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25-924 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that a special masters' findings in Plaintiffs' claims filed in the Department of Health and Hu…
25-834 Erie Indemnity Company v. Troy Stephenson, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending claim-preclusion final-judgment issue-preclusion legal-theory ongoing-conduct res-judicata This Court has emphasized that a previous court's judgment bars any claims between the parties or their privies that "involve a common nucleus of oper…
25-694 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending Response Waived judicial-immunity just-compensation permitting-monopoly property-rights res-judicata takings-clause 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion citing res judicata allows the government to overextend and leverage its permitting monopoly to take private…
25-6093 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Matthew Warren Oliver Michigan 2025-11-13 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-fairness res-judicata void-judgment I. Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to vacate a facially void judgment that was procured …
25-6046 In Re Larry E. Clark 2025-11-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdictional-error mandamus res-judicata 1. IS NON-PARTY, AND NON-CITED, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ("USA ") AND DIST. CT. JUDGE, DONALD E. WALTER, ONE AND SAME INDIVIUAL PERSON, AND/OR, ONE…
25A434 James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eighth-circuit res-judicata serious-mental-illness solitary-confinement Whether res judicata precludes a prisoner with serious mental illness from bringing a new lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement based on …
25-5799 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2025-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process non-existent-offense res-judicata separation-of-powers 1. Under Arkansas law, Mr. Burgie had a right to have his illegal sentences corrected but the Arkansas state courts denied his petition and post-convi…
25A243 C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance…
25A226 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder claim-preclusion criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge res-judicata underlying-felony Whether claim preclusion (res judicata) bars a criminal defendant from repeatedly challenging the jurisdictional basis of a capital murder conviction …
25A74 Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon Second Circuit 2025-07-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeal non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata substitute-trustee-deed Question not identified.
25-58 Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii 1. Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-term…
25-19 Laura Loomer, Individually and as a Candidate for United States Congress, et al. v. Mark Zuckerberg, Individually and as CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split ninth-circuit post-judgment-facts res-judicata rico-claims social-media-censorship 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's application of res judicata, barring claims based on new material facts arising after prior judgments, conflict with this …
24-1308 Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC Florida 2025-06-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law Whether state law can supersede federal substantive law of res judicata in determining the binding effect of a federal final judgment in state court
24-7406 Doug Kisaka v. University of Southern California Ninth Circuit 2025-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-court-interpretation judicial-discretion res-judicata Can a district court judge rely on a state court's intermediate interpretation of a federal court dismissal to the disregard of the federal court's ow…
24-7315 Kenyon Lamonte Watson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury pretrial-detention res-judicata Whether the government can seek pretrial detention in a second related prosecution after a magistrate judge has previously denied detention and ordere…
24-1129 Joan Carol Lipin v. Arthur Dodson Wisehart, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived district-court-discretion prefiling-judgment res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-41-dismissal voluntary-dismissal Whether a district court can reopen a case and issue a partial prefiling judgment on some claims after a plaintiff's voluntary dismissal without preju…
24-7056 Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied IFP article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity Whether judicial and prosecutorial immunities are consistent with Article III judicial power and constitutional due process
24-6722 Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court Whether a U.S. District Court can apply Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel to a void State Court judgment and deny due process rights in a federal c…
24-852 Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination Does the Panel's ruling improperly apply res judicata to bar a Title VII claim against a school board when the claim had not yet accrued at the time o…
24-6463 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, et al. Florida 2025-02-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof failure-to-state-claim pleading-standards res-judicata statute-of-limitations trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the case for failure to state a claim, statute of limitations, and res judicata, and whether the court abu…
24A650 PCJV USA, LLC, et al. v. Shakey's Pizza Asia Ventures, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete federal-court-conflict full-faith-and-credit preclusive-effect res-judicata state-court-ruling trademark-dispute Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires federal courts to give preclusive effect to state court rulings in a complex multi-jurisdictional tr…
24A609 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41 Whether a federal appellate court can dismiss a plaintiff's claims by mischaracterizing their legal arguments and failing to address substantive due p…
24A586 Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete cause-of-action civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata school-board title-vii Whether claim preclusion principles under Taylor v. Sturgell apply to bar a subsequent Title VII lawsuit when the first civil rights action involved i…
24-543 Nili N. Alai v. Law Offices of Mark B. Plummer, P.C., et al. California 2024-11-14 Denied actual-malice defamation due-process first-amendment public-figure res-judicata Whether a state court's application of res judicata to deem an appeal moot based on another defendant's appeal violates the Due Process Clause of the …
24-512 Ghassan Korban, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans v. Watson Memorial Spiritual Temple of Christ, dba Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries, et al. Louisiana 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) common-core-facts federal-judgment preclusion procedural-posture res-judicata state-law-claims Is a prior federal judgment res judicata as to state-law claims in a subsequent state or federal court action that arise from a common core of facts a…
24-476 Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata Whether a court or arbitrator should determine the preclusive effect of a prior judgment in an arbitration proceeding
24-5749 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court Whether the trial court erred in affirming the lower court decision based on failure to state a claim, failure to comply with federal rules, sovereign…
24-379 Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response Waived citizenship-forfeiture civil-death cruel-and-unusual-clause eighth-amendment punishment-disability res-judicata Whether Illinois's punishment disability statutes without time limits violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Clause constituting a 'civil de…
24-283 Oxana N. Parikh v. Anthony G. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-violations in-rem-jurisdiction orphans-court preclusive-effect res-judicata standing Whether it was error to give preclusive effect to an earlier in rem orphans' court Estate matter with 'special limited jurisdiction' that could not br…
24-238 Charles K. Breland, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court consent-order iRS-claims res-judicata tax-assessment tax-liability Whether a bankruptcy court's consent order limiting the IRS's tax collection rights is binding and preclusive in subsequent tax court proceedings
24A187 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Presumed Complete dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata Whether the doctrine of res judicata can bar a pro se plaintiff's claims when the prior dismissal may have resulted from ineffective legal representat…
24-150 John R. Stensrud, et ux. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied condemnation federal-forum just-compensation knick-exception res-judicata state-court-litigation Whether the Supreme Court should recognize an exception to res judicata when post-Knick condemnees are denied a federal forum due to timing and state …
24-128 Caf Dowlah v. American Arbitration Association, et al. New York 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitral-immunity butz-v-economou civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct res-judicata Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act and Butz v. Economou regarding arbitral immunity?
