-ford-motor rule-60(b)(3) rule-60b3 sanctions summary-judgment Whether a motion to vacate a judgment under Rule 60(b)(3) is governed by the grave miscarriage of justice standard when alleging fraud upon the court …
18-80 Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence