victim-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-670 James Console, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived due-process federal-tort-claims ftca-exception mandatory-duty restitution-statute victim-rights 1. Whether the discretionary-function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 2680(a)) bars liability when federal employees violate m…
25-6097 Shanna M. Glynn v. Marquette City Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review stare-decisis state-accountability victim-rights Can stare decisis deny a victim of violent crime, their right to due process and full and fair review? Does Hans v. Louisiana remove the requirement …
24-7296 Karen Hylton v. United States District of Columbia 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge judicial-discretion legal-error pro-se-plaintiff sentencing-appeal victim-rights Whether a victim who is a plaintiff has the right to appeal a defendant's sentencing if they believe the trial court made a legal mistake or abused it…
24-386 B. M. v. United States, et al. Armed Forces 2024-10-07 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (3) article-iii-standing congressional-power court-martial judicial-review military-privilege victim-rights Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces can prudentially apply Article III standing limits when reviewing a military court-martial case invo…
24-5022 Angela J. Wells v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights Should a domestic violence victim be eligible for relief under 735 ILCS 5/2-1401 even if she agrees to a plea bargain?
23-7661 Muhammad E. Milhouse v. New York City Department of Homeless Services, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing victim-rights Question not identified.
23-7270 Mark Johnson v. New York New York 2024-04-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus legal-representation sexual-assault standing victim-rights Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate the conviction and sentence based on the alleged ineffective assistance …
22-7596 Ripdaman Narula v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights crime-reporting criminal-procedure default-judgment due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement pro-se standing victim-rights pro-se-rights,default-judgment,crime-reporting,police-obligations,crime-victim-rights,judicial-power
22-7152 In Re Daniel Felix 2023-03-30 Denied IFP animal-cruelty constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection non-property-animals standing victim-rights victims-rights Whether homeless cats and other non-property animals have rudimentary state and federal constitutional rights, rights under existing state and federal…
22-6813 Joshua Glowacki v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights Does the defendant in a criminal case have the right to have a jury determine facts to support a restitution order?
21-6103 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2021-10-27 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights Does an accused have a right to effective assistance of counsel when the accused does not collaborate with counsel?
21-5903 Angela Johnson, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process federal-governing-bodies federal-statutes legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings victim-rights Can states overturn federal statutes by enforceable governing bodies without rebuke or expiation?
21-424 KD, et ux., as Parents, Natural Guardians, and Next Friends of Minor LD v. Douglas County School District No. 001, aka Omaha Public Schools, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights damages default-judgment due-process jury-trial victim-rights willful-blindness Whether a convicted rapist sued by the victim may deprive the victim of trial by jury to determine damages by defaulting and declining to respond to t…
21-351 Courtney Wild v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Amici (6) alexander-v-sandoval crime-victims-rights-act enforcement federal-criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement non-prosecution-agreement pre-indictment prosecutorial-discretion rights-creating-language victim-rights Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) allows crime victims to bring a suit to enforce their right to confer with prosecutors before the Governm…
20-1687 Jules Dylan Stuer v. Susan Duesler Texas 2021-06-04 Denied amicus-attorney child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-provisions defamation due-process fraud standing victim-rights Whether an amicus attorney is allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in civil court, and defrauds the opposi…
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights Does the Confrontation Clause require a victim to be made available for cross-examination if pictures of them are submitted, and is counsel ineffectiv…
19-7980 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights Whether the North Carolina Crime Victims' Rights Act can be constitutionally applied to the petitioner for crimes committed before the Act's effective…
19-5341 Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right …
18-9043 Bryan Binkholder v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing victim-rights victims-rights writ-of-mandamus Did the Crime Victims Rights Act, 18 USC 3771 (CVRA), and its 72 hour review requirement for a petition of Writ of Mandamus violate the Constitutional…
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable
18-102 Stacey White, et vir v. Joseph Foster, et al. New Hampshire 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived animal-cruelty civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-discretion prosecutorial-discretion standing veterinary-malpractice victim-rights Victims of crimes committed by veterinarians seeking equal protections and rights