No. 19-8279October Term 2019Decided May 26, 2020
Docket 19-8279October Term 2019 (2019–2020)
Lagasse v. Inch
Lagasse v.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released May 26, 2020
Case Accepted
Arguments
Decision ReleasedMay 26, 2020
- What it's about
Lagasse v. Inch is a case appealed from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving a petition for a writ of certiorari. The specific legal details of the dispute are not provided in the available records.
Question presented
Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to apply Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), retroactively to some Florida death-row inmates but not others, based on the date their sentences became final, violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit / Decision released May 26, 2020
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
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- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
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- Mar 30, 2026
- Method
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