statutory-limits

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5895 Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits Where a state sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the presumptive range the 'maximum term…
20-5248 Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that 'exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo…
19-6583 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits Whether the proper analysis to determine a threshold showing of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment claim
18-6835 Ricardo Enriquez Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP benefits civil-rights due-process eligibility prison statutory-limits workers-compensation Can compensation be denied for workplace injuries that have statutory limits on eligibility and benefits that may be less than in the regular workers'…