contempt-of-court

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6557 David Calhoun v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re…
24-6418 Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-authority contempt-of-court due-process hearing-rights judicial-discretion Question not identified.
23-1295 Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner Louisiana 2024-06-12 Denied child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence Due-process-clause-violation
22-7745 James William Walker v. Montana Montana 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan Did the Montana judicial branch violate US Supreme Court precedent by denying petitioner relief under United States v. Morgan?
22-6989 In Re Irina Collier 2023-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court detention due-process standing Whether the San Diego U.S. District Court had jurisdiction to ignore all of due process and the Constitution by summarily arresting and detaining the …
22-5085 Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights conjugal-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court family-court-procedure judicial-fraud judicial-immunity obstruction-of-justice parental-rights Did the USCA 3rd circuit fail to vacate the Dist Court's sua sponte dismissal of the complaint/FAC/SAC?
21-1252 Maria Herta v. John McBride, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court driver-license driver's-license due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction over the case, given the challenges to jurisdiction raised by the petitioner
21-712 Derrick Tyrone Jenkins v. Florida Florida 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived clear-and-present-danger contempt contempt-of-court due-process extrajudicial-speech first-amendment free-speech habeas-review judicial-criticism political-speech Does the clear and present danger standard apply in contempt proceedings brought to sanction a litigant's extrajudicial criticism of an elected judge …
21-230 William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg…
20-1495 Karen V. McIntyre v. Kevin L. McIntyre, et al. Maryland 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived contempt-of-court fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion state-law trust-accounting trustee-obligations Question not identified
20-944 Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark Tennessee 2021-01-13 Denied appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appel…
20-565 George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Distr…
20-76 Ghassan Hage v. Fida Mhanna California 2020-07-27 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure contempt-of-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure Whether the lower court erred in its ruling despite a prior court order
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-6227 In Re Steven Talbert Williams 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court dismissal due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis sanctions standing Whether the dismissal of a case as 'frivolous' under 28 USC 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) and 18 U.S.C. §402 violates the 6th and 10th Amendments of the U.S. Const…
18-1376 Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. Connecticut 2019-05-02 Denied abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law Parental rights and due process violations in international child custody dispute