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24-124 Brent Brewbaker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional?
22-1249 Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit is correct to relieve an incontestable trademark-holder of its burden to prove that its mark is strong and likely to be c…
22-6694 Abdiraham Haji-Hassan v. Maine Maine 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-suspect-theory due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining postconviction postconviction-review presumption professional-assistance reasonable-professional-assistance strickland-standard Whether the state postconviction court misapplied Strickland-v-Washington
22-6063 Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
22-5313 Jesse Rondale Bailey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a)(6) career-offender criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence-based judicial-discretion presumption sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity within-range-sentences Whether a court may categorically refuse to consider empirical evidence showing that other judges impose sentences below the guideline range in the va…
22-102 John Doe, et al. v. Airbnb, Inc. Florida 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable clear-and-unmistakable-evidence contract-interpretation dispute-resolution first-options-v-kaplan presumption procedural-rules Whether the provision in an arbitration agreement that the arbitration will be administered under a particular set of procedural rules, which give the…
21-1376 Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA First Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure Should the trial court apply presumptions against suicide and in favor of an accident when the insured's state of mind is contested in an ERISA-covere…
21-5334 Cecile A. Brown v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-defendants governmental-defendants judicial-review legal-presumption presumption standing supreme-court-doctrine voluntary-cessation Whether the doctrine of voluntary cessation applies less stringently to governmental defendants than to private ones?
20-7160 Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing court from applying a presumption in favor of life without parole for a juvenile offender
19-1385 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in…
19-7571 Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden Tennessee 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue Whether the statutory presumption comports with the constitutional standard
19-5810 Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the harmless error analysis to a jury instruction that implicitly included critical elements of the crime charge…
19-288 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition against instructing juries that certain f…
19-5656 Armando J. Mena v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy presumption presumption-of-regularity silent-record standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), in concluding that a state court could reasonably presume from a silent…
19-5457 Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC …
18-9559 Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process?
18-9219 Yaqob Tafan Thomas v. Joseph P. Meko, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor alternative-means burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-scrutiny due-process jury-instructions presumption richardson-v-us-schad-v-arizona Does it violate the due process clause when a state intentionally refuses to define every elemental fact in 'alternative means' statute thereby creati…
18-8885 Jose Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED UNER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' AND THAT ALWAYS IS FORS…
18-8420 Kevin Anthony Briggs v. Montana Montana 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights defendant-responsibility defense-counsel presumption presumption-of-delay rescheduling-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-claim speedy-trial trial-delay withdrawal-of-counsel Whether a delay caused by permissive withdrawal of defense counsel, and the subsequent delay in rescheduling trial, is presumed to be caused by a defe…
18-7515 Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) comports with the Due Process Clause as to the State's burden of proof
18-811 JPay, Inc. v. Cynthia Kobel, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitrability-delegation arbitration-agreement class-arbitration contract-interpretation contractual-language dispute-resolution oxford-health-plans parties-intentions presumption stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-presumption Whether courts may presume parties intended to let an arbitrator decide if class arbitration is available when they 'simply agree[d] to submit' disput…
18-7077 JC Christopher Pulham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly…
18-6738 Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing Whether Petitioner was entitled to a de novo resentencing hearing relative to his challenges to the restitution order following remand from the Sixth …
18-6013 Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA
18-92 David V. Perry v. Bruce Kriegman Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law clawback-provisions constitutional-rights due-process fraudulent-transfer fundamental-human-rights ponzi-scheme presumption trustee vague-laws What is a Ponzi Scheme and are the vague laws and interpretations surrounding its definition and the subsequent enforcement of the Ponzi Scheme Presum…