judicial-determination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5251 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP counsel-conflict due-process judicial-determination probable-cause property-seizure sixth-amendment Whether an independent judicial determination of probable cause was made prior to entry and seizure of property, and whether the trial court erred in …
23-1342 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c…
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts
23-5775 Suvad Dardagan v. Charles Truitt, Warden Illinois 2023-10-12 Denied IFP affirmation charging-instrument executive-branch fourth-amendment judicial-determination oath probable-cause warrant warrant-requirement Whether in the absence of a judicial determination of probable cause the executive branch of the state government lacks a legal authority to seek a ch…
21-7248 John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson Arizona 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure Does a judge's pre-determination on the record prior to reviewing the evidence at trial violate a constitutional right to due process?
20-7825 Carlon McGinn v. Kansas Kansas 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague
20-919 Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest…
20-5797 Jeffrey Murray v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination probable-cause probation-violation standing warrantless-arrest Whether a summons must issue prior to the issuance of a bench warrant
20-5773 William C. McGee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness
20-5614 Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity?
20-5158 Alexander J. Silvers v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights detention-challenge double-jeopardy due-process gerstein-v-pugh judicial-determination notice-to-defense probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion Whether a judicial determination of probable cause in the arrested offense legally justifies the state attorney filing additional charges
19-8863 Michael Strausbaugh v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination miller-el-doctrine procedural-standard standing Whether the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the requirements of Miller-El v. Cockrell for a Certificate of Appealability were not met
19-8777 In Re Garvester Bracken 2020-06-22 Dismissed IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction whether-the-trial-court-had-jurisdiction
19-1341 Richard A. Van Auken, as Trustee and Beneficiary v. Fletcher R. Catron, et al. New Mexico 2020-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-property fraud fraudulent-taking judicial-denial judicial-determination judicial-review litigation-history property-rights trust trust-contract Whether the refusal of New Mexico State Courts to provide a final judicial determination of trust contract meaning and effect, a fact central to provi…
19-8544 Hubert Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
19-8088 Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-03-24 Denied IFP constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State …
19-1132 Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional?
19-6900 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change Does Buckhannon apply in fee determinations under the Equal Access to Justice Act?
19-6662 Shane E. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
19-5893 Melissa Pfeiffer v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-10 Denied IFP conscious-disregard-for-risk criminal-law felony-murder inherent-dangerousness inherently-dangerous inherently-dangerous-felony judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions malice-aforethought massachusetts-law presumption-of-malice sentencing Whether the judge or the jury decides the issue of intent in a second-degree felony murder case where the underlying felony is inherently dangerous as…
18-6327 Rolando Humphrey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-5608 Andres Mata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination procedural-review state-appeals state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals' determination that a habeas petitioner failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional righ…