mandate-rule
24 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6745 | Linda Sun v. D.C. Office of Employee Appeals, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | administrative-law due-process fraud-on-court judicial-integrity mandate-rule party-presentation | Whether a court's inherent power to set aside a judgment for fraud on the court is subject to a 'reasonable time' limitation when an adjudicator inten… |
| 25-6142 | John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea mandate-rule sentencing-error | Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from considering a defendant's motion to withdraw a guilty plea after a court of appeals remands f… |
| 25A390 | John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mandate-rule resentencing withdrawal | Whether the mandate rule permits federal appellate courts to review motions to withdraw guilty pleas filed after a case is remanded for resentencing | |
| 25-5753 | Eddie Scott v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | anti-injunction-statute federal-rule-60b habeas-corpus mandate-rule section-1983 younger-doctrine | Whether a federal judge can keep a case closed after a plaintiff's state trial acquittal and deny relief under Federal Rule 60(B) despite the Younger … |
| 25-5360 | Rachel Goode v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law judicial-review law-of-case mandate-rule remand social-security | Where a District Court remands a Social Security Administration decision addressing a specific error not related to residual functional capacity, does… |
| 25-5003 | Eric Richard Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction de-novo-resentencing fifth-circuit-interpretation mandate-rule sentencing-discretion | Did the Fifth Circuit misapply its restrictive interpretation of the mandate rule which does not permit de novo resentencing, but limits to resentenci… |
| 24-7396 | Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the mandate rule precludes or permits a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on i… |
| 24-5754 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | IFP | charging-statute district-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-prosecution indictment-defect jurisdictional-error mandate-rule | Whether a defect in an indictment is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct beyond the scope of the charging… |
| 24A122 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-error mandate-rule | Whether the failure to allege conduct within a charging statute's scope constitutes a jurisdictional defect that renders a criminal indictment invalid | |
| 23-7371 | Laron Darrell Carter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver | Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is jurisdictional |
| 23A781 | Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process and judicial precedent by improperly declining jurisdiction over its own remand order | |
| 23-6239 | Christopher Everson v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court independent-action judicial-procedure mandate-rule rule-60 timing timing-limitations | Is the filing of an independent action under FRCP 60(d)(1) for fraud on the court distinguishable from FRCP 60(b)(3) fraud? |
| 23-5462 | Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package | Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to post-Act resentencing hearings? |
| 22-751 | Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-09 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds | Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never pers… | |
| 22-6393 | Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Does the court have an obligation to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists as a preliminary matter? |
| 22-6344 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule |
| 20-8343 | Joseph Jenkins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing | Questions Presented |
| 20-6174 | Marjory Childs v. Western Tidewater Community Services Board | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | IFP | ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure mandate-rule standing title-vii | Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41 |
| 19-944 | Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action |
| 19-6613 | Jaime Rodriguez, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review counsel-performance deliberate-misrepresentations due-process factual-predicates false-positions false-positions-and-deliberate-misrepresentations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule newly-raised-claims sixth-amendment | Whether the mandate rule bars consideration and adjudication of newly raised claims under a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 18-1397 | Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS | Federal Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion | Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S… |
| 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… |
| 18-6061 | Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute | Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in… |
| 18-5569 | Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar | Whether the classification made by the Fifth Circuit Court in Colley v. Sattizahn, 130 F.3d 496 (5th Cir. 1997) constitutes a violation of clearly est… |