mistake-of-law

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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…