merits-consideration

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-359 Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to…
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus violated the…
18-9228 David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat…