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25A904 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California California 2026-02-10 Application article-vi constitutional-rights first-amendment oaths-of-office police-officer supremacy-clause Question not identified.
25A887 Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. California 2026-02-05 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development Question not identified.
25A769 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. W. Michael Stewart, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-05 Application civil-rights clerk-magistrate harm-to-party nondiscretionary-actions qualified-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
25-610 Hansueli Overturf v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District California 2025-11-25 Denied civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment hague-service-convention service-of-process 1. Whether entry of default based on defective service of process, which failed to provide defendant with actual notice of the action, violates the Fo…
25A497 Arthur Torlucci v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be appealed when the underlying petition fails to state a debatable fed…
25A395 Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with non-violent felony convictions violates the Second Amendment under the hi…
25-5602 Christopher Guy Jasso v. California California 2025-09-10 Denied None Question not identified.
25-233 Catharine Miller, et al. v. Civil Rights Department California 2025-08-28 Denied compelled-speech employment-division-smith free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage Whether the Free Speech Clause protects a baker from being compelled to create a custom wedding cake for a same-sex wedding ceremony when the baker be…
25-5473 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2025-08-26 Dismissed administrative-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-obstruction material-errors Whether the judicial review of material errors can be obstructed
25-185 Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California California 2025-08-15 Denied anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code Whether a state anti-SLAPP statute imposing attorney fees and striking a motorist's challenge amounts to a penalty and prior restraint in a petition f…
25-181 Arthur Lopez v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. California 2025-08-14 Denied civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection registration-fees unlawful-seizure Whether the California Department of Motor Vehicles violated constitutional rights through fraudulent registration fee schemes and unlawful vehicle se…
25A58 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction Whether a state court conviction can be challenged on federal habeas review based on claims of insufficient evidence, ineffective assistance of counse…
25-5055 Andrew Marowitz v. Cory Dostie California 2025-07-08 Denied constitutional-law due-process first-amendment housing-discrimination tenant-rights void-for-vagueness Does misgendering a transgender room renter constitute housing discrimination or violate First Amendment Free Speech Rights, and can the Department of…
24-1316 Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit applied an overly stringent standard in assessing the district court's disposition of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 22…
24-1273 Jonathan Phillips v. California California 2025-06-13 Denied due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate due process protections where the defendant was not advi…
24-1263 Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2025-06-11 Denied due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights Did the state courts, including the California Supreme Court, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to rule on substan…
24A1035 Huy Trong Tran v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-25 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conditions-of-confinement educational-access habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether a state prisoner's pursuit of educational courses through community college programs while incarcerated constitutes a cognizable federal habea…
24-6526 Samreen Farid Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2025-02-10 Dismissed administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-rights dental-board due-process judicial-discretion Did the Supreme Court of California abuse discretion and show bias in denying multiple petitions related to a dental board administrative proceeding i…
24-598 B&L Productions, Inc., dba Crossroads of the West, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied commercial-speech equal-protection first-amendment gun-show-ban public-forum second-amendment Whether California's ban on gun show sales at public fairgrounds violates First and Second Amendment protections for commercial speech and lawful comm…
24-575 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California 2024-11-26 Denied constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion property-rights right-to-counsel venue-transfer Whether a judge violated constitutional rights by failing to grant injunctive relief, denying right to counsel, and ordering venue transfer in a prope…
24-6027 In Re Pierre Haobsh 2024-11-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Whether the State of California violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner through unconstitutional search and seizure prac…
24-5967 Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California 2024-11-13 Denied access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute Are the State of California courts at multiple levels violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection …
24-5876 Norma Ortiz Fernandez v. La Clinica California 2024-10-31 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing self-representation Whether the Due Process Clause applies to self-represented parties and whether the Court of Appeal infringed a federal constitutional right under the …
24-5743 Rafael Ernesto Gabriel v. California California 2024-10-10 Denied constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24-5458 Derrick Courchaine v. California California 2024-09-04 Denied constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24-213 Willis Franklin v. California California 2024-08-27 Denied client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice and client autonomy when the trial court failed to conti…
24-5373 Raymond Rodriguez v. California California 2024-08-22 Denied constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24-176 Richard William Douglas, Jr., et al. v. William Joseph Kalanta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied court-procedure death-investigation organized-crime police-misconduct rico-violations statutory-standing Whether the Modesto Police Department can ignore evidence in a suspicious death investigation and potentially commit perjury in court proceedings
24-158 Allison Cole-Kelly v. Malia M. Cohen, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied due-process just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether a state's seizure and use of unclaimed property without compensation constitutes an unconstitutional taking under the Fifth Amendment's Taking…
24-147 Levi Quintana v. Jonathan Kraut California 2024-08-09 Denied arbitration-award arbitrator-misconduct judicial-review partnership-dissolution statutory-interpretation tax-regulations Whether the California Supreme Court erred in its ruling by failing to address an arbitrator's alleged misconduct in a partnership dissolution proceed…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha…
24-56 Janelle R. Polk v. California Franchise Tax Board California 2024-07-18 Denied federal-income-tax federal-taxation gross-income income-definition labor labor-compensation source-of-income statutory-interpretation taxation united-states Whether all gross receipts paid to an individual in exchange for his or her labor or services performed in the United States of America are necessaril…
24-5018 Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Ninth Circuit's denial of relief rest on a misapprehension of what constitutes clearly established federal law under this Court's decision in …
24-1 In Re Yehoram Uziel 2024-07-03 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus self-represented-litigant Whether Petitioner is entitled to an Extraordinary Writ of Mandamus to litigate his FEDERAL Court cases against the State of California
23-1271 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Wendy Rincon, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration arbitration-stay civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim paga-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiffs individual PAGA c…
23-1272 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Jessica Reyes Whitt, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claim standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-7466 Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi California 2024-05-13 Denied civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court
23-1183 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez California 2024-05-02 Denied attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings?
23-1100 Albert Jones v. California California 2024-04-10 Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights doyle-v-ohio due-process miranda-warning post-miranda right-to-silence selective-invocation Do the protections of Doyle v. Ohio apply when a defendant selectively invokes his right to remain silent?
23A873 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a prison official's medical treatment of an inmate's foot condition constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eig…
23-1040 Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied appeal civil-procedure federal-statute judgment-renewal motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit renewal-of-judgment state-law Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in granting Respondent's Motion to Dismiss Appeal by failing to consider Petitioner's…
23-917 Jeffrey-Allen Witzeman v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process jurisdiction land-patent nonfeasance restraint-of-trade standing title title-challenge Whether the United States District Court, District of California lacked lawful jurisdiction in the case
23A465 Peter Kleidman v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2023-11-22 Presumed Complete citation-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-precedent legal-citation state-court-procedure Whether a state court judicial system can constitutionally adopt a rule prohibiting judicial decisions from being cited as precedent in subsequent leg…
23A297 Yehoram Uziel v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2023-10-05 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A298 Yehoram Uziel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-05 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection-clause federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discrimination self-represented-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and abused its discretion under 28 U.S.C. § 455 …
23-5657 Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. Kiry K. Gray, Clerk, United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction juvenile-custody legal-procedure standing state-courts Whether the U.S. District Court violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by denying…
23A163 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires reversal of a conviction when prosecutorial misconduct deprives a defendant of a f…
23-5414 Joseph D Gilberti, Jr. v. The Pentagon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-theory covid-19 due-process free-speech government-corruption legal-fraud standing takings water-resources Why did the lower Courts with the entire US Media, CDC hide this US Resource and faked a Pandemic, knowing the Covid19 Mask was printed on the $20bill…
23-5367 Rebecca Wu v. Twin Rivers Unified School District California 2023-08-16 Denied 14th-amendment california-law civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employment-status misclassification public-employee tenure tenure-classification Does the United States Constitution allow for an Indefinite probationary classification in California law of a public employee or Teacher
23A119 Howard R. Herships v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2023-08-10 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-41 Ann Marie Borges, et al. v. County of Mendocino, California Ninth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied cannabis-property-rights commerce-clause constitutional-amendments due-process federal-preemption federalism gonzales-v-raich property-rights stare-decisis state-sovereignty Whether the Supreme Court should revisit Gonzales v. Raich to reverse the irrebuttable presumption that all cannabis is part of interstate commerce
23-5097 Allen Auten v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing Whether the California Supreme Court prejudicially abused its discretion and acted in excess of jurisdiction when it refused to issue a decision on th…
23-5038 Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra…
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in approving the settlement of Trustee's and petitioner ex-wife's dispute
22-954 Justin Marcus Zinman v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to influence the law violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment?
