| 25-6724 |
Diamond King v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review procedural-dismissal service-evasion whistleblower-claims |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit violated
Petitioner 's Fifth Amendment right to due process by affirming dismissal o… |
| 25A876 |
Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25A781 |
Joquetta Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Application |
conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability |
Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil… |
| 25A731 |
Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 25A598 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
appellate-review certiorari consolidated-appeals federal-questions legal-theories supreme-court-rule |
Whether a federal appellate court's disposition of consolidated appeals involving overlapping factual and legal questions can materially impact the fr… |
| 25-586 |
Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest |
1. Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by terminatin… |
| 25A473 |
Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
estate-administration federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation probate-jurisdiction procedural-challenge removal-statute |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state probate court's estate administration ruling can be removed to federal court under 28 U.S… |
| 25-5832 |
James L. White v. United States Postal Service |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25A386 |
Trendell Walker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defects structural-error venue-challenge warrant-forgery |
Whether a criminal prosecution must be dismissed when jurisdictional defects are alleged, including forged warrants and improper venue establishment |
| 24-6577 |
Anthony Cunningham v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6519 |
Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus post-conviction texas-procedure |
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas improperly denied post-conviction relief to a death row inmate based on procedural grounds |
| 24A715 |
Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Presumed Complete |
employment-discrimination golf-tournament pro-se-petition racial-bias supreme-court-review women's-open |
Whether the Supreme Court will review a potential case of employment discrimination in golf based on alleged racial bias at the 2020 Women's Open tour… |
| 24A442 |
Dale Scott Heineman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing |
Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a sentencing hearing proceeds despite allegations of procedural defects and claims… |
| 24-495 |
Lebene Konan v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
circuit-split equal-protection federal-employees intracorporate-conspiracy ku-klux-klan-act section-1985-3 |
Whether federal employees can be liable under Section 1985(3) and whether the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine applies to such claims |
| 24-351 |
United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Granted |
federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff's claim that postal service employees intentionally did not deliver mail to a designated address constitutes 'loss' or 'miscarriag… |
| 24M26 |
Renee Chrustowski v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-5531 |
Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity |
Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive sovereign immunity for judicial officers and federal agencies acting on behalf of the USPS in violation of feder… |
| 24A200 |
United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
discrimination federal-tort-claims-act intentional-tort mail-delivery postal-matter-exception sovereign-immunity |
Whether the postal-matter exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of sovereign immunity applies to intentional, discriminatory acts of mail … |
| 24-47 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 |
Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101 |
| 23A1080 |
Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment freedom-of-expression government-action |
Whether the First Amendment protects an individual's right to challenge government actions that allegedly infringe upon fundamental freedoms of expres… |
| 23A964 |
Peter Paul Mitrano, et al. v. Cary Cucinelli |
Virginia |
2024-04-26 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court-of-virginia |
Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia violated the petitioners' constitutional due process rights by refusing to grant a petition for rehearing in a c… |
| 23-7315 |
In Re Craig Michael Ralston |
|
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure clerical-error federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure houston-v-lack judicial-review mail-receipt postal-service prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing |
Is a certified mail receipt and date-stamp from the United States Postal Service along with the Prison Mailroom time-stamp enough to meet the requirem… |
| 23-1117 |
James A. Crowe, et ux. v. Savvy IN, LLC |
Indiana |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure covid-19 due-process mail-notification property-rights signature-protocol tax-sale |
Whether due process requires additional notification efforts by a tax sale purchaser when the return mail receipt is returned with only notations by a… |
| 23-613 |
Luis Soto Soto, et al. v. Yashira Quiles Carrasquillo |
Puerto Rico |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23A346 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A337 |
Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure federal-rule-appellate-procedure-4 incarcerated-litigant petition-for-rehearing prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing |
Whether the prison mailbox rule under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c)(1)(A)(i) and 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires a federal appellate court to dee… |
| 23A186 |
Seneca Lovett Engel v. Derek Engel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A97 |
Maxwell Rangel Joelson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5069 |
Lola Bonitta McGee v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power civil-rights disability due-process employee-rights federal-employment government-accountability medical-disability retaliation workplace-discrimination workplace-harassment |
when-an-exemplary-employee-is-discriminated-against |
| 22-1101 |
William Tyrone Cunningham v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection federal-employment national-labor-relations-act probationary-period veterans-preference |
Petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violation |
| 22-6931 |
In Re DeAnn Graham |
|
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights court-administrative-errors covid-19 covid-19-leave due-process federal-law ffcra postal-service-interference unemployment unemployment-discrimination writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued directing the court of appeals and or the district court without delay to change the dismissal |
| 22-6523 |
Alfonzo Johnlouis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
fourth-amendment government-action government-actor mail-carrier postal-service search-and-seizure standing unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches warrantless-search |
Is the warrantless search of a First Class sealed mail Priority package by a United States Postal Service mail carrier during the course and scope of … |
| 22-5903 |
L. Powers v. United States Postal Service |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-rights in-forma-pauperis indigent-rights judicial-discretion judicial-powers |
Was the appearance of dismissing Petitioner's in forma pauperis applications an abuse of judicial powers & law? |
| 22-266 |
Gary S. Christensen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
26-usc-6201(a)(4) criminal-tax criminal-tax-law due-process irs-assessment restitution return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service return-mail-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-restitution |
Does this Court's holding in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, 139 S. Ct. 1853 (2019) overturn every case holding the Internal Revenu… |
| 21-7399 |
Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit… |
| 21-6977 |
Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal |
Question not identified |
| 21-92 |
Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act |
Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled employe… |
| 20-8107 |
Gregory Turner v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-government labor-investigation merit-system merit-system-protection-board veterans-preference |
Did the petitioner seek to get appeal heard by the Veteran's Employment and Training Service of U.S. Department of Labor |
| 20-1316 |
Daniel Fling v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion constitutional-claim district-court due-process federal-common-law standing statute-of-limitations |
Does the federal common law of claim preclusion bar a party's due-process claim against the United States Government in a United States district court… |
| 20-1026 |
Eagle Trust Fund v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure-act article-iii executive-action judicial-review non-apa-review postal-reorganization-act usps-rules |
Whether the Postal Reorganization Act impliedly bars non-APA review, including claims of USPS conduct or failure to follow its own rules |
| 20-6039 |
Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds |
Does USPS Form 3811 meet 28 USC 2244 evidentiary standard for equitable tolling? |
| 20-229 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-error mental-illness prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner, 1 of 60 million Americans with mental illness, was deprived of Bill of Rights protections of Amendment 1, V, VI-IX and XIV |
| 20-5257 |
Jimmy McLain Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment law-enforcement right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment witness-communication |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to decide an important Federal Question regarding the right of a Defendant to confront witnesses aga… |
| 19-1162 |
Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act |
Whether the USA/USPS is immune from violating an artist's exclusive rights under the Copyright Act |
| 19-7806 |
Cherunda Lynn Fox v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Dismissed |
14th-amendment attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process electronic-case-filing equal-protection federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-process |
Whether the defendants were served on 3-19-18 as verified by the court record, the Judge and receipt - personally verified by the Attorney General, de… |
| 19A875 |
Aaron D. Rainney Chidubem v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-7200 |
Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure civil-rights common-law de-facto-government due-process judicial-review martial-rule peonage pro-se procedural-fairness service-of-process standing |
Whether the lower courts properly addressed the petitioner's common law claims, viewed the claims in the light most favorable to the petitioner, and f… |
| 19-717 |
Michael J. Sands v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection medical-diagnosis medical-fraud mental-health postal-service termination |
Did the United States Postal Service violate my Constitutional Rights when the Postal Service chose my mental diagnosis (difference of Medical Opinion… |
| 19-5161 |
Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property |
Whether industry standards and customs should be considered as a factor during the analysis of perceived intent and duty of the implied contract parti… |
| 19-5109 |
Wayne English v. Roadhouse Holding Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure first-amendment-rights mail-delivery notice notice-of-appeal usps |
Whether the actions of the Bankruptcy Court in intercepting and redirecting only USPS mail delivery prevents litigants from the timely filing of their… |
| 18-9284 |
Angela Rogers v. Compass Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
14th-amendment certified-mail civil-procedure civil-rights due-process privileges-and-immunities state-court-operations state-supreme-court timely-filing us-postal-service |
Whether the internal operations of the State Supreme Court of Minnesota violate the Privileges and Immunities clause of the 14° Amendment and the Due … |
| 18-8841 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation |
Whether the Due Process Clause provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested upon filing an in forma pauperis complaint allegin… |
| 18-7993 |
Ronald Bedford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor |
Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service is a person assisting an officer … |
| 18-694 |
Derek T. Williams v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
appeal-rights civil-rights current-continuous-service due-process federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board preference-eligible united-states-postal-service veterans-rights |
Whether a preference-eligible veteran maintains 'current continuous service in the same or similar positions' under § 7511(a)(1)(B) when the agency an… |
| 18-627 |
William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-statutory-causes-of-action constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a district court's conclusion that service of process by Certified Mail is insufficient under Federal Rules of … |
| 18-6506 |
Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts |
Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires… |
| 18-6109 |
Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a |
| 18-101 |
Patrick Jon Evers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation |
Can false representations be 'material' for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor … |