| 24-7067 |
Manuel Tijerino v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
consumer-protection due-process employer-misconduct equal-protection fmla-retaliation legal-presumption |
Did the lower courts err in misapplying the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) waiver of standards denying Petitioners FMLA, due to a concealed missrepre… |
| 22-5619 |
Deonte Lewis v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption performance-competency strickland strickland-standard trial-strategy |
Whether the presumption of reasonable trial strategy in Strickland creates an irrebuttable bar to performance competency challenges in ineffective ass… |
| 21-5334 |
Cecile A. Brown v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-defendants governmental-defendants judicial-review legal-presumption presumption standing supreme-court-doctrine voluntary-cessation |
Whether the doctrine of voluntary cessation applies less stringently to governmental defendants than to private ones? |
| 19-5592 |
Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making |
Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions? |