legal-analysis
8 cases — ← All topics
| 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 | 1.) Did the State of Louisiana violate the defendant United States Const. By not bringing the Grand Jury Indictment into open court which is a violati… |
| 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 | 1. Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines in light of this Court's… |
| 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 Hobbos Act Robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.3 4BI.2(a).? 2) Whether the D… |
| 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 (1) the proper standard of review and (2) perform the correct factual and le… | |
| 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 | The questions presented here are: 1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immu… |
| 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 Sentencing Commission violated the separation-of-powers doctrine when it added the offenses of conspiring, aiding and abetting, and attemp… |
| 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" (e.g., a long-felt, but unresolved, need for the patented invention) is less important, functioning at … |