missouri-law
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5869 | Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-13 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor | 1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation… |
| 23-305 | Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment | Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing |
| 22-7699 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | due-process illiteracy juror-qualification juror-qualifications jury-selection missouri-law right-to-fair-trial voir-dire | Did the Missouri Supreme Court's failure to enforce Missouri's mandatory exclusion from the jury of persons who cannot read or write violate Mr. Tisiu… |
| 22-5602 | Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony | Whether trial counsel can be held to have an objectively reasonable strategy in not making a legal argument when he never considered that legal argume… |
| 19-6348 | Billy J. Griffin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation | Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statute indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state court would no… |
| 18-9462 | Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender | Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was or… |
| 18-7583 | In Re Bill Herron | 2019-01-28 | Dismissed | IFP | adjudicatory-procedures administrative-procedure deprivation-of-property due-process judicial-review logan-v-zimmerman-brush-co mandamus missouri-administrative-procedure-act missouri-law property-interest property-rights | Where the District Court has repeatedly refused to address or adjudicate claims raised by a party, in this and other cases filed by Missouri Prisoner'… | |
| 18-675 | Lisa M. West v. Missouri | Missouri | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion admissibility conviction-and-sentence criminal-appeal daubert-review daubert-standard evidence-admissibility expert-witness judicial-review missouri-law scientific-testimony standard-of-review trial-court-discretion | Whether this court should require a de novo review of the trial court's handling of scientific testimony to determine whether Daubert v. Merrell Dow P… |