relation-back

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-465 Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals Whether a named plaintiff whose individual claim becomes moot after the denial of a request for class certification and class action can still appeal …
23-5133 Gary Watkins v. Willis Chapman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-illness relation-back statute-of-limitations Whether the district court erroneously held that petitioner's supplemental habeas petition was untimely filed because it did not relate back to the in…
22-6898 John L. Love v. Daniel F. Martuscello, III, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-error discretionary-review due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct relation-back strickland-standard unreasonable-application Did the District court abuse its discretion under 'unreasonable application' when petitioner Love's proposed amendment did 'relate back' to the origin…
21-771 Justin Herrera v. Theresa Cleveland, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure identity-of-parties john-doe mistake-of-identity notice-requirement pleading-amendment relation-back Does Rule 15(c)(1)(C) categorically exclude relation back if the plaintiff initially used John Doe placeholders in the complaint due to inadequate kno…
20-86 Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross Ninth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab…
19-610 Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review Whether the appropriate standard of review for a 'relation back' determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) should be
18-7930 Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness Do the procedural rules in effect at time of filing govern whether an application for state postconviction relief is properly filed?