mistake-of-law
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7137 | Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton | Texas | 2024-04-04 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal | Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28… |
| 22-7845 | Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadvertence judicial-relief mistake mistake-of-law rule-60 summary-judgment surprise | Whether Petitioner Daniel Coleman Rule 60 is timely under Federal rules of Procedure Rule 60? |
| 22-7286 | Vonteak Alexander v. Jane Doe, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-reformation mistake-of-law mutual-mistake plea-agreement | May a court reform an accepted, valid, federal plea agreement containing a mutual mistake of law to circumvent the mistake to the defendant's prejudic… |
| 21-5433 | Alex White v. California | California | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement mistake-of-law pretext pretext-stop reasonable-mistake traffic-stop vehicle-code vehicle-equipment | Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang in… |
| 18-9188 | Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle | Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente… |
| 18-6422 | Larry Norton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-418 | United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter | Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d… |