state-responsibility

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-8046 Joseph Martin Danks v. California California 2022-06-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable, an…
20-8297 Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not create ambiguities?
18-5385 Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons…