limitations-period

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25A778 Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2026-01-05 Application innocent-taxpayer iRS-assessment limitations-period section-6501 tax-court tax-fraud Whether the IRS can assess taxes beyond the usual three-year deadline when the taxpayer's preparer intended to file a false or fraudulent return, but …
25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a "suitable" federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.…
25-344 Robert Cromwell, et al. v. William Tacon, as Administrator of Caribbean Commercial Investment Bank Ltd. Second Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dismissal forum-selection limitations-period rule-41 time-bar-defense Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41, a plaintiff may withdraw a case voluntarily until the defendant answers or moves for summary judgment. There…
25-58 Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii 1. Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-term…
24-5615 Merl Simpson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations Whether the one-year limitations period in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) runs from the date of the original or amended criminal judgment when restitution obliga…
23-1306 Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. Michigan 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty Whether the Michigan Courts committed plain legal error construing and applying §700.7604(1)(b) by declining to apply the relevant statutory definitio…
23-7490 Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business' premises for work because her admission would…
23-5223 Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review legal-remedy limitations-period procedural-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in concluding that Mr. Rios was not entitled to equitable tolling
22-974 Charles J. Weiss v. United States Third Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived appeals certiorari collection-due-process due-process internal-revenue-code levy-actions limitations-period statutory-interpretation tax-law writ-of-certiorari Whether the IRC section providing for the suspension of levy actions and the running of any period of limitations applies to petitions for a writ of c…
21-7695 Allen Wayne Hatcher v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus limitations-period prisoner-diligence prisoner-rights procedural-sufficiency Can extraordinary circumstances be established by the same facts that establish a prisoner's diligence?
21-6410 Steve Herbert Speckman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review limitations-period petition-deadline statute-of-limitations supreme-court-interpretation Whether the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the federal statute when it failed to recognize the one-year limitations period begins to r…
20-1704 RonRico Simmons, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa evidentiary-hearing government-impediment habeas-corpus limitations-period pro-se timeliness Whether a court can summarily dismiss a pro se habeas petition as untimely for failure to adequately allege a causal connection
20-7570 David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment When a court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat…
20-7123 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation When was conviction final?
20-806 Mary Swartzlander v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived accrual erosion flooding flooding-event government-action government-taking land-erosion limitations-period property-rights statute-of-limitations takings When does a taking claim accrue against the government based on erosion caused by government action, where the erosion for many years was present only…
20-402 Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District Eighth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys'-fees-actions under 20-U.S.C.-§-1415(i)(3)(B)(i)(I)?
20-5696 Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the ordinary forfeiture rule, as codified in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, applies to the limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a)
20-5274 James S. Harris v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period reasonable-jurists Did Mr. Harris present reasons for why the one-year limitations period should be equitably tolled in his case to which reasonable jurists could differ…
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations Is it an extraordinary circumstance if counsel filed a motion three months after the AEDPA's limitations period expired?
18-9240 Carlos Cordoba v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations Should the district court have conducted an evidentiary hearing in order that Mr. Cordoba could have presented proof of his reliance on his attorney's…
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction Should Petitioner's state collateral review requests be considered as pending to toll the AEDPA 1-year limitations period?
18-1169 John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law Applicability of laches to legal claims within statute of limitations period
18-1116 Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of ERISA bars suit where all relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff more than…
18-1094 Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading Whether a shipper's notice asserting a rail carrier's liability for damage to specifically identified cargo and demanding a determinable amount of mon…
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff can proceed with an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when Heck v. Humphrey requirements are met but § 2254 Federal Habea…
18-5727 Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell Whether Maples v. Thomas requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context