proximate-cause

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24-1302 MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute Whether physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening cause in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs,…
24-629 Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO, and can pro…
24-288 Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of 'proximate cause' under RICO is unreasonably narrow and fails to honor the statute's breadth
23-1141 Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos First Circuit 2024-04-22 Judgment Issued Amici (45) aiding-and-abetting drug-cartel-violence drug-cartels firearms-industry firearms-trafficking international-tort legal-causation plcaa proximate-cause trafficking Whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States is the proximate cause of alleged injuries to the Mexican government
23-6331 Hannibal Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense burden-of-proof criminal-conduct criminal-law disqualifying-element imminent-threat justification-defense legal-alternative proximate-cause Whether the courts should take a narrow view in considering the disqualifying element of the justification defense, and only disqualify the defendant …
23-5587 Daniel Carrington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation Whether the Court's decision in United States v. Burrage created a bright line rule on proof of proximate cause
22-7843 George John Maslovar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte…
22-1159 Troy Newman v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied civil-rico false-identification interstate-commerce pattern-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering-activity predicate-acts proximate-cause rico-statute undercover-investigation Whether Respondents failed to establish a pattern of RICO predicate acts
22-7518 John William Iron Road v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award?
22-642 General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca…
21-8116 Demarco Tempo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition to but-for causation for the 'death results' enhancement in 21 U.S.C. § 841?
21-1243 City of Oakland, California v. Oakland Raiders, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-standing associated-general-contractors clayton-act judicial-limits lexmark-international proximate-cause prudential-balancing zone-of-interests May a court deny a plaintiff with an antitrust injury proximately caused by a defendant's antitrust violation a Clayton Act cause of action based on a…
21-6915 Maxwell Gaffney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing Whether the enhanced penalty provision of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) requires a showing of proximate causation
21-5595 Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement whether-the-enhanced-penalty-for-death-resulting-from-use-of-a-substance-requires-proof-of-proximate-cause
21-5266 Alla V. Stepanets v. United States First Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether a defendant 'dispenses' drugs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(1)(B) when they are shipped to a medical facility where a physician will write a …
20-8026 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts the opportunity to review federal claims, is this failure the proximate cause of the injury as a matter o…
20-6153 Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'death enhancement' of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation
20-5854 Trumaine Muller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause Whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the government had to prove mens rea as to each drug offense and th…
20-5768 RaySean D. Barber v. Todd Wasmer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel factual-basis information motor-vehicle-operation plea-colloquy proximate-cause Was Appellant denied Due Process of Law and Effective Assistance of Counsel?
20-343 Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller
20-217 Richard Balter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied expert-witness federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice proximate-cause standard-of-care virginia-medical-malpractice-act Does the Virginia Medical Malpractice Act's requirement apply to a medical malpractice claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act?
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach'
19-7952 Michael Deon Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the language 'death or serious bodily injury results from' in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or pr…
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs …
19-1008 Jim C. Hodge, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied but-for-causation causation causation-standard false-claims-act foreseeability fraud legal-elements proximate-cause substantial-factor Whether the causation element standard under the False Claims Act is proximate cause, requiring both that the harm was foreseeable and that the false …
19-7589 Michael M. Monzel v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation What, if any, causal relationship or nexus between the defendant's conduct and the victim's harm or damages must the government or the victim establis…
19-901 Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec…
19-688 Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a 'logical bond' between the alleged statutory violation a…
19-675 Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. City of Miami, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1) causal-chain civil-rights directness-principles fair-housing-act injury injury-recovery proximate-cause standing statutory-violation Whether the Fair Housing Act's proximate-cause element requires more than just some 'logical bond' between a statutory violation and the claimed injur…
19-6554 Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43…
19-237 James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert Nevada 2019-08-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding Whether the Nevada Supreme Court erred in disregarding past Supreme Court decisions and declaring a state procedural rule ambiguous
18-9761 John Givens v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder violates the Due Process Clauses and the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause
18-1367 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner Virginia 2019-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation
18-1123 Southern Trust Metals, Inc., et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived bank-of-america-v-city-of-miami commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission dura-pharmaceuticals-v-broudo foreseeability industry-ban judicial-injunction lifetime-industry-ban loss-causation proximate-cause reliance separation-of-powers Whether foreseeability and reliance alone, without any proof of loss causation, satisfy § 13a-1(d)(8)(A)'s proximate cause requirement, in contraventi…
18-8069 Eric Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou…
18-746 County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa…
18-537 Booth James v. Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-violations employment-termination evidence-substitution fraud free-speech proximate-cause whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Whether a reasonable jury could have found that the petitioner's termination was in retaliation for whistleblowing
18-6036 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether proof of proximate cause is required for the 'death results' sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B)
18-5957 Raul Arcila v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process evidentiary-issues jury-evidence jury-instructions plain-error proximate-cause sentencing-factor unfair-prejudice Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the government to convert a sentencing factor into a proximate cause element