state-constitutional-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1058 Robert L. Schulz, et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2024-03-27 Denied Response Waived buffalo-bills constitutional-limits erie-county municipal-expenditure new-york-state-constitution public-funds public-funds-private-use republican-form-of-government stadium-construction stadium-financing state-constitutional-law Whether defendant New York State officials violated Petitioners' federal Right to a republican form of government
22-7424 Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Florida Florida 2023-05-01 Denied IFP age-of-culpability cognitive-deficits cognitive-impairment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-age neuropsychological-disorder state-constitutional-law Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of individuals with severe neuropsychological disorders, lifelong cognitive deficits, and low men…
22-5160 Robert V. Wonsch v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-supremacy sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitutional-law May-any-State-or-Territory-create-enact-or-enforce-any-penal-statute-or-constitutional-provision-in-CONTUMACY-of-the-Sixth-Amendment-right-to-a-Speedy…
21-7663 Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa…
20-6525 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2020-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals divorce-proceedings due-process judicial-decision-making judicial-interpretation legal-principles pension-division standing state-constitutional-law Are the NYS Court of Appeals' rulings consistent with the NYS constitutional requirement to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of d…
19-1354 Tan Phan v. Minh Van Truong, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-liquidation chapter-7-bankruptcy creditor-claims homestead homestead-exemption lien property-liens secured-debt state-constitution state-constitution-vs-statute state-constitutional-law state-statute unsecured-creditor unsecured-debt Does Chapter 7 bankruptcy require the nonexempt debt to be secured as a lien in order to liquidate debtors' homestead? And if state statute conflicts …
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi…
19-5313 Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments Whether the right to due process of law is denied by Florida's imposition of a capital life imprisonment sentence