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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A300 Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas personal-knowledge summary-judgment Whether an attorney's conclusory declaration without personal knowledge can be used to support summary judgment in an employment discrimination case
23-5156 Markerrion D'Shon Allison v. Texas Texas 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony informant out-of-court-statement personal-knowledge testimonial-evidence witness-confrontation Whether a police officer's testimony relating an unidentified informant's out-of-court statement regarding the meaning of a phrase violated the defend…
21-426 Elias Karkalas v. Linda Marks, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure dismissal federal-complaint federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-knowledge pleading pleading-standard source-of-knowledge standing Is a federal complaint subject to dismissal when the plaintiff fails to identify the source of his knowledge of specific information contained in the …
19-7018 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony personal-knowledge structural-error technical-element testimony Whether the exclusion of a defendant's testimony based on first-hand, personal knowledge of a technical element of the offense charged is structural e…
19-228 United States, ex rel. Michael Ray Perry v. Hooker Creek Asphalt & Paving, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure false-claims-act insider-knowledge particularity-pleading personal-knowledge pleading-requirements qui-tam rule-9(b) rule-9b Whether a relator in a qui tam action under the False Claims Act must be an insider with personal knowledge of the contractor's claim submissions to m…
19-5252 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arraignment criminal-complaint de-novo-appeal essential-elements hearsay-doctrine oath personal-knowledge physical-evidence police-officer Whether it is a violation of the Hearsay Doctrine for one police officer coming on duty who has no personal knowledge of the events which occurred to …
18-5286 Odere Suleitopa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony Whether Rule 701's personal knowledge' requirement permits law enforcement officers to offer lay opinion testimony regarding an investigation when the…