legal-prejudice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-492 Everglades College, Inc. v. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Pending Amici (1) article-iii-injury class-action-settlement government-litigation intervention legal-prejudice prudential-standing Rebuffed by Congress and this Court in its attempts to cancel student-loan debt en masse, the Biden Administration transmogrified a narrow procedural …
24-1084 Steven M. Hohn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Amici (7) attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether a prosecutor's intentional, unjustified intrusion into a defendant's attorney-client communications violates the Sixth Amendment without a sho…
24-6079 Lance Hullum v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-review jury-verdict legal-prejudice Whether a jury's verdict can be overturned when critical evidence is deemed erroneous and potentially prejudicial against the petitioner
21-7306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi…
20-7586 Phillip Blough v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure Does the right to a trial by jury include the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions?
19-8542 Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments?
19-1237 LeRoy K. Wheeler v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access court-access due-process judicial-bias judicial-review legal-prejudice meritorious-claims prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner Do poor pro-se prisoners have a constitutional right to access the courts and to justice that will compel courts to rule on the merits of valid consti…
19-645 Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz Arizona 2019-11-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien Whether unauthorized aliens can establish Strickland prejudice for Padilla/Lee claims
18-9820 Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Is petitioner entitled to relief where his constitutional rights are/were violated by receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial court l…