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25-6795 Norman Lee Scott, Sr. v. Whitney R. Bailey, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion due-process fresh-start-policy judicial-estoppel 1. Whether a federal court may apply judicial estoppel to dismiss a civil action when the debtor reopened the bankruptcy case, amended the schedules w…
25A755 Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion Question not identified.
25-6156 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance Speedy Trial Act A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and…
25-208 Delaware Trust Company v. Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied bankruptcy-code court-discretion estate-recovery monetary-judgment property-transfer value-compensation Whether Section 550(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code gives a bankruptcy court discretion both to order the return of transferred property to the estate …
24-7099 In Re Jane Doe 2025-04-30 Denied IFP court-discretion evidentiary-issue fraud-allegation jurisdictional-challenge motion-to-quash summons-defect Whether the Superior Court abused its discretion by failing to rule on a crucial evidentiary issue regarding plaintiffs' fraud that rendered the summo…
24-6181 Richard Grier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal court-discretion discovery-motion guilty-plea judicial-review sentencing-error Did the lower court abuse its discretion when it denied petitioner's motion to receive discovery files and dismissed the case in December 2022 despite…
24-5959 Robert Ellis v. New York New York 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP assigned-counsel attorney-client-relationship continuity-of-representation court-discretion indigent-defendant sixth-amendment When counsel has been assigned to represent an indigent defendant, has developed a close working relationship, and faces no obstacles to continuing th…
24-5779 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law Whether the Commonwealth Court abused its discretion by applying Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) to conclude waiver of error, conflicting with Pa.R.A.P. 1925 and pro…
24-5011 Brandon Collins v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion court-discretion due-process evidence eyewitness judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-analysis reasonable-doubt speedy-trial testimony-credibility Question not identified.
23-1104 In Re Robert M. Miller 2024-04-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bias-prejudice civil-procedure court-discretion federal-defendant judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation writ-of-mandamus Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus to reassign cases due to judge's bias
23-7204 Sean L. Hagins v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless of the passage of time?
23-875 Estate of Arlene Townsend, et al. v. Steven M. Berman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-327 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-professionals bankruptcy-trustee burden-shifting court-discretion fed-r-bankr-p-2014 professional-conflicts trustee-obligations Can bankruptcy courts effectively shift the burden as to 11 U.S.C. § 327 employment, absolving bankruptcy professionals from the burden of complete di…
23-6717 Steve Van Horne v. Robert Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner legal-technicalities timeliness united-states-v-lee Whether the circumstances surrounding the petitioner's late filing of an appeal qualify as surprise, excusable neglect, and other compelling circumsta…
23-6608 Mary M. Mooney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process filing-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-59e-motion Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's timely-filed Rule-59e-motion
23-559 Adekunle C. Omoyosi v. Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-timeliness civil-procedure court-discretion due-process eeoc federal-courts judicial-exception legal-procedure procedural-rules standing timeliness Whether, or under what circumstances, may the court excuse untimeliness of appeal
23A415 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete court-discretion family-law legal-interpretation legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether a state court may construe a statute in a manner that deviates from the Legislature's intended plain meaning
23-5679 Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing Whether the discretion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to deny a certificate of appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) is co…
23-284 H. C., Individually and on Behalf of J. C., a Child With a Disability, et al. v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorneys-fees court-discretion disability-rights discretion due-process due-process-hearing educational-agency idea-act individuals-with-disabilities-education-act prevailing-rates settlement-offers How does 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(8)(G) affect an award of attorneys' fees under the IDEA?
23-5384 Wayne Lee Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-discretion due-process judicial-process legal-petition merits-review procedural-issue supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court should have allowed counsel to withdraw from petitioner's appeal, knowing the petitioner had issues of merit for an appeal on …
23-145 Aleksandra Shklyar v. Carboline Company Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion ada-pleadings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disability-discrimination due-process judicial-bias retaliation standing Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability-discrimination,retaliation
23-5352 Cassandra McGuire v. Highmark Holdings, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-rules stare-decisis summary-judgment Did the courts properly apply default judgment rules when the defendant failed to respond in a timely manner?