24-5140 Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-sunnen constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-retaliation fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford-empire judicial-misconduct kremer-v-chemical-construction naacp-v-button res-judicata Claim Preclusion and Due Process
24-5148 Alexander Harvin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts assignment-of-security-deed civil-rights-violation due-process equal-protection foreclosure-challenge pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing Could the Petitioner have raised the issue of wrongful/illegal foreclosure in the 2014 court proceedings?
23-7353 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim federal-rules in-forma-pauperis motion-to-dismiss res-judicata sovereign-immunity Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the complaint
23-7111 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. Alabama 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal whether-trial-court-erred-dismissing-case
23-7059 Alissa Peterson v. Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2024-03-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process edwards-v-arizona fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright res-judicata screws-v-united-states sixth-amendment Where CPS investigators and Judge Diane Rappleye violate the rules announced in Doe v. Doe, where Prosecution and Appointed legal counsel of Ms Peters…
23-7041 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may …
23A855 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte Whether a federal court may sua sponte raise a procedural affirmative defense to deny preliminary injunctive relief without considering the movant's l…
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-999 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
23-940 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata Can an attorney be suspended from the practice of law for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting the orders are unconstitutional?
23-6706 Ohio, ex rel. Lonnie Rarden v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Butler County, et al. Ohio 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure faretta-v-california fundamental-error johnson-v-zerbst law-of-the-case res-judicata right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-jurisdiction waiver-of-counsel Does this Court no longer recognize the right to counsel under Johnson v. Zerbst?
23-6676 Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Bestway USA Inc., et al. Arizona 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-service evidentiary-hearing interlocutory-decision judicial-notice parol-evidence res-judicata service-of-process settlement-agreement settlement-agreements void-order May a Court take judicial notice of another Court's Order; that be void due to deficient service
23-6640 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata Did the South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's writ of error coram nobis?
23-6590 Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence Did the Georgia Court of Appeals err in vacating the petitioner's void sentence and barring him by res judicata from attacking the void sentence in an…
23-783 Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof?
23-784 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-01-18 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata Can an attorney be sanctioned for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting unconstitutionality under the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
23-6315 In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia 2023-12-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements lower-court-interpretation precedent-analysis res-judicata rooker-feldman standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the case based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
23-673 In Re Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment property-rights res-judicata rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings takings-clause Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from considering a takings claim under the Fifth Amendment when the state court proceedings d…
23-6301 Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res-judicata,whether the District Court exceeded its authority,whether the trial court …
23-654 Malka Leeal v. Newrez LLC, dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied appellate-review case-caption civil-procedure claims-raised-or-could-have-been-raised district-court final-judgment legal-obligation res-judicata same-transaction summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in its burden to establish all four elements of res-judicata-and-conduct-de-novo-review
23-6189 Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions bankruptcy-procedure collateral-estoppel creditor-rights due-process judicial-immunity res-judicata stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Whether the intent of Congress in enacting 11 U.S.C. §522(1) and Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4003(b) as interpreted by this Court's precedential and controlling de…
23-605 Erich M. Martin v. Raina L. Martin Nevada 2023-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) collateral-estoppel due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-convenience preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
23-591 Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin…
23-6067 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata If legal claims preserved by a state court during direct review share the same constitutional protections as the right to an appeal from a final judgm…
23-5738 Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fair-procedure judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect procedural-fairness res-judicata rule-60b4 subject-matter-jurisdiction usurpation-of-power Whether factors of correct administration of the rules and fair procedure to allow a party an opportunity to litigate the question of jurisdiction mus…
23-5694 Orlando Peay v. Michael Burgess, Warden Michigan 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge malfeasance obstruction-of-justice res-judicata Did homicide detectives violate court order to discharge from confinement?
23-297 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York Indiana 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata Whether the Indiana courts' judgments violated Newman's Constitutional rights to due process by denying hearings, imposing punitive attorney fee award…
23-303 Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-opportunity fraud-on-court judge-misconduct judicial-misconduct procedural-rules res-judicata vacatur wage-discrimination Res-Judicata-Application
23-5613 Robert L. Allum v. Montana State Fund Montana 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-branch montana-constitution res-judicata state-court-structure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Montana Workers' Compensation Court is a constitutionally valid judicial body
23-5183 Allen S. Herschaft v. New York City Campaign Finance Board Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act res-judicata standing Whether Res Judicata precludes bringing the case?
23-53 Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the dismissal conflicts with SCOTUS precedent on FRCP 60 and independent actions
23-28 Claude Townsend, Jr. v. New Jersey Transit Third Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied collateral-estoppel constitutional-law dismissed-case due-process fourteenth-amendment new-evidence res-judicata social-security Can Res judicata and Collateral estoppel interfere with the Fourteenth Amendment's constitutional due process when new evidence is presented to a dism…
22-1221 Marvin L. Stewart v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-review board-for-correction-of-military-records claims-preclusion coast-guard mandatory-physical-examination military-records res-judicata service-health-records statutory-obligation Whether a claim based on actions of the Respondents, and facts that were not yet in existence at the time of the original action is precluded by claim…
22-7811 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion affirmative-defense appellate-review full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss plea-to-the-jurisdiction res-judicata Whether an unauthenticated judgment has res judicata effects as an affirmative defense
22-1212 Barbara Lindsey v. Max. F. Adler, M.D., P.A., fka Park Cities Dermatology Center, aka Coppell Dermatology Center, et al. Texas 2023-06-15 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion claim-splitting due-process foreign-object full-and-fair-opportunity res-judicata texas-law unknown-injuries Does the claim splitting branch of res judicata violate due process when a plaintiff lacked a full and fair opportunity to litigate or did not know of…
22-1089 Ray James Foster v. Deborah Lynn Foster Michigan 2023-05-09 Denied 38-usc-5301 collateral-estoppel disability-benefits disability-law federal-preemption judicial-convenience res-judicata state-court-doctrine veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
22-7415 Ricky Pendleton v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mt. Olive Correctional Center West Virginia 2023-05-01 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice pro-se res-judicata Whether the State courts's doctrine of res judicata was applied adequately after it summarily denies Pendleton's pro se filings of the successive habe…
22-7302 Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz Colorado 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Where a state court can contradict a federal agency's final and conclusive decision on veterans' disability benefits
22-7196 Arthur Scott Prelle v. Chief Executive Officer of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-credit civil-procedure due-process equity equity-rights personal-property property property-ownership res-judicata standing Question not identified
22-965 Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. First Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived appeals-court civil-procedure claim-requirements district-court legal-precedent legal-precedents res-judicata rico rico-claim supreme-court Validity of Res Judicata application to RICO claim
22-7181 Kerrin Ann Barrett v. PAE, Incorporated Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-timeline civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-statutes judicial-expediency res-judicata whistleblower whistleblower-statutes Whether applying res judicata doctrine to deny separate and distinct claims under Federal whistleblower statutes, including those that have specific a…
22-7102 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion arbitration-costs civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-order due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata sanctions standing whether-redetermination-is-warranted
22-7107 In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. 2023-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor Whether the state's highest court's denial of mandamus relief based on an unconstitutional unwritten policy violated the petitioner's civil rights
22-912 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-…
22-6889 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP and if so attorney-fees civil-discovery civil-rights" Res-Judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine whether the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure discovery hyde-amendment res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the Hyde Amendment Attorney fees Award is 'Civil
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property?
22-6850 Raul Mendez v. Community Health Clinics, Inc., dba Terry Reilly Health Services Ninth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery-sanction dismissal-sanction due-process finality-rule judicial-discretion res-judicata sanctions usurpation-of-judicial-power writ-of-certiorari Is a dismissal sanction a decision on the legal merits of the case? Are Courts required to warn parties about the possibility of dismissal in order to…
22-6757 In Re Louis Matthew Clements 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion diversity-jurisdiction federal-common-law full-and-fair-opportunity manifest-injustice res-judicata writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to comply with this Court's previous ruling in Semtek
22-6723 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-litigation due-process employment employment-retaliation interstate-conduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles res-judicata retaliation strassheim-v-daily territorial-jurisdiction Does the Traditional Method of Determining Jurisdiction Under Territorial Principles apply to 'Interstate Telephonic and Email—Computer Server Based C…
22-6660 Winnie Diggs v. Martin Schmidt, et al. Colorado 2023-02-01 Denied IFP court-procedure due-process fair-treatment intentional-prolonged-suffering judicial-fairness judicial-resources legal-remedy perjury-deception res-judicata self-representation self-represented-litigants Whether res judicata makes it impossible for self-represented litigants to be treated fairly
22-6657 Alex Anderson v. Donald J. Trump Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraud-on-court judicial-review res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing Appellant's claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
22-6544 Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County Texas 2023-01-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel
22-6019 Richard Lee Green v. Dinh Hoang Phuong Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitral-award federal-jurisdiction foreign-arbitration international-forum-shopping jurisdiction-abstention new-york-convention res-judicata younger-abstention younger-doctrine Whether the federal court improperly abstained from confirming a foreign arbitral award under the Younger doctrine
22-6028 John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. Connecticut 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Superior Court Judge Aurigemma err in not finding subject matter jurisdiction to enforce a Court Settlement Agreement
22-5852 Brent Evan Webster v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure claim-discharge discharge homestead-protection judicial-error priority-claims res-judicata trustee trustee-administration Did the Portland US Bankruptcy Court err in dismissing the adversary filings of Webster, failing to sustain his prior discharge after previously perfo…
22-5774 Dajuan L. Banks v. Ohio Ohio 2022-10-05 Denied IFP court-of-record evidence-forgery forged-document fourth-amendment judicial-record record res-judicata search-warrant Are the rights protected under the Fourth Amendment offended where a search warrant affidavit and warrant were not entered on the record?
22-290 Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it
22-153 Wanda Bowling v. Lester John Dahlheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit gubernatorial-liability immunity-invocation judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-overreach prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court error by issuing a boiler plate opinion omitting any language addressing Petitioner's caselaw nullifying immunity invocati…
22-5371 Darrell Harris v. Robert Hudgins, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel federal-court federal-offense federal-prosecution issue-preclusion res-judicata sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether principles of res judicata triggered application of issue preclusion and collateral estoppel
22-5324 Daniel Del Brumit v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-protection indian-law native-american-rights res-judicata reservation-boundaries state-court state-law treaty-interpretation Does the AEDPA instruct federal courts to give full faith and credit to State Court judgments and decrees which have clearly on its face usurped exclu…
22-5281 Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-08-04 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus despite applying Res Judicata
21-1585 Richard Arnold, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-error constructive-discharge due-process free-speech judicial-review navy-chaplaincy promotion-procedures religious-speech res-judicata retaliation retaliation-claims Did the Court of Appeals commit constitutional error in holding that In re Navy Chaplaincy's denial of Petitioners' systemic challenges to the Navy pr…
21-8066 Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
21-1505 Mark H. Bonner v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived article-i-court clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error collateral-estoppel equitable-jurisdiction equitable-remedy federal-circuit res-judicata veterans-claims Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has jurisdiction to decide a veteran's claim based on the equitable remedy of collateral estoppe…
21-1508 David Dotson v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived choice-of-forum day-in-court erie-doctrine federalism forum-selection insurance-litigation res-judicata substantive-law Did the court of appeals violate the federalism principle of Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) when it refused to apply Louisiana's substant…
21-7941 Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank New Hampshire 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata rule-of-law state-court-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether the state court abused discretion and violated due process by reopening a dismissed case
21-7944 Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank New Hampshire 2022-05-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process plain-error res-judicata superior-court Is the N.H. Superior Court's allowance of a second, same-named breach of contract claim against the Rule of Law, Res Judicata, a plain error that viol…
21-7823 Robert L. Allum v. Montana Montana 2022-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system
21-7790 In Re Gina Russomanno 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights curative-remedy dismissal district-court due-process mandamus mandamus-writ ministerial-action res-judicata rule-12b6-dismissal Whether the Supreme Court will compel Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson to perform a required ministerial action
21-7761 In Re Shannon Riley 2022-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond Can a Kansas state court reverse a Kansas appellate court on a counterclaim?
21-1390 Robert LaPoint v. Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-enforcement full-faith-and-credit interstate-law jurisdiction legal-preclusion res-judicata state-jurisdiction state-law workers-compensation Does the full faith and credit clause preclude enforcement of a claim dismissed as unenforceable under one State's law in another State?
21-7709 David C. Morris v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-28 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization Whether res judicata may bar correction of a sentence of 'natural life' that does not exist and is not authorized by statute, which constitutes cruel …
21-7742 Marvel Jones v. John M. Carter, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-review criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules legal-ruling pleading prejudice res-judicata standing summary-judgment Whether a dismissal without prejudice resulted in a final disposition against the backdrop of a res judicata bar
21-7682 Travon DeAngelo Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief res-judicata spoliation-of-evidence Whether newly discovered evidence is sufficient to establish a due process violation for procedural default or the bar of res judicata pursuant to the…
21-1222 Joel David Joseph v. American General Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied california-constitution diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine judicial-procedure ninth-circuit oral-argument res-judicata ripeness Does the Erie doctrine require oral argument in a diversity case under the California Constitution?
21-7124 Pamela Polejewski v. Montana Montana 2022-02-16 Denied IFP animal-seizure civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines innocent-owner procedural-violations res-judicata takings vagueness Are Animal Cost for Caring Civil Forfeiture Laws Constitutional
21-6864 Dennis Devone Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation crim-r-33-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-petition res-judicata Whether a petitioner who files a post-conviction petition asserting ineffective assistance of counsel is barred by res judicata from raising similar a…
21-6791 Daryoush Javaheri v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights crawford-vs-us due-process judicial-review res-judicata spencer-v-kemna spencer-vs-kemna standing Did the lower courts fail to apply the 'capable of repetition yet evading review' doctrine?
21-897 Brian Benson, et al. v. Ann Kemske, et vir Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing Whether pro se litigants are entitled to liberal construction of pleadings
21-6543 Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing Can the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial d…
21-845 David Pitlor v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement cause-of-action civil-procedure complaint-dismissal conspiracy due-process federal-arbitration-act pleading-supplement res-judicata Does res judicata preclude a cause of action for conspiracy that arises after a Complaint was filed, but prior to that initial claim's dismissal, if t…
21-831 Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case?
21-6498 Hye-Young Park v. Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915-e-2-b collateral-estoppel judge judicial-remedies plausibility-standard prior-suit res-judicata sexual-harassment university-policy Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel prevent relitigation of claims and issues in a prior suit when a judge's acts in the prior suit led to a …
21-787 Gina Russomanno v. Dan Dugan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claims due-process material-fact new-evidence res-judicata same-claim-preclusion standing title-vii Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District, pursuant to res-judicata, barr…
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-5987 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights demurrer due-process non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata unlawful-detainer virginia-constitution whether-the-constitutionality-of-the-law-was-properly-addressed
21-491 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a 'closely interwoven' co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclusiv…
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-5816 Ronald Peden v. Democratic National Committee, et al. First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP civil-rights dismissal-on-merits due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-conduct media-filtering political-preference preliminary-injunction prudential-standing res-judicata standing Are Federal judges at liberty to unilaterally issue rulings and orders based on personal political preferences, in addition to race and class bias, wh…
21-473 Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 Washington 2021-09-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process Did the Supreme Court of Washington err in not enforcing the civil court case removal to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(d)?
21-5696 Fan Gu v. Invista S.A.R.L. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contempt discrimination due-process fifth-circuit-review forgery judicial-misconduct perjury pro-se-litigation res-judicata Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in claiming that the claims are barred by Res Judicata
21-407 James P. Mhina v. Beth Van Doren, Assistant District Attorney of Onondaga County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-action collateral-estoppel criminal-action due-process issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel bars a criminal defendant from relitigating issues that were previously decided against him in a civil act…
21-403 Bruce H. Zitka, et ux. v. Michigan Michigan 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-order criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-by-estoppel government-liability governmental-officials jury-trial legal-defense res-judicata Were the Zitkas denied the right to present evidence to show the jury a prior court order authorized their conduct and to show they acted as they did …
21-390 Christopher Daniel Everson v. Theresa Lantz, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived 12b6-motion civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-rule-12(b)(6) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-rule-60(d)(1) frivolous-standard independent-action res-judicata rule-60 In what instances or circumstances, if any, is the doctrine of 'Res-judicata' conjoined with the 'frivolous-standard' of Federal-Rules-of-Civil-Proced…
21-205 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor did not submit the full administrative record to the court as require…
21-5289 Gregory Moore, Individually, and on Behalf of J. M., et al. v. County of Orange, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied IFP child-seizure civil-rights due-process federal-funds fourth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman standing warrant-requirement Whether Rooker-Feldman should be uniformly applied across federal districts
21-5150 John B. Freitas v. Bank of America Ninth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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
21-5152 Lewis R. Fox v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-question criminal-defense criminal-procedure expert-witness expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief res-judicata Whether a trial counsel is to be considered incompetent when s/he fails to consult with their client (the criminal defendant) about their financial ad…
21-44 Kevin Lee Boutte v. Yvonne Renea Boutte Louisiana 2021-07-13 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption federal-statute military-benefits military-powers res-judicata supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-rights Does Congress' enumerated Military Powers exercised pursuant to the Supremacy Clause bar a state court from raising res-judicata to a post-judgment ch…
21-47 Khai Quang Bui v. Abdul Alshaer Virginia 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived causes-of-action civil-procedure claim-preclusion issue-preclusion judicial-review legal-procedure question-not-identified res-judicata standing supreme-court Whether separate and distinct causes of action overrule res-judicata
21-24 Curt Daniels, et al. v. John Holtz, et al. Iowa 2021-07-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sale property-rights res-judicata What are the parameters of constitutionally acceptable dismissal and dismissal that rises to unconstitutional violation of due-process?
20-1724 David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. New York 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata Whether the lower courts should have granted the petitioner's cross-motion to compel arbitration of arbitrability and denied or stayed the respondents…
20-8263 Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Republic of Peru, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-09 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal court-appointed-counsel due-process res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations Whether the court erroneously denied court-appointed counsel, failed to consider the merits of the complaint, and incorrectly dismissed the case on pr…
20-8232 Barbara A. Stuart Robinson v. Greater Lakes Recovery Center Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-ruling procedural-due-process res-judicata standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in applying claim preclusion
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure Does the intentional use of the *67 feature create a justifiable expectation of privacy?
20-1538 Angela W. DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied bad-faith burden-of-proof civil-procedure independent-action judicial-fraud res-judicata rule-60 rule-60(b) rule-60(d) Whether a Rule 60(d) Independent Action to Attack a Final Judgment is a continuation or re-litigation of the prior case, barred by the doctrine of res…
20-1509 Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee Georgia 2021-04-28 Dismissed article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Const…
20-1339 Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board Federal Circuit 2021-03-24 Dismissed civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv…
20-7484 Joseph F. Olivares v. Mark Long, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP 42-USC-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review limitations medical-evidence res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations Did the court err in not allowing petitioner to develop the record for appeal, by allowing at least one hearing?
