legal-analysis

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7255 Jarred Adams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process legal-analysis sentence-length sentencing vindictive-prosecution Whether sentence length is the exclusive means to determine if a subsequent sentence is more severe for vindictive sentencing analysis?
23-7253 Calvin King v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-18 Denied IFP application constitutional-provisions interpretation jurisdiction legal-analysis lower-court-decision petition statement-of-case statutory-provisions table-of-contents Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-5786 Mark Andre Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines
21-7034 Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a Conviction for Hobbs Act Robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Sentencing Guidelines
20-749 Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal…
19-680 Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immunity analysis as to each officer and e…
19-6149 Desmond Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
18-823 ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations Whether evidence of 'secondary considerations' is less important in rebutting prima facie evidence of obviousness