retrospective-application

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-5268 Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution Whether newly declared constitutional rule of criminal procedure apply retrospectively
18-1545 Tracy Guerin v. Mickey Fowler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment pension-transfer property-rights public-pensions retrospective-application state-authority state-immunity statutory-benefits takings takings-clause Whether employees have a constitutional right to a particular method for calculating interest on their accumulated pension contributions when transfer…
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv…
18-6115 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-09-27 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application Whether Petitioner's death sentence can remain intact even though his jury was not instructed that the State had to prove all of the elements of capit…