legal-conflict

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6449 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when lower courts' legal standard for false testimony claims conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard …
24-5604 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-conflict petition-review procedural-error supreme-court-procedure Whether the California Supreme Court improperly denied a petition and application for stay, leaving unresolved legal and factual conflicts
22-5271 Jose Erbo, aka Tito, aka Pinguita, aka Miguel Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment autopsy-reports confrontation-clause due-process legal-conflict supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents testimonial testimonial-evidence Whether Autopsy Reports Are Testimonial For Purposes Of The Confrontation Clause, And Whether The Unreasonable Application Of Clearly Established Supr…
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, Stinson v. United States, and Davis v. United …
21-238 Keith Foster v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct how-can-panels-of-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals-affirm-decisions-as-matters-of-law-that-are-in-direct-conflict-with-previously-established-binding-pr…
20-7487 Rodarius Grimes v. Alabama Alabama 2021-03-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federalism jurisdictional-issue legal-conflict preemption standing state-court-decision supreme-court-law Whether the state court decision was/is in direct conflict with clearly established law as determined from the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-7159 Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's decision bars petitioner's claims of statutory rights under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-5164 Lamont Renard Stewart v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP conflict-with-precedent court-decision court-of-appeals federal-law federal-question important-issue judicial-review jurisdiction legal-conflict legal-settlement petition-for-writ settled-by-supreme-court standing Whether a State Court or a United States Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b…
18-7076 Evelyn Person v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco…
18-6216 Musonda Mulenga v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.Ct. …
18-5962 Theadene Mattis v. Florida Florida 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court