ninth-circuit-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-812 La Dell Grizzell, on Behalf of Her Minor Children v. San Elijo Elementary School, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) constitutional-rights federal-court minor-representation ninth-circuit-rule pro-se-litigation statutory-interpretation Whether children must retain an attorney to pursue claims in federal court, or whether their parents may instead litigate pro se on their behalf
21-5686 Tobias Soto-Melchor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlling-precedent counsel-of-choice ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-rule right-to-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay Proper-standard-for-substituting-retained-counsel
19-8921 Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard May a court assessing Strickland prejudice dismiss the significance of evidence of brain damage, on the ground that it makes only a 'limited additiona…
19-1187 Matco Tools Corporation, et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-validity district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens forum-selection-clause ninth-circuit-rule procedural-exception subject-matter May a district court create an exception to the rule that the validity of a forum-selection clause does not depend upon the validity of the underlying…
19-5691 Roxanne Marie Carpenter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules duress-defense ninth-circuit-rule pinkerton-instruction pinkerton-liability pre-trial-disclosure work-product work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege Whether the Ninth Circuit's Vasquez-Landaver rule requiring pretrial public disclosure of defense strategy contravenes criminal-procedure rules and at…