| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi… |
| 21-694 |
Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure business-interruption certification-motion civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations insurance-contract insurance-contract-law judicial-discretion standing state-court-certification supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Did the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying certification of novel questions of state insurance law to the state's highest court? |
| 18-6747 |
Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test |
When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |