| 25A639 |
Stanley Donald v. Carol Micci, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
appellate-review certiorari legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to difficulties in obtaining legal assistance during holida… |
| 25A470 |
Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court |
Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's application for further appellate review, coupled with alleged procedural irregularities and pot… |
| 25A251 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a summary judgment record exceeding 3,800 pages warrants an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 24-1312 |
James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re… |
| 24-7282 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
child-separation constitutional-rights due-process federal-reimbursement lgbtq-rights state-law |
Whether Massachusetts can constitutionally 'double protect' some citizens by revoking Constitutional protections for others, and whether LGBTQ+ immuni… |
| 24-6183 |
Robert M. Joost v. Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
bar-admission constitutional-rights legal-education legal-practice occupational-freedom professional-qualification |
Whether the Massachusetts bar's educational requirements violate a legal practitioner's constitutional rights by preventing admission based on extensi… |
| 24A524 |
Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari extension-of-time health-challenges legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court |
Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the need for legal a… |
| 23A416 |
Robinhood Financial LLC v. William F. Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
broker-dealer fiduciary-duty investor-protection preemption regulatory-conflict sec-regulation |
Whether federal Regulation Best Interest preempts a state law imposing a fiduciary duty standard on broker-dealers that directly conflicts with the SE… |
| 23-5932 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equity-mandate executive-order legal-paradox russell's-paradox |
Does the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for only some) violate the Constitution? |
| 23-5868 |
Nicky S. Keo v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty due-process felony firearm-licensing licensing mandatory-minimum second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the imposition of a mandatory eighteen-month jail sentence on a first offender for what might well be an entirely innocent regulatory infracti… |
| 23-5552 |
Lei Yin v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-bias legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-rights standing worker-compensation |
Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Court Systems in COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS? |
| 23A131 |
Timothy Schott, Acting Superintendent of Insurance for Maine, et al. v. Michael Humphreys, Commissioner of Insurance for Pennsylvania, in His Official Capacity as Statutory Rehabilitator of Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A121 |
Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. |
Alaska |
2023-08-11 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from imposing retroactive environmental liability for the discharge of a … |
| 23-100 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process false-testimony heck-bar iqbal-plausibility malicious-prosecution |
Whether the appellate court erred in upholding the dismissal of a malicious-prosecution claim despite allegations of false testimony and improper dism… |
| 22-7545 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 22-940 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
administrative-law bill-of-rights due-process liberty-right medical-license medical-licensing professional-practice professional-regulation rational-basis state-board |
Is the taking of a physician's medical license a violation of the Bill of Rights to our Nation's scheme of ordered liberty? |
| 22-575 |
William S. Toppi v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias massachusetts-appeals-court-rule-23.0 plea-waiver procedural-due-process recusal waiver-of-rights |
Whether the sentencing judge and defense counsel were required to recuse themselves after exhibiting clear bias relating to Defendant's case |
| 22-404 |
Jane Goe, Sr., on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. James V. McDonald, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
due-process fundamental-rights jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-exemption public-health strict-scrutiny unconstitutional-conditions vaccine-mandate |
Whether families have a fundamental right to a medical exemption |
| 22-5748 |
James Atkinson v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-possession licensing-law second-amendment standing subjective-standard takings |
Whether Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 140, § 131(f) is a proper analogue to a historical firearm regulation |
| 21-1469 |
Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo |
Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause? |
| 21-5636 |
Peter Hurley v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process evidence-preservation government-misconduct plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Commonwealth of Massachusetts allowed the petitioner to back out of a plea agreement and be resentenced to a felony conviction, and whethe… |
| 21-5167 |
Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights under the Bill of Rights departed from accepted judicial standards |
| 20-8109 |
Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court |
Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de… |
| 20-7696 |
Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-arrest due-process equal-protection false-arrest false-indictment forced-medication human-rights malicious-prosecution selective-prosecution |
Why were the defendant discriminated against and illegally arrested? |
| 20-1133 |
Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdictio… |
| 20-1122 |
Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L is unconstitutionally vague and violates the Second, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-6477 |
Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality |
If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh… |
| 19-1031 |
Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
cultural-exchange federal-preemption federal-regulations foreign-policy immigration labor-laws state-regulation |
Whether federal law preempts the application of state and local labor laws to the terms and conditions of participation in the federal au pair program |
| 19-335 |
Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal |
Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without n… |
| 19-223 |
Janice Smyth v. Conservation Commission of Falmouth, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
character-of-government-action character-of-governmental-action economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations land-use-regulation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights property-value regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause-5th-amendment |
Whether the loss of all developmental use of property and a 91.5% decline in its value is a sufficient 'economic impact' to support a regulatory takin… |
| 18-9587 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
5th-amendment administrative-suspension attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial legal-ethics professional-conduct property-rights we-the-people |
Can license to practice law be suspended only on the basis of remaining silent without considering the merits of alleged violation? |
| 18-1407 |
Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant |
Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with … |
| 18-8739 |
Armando Lopez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
ammunition burden-of-proof burden-shifting constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-possession unauthorized-possession |
Does the Due Process Clause permit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to shift the burden to criminal defendants charged with unauthorized possession o… |
| 18-8150 |
Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court |
Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa… |
| 18-223 |
In Re Christopher Dawson |
|
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection due-process financial-misconduct foreclosure standing |
Whether Christopher Dawson has been denied due process rights by US courts and government agencies, whether he is entitled to relief under 28 USC 1651… |
| 22O149 |
State of Indiana, et al., Plaintiffs v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
|
2017-12-14 |
Denied |
None |
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