subjective-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-598 Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an…
22-374 Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 GVR Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have 'knowingly' violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f…
22-5748 James Atkinson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-possession licensing-law second-amendment standing subjective-standard takings Whether Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 140, § 131(f) is a proper analogue to a historical firearm regulation
22-5077 Cynthia Clemons v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-12 GVR IFP 21-usc-856 controlled-substances dea-authorization drug-enforcement-administration drug-involved-premises healthcare-provider legitimate-medical-purpose ruan-v-united-states scope-of-professional-practice subjective-standard Whether the Ruan standard of proof applies to prosecutions under 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) for authorized healthcare providers
21-5086 Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the 'lawful course of professional practice' is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f…
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-7368 Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud Whether materiality in mail and wire fraud cases is based on the subjective standard in Gaudin and Escobar or the objective standard in Lindsey