national-importance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6210 Andrew Pierson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exclusionary-rule foreign-searches fourth-amendment joint-venture judicial-conscience national-importance shocks-the-judicial-conscience Whether exceptions exist for the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule for foreign searches and seizures
23-79 Palani Karupaiyan v. Lee Solomon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process national-importance parental-rights property-rights section-1982 takings writ-of-mandamus Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address the issues of national importance, property-rights, parental-rights, due-process, takings…
21-7865 Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level
21-1213 Michael Broaden v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 38-usc-4311 employment-rights federal-agencies federal-agency job-qualification job-qualifications military-discrimination military-status-discrimination national-importance uniformed-services-employment uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig veterans-protection Whether federal agencies can formulate job qualifications that violate military-status-discrimination laws or refuse to credit equivalent military exp…
21-695 Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a 'fine' for purpose…
20-1268 Michael Suarez v. Alf J. Aanonsen Florida 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-court-conflict appellate-court-decision business-nexus federal-question foreign-corrupt-practices-act national-importance supremacy-clause Is the opinion rendered by the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida in conflict with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Supremacy Clause?
20-562 John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad…
20-5417 Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing Whether the retroactive erasure of felony convictions violates due process and the denial of a Certificate of Appealability reflects a breakdown in th…
19-1306 United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether multiple shipments from different shippers may be aggregated to satisfy the 10,000-cigarette threshold
19-415 Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived 8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether Temporary Protected Status constitutes an admission for purposes of adjustment of status under 8 U.S.C. § 1255(a)
18-1192 The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing Whether RFRA requires the government to exempt religious objectors from providing health plans that include contraceptive coverage
18-7686 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-prohibition national-importance separation-of-powers standing Whether the issues presented are important and beyond the particular facts and parties involved, whether there exists a conflict between courts of app…
18-5962 Theadene Mattis v. Florida Florida 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court