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25-6201 Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney G…
24-7106 Feifei Gu v. Leticia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. New York 2025-05-01 Denied IFP attorney-general conspiracy criminal-prosecution judicial-misconduct legal-duty malfeasance Has Letitia James neglected her duty by refusing to intervene in a criminal prosecution and conspiring with the Kings County district attorney?
24-6234 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general dismissal false-claims-act jurisdiction qui-tam relator Does the District Court have jurisdiction to dismiss a False Claims Act action without a written explanation from the court and Attorney General, and …
24-701 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-12-31 Denied attorney-general executive-authority organic-act prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court of Guam violated the Guam Organic Act by ruling that the Governor can appoint Special Assistant Attorneys General and preven…
24A382 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete attorney-general government-corruption legal-representation organic-act separation-of-powers territorial-government Whether the Organic Act of Guam limits the Attorney General's discretion to withdraw legal representation from government agencies under potential con…
24-5090 Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff…
23-7290 Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation Whether the district court properly committed Appellant to the custody and care of the Attorney General pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246
23-777 Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court First Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger Whether the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in refusing to enter a default judgment against the respondents when the Maine Attorney Ge…
23-5147 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-20 Denied IFP attorney-general brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-to-disclose criminal-procedure critical-state's-witnesses due-process impeachment-evidence local-prosecutor's-office material-impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the continuing duty to disclose material impeachment evidence regarding critical state's witnesses pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963…
23-23 Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity public-health-service removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tort-immunity Whether 42 U.S.C. § 233(c)(2) permits a deemed Public Health Service employee to remove a civil action or proceeding against him to federal district c…
22-7850 In Re James C. Winding 2023-06-22 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the South…
22-6548 United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation Whether a pro se is allowed to initially file a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint in a district court without a lawyer?
21-1389 Jeremy Bates v. Donald J. Trump, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-28 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing attorney-general citizen-taxpayer-suit civil-rights derivative-standing due-process executive-power presidential-misconduct separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States
21-833 David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus
21-6108 Paradise L. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-rights witness-exclusion Whether the termination of mother's parental rights was supported by clear and convincing evidence as required by the due process clause
21-93 Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such …
21-5168 Darrell Demetrius Cross v. Kecia Davidson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure attorney-general civil-procedure civil-rights detainer-warrant due-process federal-district-court inmate-rights prisoner-rights standing voluntary-protective-custody Whether a U.S. federal district court judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals can allow a voluntary protective custody inmate to be placed on cond…
20-7730 Fendi Brooks v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause attorney-general constitutional-law constitutional-violation federal-vacancies-reform-act prejudice standing statutory-interpretation structural-violation When colorably alleging a structural, constitutional violation, specifically, that an individual illegally exercised the powers of the office of the A…
20-7324 Malcolm Elbray Traywicks, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general controlled-substances-act delegation-of-power due-process prosecutorial-discretion scheduling-authority separation-of-powers Does the Congressional delegation of power to the Attorney General permitting scheduling of substances under the Controlled Substances Act violate due…
20-6278 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Gloriann Moroney Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion application-of-law attorney-general civil-procedure claim court-discretion facts false-statements fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure official-document parole-board representation standing supreme-court tort tort-claim Whether making false statements in an official doc Whether the defendant is allowed to represent the Whether the respondent was required to apply the l Whether the lower court abused its discretion by not allowing the tort claim to go forward?
20-601 Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-05 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat…
20-5966 Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping Whether law enforcement and the district attorney failed to attach the United States Attorney General's special designated authorization order and aut…
19-8636 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it …
19-7806 Cherunda Lynn Fox v. United States Postal Service, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process electronic-case-filing equal-protection federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-process Whether the defendants were served on 3-19-18 as verified by the court record, the Judge and receipt - personally verified by the Attorney General, de…
19-61 Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court's usurpation of the Attorney General's power to appoint a private attorney to represent the interests of the United States—ov…
18A1224 Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete associational-rights attorney-general charitable-organizations compelled-disclosure donor-privacy first-amendment Whether compelled disclosure of charitable donor information violates First Amendment associational rights
18-6852 Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Relisted (7)IFP 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) violates the constitutional no…
18-635 Brian M. Burmaster v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general Are US Federal Court Judges and former U.S. Attorney General immune from the International Criminal Court?
18-6044 Richard James Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general…
18-157 James H. Brady v. Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived air-rights attorney-general civil-rights contract contract-enforcement contract-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing takings Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law give Petitioner standing for the protection of his contract by the Attorney …