state-court-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-767 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary Whether federal courts may exercise jurisdiction to interpret and modify a state-court-issued divorce decree, or whether the domestic-relations-except…
22-7312 Jackie Mitchell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-panel criminal-history domestic-violence federal-circuit-court federal-court-interpretation federal-implications panel-decision sixth-circuit-rule state-court-interpretation state-law state-law-interpretation Question Presented To resolve a federal defendant's criminal history, must a circuit court panel use the current state court interpretations of state …
21-5120 Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-7280 Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a federal court is bound by a state supreme court's interpretation of a statute of conviction for Armed Career Criminal Act purposes
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Whether the United States District Court erred in dismissing a pro se habeas corpus petition due to the lack of jurisdiction because the habeas per pe…
19-6945 Kevin Dameron v. Illinois Illinois 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the Illinois state court erred in its application of well-established United States Supreme Court precedent declared in Neil v. Biggers, 409 U…
19-6833 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief state-court-interpretation state-federal-conflict Whether a U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals are bound by a State Supreme Court's interpretation of its own post-conviction DNA testing statute …
19-6793 Quentin Herndon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires…
19-5727 Trayvon Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu…
18-5229 Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner