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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person constitutes a violation of the Due Pr…
19-6892 John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis?
18-1465 County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process Does a parent have a substantive due process right to notice and consent before a child's medical examination in protective custody?
18-642 Morris E. Zukerman v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without…