life-expectancy
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6138 | Michael Chance v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo… |
| 20-371 | Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion | Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be 'false' under the False-Claims-Act based solely on a reas… |
| 18-1500 | Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality | Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-6812 | Jack Ferranti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing | Whether the district court imposed a defacto life sentence not authorized by the statute of conviction |
| 18-81 | Carltez Taylor v. Indiana | Indiana | 2018-07-19 | Denied | constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years | Whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to a term exceeding their life expectancy for a single offense |