| 23-5869 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid 'irreconcilable and mutually exclusive' standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St… |
| 23-183 |
Eastern Pacific Shipping PTE, Limited, dba EPS v. Kholkar Vishveshwar Ganpat |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure conflict federal-court-jurisdiction foreign-anti-suit-injunction foreign-anti-suit-injunctions frustration hardship injunctive-relief litigation-hardship procedural-conflict standard u.s.-litigation |
Whether a federal court may properly issue an injunction requiring the termination of litigation in a foreign court based solely on a conclusion that … |
| 23-5020 |
Christopher Delgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard |
Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is 'inextricab… |
| 20-1760 |
iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
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35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard |
What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 USC 101? |
| 20-977 |
Zachary Pulera v. Victoria Sarzant, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights legal-precedent precedent seventh-circuit standard summary-judgment |
Whether the Court should resolve the Seventh Circuit's departure from the summary judgment standard articulated by this Court in Anderson v. Liberty L… |
| 19-1333 |
Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review |
What is the standard for determining 'evident partiality' under the Federal Arbitration Act? |
| 19-5638 |
Jeffrey E. Lee v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
betterman-v-montana constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-delay standard |
Does the due process clause create an entitlement to a reasonably prompt sentencing hearing, and what is the analytical standard to determine when del… |
| 19-5332 |
Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference |
Does federal habeas law allow the application of a 'some evidence' standard in upholding state court factual determinations? |
| 18-6605 |
Joseph Perrone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-proceeding appellate-review burrage-precedent causation causation-standard due-process government-assertions judicial-procedure record standard standard-of-proof united-states-v-burrage |
Did the lower courts refuse to follow the decision and holdings of this Court in United States v. Burrage, 571 U.S. 204, 134 S.Ct. 881, 187 L.Ed.2d 71… |
| 18-417 |
W. Scott Harkonen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the … |
| 18-5265 |
In Re Brandon Lee |
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2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard |
Whether the state can rely on true bill of indictments that meet the clearly erroneous standard without verbal and/or written consent of indigent defe… |