22-918 Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied administrative-role economic-reality fair-labor-standards-act federalism joint-employment overtime-wages social-services-program suffer-or-permit-to-work Whether a county may be deemed a joint employer under the FLSA when it plays a mere administrative role in a State's social services program by legisl…
22-6875 Yvonne Jiang v. Helen Xu, et al. California 2023-02-28 Denied abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct vexatious-litigant Whether the California Constitution and its Rules of Court confer too much power to the Chief Justice, allowing for abuse of power and conspiracy agai…
22-778 Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied covid-19-education declaratory-relief disability-rights free-appropriate-public-education idea-compliance individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine school-closures state-educational-agencies Whether Petitioners' claims that the CDE Defendants violated federal law
22-711 Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, et al. California 2023-01-31 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-system state-action Should the State of California, its judicial system, and the Catholic Church be required to adhere to the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution a…
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process
22-6295 Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner be appointed legal assistant in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case?
22-6035 Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California California 2022-11-10 Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits Does the state of California criminal appeal time limit (time bar) violate the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment equal protection clause pertaining t…
22-255 Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing public-sector unions to keep ill-gotten fair-share fees
22-216 Terry C. Cooley v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied constitutional-rights contract-restrictions first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme public-sector-union public-sector-unions resignation-limitations state-employer-contracts union-membership Does the Constitution allow a public-sector union to enter into a contract with a state employer that restricts a public employee's constitutional rig…
22-212 Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver Does it violate the First Amendment for a state and union to compel objecting employees to remain union members and to subsidize the union and its spe…
22-5297 Jean Max Darbouze v. California California 2022-08-05 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application Whether the respondent violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment constitutional rights, as applied to the State of California via the 14th Amendment
22-5276 Daniel Naftalovich v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Four, et al. California 2022-08-03 Denied constitutional-vagueness criminal-statutory-scheme domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process emotional-calm ex-parte-restraining fundamental-rights prior-restraint-on-speech separation-of-powers void-for-vagueness Question not identified
21-8248 Lorenzo Newborn, Karl Darnell Holmes, and Herbert McClain v. California California 2022-06-28 Denied appointed-counsel court-appointment criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendant indigent-status right-to-counsel supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
21-1588 Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-06-24 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis Does a trial court violate the Equal Protection clause when it bases a child custody order on a racially discriminatory theory?
21-7796 Ryan Stephen Ehrenreich v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied ballot-access candidate-certification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law elections filing-fee filing-fees free-speech notarization write-in-voting Whether the State of California may condition the reporting of the results of write-in voting on the State's 'candidate certification' requirement tha…
21-1367 Amy Nichols-Stuart v. County of Amador, California, et al. California 2022-04-21 Denied child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights dependency-proceeding dependency-proceedings drunk-driving due-process familial-association jurisdictional-report standing waiver-of-rights Does a parent who in a state court dependency proceeding submitted to jurisdiction on a staff prepared jurisdictional report and did not submit on a d…
21-1300 Mark Gabriele, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-vs-afscme restitution retroactivity section-1983 union-fees Whether this Court's application of a rule of federal law to the parties before it requires every court to give retroactive effect to that decision
21-1306 Stacy Penning v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1021, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity Whether the proper remedy for the collection of an illegal fee is refund or restitution, regardless of the purported good faith of the fee collector
21-1172 American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied content-based content-based-law employment-classification financial-burdens first-amendment function-of-speech independent-contractor purpose-of-speech regulatory-burdens speech-regulation tax-burden Is a law content-based when it imposes financial and regulatory burdens based on the function or purpose of speech?
21A395 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of the State of California, et al. California 2022-02-07 Presumed Complete None
21-931 Ameenah Salaam v. Jeffrey Allen McAuley California 2021-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment amendment-xiv child-custody civil-rights constitutional-violation custody-change due-process petition physical-custody state-courts superior-court Did the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento violate the United States Constitution, Amendment XIV right to due process of Ms. Salaam wh…
21-6689 Daniel Lawrence McGarry v. California California 2021-12-21 Denied criminal-procedure preliminary-hearing probable-cause sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-proceeding Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial attaches to a preliminary hearing in a state criminal proceeding
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada Whether judicial immunity applies to Title II ADA claims
21-731 Jesse Plasola v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied 5-cfr-1653-2-b-1 court-jurisdiction divorce-decree federal-employees-retirement-system federal-employees-retirement-system-act-of-1986 judicial-jurisdiction retirement-benefits thrift-savings-plan zero-balance zero-balance-account Whether the state court's 09-14-2006 TSP final judgment divorce decree violated The Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 (FERSA), Public L…
21-678 Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied 28-usc-1362 cigarette-sales federal-charter federal-indian-law indian-reorganization-act indian-tribe preemption tribal-sovereignty Whether an Indian tribe incorporated by federal charter under section 17 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 is authorized to bring suit under 28…
21-5740 Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz California 2021-09-21 Denied child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish his…
21-5385 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol…
21-5361 Eduardo Flores v. Sharp Grossmont Hospital California 2021-08-13 Denied 14th-amendment ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act court-accommodation due-process equal-access meaningful-access meaningful-accommodation self-represented-litigant Whether the Superior Court of the State of California, San Diego County and the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District violated the 14t…
21-5371 James Roland Henderson v. California California 2021-08-13 Denied criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury with a pinpoint instruction on imperfect self-defense
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
21-153 Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech Whether the United States Supreme Court must defend the Bill of Rights of our Great United States Constitution?
21-112 Juliet Erickson, et al. v. Nevada County, California California 2021-07-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deed-restriction due-process exaction land-use municipal-ordinance permit-denial property-rights takings Does an exaction occur when a County refuses to issue a building permit it previously approved unless the applicants consent to record an ad hoc deed …
21-5150 John B. Freitas v. Bank of America Ninth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation court-officer-accountability due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct racketeering real-estate-dispute res-judicata void-altered-defective-deeds Whether local-state-federal-court-officers should be held accountable for criminal-conduct-through-racketeering
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption Does the de facto nullification of California state law [Cal. Gov. Code §§ 6258 and 6259] (resulting in fraud upon the court) by the Regents of the Un…
21-39 Benjamin Ramirez Ruiz v. California California 2021-07-12 Denied child-protective-services confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement Was a statement made to a child protective services investigator testimonial for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause
21-5071 Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California California 2021-07-09 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice Whether the State of California's Department of Corrections has ignored a court ruling that jeopardized the lives and caused injuries and deaths of ma…
20-1795 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. State Bar of California California 2021-06-24 Denied attorney-discipline california-supreme-court clear-and-convincing-standard due-process reciprocal-discipline selling-v-radford summary-judgment Does the California Reciprocal attorney discipline statute—Business and profession code 6049.1 — violate the standard set forth in Selling v Radford, …
20-1787 YourMechanic, Inc. v. Jonathan Provost California 2021-06-23 Dismissed arbitrability california-labor-code delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act independent-contractor paga representative-claims Whether the FAA requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement that includes a pre-dispute waiver of representative claims, including under…
20-7951 Eduardo Flores v. Peter M. Hoagland, et al. California 2021-05-07 Denied 14th-amendment ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act court-accommodation disability due-process equal-access judicial-procedure self-represented self-represented-litigant Whether the Superior Court of the State of California, San Diego County and the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District violated the 14t…
20-1527 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California California 2021-05-03 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re…
20-7844 Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in 'DENIAL' of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in t…
20-7771 Anthony J. Bator v. David Nilsson, et al. California 2021-04-15 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legal-jurisdiction property-rights property-seizure siskiyou-county supreme-court-rulings takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights, including property rights, were violated by the wrongful taking of his property without due process of…
20-7654 Alan Douglas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing Reverse and settle personal injury
20-7600 Antonio Navarro v. California California 2021-03-30 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony Whether the admission of a translation of a witness's statement made in anticipation of litigation without calling the translator at trial for cross-e…
20-1330 June M. Domino v. California Correctional Health Care Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct pattern-of-discrimination racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii Was this a coordinated effort by government employees to undermine the Rule of Law?
20-7450 Anthony A. Patel v. Regents of the University of California California 2021-03-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-diagnosis political-discrimination political-speech trump-presidency Does the U.S. Constitution permit the State of California to misdiagnose an American Citizen as Suffering from a Mental Disorder for supporting Presid…
20-1264 Fusion IV Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dba Axia Pharmaceutical, et al. v. Anne Sodergren Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied commerce-clause compounding-quality-act drug-quality-and-security-act drug-regulation fdca-preemption federal-outsourcing-facilities federal-oversight federal-preemption outsourcing-facilities state-licensing state-licensing-requirements Whether 21 U.S.C. §353b preempts California state law licensing requirements
20-6908 In Re Michael Ingram El 2021-01-15 Denied 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights consular-court consular-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction extraterritoriality international-agreement self-executing-treaty treaty treaty-interpretation Whether the Treaty of 1787/1836 is self-executing and grants rights of extraterritoriality and consular court jurisdiction
20-890 Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. California, et al. California 2021-01-05 Denied compensation constitutional-rights due-process emergency-authority property-rights public-trust-doctrine quasi-legislative takings water-rights Whether government may avoid constitutional rights to due process and compensation by crafting quasi-legislative regulations that eliminate the proper…
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-846 Club One Casino, Inc., dba Club One Casino, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied administrative-procedure-act federal-enclave federal-trust-acquisition indian-commerce-clause indian-reorganization-act land-transfer state-sovereignty tenth-amendment tribal-jurisdiction Does the Indian Reorganization Act unilaterally transfer state jurisdiction to the federal government and tribes?
20-6440 Benjamin K. Toscano v. Nancy Adam, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication medical-negligence medical-treatment pain-and-suffering procedural-due-process spinal-injury Does respondent have the right to submit fabricated documents?
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California 2020-11-18 Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
20-668 Nina Allison v. Robert Dar-Teh Liou, et al. California 2020-11-16 Denied accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-disability civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-accommodation legal-profession mental-health mental-illness post-traumatic-stress-disorder Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires courts to provide accommodations for undiagnosed mental disabilities of attorneys?
20-6334 Chrishma Hunter Singhderewa v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2020-11-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation motion-to-appear representation standing Is the State of California denying a citizen of the United States of America their constitutional right to representation by refusing to acknowledge a…
20-607 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System California 2020-11-05 Denied administrative-procedure board-of-trustees california-government-code claim-presentation contractor due-process government-claim government-claims government-code public-agency statute-of-limitations Does the local Public Agency have a right to refuse to assign a Board of Trustees and to assign a Contractor who is not directly employed by the Agenc…
20-576 Sharon Darlene Lopez v. California California 2020-10-30 Denied blood-draw civil-rights consent constitutional-rights driving-privilege due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent search warrantless-search Can the State of California condition driving upon its public highways upon a motorist's agreement to surrender Fourth Amendment rights for purposes o…
20-6146 Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, Lisenba v. People of State of California, and Estelle v. McGuire qualifies as 'clearly establi…
20-6114 Shong-Ching Tong v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2020-10-23 Dismissed california-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeal due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct standing supreme-court-california Whether the Supreme Court of California, En Banc, abused its discretion in denying the petitioner's filing
20-6072 Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino v. J. Espinosa, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fees garnishment state-law Does the state of California have the right to circumvent its own state garnishment laws to impose the garnishment charge of $35 over the $10 fee pres…
20-417 Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California California 2020-10-01 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent forgery after trial, for purpos…
20-254 Kuang-Bao Ou-Young v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied civil-rights competence-restoration criminal-action criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing Whether a three-judge court should have adjudged the FTCA case
20-5332 William David Bush v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied 10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code declares supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, under what circumstances does Article X not appl…
20-79 Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Denial of Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment due process
20-5154 Jorge Armando Herrera Salguero v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied certificate-of-appealability closing-argument credibility due-process habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Salguero's prosecutorial-misconduct claim is contrary to this Court's jurisprudence
20-5068 Li Qin v. Barbara Kong-Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied 14th-amendment ada-protection arbitration arbitration-fraud civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-jurisdiction due-process fraud medical-malpractice rooker-feldman-doctrine Where is the jurisdiction in U.S.A. over a corruptive arbitration?
19-1374 Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California California 2020-06-15 Denied electronic-communications electronic-privacy exceptions-to-warrantless-searches fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protection-electronic-communicati law-enforcement-search miller-doctrine privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy stored-communications-act suppression warrant-requirement warrantless-searches Does the Fourth Amendment protect individuals who send or receive stored electronic communications (emails) as provided under federal law through the …
19-1335 Timothy James Dummer v. California Contractors State License Board, et al. California 2020-06-03 Denied administrative-law certified-mail due-process government-taking hearing mail-service notice procedural-rights tax-notice tax-notices Where State law requires certified mail to be used for tax notices, is due process satisfied where the State instead only uses regular mail, which res…
19-8185 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did the California State Superior Court violate the Petitioner's Due Process, Sixth Amendment, and Eighth Amendment rights
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California 2020-04-03 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing Whether the retroactive application of California's Senate Bill No. 1391 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8012 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied amended-complaint diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship fair-labor-standards-act government-agency governmental-agency governmental-investigation labor-code retaliation retaliation-claim statute-of-limitations unlawful-termination Shall the District Court toll the statute of limitations under the FLSA
19-7910 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Intuit, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed constitutional-law contract contract-rights due-process government-contract government-contracts government-grants judicial-misconduct jurisdiction patent patent-contract patent-rights standing takings Whether the Supreme Court should enforce the mandated prohibition against repudiating government-issued patent contract grants as delineated in govern…
19-7878 Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a 'prior conviction for a felony drug offense,' increasing defendant's mandatory m…
19-7466 In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez 2020-01-29 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in excessively delaying the case, engaging in discriminatory conduct, and refusing to recognize the corporate structu…
19-7403 Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Dismissed capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution Whether a criminal judgment obtained through violations of state and federal constitutions and laws by law enforcement and prosecution qualifies for h…
19-7285 In Re Lawone Wilkinson 2020-01-14 Denied auto-repair-laws business-dispute-criminal-case constitutional-conflict criminal-conviction deceptive-testimony diligence-and-cause habeas-corpus mandated-compliance new-evidence possession-property-interests pro-se-prisoner robbery robbery-elements state-federal-laws unconstitutional-error Under Habeas Corpus, can this Court take NOTICE of a previous UNconstitutional ERROR having a Substantial INjurious EFFECT
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-820 John McMahon, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of San Bernardino County, et al. v. Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied aboriginal-title appropriation-doctrine barker-v-harvey enabling-act enabling-acts indian-country land-claim secretarial-order united-states-v-title-insurance-trust-co Whether the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe's failure to file a land claim under the 1851 Act extinguished its rights to Section 36 conveyed to California for…
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra.Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
19-751 Elio Gutierrez v. California California 2019-12-12 Denied blood-alcohol-content blood-draw consent driving-under-the-influence dui-arrest fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-search-incident-to-arrest law-enforcement search-exception search-incident-to-arrest Is consent voluntary under the Fourth Amendment where a driving under the influence arrestee submits to a blood draw after the arresting officer tells…
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute?
19-6803 Carmieshra Gorman v. Regina Cole California 2019-12-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process insurance-law insurance-regulation intentional-tort judicial-discretion standing state-regulation takings Does the Court Exceed Constitutional Authority in Defending the State's Regulation of Insurance vis a vis the Court's Predatory Treatment of Personal …
19-6596 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California 2019-11-13 Denied administrative-sanction civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process passport passport-suspension standing state-court-jurisdiction state-courts suspension vexatious-litigant Can the state courts levy Petitioner's joint bank accounts, freeze her safety-deposit box, suspend her California clear teaching credential, and suspe…
19-449 In Re Arthur Edward Ezor 2019-10-04 Denied constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment writ-of-mandate Was it a denial of procedural and substantive due process for the lower Court to not order dismissal of the subject criminal case with prejudice again…
19-6083 Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro California 2019-10-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining 'abuse' (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitutio…
19-6024 Kenneth Allen Rogers v. California California 2019-09-24 Denied attorney-client-relationship civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fiduciary-duty legal-representation pre-trial-motion property-rights retainer-fee sixth-amendment Whether the State of California's denial of legal representation at a pre-trial motion deprived the petitioner of a fundamental right
19-259 Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. California 2019-08-28 Denied berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?
19-257 California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-28 Denied certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even …
19-5721 In Re Craig Melvin Schafer 2019-08-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-accountability judicial-performance mandamus mandamus-writ standing state-liability takings tort-law Is a state allowed to violate the 7th Amendment and deny civil hearings?
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh…
18-1580 Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California be foreclosed as duplicative of a later-commenced 42 USC §1981 / 42 USC §1983 …
18-1512 Michael McClain, et al. v. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, et al. California 2019-06-05 Denied administrative-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process escheat private-property property-rights standing statutory-scheme takings-clause Does a State violate the Due Process Clause and trigger a right to just compensation under the Takings Clause when it permanently escheats private pro…
18-9290 Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings Does the State of California create a conflict under the U.S. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. by not providing a rational relationship between a legitimate…
18-9250 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Dismissed ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the …
18A1134 Ruben Perez Gomez v. State of California California 2019-05-03 Presumed Complete None
18-9078 Tina Bradford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2019-05-01 Denied burden-of-proof compromise-and-release cumulative-trauma federal-labor-standards federal-labor-standards-act fourteenth-amendment icd-9 medical-diagnosis qme-ame qme-procedures workers-compensation Whether the burden of proof for workers' compensation benefits should be on the plaintiff or defendant, and whether a compromise and release agreement…
18-8899 Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit…
18-1313 Michael Moran v. California Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process fair-trial in-custody-statements miranda miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel right-to-present-a-defense Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that admission of petitioner's …
18-8746 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement California 2019-04-09 Denied abandonment-of-appeal appeal appeal-dismissal attorney-signature civil-procedure civil-procedure-defects defendant-identification due-process electronic-service motion-to-dismiss party-identification procedural-defect service-of-process standing Shall the Court of Appeal grant Defendants' Motion to Dismiss an Appeal if Defendants improperly served the Plaintiff with this Motion
18-8179 Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied 28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state criminal conviction violates due process when a state has unconstitutionally concluded the sufficiency of the evidence
18-1092 Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination Does a plausible allegation of viewpoint-discrimination-by-proxy state a valid First Amendment claim?
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr…
18-7545 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Dismissed appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7544 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Dismissed appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7289 Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied 14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation Should the people in the state of California be constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment in the presence of increasingly severe crimi…
18-7278 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-08 Denied appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain record-on-appeal statute-of-limitations appellate-counsel appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,equal-protection,statute-of-limitations,plea-bargain,appellate-record
18-873 Casino Pauma v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied chevron-deference civil-rights employee-solicitation indian-gaming-regulatory-act indian-tribes labor-law labor-solicitation national-labor-relations-act republic-aviation tribal-sovereignty Whether the National Labor Relations Act applies to Indian tribes
18-7220 Pashtoon Farooqi v. California California 2019-01-03 Denied bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional?
18-7153 J. E., aka J. E. C. v. Oregon Department of Human Services Oregon 2018-12-21 Denied agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment human-services parental-rights standing Did the Supreme Court of Oregon have the opportunity to consider every possible situation which might arise from a Termination of Parental Rights?
18-6489 Guetatchew Fikrou v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Division, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-code child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute standing state-law supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the abuse of discretion standard applies to review of the issues presented in the petition
18-6416 Briand Williams v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied appellate-record due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargain registration-requirements sentencing transcripts Is a Plea Agreement considered terminated or fulfilled 15 years later upon loss of sentencing transcripts?
18-6338 Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations Is a Plea Bargain Agreement a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the State, and can the defendant be relieved from the res…
18-6189 Eduardo Salgado v. California California 2018-10-03 Denied 2nd-amendment carry-outside-home civil-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry concealed-carry-license due-process federal-circuit-split firearm-rights good-cause-requirement level-of-scrutiny scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense, and what level of scrutiny applies to laws that …
18-5619 Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees california-rules-of-professional-conduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights professional-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-created-rights Does a state-created right to require written consent from a client when others pay the attorney's fees constitute a denial of conflict-free counsel, …
18-205 Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. California 2018-08-16 Denied central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes…
18-86 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied causation civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech product-promotion public-nuisance retroactive-liability Whether the First Amendment permits imposing tort liability for truthfully promoting a lawful product later deemed hazardous
22O148 State of Missouri, et al., Plaintiffs v. State of California 2017-12-07 Denied None
22O8 State of Arizona, Plaintiff v. State of California, et al. 1953-01-19 Rehearing None
24A531 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California Presumed Complete due-process judicial-review mandamus petition-denial pro-se state-court Whether a state court's summary denial of a pro se litigant's petition for mandamus and prohibition without substantive review violates due process an…