stolen-property

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-583 Xunhui Cheng, et al. v. Dan Liu, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived certification civil-procedure class-action equity-jurisdiction property-rights stolen-property Did the Court of Appeals err in denying plaintiffs' application to certify a conventional class action seeking return of property stolen by defendants…
20-1566 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive…
20-7113 Troy X. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure contract-rights contractual-obligation criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process imprisonment-for-debt property-rights stolen-property Whether a contractual right to payment constitutes ownership of money
20-6171 Kenneth Emanuel Baptiste v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-29 Dismissed IFP capital-murder capitol-murder constitutional-error due-process fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions reconsideration severance-motion stolen-property trial-procedure Was instructing the Jury with CALJIC No. 2.15 in error
20-6123 Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida Florida 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property Whether possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property
18-7371 Nicole Johnson v. California California 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt stolen-property Whether proof that the defendant possessed recently stolen property—any stolen property, as far as the instruction is concerned, even if the defendant…