summary-reversal

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25-767 Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Amici (2) csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle. 2. Whether the decision below should be su…
24-7317 Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied IFP court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal Is it reversible error for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to treat opposing parties differently based on race, and are false statements by a feder…
24-6796 Steven Nicholson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal Whether the Supreme Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit's decision that relied solely on a COVID-19 test for analyzing the Speedy Trial A…
24-613 Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Should a court of appeals be summarily reversed for defying clear Supreme Court precedent, and should a judge or jury determine whether public employe…
23-1204 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal Whether law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs to a nearby prison with medical staff constituted…
23-6774 Tremayne Silas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl…
23-6083 Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power Was the panel's decision proper in light of Day v. McDonough?
23-5970 Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal Does the Seventh Circuit's holding conflict with Schlup, 513 U.S. 298, and House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518 (2006), because it turned on whether the eviden…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
22-1050 Cedric Epple v. Albany Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-actions civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-court judicial-exhaustion ninth-circuit section-1983 state-court-remedies summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring exhaustion of state court remedies for a Section 1983 claim
22-7344 Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever…
22-756 Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith Fifth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that authority that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can cl…
22-6667 Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
22-675 Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity should be reconsidered
21-1295 St. Augustine School, et al. v. Jill Underly, in Her Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied constitutional-claims doctrinal-determination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-interference public-benefits religion-clauses religious-preference summary-reversal Whether summary reversal is warranted
21-6329 Steven Blakeney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
21-5668 Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal Did the Ninth Circuit's finding that Trujillo's Due Process rights were not violated by the joinder of unrelated charges so clearly misapply the law a…
21-5092 Dawn J. Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether a district court applies an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range by referring to the range as 'presu…
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion
20-922 Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-09 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal whether the director may designate a new execution date while a stay is in place
20-479 David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker Ninth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violated the principle of party presentation
20-5792 Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties
20-5312 Sharrieff Brown v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation discovery-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations summary-reversal Did the Ninth Circuit's finding of untimeliness under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(D) so clearly misapply the law as to call for summary reversal?
19-5348 Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals erred below in denying Mr. Oliver a COA on whether trial counsel was ineffective in not subpoenaing Mr. Oliver's telephon…
18-9719 Jason M. Lund v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins? And does the error warrant summary relief?
18-8977 Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers
18-7149 Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other …
18-7082 Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal May collateral estoppel be applied offensively against a criminal defendant?
18-6374 William Carl Welsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when…