legal-uniformity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5886 Kevin Scott v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and rules to similarly situate state prisoners violate the Due Process and Equal Pro…
24-899 Milos Product Tanker Corporation v. Valero Marketing and Supply Company Ninth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived cargo-freight carrier-exception dominion-over-cargo legal-uniformity maritime-law shipping-commerce Whether maritime law recognizes a carrier exception to the implied obligation to pay freight when a cargo receiver exercises dominion over cargo, and …
22-6809 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues?
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly
19-5195 Cleo Hines v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeal civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-case-law legal-uniformity Does the Equal Protection Clause require the law to treat identically situated persons in the same way, as required by the 14th Amendment, or only whe…
18-1371 Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent Whether conflicts within the D.C. Circuit and between the D.C. Circuit and other circuits created by Morley XI require reversal in order to maintain n…
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states?