willful-blindness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-589 | Robert B. Mitchell v. General Motors LLC | Michigan | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-requirements due-process hearing-procedure substantial-evidence willful-blindness | DID "THE COURT ' ERR IN NOT RULING THE ALJ 'S DECISION WAS CONTRARY TO LAW AND THAT IT WAS NOT SUPPORTED BY COMPETENT, MATERIAL, AND SUBSTANTIAL EV… |
| 23-7430 | Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness | Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant based on its application of the 'willful blindness' doctrine and abuse … |
| 23-7277 | Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the plaintiff's claims of civil rig… |
| 22-6634 | Rafael Espino v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness | Whether 'knowing' federal criminal liability based on 'willful blindness' requires a defendant to 'subjectively' believe there is a 'high probability'… |
| 22-5346 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | GVR | IFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness | Whether the District Court erred by instructing the jury |
| 22-5295 | Nizar Trabelsi, aka Nizar Ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi, aka Abu Qa'Qa v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-prosecution due-process extradition-treaty foreign-court-rulings judicial-deference ministerial-determination prior-prosecution willful-blindness | Whether a trial court should defer to a foreign nation's determination of an extradition treaty violation or make its own findings |
| 21-6736 | Steven R. Henson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-28 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness | Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate review w… |
| 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… |
| 19-5466 | James Michael Farrell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defense criminal-defense-lawyer criminal-prosecution drug-distribution-organization due-process money-laundering willful-blindness | Whether the use of a willful blindness instruction in place of actual knowledge improperly lowers the government's burden of proof to a level that inf… |
| 18-8965 | Olusola Olla v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness | Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a failu… |
| 18-7296 | Demetrio Cisneros v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness | Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute the 'deliberate actions' to avoid knowledge under the willful-blindness … |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global-Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal ca… |