legal-defense
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-849 | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell | District of Columbia | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power | For over 1,000 years, Catholics have given an annual offering to the Pope called Peter's Pence. A parishoner claims he was misled during Mass by an in… |
| 25-6069 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-10 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense | 1. Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from defending himself i… |
| 21-537 | Adir International, LLC, et al. v. Starr Indemnity and Liability Company | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Amici (2) | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-proceeds legal-defense standing state-action state-litigation | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to prohibit private parties from using untainted funds, such as otherwise l… |
| 21-403 | Bruce H. Zitka, et ux. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights court-order criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-by-estoppel government-liability governmental-officials jury-trial legal-defense res-judicata | Were the Zitkas denied the right to present evidence to show the jury a prior court order authorized their conduct and to show they acted as they did … |
| 19-405 | Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth | Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker? |