| 24A661 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's summary judgment ruling in a patent-related case can be affirmed without a comprehensive written opinion explaining the leg… |
| 24-5847 |
Albert Anderson v. Winston Salem Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard case-precedent court-decision judicial-discretion legal-reasoning procedural-review |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion in rendering an unreasoned decision that fails to adequately address multiple legal precedents |
| 24-188 |
Menorah Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., et al. v. John D. Sheehan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
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appellate-review circuit-court claim-dismissal legal-reasoning loss-causation summary-judgment |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a summary judgment decision without providing reasons for dismissing key claims |
| 23-1359 |
Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority |
Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific… |
| 23-7759 |
Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent |
May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S. |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6799 |
Leon King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 23-57 |
Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
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appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency |
Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter to withhold all indication of its reasons for ruling |
| 22-5314 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines |
Whether sentencing judges must explain why they have rejected a nonfrivolous argument made by a defendant in favor of a lower sentence |
| 21-7315 |
Michael Lynn Cash v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t… |
| 21-5988 |
Stephen B. Jones, Sr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-reasoning procedural-rules speedy-trial statutory-provisions |
Did the trial court err? |
| 20-7727 |
Hasan Shareef v. Brian Palko, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection legal-reasoning public-trial statutory-provisions writ |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 19-1129 |
Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion |
Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in … |
| 19-7909 |
Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit's reasoning on causation issues attendant to assisted suicide is at odds with this Court's case-law and the states' view of … |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-5185 |
William Eric Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application |
Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner? |
| 18-6627 |
David Timothy Curry v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts |
Where a state appellate court is required to address every issue that was presented when they decline to review a lower court's decision |