circuit-court-procedure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7124 Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing Whether the Circuit Court erred in their rulings regarding Rodger's legal filings, procedural challenges, and motion to proceed in forma pauperis
24A772 Samuel Pfeiffer v. Mid-Town Development Limited Partnership, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appellate-mandate circuit-court-procedure due-process frivolous-argument judicial-sanctions right-to-be-heard Whether a federal appellate court can issue a mandate and sanctions based on an alleged frivolous argument that the party claims was never made, poten…
23-7340 Kelton Vondre Yates v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court-jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations Whether Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations
23-7165 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-rig…
23-534 Peter Otoh v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-rule real-party-in-interest removal removal-jurisdiction securitized-trust traditional-trust trustee trustee-citizenship Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent
23-5246 Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Can the Circuit Courts of Appeals treat indigent pro se litigants differently than they treat litigants who can afford attorneys, by just dismissing t…
23-57 Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter to withhold all indication of its reasons for ruling
22-7519 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from
22-82 Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar…
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover retaliation by employers against employees?
21-5067 Lonnie Ray Wiseman v. Patti Wachtendorf, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure complex-legal-issues counsel-appointment custody-transfer federal-custody habeas-corpus legal-representation primary-jurisdiction writ-of-custody writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in refusing to order the government to produce a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum
20-7703 Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States
20-1227 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation Whether the 9th Circuit Court had full jurisdiction of the appeal, having no notice of appeal filed by petitioner in the District Court until 1 year a…
20-1047 Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated
20-5446 Jin H. Zheng v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order
19-8266 James Heard v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-15 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying Somes Heard's pre-trial motion to proceed pro se
19-6197 Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in-Martinez v. United States, that the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions, inconsistant with R…
19-5687 In Re Luis E. Morales 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process due-process-rights mandamus obstruction-of-justice pro-se-prisoner procedural-rights rebuttable-presumption rebuttal second-successive-motion successive-habeas-petitions Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals created a rebuttable presumption in its order denying the petitioner's request to file a second/successive §…
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
19-5381 Charles Quatrine, Jr. v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rules circuit-court circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-law federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-mandate final-opinion judicial-impediments mandate mandate-review procedural-due-process rule-60(b) rule-60b Did the Circuit Court issue a final mandate that was a conflict of law, established by its own court?
18A1245 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-31 Presumed Complete circuit-court-procedure crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act precedential-value second-successive-motion Whether a published three-judge panel order issued in a second or successive § 2255 motion application constitutes binding precedent for direct appeal…
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-8977 Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers
18-7578 Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings
18-872 Dariusz Dolacinski, et ux. v. Bank of America Florida 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consent-fraud due-process final-judgment foreclosure foreclosure-sale fraud jurisdiction-challenge service service-defect service-of-process standing If the Consent to final judgement in writing or otherwise never existed and was falsely and/or fraudulently presented to the Court by the Respondent's…
18-6795 Darrell Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case
18-5623 Garland E. Williams v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals appellate-rules circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process harmless-error motion-practice motion-rules notice notice-service panel-assignment standing Whether inadvertent failure Circuit Court Panel Assignment and failure notice service of all alleged court contending deficiencies notices conflict di…