| 25-601 |
Ralston Brown v. Mellekas, Police Officer, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-estoppel megan's-law plea-agreement retroactive-statute |
Weather the Respondent violated the Petitioner Constitutional Rights By acting under color of law?
Whether the New York Court of Appeals, overlooked … |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
Whether the courts may rewrite the trademark statute to include a fair use defense for use of an incontestable mark to describe users |
| 18-8975 |
Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the California Supreme Court err in imposing the one strike statute of Penal Code section 667.61, when Souley was convicted of only one kidnapping… |
| 18-5737 |
Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying a 'Fifth Circuit Principle' that discretionary parole rules do not violate ex post facto clause |