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24-965 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso…
24-6230 La'Tesa Cobbs v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-01-03 Denied IFP appeals-board good-cause misinformation procedural-error resignation unemployment-insurance Whether the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board erred in determining Petitioner lacked good cause for resignation and whether Respondents used misinf…
24A368 Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-censorship misinformation social-media-platforms Whether the First Amendment permits social media platforms to moderate content based on government-requested misinformation assessments without violat…
22-5562 Christopher Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-step-act government-response judicial-discretion misinformation reply section-404 sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether Petitioner was denied his due process rights when the district court granted his Section 404 of the First Step Act motion, but imposed upward …
21-7726 Michael Charles Sartin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi…
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
19-5274 Anthony James Hill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth…
18-7367 Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment Was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing when the evidence clearly showed that Huggins was misinformed based on counsel's advice…
18-6112 Opherro G. Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness Due process-precludes-reliance-on-misinformation-at-sentencing
18-6138 Lance Fox v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness whether due process precludes relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant