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25A583 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ…
25-5715 In Re Daniel E. Hall 2025-09-24 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act judicial-conduct judicial-review magistrate-appointment mandamus-relief misconduct-complaints 1. Whether the Judicial Council of the First Circuit may disregard mandatory provisions of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act and the Rules for …
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup…
24-1296 McKenzie County, North Dakota v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act federal-land judicial-preclusion mineral-royalty property-rights quiet-title-act Whether the finality and preclusive effect of prior judgments involving the United States' title to property can be enforced through the All Writs Act…
24-6952 David J. Rudometkin v. United States Armed Forces 2025-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-defense-counsel court-of-appeals-for-armed-forces jurisdiction military-justice sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) has jurisdiction to deny appellate defense counsel assigned by U.S. Army Judge Advocate Gener…
24-5605 In Re Shannon Clark 2024-09-20 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-interpretation equitable-remedy federal-court-procedure judicial-power mandamus Whether the All Writs Act empowers the Supreme Court to issue a mandamus order compelling a federal court clerk to fulfill his duty
24-5541 In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act clerk-of-court judicial-review mandamus non-discretionary-act supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court has authority to issue a Writ of Mandamus under the All Writs Act to compel its own Clerk to perform a non-discretionary act
23-1348 In Re Charles Simon 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation Whether the Three Judge Panel's order denied and rubber-stamped the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ignor…
23-6693 In Re John Waldon 2024-02-07 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-violation discretionary-denial due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review remedy standing Does the court have jurisdiction to review a habeas corpus petition under the All Writs Act
23-6395 In Re Daniel Lee Beckley 2023-12-28 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to abide by the Supreme Court's holding in Houston v. Lack and accept Petitione…
23-399 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2023-10-17 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act article-iii circuit-disqualification civil-rights civil-rights-claims constitutional-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality mandamus mandamus-relief standing Whether a U.S. circuit court may concede its disqualification to adjudicate a matter and then refuse to transfer the action to another qualified circu…
22-7543 Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes 'valid reasons…
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4) all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Question not identified
22-6956 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC …
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-6342 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-relief jurisdiction legal-standard mandamus parallel-proceedings prohibition standing Whether the petitioner's requested relief of a writ of mandamus or prohibition was properly denied
22-485 Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v…
21-1595 Terrance Carvell Guinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit all-writs-act civil-procedure constitutional-conflict judicial-proceedings supervisory-power supreme-court-review writ-of-audita-querela writ-of-relief-from-judgment Whether the US Appeals Court for the 5th Circuit affirmed decision has departed from the usual judicial proceedings in denying Mr. Guinn's writs
21-8025 Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0) permit a defendant to file a motion to vacate a restitution he asserts is illegal?
21-511 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III Sixth Circuit 2021-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (3) all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation Whether federal courts may use the All Writs Act to evade the limitations on state prisoner transportation in 28 U.S.C. §2241(c)
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la…
20-1301 Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief Whether the federal courts have the proper standard for granting coram nobis relief
20-1228 Chris Ann Jaye v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 all-writs-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-immunity legal-remedies void-orders What legal authority did this Court have to impair the rights of the governed?
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the Kansas District Court's criminal conviction and sentence of the petitioner
20-623 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Writ of Certiorari under the All Writs Act against the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or against the …
20-5767 William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-22 Denied IFP all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan…
20-304 World Programming Limited v. SAS Institute, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied all-writs-act civil-procedure enforcement enforcement-injunction federal-money-judgment federal-money-judgments foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgments judicial-remedy novel-remedies rule-69 Whether the All Writs Act or Rule 69 permits federal courts to fashion novel remedies to enforce federal money judgments
20-280 George Georgiou v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1651 all-writs-act criminal-financial-penalty criminal-sentencing final-conviction post-conviction-remedy retroactive-decision unauthorized-penalty unauthorized-sentence Does the All Writs Act afford a post-conviction remedy for the correction of an unauthorized criminal financial penalty?
20-128 Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing a cause of action for a party seeking to avoid arbitration and in concluding that courts have remedial…
19-1404 Michael Lieberman v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation What relief is available to a criminal defendant under the All Writs Act?
19-8225 In Re Faramarz Mehdipour 2020-04-08 Denied IFP all-writs-act certiorari-timeline due-process equitable-powers exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief prison-lockdown pro-se pro-se-petition standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Court retains equitable powers to ensure faith in the Federal Courts of the United States, even when no other means of relief can be obtai…
19-7938 In Re Aretha Townsend 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-review government-officials judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge procedural-dismissal standing writ-of-certiorari Whether District Judge May erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint as frivolous
19-1064 Kealii Makekau, et al. v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1988 all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-attorneys-fees election-cancellation injunctions judicial-imprimatur merits prevailing-party statutory-interpretation Whether the Court's grant of an injunction constitutes a sufficient consideration of the merits to be the 'judicial imprimatur' necessary for prevaili…
19-7727 In Re Chakakhan R. Davis 2020-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction equitable-intervention fraud-upon-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford inherent-duty judicial-integrity mandamus-writ usurpation-of-judicial-power Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violated its inherent duty to uphold the integrity of its jurisdiction by failing to vacate orders obtained…
19-7509 In Re Lawrence E. Mattison 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act) allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal proc…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration Whether Mandamus should issue to compel the Second Circuit Court to enter a Finding of Contempt
19-6398 Aretha Townsend v. National Labor Relations Board Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act article-iii case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights compliance contempt due-process frivolous judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-jurisdiction standing Whether District Judge violated Petitioner's due-process rights
19-6112 In Re Larry Pouncy 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's state law claims against the defendants for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary dut…
19-338 In Re Peter Appel, et al. 2019-09-13 Denied Response Waived 24th-amendment 26th-amendment all-writs-act all-writs-act-28-usc-1651a congressional-certification congressional-jurisdiction constitutional-review electoral-certification electoral-college justiciability presidential-election standing stare-decisis voter-disenfranchisement voter-injury Whether this Court has the 'other jurisdiction' (pursuant to Rule 20 of Part 4 of the Supreme Court rules) to grant the within petition for an appeal …
19-5873 In Re Richard Arjun Kaul 2019-09-09 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction district-court fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption mandamus summary-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court's arbitrary refusal to adjudicate the petitioner's 22 motions for summary judgment was a consequence of judicial corruption…
19-55 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act article-i article-i-court caaf executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts military-jurisdiction uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Can the Executive Branch divest an Article I military court of appeals of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ brought under the All Writs Act, 28 …
18-8730 In Re Jimmie Dixon 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the S…
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. 2019-03-14 Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Challenging dismissal of FDCPA and civil rights claims, seeking reinstatement and stay of state court proceedings
18-7978 Raymond Amerson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act audita-querela clarification criminal-procedure jurisdictional-review relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-morgan Whether an All Writs Act petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (Audita Querela) fills the gap where a defendant has no other appropriate vehicle to pu…
18-705 Wendell Griffen, Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pulaski County, Arkansas v. John Dan Kemp, Chief Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-1983 due-process jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-final-order standing writ-of-mandamus Whether the All Writs Act grants the circuit courts jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus to review on the merits a district court's non-final denia…
18-6018 In Re Gary Ivan Terry 2018-09-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion…
18-5665 Orestes Cabrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel immigration-consequences nolle-prosequi padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky retroactivity Whether petitioner's rights under the due process clause and the effective assistance of counsel were violated
18-27 Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they…
18-5100 Ras Rahim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme Whether the writ of coram nobis is the proper avenue for a federal inmate to challenge a portion of a consecutive sentencing scheme when the federal p…