corruption

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7223 Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court Question not identified.
23-108 James E. Snyder v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (9) 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities
22-964 Kenneth Allen Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge corruption default-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-corruption standing standing-doctrine ultra-vires uncac Are 'Pruitt-type' complaints of corrupt acts by ultra vires actors a special species of complaints that enable a lower hurdle standing?
22-6398 Deon Lewis Duke v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights conspiracy corruption criminal-record delusion due-process law-enforcement property-rights standing telecommunications Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the alleged conspiracy to prevent the petitioner from completing a writ of certiorari …
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor?
22-328 Scott Allinson v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. McCormick, or whether…
22-5573 Anne P. Mulligan v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2022-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights corruption criminal-investigation due-process hipaa hipaa-violation hospital-records medical-privacy privacy sovereign-immunity Whether the respondent's conduct in investigating the petitioner and making allegations against her violated her constitutional rights, including her …
21-33 Máxima Acuña-Atalaya, et al. v. Newmont Mining Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-forum comity corruption forum-non-conveniens home-forum personal-jurisdiction Does the forum non conveniens doctrine permit dismissal from a defendant's presumptively fair and convenient home forum when the adequacy of the forei…
20-344 Jon Myers v. Sondra Myers, et al. Massachusetts 2020-09-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights corruption divorce due-process emotional-distress familial-dispute intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress judicial-review legal-corruption legal-system tort-law Whether the Massachusetts Appeals Court erred in its skeptical treatment of the petitioner's claims regarding the degree of destructiveness in his fam…
20-5259 Robin Hood Who v. Department of the Treasury Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
19-1398 Ted Lieu, United States Congressman, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2020-06-22 Denied Amici (6) campaign-finance corruption corruption-prevention federal-election-campaign-act first-amendment independent-expenditures political-committees political-contributions standing statutory-limit Whether the federal statutory limit on contributions to political committees, 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C), comports with the First Amendment as applied …
19-893 Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption
19-833 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2020-01-02 Denied Response Waived appeal bias civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-bias pro-se-litigant right-to-appeal standing state-appeal-courts Whether the state appeal courts have the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
18-896 Missouri Ethics Commission, et al. v. Free and Fair Election Fund, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance constitutional-law contribution-caps corruption first-amendment free-speech political-action-committee political-action-committees state-regulation transparency May a state prohibit political action committees from transferring money to other political action committees?
18-7285 Brenda J. Burch v. Atlanta City Court, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights corruption due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct local-government state-courts state-government Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to equal protection and due process have been violated by alleged corruption and misconduct in the stat…
18-6874 Christine Cornelius v. Town of Atkinson, New Hampshire New Hampshire 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process incompetence judicial-proceedings legal-abuse reasonable-accommodations standing Whether the Court unconstitutionally denied the Petitioner, disabled with bipolar disorder, her rights to reasonable accommodations during judicial pr…