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25A726 Orna Shaposhnik v. Quality Loan Service Corp., et al. California 2025-12-19 Application ada-accommodations cognitive-impairment jurisdictional-extension pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process supreme-court-procedure 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…
25A366 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful …
25-192 Arthur Edward Ezor v. State Bar of California California 2025-08-18 Denied california-law disbarment legal-review petition-of-review supreme-court-of-california 1. Should the Supreme Court of California have granted the Petition of Review? 2. Should the California Disbarment Order against Ezor be reversed?
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 The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove…
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…
24-1232 Maher Memarzadeh v. Lottie Cohen, et al. California 2025-06-03 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure discovery-obligations due-process medical-disability terminating-sanctions Whether a state court's terminating sanctions against a civil litigant based on medical inability to comply with discovery obligations violate due pro…
24A909 Derrick Lynn Johnson v. California California 2025-03-24 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, a court of appeals' decision should be vacated when an appeal becomes moot by happenstance while a petiti…
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…
24-6274 Samreen Riaz v. Altura Centers for Health California 2025-01-13 Denied amendment-violation court-bias judicial-discretion motion-in-limine procedural-error witness-intimidation Whether the California Supreme Court and lower courts committed procedural errors and showed bias in multiple stages of a legal proceeding involving m…
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…
24-5910 Robert Ward Frazier v. California California 2024-11-05 Denied autonomy-right capital-defendant counsel-objection fundamental-objectives mitigation-defense sixth-amendment Is a capital defendant deprived of their Sixth Amendment autonomy right to determine the fundamental objectives of their defense when appointed counse…
24-457 Bindya H. S. B. Singh v. Santa Clara County, California California 2024-10-23 Denied constitutional-rights fair-trial hipaa-violation race-discrimination securities-exchange whistleblower-rights Does a Citizen Whistleblower lose the Constitutional right to a fair trial under Whistleblower claim that reports multiple concerns of illegal activit…
24-5784 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2024-10-21 Denied constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-trial motion-to-vacate writ-of-mandate Did the California Supreme Court and lower courts err in denying petitioner's writs and motions, potentially violating constitutional rights under the…
24-5604 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-09-20 Denied judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-conflict petition-review procedural-error supreme-court-procedure Whether the California Supreme Court improperly denied a petition and application for stay, leaving unresolved legal and factual conflicts
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence Does the Supreme Court of California's narrow test for an 'acquittal' under the Fifth Amendment conflict with this Court's precedent?
24A21 H.C. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete equitable-tolling filing-deadline medical-disability pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant's physical disability and medical challenges can constitute good cause for equitable tolling of procedural filing deadlines …
23-7760 Samreen Riaz v. Kaweah Health Medical Center, et al. California 2024-06-20 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias conflicting-issues court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-error petition-for-writ-of-certiorari petition-review procedural-due-process standing Did the Supreme Court of California (S284004) err in denying the petition and application for stay on May 1, 2024, leaving unresolved conflicts of law…
23-1320 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-06-18 Denied can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug
23-1165 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. California 2024-05-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-to-settle fourteenth-amendment good-faith-dealing insurance insurance-law public-interest standing third-party-liability tort Whether injured third parties can directly sue an insurer for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, even without obtaining a …
23-808 Eurho Joe v. Supreme Court of California Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct legal-remedy liberty procedural-due-process procedural-steps state-court-jurisdiction state-courts state-laws How can a person's right and liberty to pursue happiness be maintained or recovered when severely damaged by the decisions made by the state courts no…
23-790 Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California California 2024-01-23 Denied 11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether the State Supreme Court and State Bar's denial of admission based on age violated Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection, and hi…
23-6168 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2023-12-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct petition-for-review public-trust recusal standing Did the Supreme Court of California deny petition of review, leaving an unresolved conflict and matter of public importance?
23A415 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete court-discretion family-law legal-interpretation legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether a state court may construe a statute in a manner that deviates from the Legislature's intended plain meaning
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…
22-7879 Olyric Robinson v. California California 2023-06-27 Denied appellate-review california-procedure constitutional-rights due-process hit-and-run mandated-procedures parole-decision-making-instrument parole-revocation state-court-decisions substantial-evidence Whether the state courts of California rendered decisions in violation of precedents established by other state courts of last resort or United States…
22-7046 Valdamir Fred Morelos v. California California 2023-03-21 Dismissed autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-defendants counsel-consent due-process guilty-plea mccoy-v-louisiana penal-code penal-code-section-1018 right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment Does California's Penal Code Section 1018 violate capital defendants' right to autonomy under the Sixth Amendment and McCoy v. Louisiana?
22-6859 Eddie Turner v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. California 2023-02-24 Denied affirmative-defense civil-procedure claim-preclusion deed-of-trust demurrer final-judgment judicial-ruling operation-of-law privity void-deed void-deed-of-trust Whether the defendants have satisfied all three factors of the doctrine of claim preclusion
22-6701 In Re Astarte Davis 2023-02-03 Denied abuse-of-discretion accountability civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct public-importance vexatious-litigant Whether the Respondents' decisions in Astarte's case is non-judicial conduct under color of law and constitution, failed in their judicial ethics, and…
22-6574 Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling Can a void ruling legally be challenged at any time and in any court?
22-6073 Lindsey Chow v. Ma Leyba, et al. California 2022-11-16 Denied bodily-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection euthanasia fourteenth-amendment medical-autonomy medicare survivorship-rights Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow's and his children's Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-5246 Bruce H. Singman v. IMDb.com, Inc. California 2022-08-01 Denied anti-SLAPP commercial-speech damaging-information defamation digital-media edit-system first-amendment freedom-of-speech internet-movie-database internet-publication tortious-interference wrongful-information Did the Supreme Court of California error in failing to note that the Respondent's IMDb.com i.e., Internet Movie Data Base had an EDIT System providin…
22-28 Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. California 2022-07-08 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment
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?
21-8063 William Lee Wright Jr. v. California California 2022-06-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta faretta-motion judicial-discretion self-representation timeliness totality-of-the-circumstances Whether a pre-trial request for self-representation under Faretta v. California is timely
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…
21-6798 Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place licensees with phys…
21-6617 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed american-heart-association civil-rights civil-rights-violation drug-eluted-stents due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice procedural-error res-ipsa-loquitur Reverse and settle personal injury
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
21-112 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 …
21-59 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…
20-8427 Bin Yang v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2021-06-24 Denied administrative-law amendment-xiv civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-allegations licensing-dispute medical-education nursing-internship Question Presented
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
20-7424 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-error due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari Reverse and settle personal injury judgment
20-1266 In Re Ivan Rene Moore, et al. 2021-03-11 Denied california-constitution constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure property-rights redress superior-court supreme-court Shall a writ lie for violation of due process
20-1265 Ivan Rene Moore, et al. v. Kimberly Martin-Bragg California 2021-03-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-review procedural-fairness property-rights Denial of due process and unrestricted access to courts
20-7321 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights court-judgment due-process judicial-bias legal-procedure medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing Whether the appellant's U.S. constitutional and civil rights were violated
20-1123 Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law Whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's prope…
20-6881 Alan Douglas v. Nancy Zimmerman, et al. California 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari Reverse and settle personal injury
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?
20-6114 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
20-5085 Joe Edward Johnson v. California California 2020-07-16 Denied batson-challenge criminal-procedure due-process faretta-motion faretta-v-california jury-selection legal-timeliness self-representation timeliness totality-of-circumstances Whether a pretrial request for self-representation can be held 'untimely'
19-1375 Aaron L. Katz v. Incline Village General Improvement District Nevada 2020-06-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fee-shifting first-amendment litigation-immunity petition-clause public-concern public-grievances punitive-statute sham-litigation standing Can a petitioning litigant be held liable for their adversary's litigation costs and attorney's fees based upon a punitive statute, where the litigant…
19-7924 Shanel Stacz v. ESA Management, LLC, et al. California 2020-03-10 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-amendments court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction timeliness transfer-petition writ-of-mandate Whether the Supreme Court of California erred by not granting and transferring the Appellant's Writ of Mandate of original jurisdiction back to the Co…
19-7424 Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2020-01-27 Denied conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su…
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…
19-449 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…
19-201 Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert California 2019-08-16 Denied attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402 foreclosed Respondent's efforts to seek attor…
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