legal-waiver

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5490 Eric Michael Corder v. Shawn Straughn, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Center West Virginia 2024-09-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-hearing due-process legal-waiver plea-agreement Whether a state can constitutionally deny a defendant a hearing without formal waiver and whether a defendant can validly agree to plea terms without …
23-204 WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…