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25-620 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-12-01 Pending class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment…
25-339 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing, both based o…
25-5440 Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-22 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment 1. Whether the "evolving standards of decency" test, which has been recognized for Eighth Amendment protections, should be used to analyze other const…
25A182 Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. Arizona 2025-08-13 Application constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits local governments from imposing excessive fines that violate constitutional protections and deny citizens' righ…
25-5330 Raymond Dugan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the "Joint-Venture " doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? 2. Should t…
24-1077 Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew Nevada 2025-04-15 Dismissed constitutional-protections due-process excessive-fines fair-notice gore-guideposts punitive-damages Whether Gore's constitutional protections against excessive punitive damages are inapplicable in cases where statutes purportedly authorize such award…
24-6696 James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp Second Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-protections due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion recusal Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying in forma pauperis status and dismissing an appeal without proper constitutional consideration
24-6548 Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement Whether law enforcement's involvement in a private vehicle repossession potentially violates constitutional protections under the Fourth and Fourteent…
24A404 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tomason Washington 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process family-court judicial-review pro-se Whether the Supreme Court will review a state court's alleged systemic due process violations in a family law case involving a pro se litigant with di…
24-5036 Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights combat-speech constitutional-protections deadly-force deadly-physical-force excessive-force law-enforcement penal-law retreat-duty self-defense use-of-force Question not identified
23-7633 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution?
23-7631 Julie C. Abril v. Colorado Colorado 2024-06-04 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act colorado constitutional-protections crime-victim-act crime-victims crime-victims-rights due-process justice-system mental-health mental-health-justice-system public-law-98-473 victim-accommodations Do crime victims have the right to full participation in the confidential mental health justice system proceedings within the State of Colorado, as th…
23A1077 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-protections federal-interests section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether a state's one-year statute of limitations for civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 impermissibly undermines the federal interests of com…
23A907 Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete carbon-copy-indictment constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sixth-amendment Whether a state violates a defendant's due process and double jeopardy rights by charging and convicting a defendant on multiple, identically worded c…
23-7017 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-protections disability disability-rights due-process fair-play judicial-discrimination legal-access self-represented systemic-bias Do state and federal jurisprudence systemically eliminate rights and access to legal remedies for self-represented disabled litigants with invisible d…
23-6834 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions?
23-6455 Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque…
23-496 Sharan Garlapati v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights coercion constitutional-protections cyberstalking due-process obstruction-of-justice privacy privacy-rights stalking-by-proxy Does the fundamental right to privacy still exist in our modern digital age, and do conspiracies against civil-rights, cyberstalking, stalking-by-prox…
23-316 Curtiss Davis, III v. Pedro Bonilla, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process intelligence-identities-protection-act punitive-damages restitution sanctuary-policies standing summary-judgment Whether both the US District and US Court of Appeals had inequitably applied US laws to deny restitution
23-5510 Anthony James Braxton v. Larry E. Harrah, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process property-rights search-and-seizure Do I have a fundamental right to receive notice of administrative forfeiture of seized property?
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error Whether principles of double jeopardy protect a defendant from successive prosecutions of inconsistent verdicts contrary to Powell's analysis
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal?
22-7602 James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho Idaho 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether officers can lie about probable cause to obtain a warrant and search a vehicle without consent
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
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure What is the timeline for Ordeg_ habesS Corpys, Dy deadina, Judge. Assigued to hobers on liberty Bie Enterest oF STARS PUY sone 'Ni Custady LN A\\nolab…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional?
22-5465 LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor…
22-5431 Davante Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment
22-5027 Justin D. Bennett v. Texas Texas 2022-07-05 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-protections constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia out-of-court-statements sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the due process standard recognized in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979) constitutionally protects an accused against out-of-court stat…
21-7775 In Re Crystal Maye 2022-05-04 Denied IFP agency-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process jurisdictional-challenge state-taxation tax-jurisdiction taxation trustee-residency trusts whether agency proceedually followed notice requirement to service trustee, on Trust, or beneficaries or , whether Court over reach authority to tax t…
21-7290 James L. Caudle v. Florida Florida 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence Whether the right to due process of law has been denied
21-7232 Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during …
21-7100 Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-10 Denied IFP cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred by denying the petitioner's motion to suppress cell-site information
21-1092 Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine Whether the distinction between state and private actors has blurred in retail crime investigations
21-1065 Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement Whether decades of solitary confinement can violate the Eighth Amendment
21-6667 Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel Whether state courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that he had voluntarily waived the …
21-901 Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W. Y. and S. Y. v. Lamont Marzolf Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived children's-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expansion law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-v-ohio Does the Fourth Amendment permit the search and seizure without probable cause of two compliant children, handcuffed and at gunpoint, even after the c…
21-6474 Kristie Leanne Sluder v. R. Patrick Bentancourt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adoption-and-safe-families-act civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-statute ku-klux-klan-act liberty-interest notice-and-hearing standing statutory-interpretation Did the Ded Macon County Department of Social Services violate federal law by failing to notify the foster parent of the permanence planning hearing?
21-6198 Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure Can the US Supreme Court find that when litigating a state by way of a federal habeas corpus, the matter of what race, color or creed a state prisoner…
21-5675 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing Whether the petitioners' rights were violated under the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution
21-5471 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Correct Care Recovery Solutions, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process liberty privileges-immunities pro-se-litigation property psychological-injury sexual-violent-predator state-sovereignty Does petitioner retain any rights, if so, what are they, and by what standard should they be judged?
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Question not identified
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-1221 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Erin Rubin Oklahoma 2021-03-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process exhibit-evidence gender judicial-procedure legitimate-purpose race race-profiling standing Is Exhibit G. Oklahoma Conversations a complete, consistent and coherent model of the facts of this case? Were those facts already cognizable to this …
20-620 Anthony Dwayne Williams, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process excise-tax federal-income-tax internal-revenue-code nontaxpayer nontaxpayer-status statutory-notice tax-assessment tax-liability taxpayer Should the United States Federal Income Tax be viewed differently when determining the assessment for the liability or penalty for a taxpayer versus a…
20-452 S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-08 Denied 14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights Termination of parental rights-constitutionality
20-438 Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-10-06 Denied affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety Whether a temporary, notwithstanding extended, absence by one spouse from a marital residence justifies a court ordered termination of a tenancy by th…
20-432 S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding…
20-153 Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied 10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D 42 U.S.C 654(3) contractors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th amendment protections unde…
19-8768 Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court Question not identified
19-8725 Jarvis Lee Glenn v. Michigan Michigan 2020-06-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections defendants-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review search-and-seizure standing state-appeal Did the State of Michigan Supreme Court deny Glenn the equal protection under the state and federal constitution when it rubber-stamped Dr. Glenn's ap…
19-1289 George Andrew Benavides v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process military-operations. torture treason civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process espionage-act espionage-act-1917 fourth-amendment military-operations military-privacy surveillance-rights torture treason Whether the United States Navy/USN had legal consent to spy on the petitioner while serving in the United States Marine Corps/USMC during the Gulf War…
19-8244 Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied IFP chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the state's use of summary procedures that did not comport with the requirements of due p…
19-7560 Michael Swain v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-action circuit-court-conflict constitutional-protections due-process federal-law government-agency habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief parole parole-board Did the judges of the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when they affirmed the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to pet…
19-7500 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment Does the omission of an exception to the finality rule in Michigan's sex offender registration act allow the prosecution to build its case against cri…
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-6304 Martin Nava Lara v. Texas Texas 2019-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two coun…
19-5038 Donald Willems v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speedy tr…
18A1297 Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule parole-revocation sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether supervised release revocation proceedings require full criminal procedural protections under the Sixth Amendment and the exclusionary rule
18-9055 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit…
18-8518 John Moses Burton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion?
18-8255 David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings Private for-profit prisons-are-allowed-to-deny-FOIA-and-State-Open-Records laws
18-7068 Nelson Figueroa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Apprendi must apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to comport with the constitutional protections of due process and jury tr…
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution?
18-6530 Edmund Zagorski v. Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP constitutional-protections constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-challenges due-process involuntary-waiver method-of-execution procedural-technicalities state-secrecy stewart-v-lagrand Did Glossip v. Gross modify centuries-old jurisprudence prohibiting involuntary waiver of constitutional protections in the context of method of execu…
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts Whether a claim made in the habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invokes the same constitutional protections, but labeled differe…
18-334 Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading Whether the failure to serve a pleading upon pro-se litigants warranted a favorable ruling under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 and removal of a dismissal of an acti…
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs Whether an indigent defendant in a criminal contempt proceeding has a right to appointed counsel and a free transcript on appeal
18-5411 Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation Was there a legal obligation for company Jofaz Transportation, Inc. under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide leave for an employee wi…