judicial-modification
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6415 | Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing | Whether a court may modify a custodial sentence under Rule 36 when the Bureau of Prisons refuses to carry out the imposed sentence |
| 22-5664 | Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-modification medical-records mental-health statutory-interpretation | Did the alteration of the receiving hospital report by Judge Burke as mandated by Minn. Stat. § 253B.12 (1990) violate substantive law? |
| 20-5767 | William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-22 | Denied | IFP | all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution | May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan… |
| 19-823 | Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS | Ohio | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement | Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parties … |
| 19-6090 | Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-30 | Denied | IFP | amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation | Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere scrivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a 'new judgment' within the mea… |