split-of-authority

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-357 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-trial jury-trial-waiver split-of-authority trial-court-discretion waiver must a trial court obtain some personal acknowledgement from a criminal defendant that the defendant has waived the defendant's right to a jury trial …
22-6755 Lecedric Prentice Harris v. Florida Florida 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-specific-justification constitutional-law constitutional-requirement courtroom-closure criminal-procedure judicial-discretion public-trial-clause split-of-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the state court correctly held that trial courts do not violate the Public Trial Clause by closing a criminal courtroom pursuant to a statute …
21-7703 Tyrone Wortham v. New York New York 2022-04-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP booking-exception criminal-procedure incriminating-response law-enforcement miranda-rights split-of-authority When a law enforcement officer's purportedly biographical question to a suspect is reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response, does it fall…
21-919 Rodenburg LLP, dba Rodenburg Law Firm v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived boilerplate-exclusion commercial-liability commercial-liability-policies illusory-coverage insurance-coverage jurisdictional-split north-dakota-law policy-interpretation property-rights split-of-authority substantive-law Did the court of appeals' expansive reading of a boilerplate exclusion used nationwide by insurers in their commercial liability policies, a reading w…
20-1335 A. P. v. Vermont Vermont 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-950 LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort Whether the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions by private plaintiffs against private defendants
18-5696 Curtis Croft v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama opportunity-to-present-evidence sentencing-discretion split-of-authority Whether Illinois has misused the broad discretion allowed the states