| 25-5666 |
William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdictional-discovery llc-status removal |
Whether a federal court may remand a case for lack of diversity jurisdiction based on speculation about an LLC's citizenship without allowing jurisdic… |
| 25-5040 |
Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance |
Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) deny a naturalization application based on a modified oath of allegiance due to con… |
| 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? |
| 23-5596 |
Edward James Steiner v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct standing witness-tampering |
Was there prosecutorial misconduct? |
| 22-7330 |
Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing |
Whether petitioner's conviction for 'illegal reentry' was supported by sufficient evidence |
| 22-6275 |
Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the statutory presumption of consent when participating in a government program violates the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and… |
| 22-5651 |
In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El |
|
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner, a naturalized U.S. citizen of African descent, was unlawfully detained and deprived of his constitutional rights |
| 22-199 |
Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the district court required to determine subject-matter jurisdiction before reaching the merits? |
| 21-6907 |
Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying equitable tolling to allow an untimely petition for permission to appeal a class decertification order |
| 21-755 |
Carter Page, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 carden-v-arkoma citizenship complete-diversity diversity diversity-jurisdiction domicile newman-green partnership partnership-defendant stateless-citizen |
Whether a U.S. Citizen domiciled abroad who is a member of a partnership defendant destroys the complete diversity required by 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), wh… |
| 21-489 |
Ahmed Ali Muthana v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
citizenship citizenship-status diplomatic-immunity due-process legal-inconsistency passport passport-revocation revocation state-department state-department-certification |
Is the U.S. State Department's certification of an individual's diplomatic status reasonably considered conclusive and unreviewable evidence, even whe… |
| 21-5007 |
Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection racial-segregation reconstruction slavery state-sovereignty |
What authority of law authorized the States to abolish slave labor (held by Blacks/Colored) to our Persons of African descent, after 1865? |
| 20-1746 |
Temor S. Sharifi v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment citizenship due-process fifth-amendment foreign-law just-compensation property-rights takings |
Whether a United States citizen can be denied his Fifth Amendment rights to just compensation for property taken by the United States based upon forei… |
| 20-979 |
Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a nondiscretionary determination that a noncitizen is ineli… |
| 20-5847 |
John James Hartz v. Washington Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship civil-rights due-process immigration naturalization standing |
Whether the constitutional and statutory laws governing naturalization and citizenship apply to the petitioner |
| 20-5043 |
Jiping Rizk v. Defense Finance and Accounting Service |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination language security-clearance workplace-termination |
Whether the termination of the plaintiff's employment was unlawful due to language barriers and lack of due process |
| 19-7673 |
Tzedkiyah El Bey, fka James Richard Warren v. Willie Weaver, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights common-law-rights constitutional-rights due-process indigenous-status legislative-interference right-to-travel standing state-power travel |
Does the de jure Al Maurikan/American National/Citizen have the right to travel on public highways? |
| 19-7351 |
In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey |
|
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-14th-15th-amendments 14th-amendment-property 8th-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment amendment-interpretation black-negro-colored-citizenship citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-questions-28-usc-1331-1332 jurisdiction moorish-american-national property racial-identity-rights standing |
Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have jurisdiction over a Mo… |
| 19-6088 |
Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6010 |
John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
citizenship civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process foreign-nationals jurisdiction residency standing state-treaties subject-of-foreign-nation |
Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over cases involving projected persons, foreign nationals, subjects of a foreign nation, state treaties, an… |
| 19-219 |
Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee |
When a mortgage investment trust removes a case from federal court based on diversity, is its citizenship determined by the citizenship of each of its… |
| 19-5204 |
Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence |
Was the evidence allowed at my trial by the State court proper? |
| 18-9749 |
Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel |
Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabitant … |
| 18-9633 |
Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father, violates the equal protectio… |
| 18-1420 |
Timothy Burns v. Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing |
Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States? |
| 18-8628 |
Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of his claim of nationality and citizenship under the 14th Amendment, resul… |
| 18-6345 |
Felix J. Bruette, Jr. v. Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-act congressional-authority due-process indian-reorganization-act land-rights political-doctrine property-rights reservation-lands tribal-affiliation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty |
What legal Historical standing does the Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Community claim to convey the lands and rights of a historical Tribe in the State of… |
| 18-178 |
SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity |
Whether the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporated business trust determines federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)… |
| 18-168 |
Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re… |