statutory-directive

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5502 Aisha Asha Bradley v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-1443 federal-appellate-court jurisdiction-determination removal-procedure statutory-directive third-circuit Did the Federal Appellate Court for the Third Circuit ignore statutory directive 1443(1) by not performing a jurisdiction determination under 28 U.S.C…
22-5097 Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the …
18-7918 Rutilio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…
18-5828 Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…