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell?
20-1146 Pamela Smith v. PacerMonitor, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act conspiracy deprivation-of-rights due-process emotional-distress res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the process petitioner received in this case is sufficient to satisfy the substantive and procedural due process standard
20-7161 Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Can a plea deal consisting of two (2) misdemeanor domestic violence charges be withdrew post sentence, when; (1) no direct appeal was taken; (2) said …
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act Where a federal employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies for all protected activities
20-778 Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing Were any such documentation entries in the court's proceedings whether the U.S. District Court or the Appellant Sixth Circuit Court had jurisdiction p…
20-765 M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation
20-726 In Re Stephanie Michael 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of competent …
20-703 William Kinney Jr., et al. v. Urban Housing Development, LLC Oregon 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure jurisdiction mortgage-securitization property-rights res-judicata standing Whether the Multnomah County Trial Court is without jurisdiction to Adjudicate the Defected Inferior FED action because of the Original jurisdiction o…
20-562 John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad…
20-467 Arthur Talbot, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion covid-19-pandemic foreclosure-fraud homeowner-rights judicial-procedure mortgage-electronic-registration-system mortgage-relief res-judicata standing Whether the Sixth Circuit has negated the relief it otherwise affords in Conlin to homeowners whose homes have been foreclosed through fraudulent mean…
20-433 Mark Anthony Jenkins v. Timothy O'Rourke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody-dispute civil-rights conspiracy de-novo-review due-process judicial-conspiracy res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-lawsuit subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing this 42 U.S.C. 1983 lawsuit under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
20-388 Lingfei Sun v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel continuing-violation-doctrine district-court due-process res-judicata standing Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the Petitioner's current U.S. district court suit
20-5724 Justin Lamar Johnson v. Joseph Gibson, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-conspiracy civil-rights court-appointed-attorneys fraud immunity judicial-immunity res-judicata state-action state-actors Are court-appointed attorneys state actors for 42 USC 1983 claims?
20-5680 Larry R. Steele v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violations due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing state-court-review Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims as barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel
20-293 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General New Mexico 2020-09-08 Denied civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court Whether a state government is bound by a final federal judgment in a qui tam action when it declines to intervene
20-5602 Robyn Jill Farrington v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court equitable-powers fraud mortgage-foreclosure proof-of-claim res-judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine Whether claims of fraud in a mortgage foreclosure action are barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and res judicata
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
20-147 Timothy B. Brown v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied adversary-process civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate magistrate-referral pro-se-litigant res-judicata sua-sponte Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. California empower a District Judge to raise the issue of res judicata sua sponte?
20-69 William O. Fuller, as Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Otis Fuller v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction court-of-appeals federal-procedure hypothetical-jurisdiction res-judicata standing steel-company subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a Court of Appeals panel can, consistent with Steel Company v. Citizens for A Better Environment, avoid a res judicata bar by determining that…
20-5098 Mikhail Tsukerman v. Western Community Unit School District No. 12 Seventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-uniformity res-judicata standing uniformity-of-opinion Whether courts should protect plaintiffs from paying defendants' expenses from previously dismissed actions
20-16 Edward Wayne Binns v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-complaint equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances res-judicata standing title-vii Whether an EEOC complaint filing would be timely for a Title 7 action under Holland-v-Florida equitable tolling principles
19-1470 Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Rehearing Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal plai…
19-8851 Peter Szanto v. Alyce Ann Jurgens Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-157 bankruptcy-procedure district-court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigation res-judicata Whether the lower courts erred in disregarding the mandatory requirements of 28 USC § 157(c) and in exhibiting irrational bias against the pro se peti…
19-8629 Carpeah R. Nyenekor, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-falsification double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process false-affidavit prosecutorial-misconduct res-judicata search-warrant Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the federal government from re-indicting a defendant after a state court has dismissed the charges based …
19-1346 Viktoria Benkovitch v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-confirmation bankruptcy-confirmation-order bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-plan chapter-11 due-process final-judgment final-order res-judicata secured-creditor Which is worse, that a debtor obtains a real property that she already owns, free of any liens, because a secured creditor failed to timely comply wit…
19-8426 Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o…
19-8405 Irvin Reyes v. Kaiser Permanente Ninth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process inadequate-representation judgment-on-merits pro-se pro-se-litigation res-judicata rule-12b6 standing Whether a dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) is presumed to be with prejudice
19-1181 Estate of Thomas Steinbeck, et al. v. Waverly Scott Kaffaga, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 17-usc-304 collateral-estoppel copyright-act copyright-law copyright-termination licensing-rights res-judicata statutory-interpretation vesting Whether collateral estoppel bars an affirmative defense based on 17 U.S.C. § 304(c)(5) in a second litigation, when the first litigation involving dif…
19-1128 Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances is violated by the claim preclusion Res Judicata, Bar Order
19-7749 Andrey L. Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-review res-judicata strickland-v-washington Does the State affirmative defense of Res Judicata defeats Amendment Fifth; Sixth; Eighth, and Fourteenth of the United States Constitution?
19-7576 James Anthony Davis v. Angleton Independent School District, et al. Texas 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process government-interference necessary-parties property-rights res-judicata taking-clause takings tax-assessment Whether the Petitioner could be liable for the 2012 taxes as he was not the property owner on January 01, 2012
19-918 Anthony J. Lucero v. James R. Koncilja, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice motion-for-default-judgment res-judicata state-action Did Respondents violate Petitioner's 14th-amendment-due-process rights
19-7339 Victor O. Jones, Jr. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violations due-process foreclosure fraud pro-se-litigation res-judicata rooker-feldman standing takings Whether a litigant who has been repeatedly violated can come to Federal Court for protection and relief when the state courts no longer adhere to stat…
19-865 Marian S. A. Tipp v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Alabama 2020-01-10 Denied Response Waived door-closing-statutes due-process equal-protection foreign-corporation foreign-corporations jurisdiction legal-standing property-rights res-judicata Whether a decision with no opinion or legal authority depriving a person of property violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-6991 Lei Ke v. Drexel University Pennsylvania 2019-12-18 Dismissed IFP contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to recognize the d…
19-769 Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res-judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-744 Leslie T. Jackson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-dismissal artis-v-district-of-columbia civil-procedure due-process final-adjudication jurisdiction precedent-binding precedent-binding-effect-of res-judicata statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Issues being raised
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Whether the essential principles of res judicata were departed from by the lower courts in allowing the prosecution to relitigate issues that were pre…
19-6855 Jose Luis Morales v. G. D. Lewis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-discretion res-judicata supreme-court supreme-court-directives Is it an abuse of discretion when the federal courts do not follow directives from the United States Supreme Court on how to apply res-judicata?
19-6810 Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment Whether there is pretense that the statutes and laws of the state under which Mr. Gregley is convicted of, are repugnant to the Constitution and laws …
19-6574 Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. California 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based on…
19-6475 Burton Maurice Kahn v. Robert Ripley Fifth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merits res-judicata standing Whether res judicata or collateral estoppel should apply when the initial trial did not have a full and fair opportunity to litigate the merits
19-523 Victor Bernard Williams v. Baptist Health, dba Baptist Health Medical Center, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived 2014 revocation of a medical license by the Arkan adverse-negative-reports adverse-reports civil-action civil-rights federal-cause-of-action federal-claims medical-license medical-license-revocation qualified-immunity res-judicata state-board Whether the April 8, 2014 revocation of Plaintiffs Arkansas medical license gave rise to a new federal cause of action not barred by res judicata
19-6325 Dewayne Barnes v. Sentry Management, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest discovery dismissal-order due-process in-forma-pauperis res-judicata speedy-trial standing trial-court Can defendants the St. Regis Apartments claim res-judicata
19-480 John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law?
19-6219 C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund Florida 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jim-crow judicial-fairness public-accommodation race-discrimination racial-discrimination res-judicata segregation standing Is it legally sound to hold de facto segregated evidentiary hearings?
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing Whether the Court's conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886) in conjunction with Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environmental Tectoni…
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations Whether the ex post facto clause is violated when a newly modified state parole regulation is applied
19-355 Kohlberg Ventures, LLC v. Peter Wojciechowski Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-splitting court-authorization dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-authorization litigation-scope non-parties res-judicata settlement-agreement single-employer single-enterprise Under federal rules of res judicata, when a lawsuit is dismissed with prejudice by agreement, should a term of the agreement that purports to allow th…
19-325 Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim by applying preclusive effect to the ver…
19-5561 Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,…
19-5373 Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Carlos Castellon Cueva, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-civil-procedure judicial-misconduct personal-injuries pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations terrorism torture Whether the district court and appeals court erred in denying court-appointed counsel and dismissing the case despite the merits and evidence of terro…
19-125 Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event Whether the Eleventh Circuit can ignore Exxon Mobil and apply its own discarded standard
19-36 Lourdes Fontanillas Lopez v. Morell Bauza Cartagena & Dapena, LLC, et al. Puerto Rico 2019-07-03 Denied civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process equal-protection federal-common-law res-judicata supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals erred in holding that federal claim preclusion principles bar subsequent state court claims previously dismis…
18-9396 Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that Mr. Long was not entitled to a stay because of inexcusable delay in bringing his l…
18-1372 City of Newark, New Jersey v. Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. Third Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-violation false-arrest malicious-prosecution monell monell-claim probable-cause res-judicata Whether dismissal of a Monell claim is proper where all underlying claims against officers have been dismissed
18-1340 Bonnie R. Fowler v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel dismissal due-process federal-question res-judicata standing state-actor supervisory-power Does the doctrines of res-judicata and collateral estoppel fail when the Petitioner has repeatedly disputed and proven that not any one of the necessa…
18-8903 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines should bar an independent or original action in federal court when the defendants employed frau…
18-8878 Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give rise to a new claim?
