interests-of-justice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-287 Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States District of Columbia 2025-09-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh…
23-5877 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race Is the current judicial system's determination of justice determined by one's race or national origin?
21-1257 Brian K. Evans, as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Bousquet v. Ronald A. Marvin, et al. Massachusetts 2022-03-16 Denied appearance-of-impropriety conflict-of-interest due-process interests-of-justice judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice recusal Was the judge's failure to disclose his wife's connection to the hospital appropriate?
20-7652 Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining the appropriateness of a habeas corpus petition
20-6030 Byron A. Wyatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence 'if the interest of justice so requires' cannot be …
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony Whether a decision affirming exclusion of evidence can be correct without addressing the unrefuted assertion that it was excluded on plainly erroneous…
19-6270 Darren Paul Odell v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interests-of-justice mental-illness newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief professional-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct standing time-bar-exception Whether the Minnesota courts erred in denying Mr. Odell's post-conviction relief petition based on damaging letters from the state's expert witness, v…
19-5477 Brian Keith Waugh v. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital District of Columbia 2019-08-06 Denied IFP amended-complaint civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review interests-of-justice medical-malpractice mental-capacity notice notice-pleading rule-15c statute-of-limitations Can the filing of a claim(s) in an Amended Complaint serve as Notice characteristic of State and Federal Rules and Civil Procedures' Rule 15(c) Notice…