statutory-defense
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5212 | Jacquel O'Neal v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment statutory-defense | Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective assistance of counsel require an attorney to request a jury instruction on the sole statutory defens… |
| 22-272 | Livingston County Road Commission v. Gould Electronics, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | cercla cercla-liability due-care environmental-law groundwater-contamination innocent-landowner property-liability reasonable-steps statutory-defense statutory-interpretation third-party-defense | How is the term 'due care' defined for purposes of the 42 U.S.C. §9607(b)(3) 'third-party defense' in relation to 'reasonable steps' in the substantia… | |
| 20-1372 | John Chambers v. Texas | Texas | 2021-03-31 | Denied | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-record statutory-defense tampering-statute texas-tampering-with-governmental-record unforeseeable-judicial-expansion | Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |