spoliation-of-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-817 Michael Donatelli, et al. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, et al. Maine 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-sanctions spoliation-of-evidence summary-judgment Did the court err in passing on properly disposing of the plaintiffs' filing of a motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence mis-styled as a m…
23-596 Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading
23-40 Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence Should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evidence when there are less severe sanctions availab…
22-740 Harinder Jeet Singh v. RXR 620 Master Lease, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process emotional-distress evidence-spoliation judicial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence standing summary-judgment Whether District Court falsified facts to favor respondents
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching Should arbitrators have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of FRCP Rule 37?
22-503 Gregory Stenstrom, et al. v. Delaware County Board of Elections Pennsylvania 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process election-fraud election-law election-law-violation judicial-review poll-watcher-standing spoliation spoliation-of-evidence standing Is the spoliation of election materials and evidence evidence of election fraud?
22-5623 Freda J. Day v. Oprah Winfrey, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights copyright-infringement discovery-stage due-process electronic-communications internet-access spoliation-of-evidence substantial-similarities summary-judgment Use-of-the-internet-as-proof-of-access
21-7682 Travon DeAngelo Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief res-judicata spoliation-of-evidence Whether newly discovered evidence is sufficient to establish a due process violation for procedural default or the bar of res judicata pursuant to the…
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been deemed for litigation
20-7491 Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence whether-pattern-jury-instructions-have-independent-legal-force
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence
19-8278 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,…
19-5056 Byron Randall Fisher v. Richmond, The American International University in London, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP binding-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-precedent spoliation-of-evidence veterans-affairs Did the lower courts violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by allowing the Respondent to utilize the same falsified ev…
18-8353 David A. Hicks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus spoliation-of-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Government can destroy evidence a defendant has sufficient reason to believe is necessary to prove innocence in an anticipated § 2241 Moti…
18-6272 Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo…
18-5252 Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence Whether a petitioner can be denied discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of the government's spoliation of potentially exculpatory evidence i…