legal-duty
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7106 | Feifei Gu v. Leticia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. | New York | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general conspiracy criminal-prosecution judicial-misconduct legal-duty malfeasance | 1. Has Letitia James, as Attorney General of NY, neglected her duty when she refused to intervene in the fake criminal prosecution of CR-001793-24/KN … |
| 24-6599 | William J. Trengove, Jr. v. Department of Justice | Third Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court-circuit-split discretionary-function-exemption federal-tort-claims-act government-negligence legal-duty statutory-interpretation | Can the Department of Justice, or any government agency, legitimately claim 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) discretionary function exemption (DFE) after being ind… |
| 23-7570 | Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation | Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F… |
| 23-84 | Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter | Second Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation | The schedule of a phenomenal, superstar U.S. Rapper and Executive has to be a tiring, stressful one. Stress and loss of rest has to intensify with the… |
| 22-5388 | In Re Roszetta Marie McNeill | 2022-08-18 | Dismissed | IFP | administrative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process fraud fraud-claim legal-duty mandamus standing venue-change writ-of-mandamus | Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Oakland Circuit court to retain jurisdiction of case or/to remand the case to the district court… | |
| 20-924 | David G. Bowser v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1001 criminal-concealment dismissal-with-prejudice false-statement federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal legal-duty material-fact motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal | Whether the legal duty to disclose, required for a criminal concealment of a material fact, 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(1), can be created by coupling a volun… |
| 19-6840 | Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness | Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |