pennsylvania-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-773 Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause…
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania 2025-12-18 Pending appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal and whether the Pennsylvania appellate co…
25-6052 David D. Richardson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error in affirming the District Court's judgment by misapplying Pennsylvania substanti…
23-6004 Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder constitute the 'same offense' under the Double Jeopardy Clause
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution?
22-5386 Pamela Bond v. McKean County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation pennsylvania-law property property-tax real-estate real-estate-law tax-assessment tax-delinquency taxation vehicle-transfer Whether the 2005 Dodge Caravan was properly registered and inspected, whether Pennsylvania rebate laws apply to the property taxes on 316 Dawson Stree…
22-122 Philip Snyder v. Tenth Presbyterian Church Pennsylvania 2022-08-09 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process factual-findings legal-review pennsylvania-law rule-of-law standard-of-review superior-court Did the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly stated rule of law?
21-1236 In Re Kyko Global Inc., et al. 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty california-law choice-of-law conflict-of-laws corporate-director corporate-law fiduciary-duty internal-affairs-doctrine panel-discretion pennsylvania-law whether the Panel abused its discretion and improperly created a new legal rule to evaluate Petitioners' breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims
20-6740 Darnell Lewis Peak v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search pennsylvania-law police-procedure private-property vehicle-impoundment Whether the inventory search was illegal under 75 Pa.C.S. § 6309(a) as no public interest was threatened
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-24 Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
19-5789 Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-03 GVR Relisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin…
19-5096 Nicholas Rivera v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement
18-6748 Malachi M. Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the broader Pennsylvania delivery of a controlled substance statute, 35 Pa. C.S.A. § 780-113(a)(30), qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offe…
18-6253 Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des…