legal-determination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1236 Law Office of Rogelio Solis PLLC, et al. v. Catherine Stone Curtis Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law debtor-interest erie-doctrine federal-common-law legal-determination property-ownership property-rights state-law Whether a transfer of property, in which a debtor has no interest recognized under applicable state law, may be avoided pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 547
20-8042 Jorge Cervantes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-determination postconviction-relief standard-of-review state-court-findings strickland Did the trial court use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the fact to the law under Strickland?
20-5706 Mark Berg v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party or rev…