No. 25-6231

Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al.

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-11-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2026-01-23
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal—requiring federal courts to conduct mandatory Sprint analysis before invoking Younger abstention—underscores entrenched circuit conflicts that only this Court can resolve to ensure uniform application of abstention doctrine and preserve federal access for constitutional claimants in domestic-relations and protection-order contexts.

2. Whether a federal court may constitutionally alter a litigant's pleadings by inserting language the party never wrote to fabricate and thereby manufacture abstention grounds, and whether such falsification constitutes fraud upon the court rendering ensuing proceedings void as ultra vires acts beyond Article III authority.

3. Whether Article III judges are categorically exempt from the mandatory criminal-reporting duty imposed by 18 U.S.C. § 4, or whether the statute's plain text—applying to "whoever" without exception—requires judges to report known federal felonies, presenting an unresolved question at the intersection of judicial independence and Congress's authority to impose applicable reporting obligations.

4. Whether federal judges must recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) when they are subjects of congressional whistleblower investigations or impeachment inquiries arising from the very conduct at issue in pending litigation before them.

5. Whether a State Attorney General may lawfully represent individual capacity defendants in § 1983 actions arising from ultra vires or unconstitutional acts committed in the absence of jurisdiction, where such representation creates irreconcilable conflicts between the State's institutional interests and the personal liability of its officials, depriving plaintiffs of a neutral and conflict-free forum.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal requires mandatory Sprint analysis before Younger abstention and resolves circuit conflicts regarding federal access for constitutional claimants

Docket Entries

2026-01-26
Petition DENIED.
2026-01-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
2025-12-23
Waiver of The State of Colorado, Terri Meredith, Ryan Paul Loewer, Jeffrey Pilkington, Bryce David Allen, Gina Parker, Gary Michael Kramer, Palmer L Boyette, Theresa Michelle Slade, Michelle Ann Amico, Biran Dale Boatright of right to respond submitted.
2025-12-23
Waiver of right of respondent The State of Colorado, Terri Meredith, Ryan Paul Loewer, Jeffrey Pilkington, Bryce David Allen, Gina Parker, Gary Michael Kramer, Palmer L Boyette, Theresa Michelle Slade, Michelle Ann Amico, Biran Dale Boatright to respond filed.
2025-12-02
Waiver of right of respondents Eva Elaine Wilson, John Evan Kellner and Raif Edwin Taylor to respond filed.
2025-11-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 26, 2025)

Attorneys

Eva Elaine Wilson, John Evan Kellner and Raif Edwin Taylor
Andrew David RingelHall & Evans, LLC, Respondent
Jacob Bellinsky
Jacob Bellinsky — Petitioner
The State of Colorado, Terri Meredith, Ryan Paul Loewer, Jeffrey Pilkington, Bryce David Allen, Gina Parker, Gary Michael Kramer, Palmer L Boyette, Theresa Michelle Slade, Michelle Ann Amico, Biran Dale Boatright
Allison R. AilerColorado Attorney General's Office, Respondent