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25-6338 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending IFP appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-standing Did the lower court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a …
25-6069 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-11-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense 1. Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from defending himself i…
25-5572 Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-malfeasance appeal-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT OT DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE CLERK OF COURT FOR THE FOUTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEA…
24-6682 Raequan Rucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court
23A861 Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-25 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing Whether the district court's sentencing calculation or the Fourth Circuit's dismissal of an appeal warrants extraordinary review due to limitations on…
23A857 Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-21 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o…
23A695 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension want-of-prosecution Whether a pro se litigant's appeal can be dismissed for want of prosecution when the notice of dismissal was not received until 54 days after the dism…
23A694 Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen Tenth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit Whether a pro se litigant's failure to prosecute an appeal constitutes grounds for dismissal under Tenth Circuit procedural rules
23A499 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner mootness section-2255 supervised-release Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability and hold an appeal in abeyance after fully serving his sentence for a supervised …
23A484 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court Whether the North Carolina state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by dismissing her appeal without providing a substantive explanat…
23-5197 Marshall Ray Partain v. Jason Hallmark, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal civil-procedure court-of-appeals deadlines due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure filing-deadline judicial-process legal-timeliness mental-illness procedural-grounds standing Should a federal district court allow an appeal to proceed if the opposing party fails to object to an untimely filed appeal?
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous
22-5764 Lynn Richard Norton v. David Barker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs criminal-procedure due-process indigent-litigant malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction Whether the law suit has been wrongly dismissed under Tennessee Code Section 18-1106 State of Limitation, when filed two years later of the incident, …
22-133 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Kronos Incorporated Federal Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived appeal-dismissal civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-procedure court-docketing due-process fee-waiver improperly-decided-case judicial-conflict-of-interest precedent-review standing trustees-of-dartmouth-college-v-woodward Whether dismissing an appeal when a fee waiver Motion is pending is constitutional
19-7814 Alicia Herriott v. Paul Herriott California 2020-03-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights common-law-protection due-process privileges-and-immunities recall-remittitur standing statutory-law vexatious-litigant Whether the dismissal of the appeal violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-7733 Gustavo Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co…
18-8746 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement California 2019-04-09 Denied IFP abandonment-of-appeal appeal appeal-dismissal attorney-signature civil-procedure civil-procedure-defects defendant-identification due-process electronic-service motion-to-dismiss party-identification procedural-defect service-of-process standing Shall the Court of Appeal grant Defendants' Motion to Dismiss an Appeal if Defendants improperly served the Plaintiff with this Motion
18-800 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-12-21 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appeal-dismissal california-rules-of-court conflict-of-interest court-procedure dismissal due-process fraud insufficient-records judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct notice procedural-deception Does due process require reversal of the dismissal of appeal based on the fact that the California 6th District Court of Appeal fraudulently dismissed…
18-6595 John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c…
18-6003 David Kavandi v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. California 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal california-supreme-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process failure-to-file hospitalization illness-and-hospitalization procedural-fairness statutory-right-to-appeal Did the California Supreme Court violate the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution or the statutory right to appeal when it dismissed the petiti…
18-5419 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli Second Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal?
18-105 Modesta R. Sabeniano v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review perjury Whether petitioner Sabeniano was denied her constitutional right to due process
18-5119 Ambrose King v. Mary King Maryland 2018-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur Did the lower court violate substantive and procedural due process in not vacating the dismissal of the appeal?