international-human-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6883 Kenneth Karlston Newsome v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process international-human-rights life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence Whether a person's right to be presumed innocent is denied by conclusory assertions of guilt before trial, and whether life imprisonment violates due …
21-7175 Keith Smeaton v. United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus international-human-rights judicial-discretion mandamus-petition obstruction-of-justice Question not identified
21-5781 Adelaide Lorin Scurlock-Zindler v. Peter Henry Zindler District of Columbia 2021-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process family international-human-rights judicial-misconduct marriage military military-jurisdiction state-department-intervention Why were the Respondent and I, as civilians, permitted to get married and renew our vows on an active-military-carrier, bringing family-and-friends ab…
19-351 Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings Whether the 'expropriation exception' of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides jurisdiction over claims that a foreign sovereign has violated …
18-7539 Justin Michael Rossi v. The Crown District of Columbia 2019-01-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties civil-rights due-process foreign-government international-human-rights international-rights jurisdiction redress standing work-permit What does an American Citizen traveling on a work permit do to protect his civil-liberties from being infringed upon by a foreign-government?