state-of-mind
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-1013 | Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | brady-violation brady-violations drug-trafficking invited-error invited-error-doctrine jury-instructions napue-violation napue-violations ruan-v-united-states section-841 state-of-mind | 1. Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand as to Petitioners' drug distribution convictions in light of Ruan, or in the alternative, grant… | |
| 22-16 | Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC v. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. | Second Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal inference-drawing inferences judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleadings rule-12b6 state-of-mind twombly-standard | Whether the courts below deviated from and disregarded this Court's holding in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), by granting dismissal … |
| 21-1435 | Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising | Plaintiff alleged that the public – over four billion including Petitioner Martin Leaf -were exposed to a deceptive subliminal and subtle five -minute… |
| 21-1376 | Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA | First Circuit | 2022-04-25 | Denied | accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure | I. A policy insuring against accidental death, covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, excludes coverage for the insured's sui… | |
| 20-8322 | Fabian Perpall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind | By pleading not guilty, can a defendant make his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show "state of mind"? |
| 20-1040 | Michael Aaron Strickland v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-01-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process prior-experiences reasonable-person second-amendment self-defense state-of-mind | Did the Oregon courts err in holding that there is no Constitutional right of self-defense except for when someone like the judge would have behaved t… |
| 20-833 | William Todd Coontz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure criminal-tax-prosecution expert-testimony expert-witness-exclusion foundation sentencing-guidelines state-of-mind tax-knowledge tax-prosecution willfulness willfulness-standard witness-testimony | Was it reversable error for the trial court to exclude the Petitioner's/ Coontz's key witness – the CPA expert – from testifying in a criminal tax pro… |
| 19-530 | James Kerr Schlosser v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness | 1. Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense, if the evidence… |
| 18-752 | Edward Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats | Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re… |