procedural-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-285 Elizabeth White, et vir v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. North Carolina 2025-09-11 Denied Response Waived adoption-assistance child-welfare-act federal-adoption procedural-interpretation special-needs-children state-agency-disclosure Whether North Carolina misinterpreted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 by reversing an Order granting Petitioners adoption assist…
25-5111 Omar Agor, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation public-trial sixth-amendment Whether there is an exception to the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial for courtroom closure that district and circuit courts characterize as …
24-6916 David C. Lettieri v. Suffolk County Police Second Circuit 2025-04-02 Dismissed IFP judicial-review legal-standard procedural-interpretation statutory-analysis strikes vacated-judgments Does vacated judgments count as 'strikes' under the legal standard?
24-6481 Frederick Stampone v. Michigan Supreme Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-standard liberal-construction pro-se-pleadings procedural-interpretation Does this court construe the pleadings liberally and hold them to a less stringent standard than those filed by attorneys?
24-644 Darrell E. Williams v. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-remedies appeals-council exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review Medicare-Act procedural-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should directly consider the issue of 'exhaustion of administrative remedies' under the Medicare Act when the Medicare Appea…
20-334 City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review Whether district courts lack discretion to deny or reduce appellate costs deemed taxable under Fed. R. App. P. 39(e)
19-7306 Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment Whether the district court properly construed the legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, and whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals i…
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976