18-1290 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Arapahoe County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack colorado-law colorado-rule-120 due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction non-judicial-proceeding non-judicial-proceedings preclusion res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-120 standing Whether a party who was not, and has never been named as an underlying party to any court proceedings for/against petitioner can invoke Rooker-Feldman…
18-8789 Roy Easterwood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-11 Dismissed IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions res-judicata Will this Court require Oklahoma courts to treat similarly situated persons inmates alike?
18-8756 Jonathan S. Williams v. Dr. Kurk, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process federal-procedure judicial-error prima-facie-case res-judicata standing Did the U.S.D.C. commit legal error by granting defendant's motion to dismiss under res judicata without allowing the appellant an opportunity to cont…
18A1005 Jiying Wei v. University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure judicial-notice pro-se-pleading res-judicata seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a federal court to apply the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a manner that preserves a plaintiff's right to…
18-1238 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute Denial of due process in dismissal of case without considering evidence, denial of discovery, improper consolidation of cases, judicial bias and misco…
18-8523 Tynisha Latrice Reinerio, nka Akosua Tanisha Aaebo v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-7003 account-debtor collateral-estoppel diversity-jurisdiction eighth-circuit mortgage-law mortgage-loan negotiable-instrument note-negotiation res-judicata security-interest standing statutory-trust ucc ucc-3-103(a)(12) ucc-3-110(b) ucc-9-102(a)(3) ucc-9-312(e)-(g) uniform-commercial-code Was the issue of res judicata and collateral estoppel improperly decided by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals?
18-8492 Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule
18-1175 Colin Shillinglaw v. Baylor University, et al. Texas 2019-03-11 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption res-judicata state-court-procedure Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay liti…
18-1168 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking When the lower federal courts abandon the imperatives of the Fifth Amendment to provide just compensation and the Fourteenth Amendment to provide equa…
18-1155 James Michael Murphy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata Defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of first lawsuit due to withholding of key information about additional, later, widesprea…
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Question not identified
18-1115 Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura Whether petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1983 are barred by claim preclusion and res judicata despite lack of no…
18-1101 Classic Cab, Inc. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights dormant-commerce-clause emergency-rulemaking mootness preexisting-contracts regulatory-taking res-judicata statutory-requirement Is the use of illegal emergency rulemakings in the absence of any objectively cognizable emergency resulting in the complete elimination of an industr…
18-1086 Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated and resolved in any prior case betwee…
18-8005 Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied IFP appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a…
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review If the Arbitrator's decision was rendered unlawfully will this limit the scope of the preclusive effect of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel per th…
18-980 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio…
18-7508 Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act Whether a lender can use res-judicata to bar examination of an invalid foreclosure that was barred by federal-consumer-protection-law
18-897 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Marlene Nally, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Nally, Sr., Deceased Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle jury-findings litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-doctrine res-judicata standing tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-898 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-7137 Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio Ohio 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation May withholding exculpatory and impeaching evidence be disregarded and/or used to obtain or sustain a conviction?
18-788 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Gwendolyn E. Odom, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Juanita Thurston Florida 2018-12-20 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny jury-findings legal-procedure litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-principles res-judicata standing tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-775 Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction Whether the order is void due to administrative error and lack of jurisdiction
18-734 Daniel G. Szmania v. E-Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-dispute jurisdiction-challenge ninth-circuit-review procedural-error property-rights res-judicata standing trustee-sale Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT error in not enforcing the District Court's ruling that this was not a foreclosure case
18-739 Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn?
18-653 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Vickie McKeever, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore McKeever Florida 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-proceeding res-judicata standing Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w…
18-621 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy Florida 2018-11-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh…
18-577 David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata Does the above scenario represent a violation of Rule 455(a), an appearance of impropriety and/or conflict of interests?
18-549 Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC Federal Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten…
18-471 Jay Sandon Cooper v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis property-foreclosure property-rights res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations Is Cooper's appeal taken in good faith, arguable on its merits, and therefore, not frivolous?
18-6227 DeWayne L. Wester v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause cause-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions post-conviction post-conviction-petition res-judicata successive-petition Where a State Court fail to adjudicate an issue properly raised and argued in a post conviction petition and on appeal, can the absence of a res judic…
18-338 Leonardo Soccolich, et ux. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee Florida 2018-09-14 Denied administration-of-justice case-and-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process florida-courts mortgage-foreclosure res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Florida courts have strayed from their core responsibility of determining and applying law in the administration of justice
18-5922 Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court res-judicata violated-supreme-court-precedent administrative-law civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court manifest-injustice res-judicata void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other courts acted inconsistently with due process and Supreme Court precedent in affirming the peti…
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k…
18-5765 DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata Has the refusal to properly adjudicate this case by the Eleventh Circuit presented prejudice and bias against the petitioner pro se?
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado…
18-5621 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata Does fraud vitiate every judicial proceeding?
18-5572 John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-power jury-trial res-judicata state-court-record void-judgment Does a Federal Court of Appeals deny Due Process by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
24A1261 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied capital-punishment due-process ex-post-facto-clause res-judicata substantive-law successive-petition Whether a state court violates the Ex Post Facto Clause and Due Process Clause by applying procedural bars to preclude review of a capital defendant's…