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25-5826 Dover Davis, Jr. v. Officer Aaron Swann Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-facts section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether there was a conflict between the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Northern District Court of Georgia regarding the statute of limitat…
25-5265 Jessica M. Graulau Maldonado v. Orange County Public Library System Florida 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment material-facts negligence-tort summary-judgment witness-credibility Whether the trial court's application of federal summary judgment standard violates due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by improperly de…
24-6660 Xiaorong Lan v. University of Texas at San Antonio Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure credibility-of-evidence material-facts standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether summary judgment should be granted when genuine issues of material fact exist and evidence credibility is questioned
24-648 Officer Layau Eulizier v. Jose Vega-Colon, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Anthony Vega-Cruz, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-violation law-enforcement material-facts objectively-reasonable-officer qualified-immunity Whether a court can deny qualified immunity when no material disputed facts exist and prior Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions found no constit…
24-5709 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus material-facts procedural-relief rule-60b section-2255 Whether unresolved factual issues in a § 2255 motion warrant an evidentiary hearing and potential habeas relief
23-1198 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure first-amendment frcp-56 independent-review local-rules material-facts religious-harassment statement-of-material-facts summary-judgment supreme-court-precedents workplace-discrimination Do the United States Court of Appeals have obligations to enforce FRCP 56 and the Supreme Court's precedents when Statement of Material Facts and supp…
23-394 Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. New York 2023-10-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment Where a trial court resolving summary judgment denies due process
23-331 James Doe v. Gladys Pisani, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion disputed-facts interlocutory-appeal jury-trial material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that 'arguable probable cause' can support a claim for qualified-immunity,summary-judgment,interlocut…
23-5218 In Re Jerome Curry 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment material-facts non-response sentencing standing summary-judgment waiver Does the law require that due to the Respondent's non-response to Summary Judgment and failure to present before the Court a genuine issue of material…
23-54 Robert Mark Scott v. Forcht Bank, N.A. Kentucky 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court civil-procedure detrimental-reliance false-testimony loan-officer material-facts material-issues-of-fact promissory-estoppel reliance summary-judgment Whether Summary Judgment is proper where material issues of fact exist?
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action 'alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact' when the complaint contains no such allegati…
22-457 Peter Whyte v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-claim federal-constitution federal-law habeas-corpus material-facts plain-statement state-pleading-standard state-procedural-rule Whether a state court's dismissal of a habeas petitioner's claim under the U.S. Constitution for failure to plead sufficient 'material facts' under a …
22-147 Reshawn Armstrong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts prima-facie-case protected-class similar-situated summary-judgment supervisor-liability Whether a Judge committed ex parte communication
21-7526 Adam C. Morris v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement interrogatory-issue jury-instructions material-fact material-facts right-to-jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure verdict-control Did the court err in considering the argument that the separate interrogatory is an issue of material fact and that the jury had no knowledge of infor…
21-6856 Darrell Wayne Butler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force material-facts prison-officials summary-judgment Whether the court erred in granting summary judgment to the officials on the ground that there was a genuine dispute of material fact concerning wheth…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56
21-149 Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo Tenth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether the lower court has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, misrepresenting and ignoring material facts of the ca…
20-1707 Katherine Jacobs v. Johnson Storage & Moving Co. Holdings, LLC Eighth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-errors civil-procedure due-process evidence flsa-violations fraud material-facts overtime-approval perjury summary-judgment Whether the district court upheld FRCP Rule 56, Rule 60(b) and summary judgment standards
20-1690 Ramon Cortesluna v. Daniel Rivas-Villegas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors material-facts police-shooting qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit depart from longstanding procedure and precedent and fail to view video and other evidence in the light most favorable to the pl…
20-7927 Daryl DeWayne Riggins v. DeAnn Morris, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP admissions civil-procedure contract-interpretation denials exhibits federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts pleadings state-court-jurisdiction Whether a party's responsive pleading must admit or deny the statement(s) in the other party's pleading, such as whether a copy of the parties' contra…
20-5591 Joseph G. Edwards v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection material-facts nebraska-supreme-court precedential-authority sexual-assault vulnerable-adult Did the Nebraska Supreme Court omit material facts and circumvent the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights?
19-8734 In Re Ren Y. Deng 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the …
19-8383 Luis A. Soro v. Pedro Lopez Florida 2020-05-01 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review material-facts notice notice-requirement property standing summary-judgment trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred in granting summary judgment without providing the appellant the required 10-day notice
19-7855 Jeremy T. Walker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated…
19-7511 Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2020-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing What is the liberal ability to amend a complaint?
19-6285 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Stan the Hot Water Man Oregon 2019-10-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure employer-liability intentional-torts material-fact material-facts property-damage respondeat-superior scope-of-employment summary-judgment tortious-conduct Did the trial court err in granting summary judgment when there were disputed issues of material fact?
19-486 Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity
19-326 Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff p…
19-174 Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure When courts are deciding qualified immunity in Fourth Amendment cases, shouldn't they recite the trial court's identification of the disputed issues o…
19-5155 William M. Russell v. KS Ventures, LLC Montana 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process genuine-issues judicial-review legal-standard material-fact material-facts standing summary-judgment Did the findings of the lower courts result in a violation of certain rights of due process?
18-9706 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency Whether the state violated the Constitution and deprived petitioner of due process rights by concealing exculpatory evidence and witness statements fr…
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-8698 Marcel A. Walton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing Can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts?
18-1204 Terry Haynie v. United Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response Waived discrete incident instead of an ongoing pattern o civil-rights constructive-discharge employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment material-facts national-railroad-passenger-corp-v-morgan retaliation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the court below erroneously applied Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan when it considered each incident of harassment as a single, discrete …
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment Whether summary judgment was proper where the respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. moved to dismiss before filing an answer, no discovery had …
18-6613 Hector R. DeJesus v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissible-evidence civil-procedure declaration evidence judgment-as-matter-of-law material-fact material-facts motion perjury summary-judgment sworn-declaration Did the defendants show there were no material issues in dispute and that they were entitled to judgment as a matter of law?
18-513 Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority Colorado 2018-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act class-of-one due-process equal-protection exhaustion-doctrine material-facts property-rights Can a governmental agency initiating litigation be relieved of its obligation to prove the elements of its claim against a 'class of one', even when t…
18-176 Conestoga Trust Services, LLC, as Trustee of the Conestoga Settlement Trust, dated May 1, 2010 v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Sixth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure direct-evidence disinterested-witness evidence judicial-discretion material-fact material-facts nonmovant reasonable-jury reasonable-jury-standard summary-judgment witness-credibility Whether a court may weigh and discredit direct evidence from a disinterested witness that would prove a material fact, under the guise of applying the…
18-5315 Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower courts properly applied the summary judgment standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby