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24-6388 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit internet-immunity judicial-interpretation platform-liability section-230 user-content a) The 9th circuit's interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c) (1) subverting statutory interpretation. This was called "republishing nonsense". b) Th…
24-205 Michael Alan Weiss, as Executor of Estate of Jane L. Marsh v. Peggy Pei Lin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Relisted (2) 9th-circuit constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct property-rights (a) Has the 9th Circuit panel, and/or its clerk and staff attorney, used procedural or substantive springes unconstitutional under the 5th Amendment D…
24-34 Ricky-Dean Horton v. PG&E Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 9th-circuit bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-discretion procedural-fairness statutory-interpretation substantive-rights 1. Whether the proceedings in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court N.D. Cal. failed to follow the rules and procedures for a fair and just determination of Peti…
23-949 In Re David Erlanson, Sr. 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi…
23-6583 Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP 9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Question not identified.
23-6566 In Re Brandon Trammel 2024-01-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 9th-circuit abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criteria federal-habeas federal-writ habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing successive-petition 1.) Did Petitioner, Brandon Robert Trammel meet the criteria to request to file a second or successive federal writ of habeas corpus? 2.) Did the 9th…
22-1198 Joe Patrick Flarity v. Argonaut Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived -administrative-review -constitutional-due-process -equal-protection -judicial-bias -pro-se-rights #NAME? 9th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se standing 9th Circuit Prejudice Against Pro Se Plaintiffs Bolsters State Abuses
22-7556 R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied IFP 9th-circuit civil-procedure constitution constitutional-rights discretionary-exception due-process greater-good judicial-procedure judicial-process rule-of-law Whether the 9th Circuit denied due process in dismissing the petitioner's appeal
22-6569 Charles Heard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation Does a VICAR murder conviction based on California second-degree murder constitute a crime of violence?
22-223 County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Amici (1) 9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standard o…
21-8065 Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing Did the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion?
21-1037 Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 9th Circuit has betrayed the Founders' intents by disregarding established authorities and creating its own copyright law system
20-7556 Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review Did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct was harmless?
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedent in concluding that petitioner's Brady-claim failed for lack of prejudice
20-1154 Adan Torres-Nieves v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit ambiguity ambiguity-resolution defendant defendant-rights government-breach legal-precedent plea-agreement precedent Did the 9th Circuit depart from precedent in failing to resolve ambiguity in favor of defendant in determining government breach of plea agreement?
19-1085 Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous Whether a 'sufficiently analogous' case is enough to show that the law is 'clearly established' for purposes of qualified immunity, or if something mo…
19-7580 Constantine Gus Cristo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 26-usc-7491 9th-circuit burden-of-proof credible-evidence federal-agent irs-restructuring-and-reform-act-of-1998 ninth-circuit statutory-interest tax-court taxpayer-rights unconstitutional-conduct Whether the Petitioner's production of 'credible' evidence in the form of written admissions of unconstitutional conduct by a federal agent, citing § …
19-6621 Jaquan Walters v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter Does 'imperfect self-defense' exist as a partial defense to murder at federal common law?
19-5634 Daniel Marquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's decision to deny a minor-role adjustment
18-1520 Michael A. Tricarichi, Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit federal-income-tax fraudulent-transfer internal-revenue-code irc-6901 state-law tax-court third-party-conduct transferee-liability Whether a tax court must apply the fraudulent transfer law of the state where the taxpayer lived, or can apply fraudulent transfer law from any state
18-8362 Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable?
18-8144 Sami Albra v. Selene Finance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure injunctive-relief judicial-discretion standing Does the 9th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due …
18-8058 Joel Elias Sanchez v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights crane-v-kentucky criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense self-defense Did excluding this evidence violate Sanchez's clearly established right under Crane?
18-728 Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's 'selection and arrangement' of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui…
18-215 Lisa M. Aubuchon, et al. v. Maricopa County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied 9th-circuit 9th-circuit-panel bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-contract fact-finder fact-finding government-attorneys judicial-bias judicial-decision legal-precedent notice-of-claim political-bias standing Was the 9th Circuit Panel's Decision a Politically Charged Decision that Assumed the Role of a Fact Finder, as Asserted by the Dissent?
18-5436 Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him constitute interrogation under Miranda?