state-court-discretion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-664 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion Do state courts have discretion to misapply judicial doctrine in supersession of clear Constitutional requirements under U.S. Const. Amend. XIV §1, re…
23-7198 Ebone East, et al. v. Fix It Auto Repair, Inc. Arizona 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech right-to-appeal standing state-court-discretion Does the federal courts apply proper standards of review when examining lower court rulings on due process, free-speech, equal-protection, civil-proce…
23A658 Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Presumed Complete aggregate-sentence constitutional-proportionality federal-intervention habeas-review sentencing state-court-discretion Whether a federal court can review and potentially modify a state court's aggregate sentencing determination that allegedly violates constitutional pr…
22-6589 In Re Moses Jackson 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-review due-process federal-question judicial-power jurisdiction standing state-court-discretion supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the judicial power of the United States under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution extends to the issues raised in this case
21-1509 Ryan Costello v. Carol Ann Carter, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-06-01 Denied 2-usc-2a(c) congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-remedies legislative-impasse partisan-gerrymandering state-court-discretion state-courts Do the Elections Clause and 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c) constrain the remedial discretion of courts when they impose congressional maps in response to a constitu…
21-1116 Matthew Liebovich, et al. v. Diane Janice Tobin, et al. California 2022-02-11 Denied civil-procedure discretion due-process notice notice-requirement state-court-discretion state-statute supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Does Peralta compel courts to vacate void judgments entered absent notice, or does the lack of express reference in this Court's opinion to California…
21-95 David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Florida 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui…
20-5200 Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2020-07-29 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether a state court of appeals erred in dismissing a prisoner's case
18-5556 Joseph D. Barnes v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-acts bad-acts-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel other-crimes-evidence quadruple-offender speedy-trial state-court-discretion statute-of-limitations Whether reasonable jurists would have found that the district court denied Mr. Barnes a fair trial when it allowed other crimes evidence and/or bad ac…