procedural-law

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25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
24-1020 Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law Whether federal courts can predict changes in state law under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
24-527 Emory D. Christian v. Rancho Grande Manufactured Home Community, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Response Waived causation civil-rights constitutional-intent judicial-discretion procedural-law rule-12b6 Whether lower district courts have unconstrained discretion to dismiss civil rights complaints at the 12(b)(6) stage based on flawed interpretations o…
24-5531 Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive sovereign immunity for judicial officers and federal agencies acting on behalf of the USPS in violation of feder…
24-5 Luis Gutierrez v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254(i) castro-v-united-states constitutional-ineffectiveness constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-law second-in-time second-petition unexhausted-claims Whether a subsequent habeas petition, containing only claims which were unexhausted when the initial habeas petition was untimely filed, was second-in…
23-7371 Laron Darrell Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is jurisdictional
23-6595 In Re Reginal Lee Davis 2024-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indigenous-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-law sovereignty standing statutory-provisions takings Who is 'Uncle Sam'?
22-7836 Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation Can the mere passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction?
22-959 Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal
22-7021 Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the district court err…
22-5688 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing Whether the courts below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of a state statute that…
22-252 Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law Whether federal or state law governs the validity of forum-selection clauses
21-8285 Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-06-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule?
21-7787 Faith M. Hibbard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure claim-filing due-process procedural-law service-connected-disability standing statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the court erred in denying benefits based on a hypothetical-entitlement-theory
21-7535 Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question Presented
21-7489 Raul Roy Vasquez v. Florida Florida 2022-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court-appeal double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict privileges-immunities procedural-law state-court-conflict two-year-limitation Whether the refusal of the Supreme Court of the State of Florida to address the certified conflict between the petitioner's Second District Court of A…
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6440 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-5393 Hemy Neuman v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl…
21-5356 Joel Dale Wright v. Florida Florida 2021-08-12 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of…
21-5025 James Galen Hanna v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 abuse-of-writ banister-v-davis due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-law second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition When a petition for writ of habeas corpus presents claims that do not constitute an 'abuse of the writ,' is it a 'second or successive' petition under…
20-8373 Kevin Herriott v. Associate Warden Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights discovery due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements legal-mail mail-room procedural-law standing state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeals misunderstood the governing rule of law that the right to discovery was predicated upon?
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida 2021-01-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual-disability on the merits for cases on coll…
20-602 Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove Does the Texas Citizens' Participation Act apply in federal court diversity jurisdiction cases under Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938)?
19-8585 Van Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner has a right to present an argument based on a change in procedural law on his first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-6062 Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)?
18-9016 Henry Earl Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill…
18-6194 James Dow Vandivere v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP absurd-results civil-action civil-commitment civil-procedure congressional-act due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-statute procedural-law statute-of-limitations united-states Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations applies to civil commitment proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 4248
18-108 David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme…
18-5259 Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction Does the 6th Amendment guarantee the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, …