precedent-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-815 Siddharth Kode v. Joseph Pargin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending contract-discrimination post-formation precedent-interpretation retaliation-claims statute-of-limitations time-barred Whether a court's ruling that §1981 postformation claims are time-barred because of its application of 2Y-SoL rather than 4Y-SoL constitutes reversibl…
25-340 Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court docket should be sealed due to improper purposes and privacy expectations under Nixon v. Warner Communications precedent
23A1046 Desiree Martinez v. Channon High Ninth Circuit 2024-05-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether a government official can be denied qualified immunity when prior circuit court precedent suggests a constitutional violation, even if the fac…
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-6603 Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-7724 Anthony Fields v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple…
21-7220 Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the Exclusive Jurisdiction Doctrine applies to criminal cases
21-6676 Mario Murillo-Mora v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review precedent-interpretation roe-v-flores-ortega Whether Circuit Courts of Appeals can Properly Summarily Deny Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability to a Habeas Petitioner
21-6504 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized risk…
21-338 Gary S. Christensen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived 16th-amendment criminal-tax due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction irs-determination precedent-interpretation restitution sixteenth-amendment tax-liability Where no determination of federal tax liability has been made by the IRS and the court of appeals has ruled patently contrary to this court's decision…
21-140 Rosemary Garity v. APWU National Labor Organization Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination circuit-court-conflict circuit-courts civil-rights discrimination due-process precedent precedent-interpretation pro-se-considerations summary-judgment union-liability Is 'But for' the standard for ADA discrimination claims?
21-5250 Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP §3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller Whether the Eighth Circuit overlooked binding precedent in U.S. v. Miller when determining if the facts established that Martinez did not coerce buyer…
20-6755 Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-1307 Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes Fourth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part…
19-6453 James E. Lang v. Florida Florida 2019-10-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of its statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, that has affirmed a con…
18-1147 Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence that contradicts its own precedence's