| 24-7431 |
Keisha Reynolds v. HNS Management Co., Inc., dba CTTransit, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-attorney law-of-the-case second-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment vested-right |
Whether Hodge v. Police Officers creates a vested right for court-appointed attorney under stare decisis or Law of the case doctrine |
| 23-7613 |
Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial |
Is an appellate court's reversal of a trial court's grant of a new trial reviewable? |
| 23-6706 |
Ohio, ex rel. Lonnie Rarden v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Butler County, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure faretta-v-california fundamental-error johnson-v-zerbst law-of-the-case res-judicata right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-jurisdiction waiver-of-counsel |
Does this Court no longer recognize the right to counsel under Johnson v. Zerbst? |
| 23-6043 |
Dwaun Jabbar Guidry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-question law-of-the-case supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of relief violated due process by determining the law of the case doctrine was controlling despite the parties' app… |
| 23-5603 |
Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation |
Whether the law of the case doctrine precludes a successor judge's reconsideration of prior interlocutory orders absent some altered circumstance, and… |
| 23-5569 |
Francisco Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing |
Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record? |
| 23-53 |
Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the dismissal conflicts with SCOTUS precedent on FRCP 60 and independent actions |
| 23-5119 |
Nawllah Shayanne Tiger v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
federal-jurisdiction law-of-the-case major-crimes-act mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma postconviction-relief retroactivity state-procedural-law subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction |
Was the Oklahoma court's decision to approve reinstating Ms. Tiger's convictions based on such a novel and unforeseeable change in state procedural la… |
| 22-7773 |
Belkis Soca-Fernandez, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
check-and-balance civil-rights conspiracy-statute constitutional-protection due-process interstate-commerce judicial-administration judicial-review law-of-the-case legal-inconsistency sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers |
Will jurists of reason find debatable the application of a double standard of law, by the Government's arguing of two opposite interpretations of the … |
| 22-6091 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the law-of-the-case doctrine prohibits a court from changing its previous ruling on the same question later during the course of litigation |
| 22-5757 |
Alvin Dalton v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process law-of-the-case liberty-interests mandatory-language |
Whether prisoners are entitled to have their permanent records free from falsified legal documents, legal enhancement errors, and phrases substituting… |
| 22-72 |
Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Minnesota |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-procedure law-of-case law-of-the-case lower-court-jurisdiction rule-60.02 |
Whether a lower court is obligated to abide by the law of the case even if it claims the appellate court erred |
| 21-7871 |
Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard? |
| 20-1321 |
John Ching En Lee v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-1001 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case materiality sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-6256 |
Elet Valentine v. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment civil-procedure dismissal federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer law-of-the-case motion-to-dismiss service-of-process |
Question not identified |
| 20-5431 |
Walter Ackerman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search |
Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law-of-the-case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government waive… |
| 20-112 |
Sherry Hernandez v. PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC, et al. |
California |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-documents judicial-notice law-of-case law-of-the-case mers-system notice wrongful-foreclosure |
Did the California Superior Court and the Court of Appeal deprive Petitioner of her right to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by Re… |
| 20-52 |
Yeitza Marie Aponte-Bermudez v. Eligio Colón, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-courts judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-evaluation jury-trial law-of-the-case rule-50 |
May a federal district court consistent with the law-of-the-case doctrine grant judgment as a matter of law under Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(a) to respondents… |
| 19-7532 |
Travis Welsh v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 3.850-motion 8th-amendment capital-sexual-battery civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus law-of-the-case motion-filing petition standing void-for-vagueness |
Did the court's refusal to accept the timely 3.850 motion filing because it did not identify the circuit court in the certification of service violate… |
| 19-7521 |
Elisha Paul Harley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission free-speech judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case legal-review magistrate-judge magistrate-procedure racist-comments review standing |
Whether the magistrate judge erred in admitting evidence of racist comments attributed to the petitioner, in violation of the law of the case doctrine |
| 19-944 |
Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action |
| 19-482 |
ASAP Copy and Print, et al. v. Canon Solutions America, Inc. |
California |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights-act-of-1866 due-process judicial-immunity law-of-the-case recusal recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause |
Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California's common law concept of 'law of the case' may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 19-6127 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights |
What effect does a concession on ineffective assistance of counsel have on the court's ability to adjudicate the merits? |
| 19-5450 |
Paul Suarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the panel err by holding that the 'law of the case' governed its decision in holding that the evidence was legally sufficient to sustain the petit… |
| 19-5215 |
Lowrell Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding the district court properly applied the law-of-the-case to an issue presented in 2255 motion when prior appellate… |
| 18-1370 |
Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci… |
| 18-8903 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata |
Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines should bar an independent or original action in federal court when the defendants employed frau… |
| 18-1286 |
Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force |
Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an issue in this case |
| 18-8647 |
Amilcar C. Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-authority circuit-court civil-procedure dicta judicial-precedent law-of-case law-of-the-case panel-opinion precedent sixth-circuit |
Is The Dicta Of A Prior Sixth Circuit Panel Opinion Law Of The Case And Remain Binding On Any Other Panel, Despite Error? |
| 18-8421 |
Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the circuit court of appeals err when it denied (COA) status on the point raised that the U.S. district court abused its discretion by not allowin… |
| 18-8239 |
Negus Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing |
Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand |
| 18-756 |
William Gittere, Warden, et al. v. Jose Lorente Echavarria |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
|
aedpa compensatory-bias due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct law-of-the-case |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's application of the law of the case in the state habeas appeal was an adjudication of Echavarria's compensatory bias… |
| 18-5966 |
Joseph Faulkner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states |
Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduct sh… |
| 18-5542 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur |
Whether the finding of fact prior to vacating the forfeiture order becomes 'Law-of-the-Case' upon remand |
| 18-5357 |
Michael C. Redifer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-legislation criminal-procedure due-process kastigar-doctrine law-of-the-case rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents |
Does the Rules Enabling Act preclude a court from invoking the law of the case doctrine against a defendant in a criminal proceeding when the law of t… |
| 18-5148 |
Marcus Blalock v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process |
Whether petitioner was denied his right to due process when the trial court failed to follow the law of the case doctrine from a previous appeal, deni… |