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25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
24-432 William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-law bill-of-rights constitutional-rights judicial-review separation-of-powers student-loans Whether the Supreme Court can constitutionally preserve separation of powers and individual rights in student loan bankruptcy matters
24-5350 Jay Sandon Cooper v. Texas Texas 2024-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights judicial-duty Whether the judicial duty to identify and protect constitutional rights from Obergefell v. Hodges applies to state criminal cases and whether a convic…
23-1372 Dave Wayne Erlanson, Sr. v. Environmental Protection Agency Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived 9th-amendment bill-of-rights cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process environmental-protection-agency federal-mining-claim ninth-amendment section-1983 Can 42 U.S.C. § 1983 be considered a tort-claim-action
23-7756 Samuel T. Whatley v. Elmore County Probate Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitution constitutional-property-rights declaration-of-independence due-process founding-fathers-intent governmental-limitations individual-property-ownership jury-trial-rights property-rights takings Does the Founding Father's documentation of individual rights, such as the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, provide prot…
23-6767 Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect rights against state intrusion?
22-1115 Chris Noel Tagunicar v. California California 2023-05-15 Denied bill-of-rights courtroom-access covid-19 covid-19-restrictions criminal-defendant first-amendment media public-trial sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment public trial right mean that members of the public have a right to be physically present in the courtroom during the trial, i…
22-7163 In Re Marcus Marko Bachmayer 2023-03-30 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process familial-rights family-law federal-common-law habeas-corpus standing state-applicability whether-a-child's-familial-relationships-are-protected
22-940 Sheldon Schwartz v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-03-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law bill-of-rights due-process liberty-right medical-license medical-licensing professional-practice professional-regulation rational-basis state-board Is the taking of a physician's medical license a violation of the Bill of Rights to our Nation's scheme of ordered liberty?
22-6552 Sergio Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is consistent with this Court's precedents on the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard when suspicion is ba…
22-6469 In Re Kenneth Crawford, Jr. 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitution constitutional-limits due-process enumerated-powers federal-government jurisdictional-elements legislative-power legislative-powers territorial-jurisdiction Does the Constitution limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature?
22-6201 In Re Arthur James Lomax 2022-12-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws Whether the Colorado Constitution's requirement that all laws be enacted by the General Assembly is satisfied by the omission of the enacting clause f…
22-5101 Sonya Owens v. Reliance Partners, LLC District of Columbia 2022-07-13 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process federalism personal-rights property-rights separation-of-powers stay-at-home-orders supremacy-clause Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States' Legislatures?
21-7955 Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner?
21-7127 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied IFP appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order
21-153 Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech Whether the United States Supreme Court must defend the Bill of Rights of our Great United States Constitution?
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
21-5167 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights under the Bill of Rights departed from accepted judicial standards
20-1436 Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-04-14 Denied amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about information that they read in document sent by the Petitioner?
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-573 James M. Kerven v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing bill-of-rights brandeis-arithmetic civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process particularized-injury petition-for-redress petition-rights prudential-discretion standing Do you think Justice Louis Brandeis using his Brandeis-Arithmetic could get standing before the court without a particularized-injury?
20-5831 Rafael Cezar Danam v. Arizona Board of Education Arizona 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing bill-of-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech redress-of-grievances stare-decisis Is the inferior, subordinate courts' rulings and orders superior to the Supreme Court of the United States?
20-5626 Monte Whitehead v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-09-09 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-vs-federal-law Where New Mexico's anti-waiver statute violates double jeopardy
20-5506 Rodolfo Lopez, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indiana-criminal-rule-4 indiana-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the trial court violate Mr. Lopez's right to a speedy trial under U.S. Constitution Sixth Amendment Bill of Rights recognized by the State of Indi…
19-1450 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment bill-of-rights case-law civil-rights congressional-authorization constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law-violations federal-rules-of-law founding-fathers state-sovereign-immunity When the lower Courts overlooked the Framers' written intent of the 11th Amendment, by applying this oversight to Rules of law that discredit Bill of …
19-8785 Brandon Williams v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics qualified-immunity standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism
19-8595 Brandon Williams v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process federalism judicial-review negligence standing state-statute takings Does state statutes supersede the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights?
19-1321 In Re Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. 2020-05-29 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process false-claims incarcerated-prisoner incarceration ninth-amendment standing tucker-act Does the respondent's creation of a court technicality that reiterated a false claim, incarcerated the prisoner, and originated from a U.S. Court of F…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with unf…
19-1047 Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2020-02-24 Denied and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed Whether the court erred in failing to declare the grant deed void as a result of the void court opinions, which is necessary for the proper dispositio…
19-304 Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. Virgin Islands 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to …
18-9021 Valerie Arroyo v. Daniel J. Zamora, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-conduct deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-court federal-questions judicial-interference sovereign-immunity state-agencies state-court Did the lower tribunal's actions deprive the plaintiff's civil rights and due process?
18-1112 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Bethlehem Area School District Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived article-v bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech government-action religion religious-discrimination takings taxation taxation-dispute Was Kanofsky denied Due Process, as required in Article V of the Bill of Rights?
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused its discretion in its Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secure…
18-379 Ellis Keyes v. Edison G. Banks, II Kentucky 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bill-of-rights bona-fides civil-rights due-process elections free-speech good-faith literacy-test voting-rights Whether a state's right-to-work law can subject a candidate to a mandatory literacy test as a condition of ballot access, abridging voting rights