legal-principles

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6430 Maurice Fleming v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-30 Denied IFP accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court's failure to provide a requested jury instruction on an accomplice's testimony requires reversal of a criminal conviction when…
23-7040 Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. Tennessee 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation Is the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when the Tennessee …
23-6091 Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence under Florida Statute § 775.087(2)(a)1 when the defe…
22-6614 Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of st…
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's rule requiring trial courts to ensure that each juror understands the principles of People v. Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 4…
20-1592 Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing Whether a plaintiff satisfies the 'clearly established law' prong of qualified-immunity
20-6525 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2020-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals divorce-proceedings due-process judicial-decision-making judicial-interpretation legal-principles pension-division standing state-constitutional-law Are the NYS Court of Appeals' rulings consistent with the NYS constitutional requirement to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of d…
19-8653 Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether independent review is an obligation for the lower court and the appellate court to maintain control of and to clarify the legal principles in …
19-821 Isaac M. Nsejjere v. Reuben Smith, et ux. Washington 2019-12-31 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection legal-principles state-action unequal-protection Is a state action constitutional when it leads to deprivation by denying a process that is 'due', and premised on unequal protection under the law?
19-5674 Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
18-8786 Stephen Krell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights controlling-legal-principles deficient-advice effective-assistance-of-counsel legal-principles misapprehension-of-case plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-counsel-incompetence Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to the effective assistance to counsel during the plea bargaining stages of the proceeding is implicated when tria…
18-8228 Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden Ohio 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review Whether the state courts' sua sponte dismissal of the petition is in direct conflict with other precedents on standing legal issues as well as federal…
18-1060 Michael A. Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Stephen D. Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-clauses constitutional-standing due-process fourth-amendment fundamental-justice jurisdiction legal-principles material-change pre-trial-seizure standing statutory-basis takings unclean-hands Whether specified principles of fundamental justice, including unclean hands, constitutionally prohibited the court from affirming distribution of pro…
18-6615 Eugene Riley, III v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP 6th-amendment criminal-justice due-process evidence jury-instructions law legal-assessment legal-principles separateness-of-events Whether Ritey was denied his 6th Amendment right to have his jury assessed with instructions on the application of legal principles to the evidence an…
18-5186 Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether the lower courts deprived the pro se petitioner of due process and disregarded the limitations within the patent claims as well as the validit…