uniformity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-1019 CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must give district court decisions granting class certification more deferen…
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
21-5272 Gary Todd Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme, s…
20-1185 Douglas Edwards v. Solomon and Solomon P.C. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied concurrent-jurisdiction district-court eleventh-circuit fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-courts federal-district-courts inconsistent-decisions renewal-statute state-courts uniformity Whether the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of the District Court's refusal to apply Georgia's renewal statute was in error
20-5446 Jin H. Zheng v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order
19-8898 Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation…
19-8719 Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity whether-the-eleventh-circuit-entered-a-decision-that-conflicts-with-this-court's-precedent
19-7382 Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity Whether a generic aggravated assault requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976
18-632 Sherilyn J. LeRoux v. NCL (Bahamas), Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived comparative-negligence federal-circuits general-maritime-law maritime-law open-and-obvious recovery recovery-standard tort-liability uniformity Whether a finding of 'open and obvious' should act as a complete bar to recovery or merely a factor in apportioning fault under general maritime law
18-5322 Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th…