23-5237 Jordan Cole Laws v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30…
22-7120 Aaron J. Bressi v. Pennsylvania Parole Board, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-27 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion case-significance civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal court-discretion due-process judicial-review legal-procedure public-importance public-interest standing Question not identified
22-864 Ohio v. D. R. Ohio 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (1) court-discretion discretionary-hearings due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders sex-offenders statutory-obligations Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause entitle juvenile sex offenders to hearings at which courts have discretion to lift statutorily mand…
22-6935 William Ingram v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated petitioners' right to choice of counsel and the appellate court's failure to review the trial court's ruling
22-6016 Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s…
22-264 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2022-09-20 Denied civil-procedure court-discretion deposition-procedure discovery due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant litigation-costs remote-deposition remote-testimony Whether a court can order an indigent litigant granted in forma pauperis to conduct deposition by remote means that is discretionary and more costly t…
22-251 Michael Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, as Trustee, et al. California 2022-09-16 Denied california-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing guardian-ad-litem minor-rights settlement-authority standing Is a near-adult ward's right to due process violated by California's law allowing courts to settle actions involving the minor without the minor's kno…
21-1513 Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an applicable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an exemption under said statute?
21-7844 James R. W. Mitchell v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-appointment court-discretion criminal-defendant criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the state court unreasonably applied Faretta v. California by reading a timeliness requirement into the right to self-representation
21-7594 Orin Kristich v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether appeal counsel can dismiss appeal without client consent
21-1129 Wen-Ting Zheng-Smith v. Nassau Health Care Corporation, dba NUHealth System, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived academic-reviews attorney attorney-conduct civil-procedure court-discretion evidence evidence-submission government-findings judicial-procedure legal-evidence witness-statements witness-testimony Can evidence presented by defendant's attorney on behalf of plaintiff be updated to include missing information?
21-6855 Devin Andrich v. Jerome Francis Meyers, et al. Arizona 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure rebuttal-evidence time-limits trial-procedure trial-time-limits witness-examination Whether the court of appeals erred in deciding that a 2-hour trial 'chess clock' did not violate Petitioner's due process rights
21-6778 In Re Mark Thomas Garrett 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-784 In Re Melba L. Ford 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct conscience-based-duty court-discretion due-process equitable-relief fraud fraud-allegations judicial-duty judicial-ethics petition-review standing Do Justices owe a mandatory, non-discretionary, equitable, conscience-based moral duty to entertain petitions relating to deliberately planned, carefu…
21-6184 Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then denies the Petition for…
21-5410 Joydeth Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights
20-8409 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2021-06-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
20-1701 Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer Whether 28 U.S.C. §1631 requires a court to transfer a case when it finds a lack of jurisdiction and it is in the interest of justice to do so
20-8106 Roy Taylor v. Cynthia Brann, Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections New York 2021-05-21 Denied IFP bail-modification bail-reform constitutional-procedure court-discretion criminal-procedure discretion due-process excessive-bail misdemeanor misdemeanor-charges Whether the New York state courts erred in not addressing the merits of the petitioner's claims regarding excessive bail
20-1513 Raj K. Patel v. Trump Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-intervention permissive-intervention rule-24 standing united-states-v-local-638 Whether the Southern District Court of New York's decision was arbitrary or unfair and violated Due Process
20-1477 Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court?
20-1435 Glenn Galvan v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Nevada 2021-04-14 Denied civil-procedure compulsory-counterclaim constitutional-rights court-discretion deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-assignment procedural-due-process standing vexatious-litigant Whether Nevada courts abused discretion and made errors in fact and law
20-1421 Paul Ballerstein, et ux. v. Penelope McHatten, et al. Maine 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-bias property property-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Can a civil court arbitrarily override clearly written statutory requirements?
20-7466 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure cost-waiver costs court-discretion deposition-costs indigency local-rules waiver Whether a party waives costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules?
20-7411 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-proceedings judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60b standing Should the lower courts have been so stringent in limiting their review to only one exception of Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) in deciding whether to grant re…
20-1153 Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bad-faith civil-procedure costs-and-fees court-discretion inherent-authority judicial-power legal-costs objective-conduct procedural-standard subjective-bad-faith Whether a court considering a motion for an award of costs and attorney's fees pursuant to the court's inherent authority must require the movant to p…
20-6278 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Gloriann Moroney Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion application-of-law attorney-general civil-procedure claim court-discretion facts false-statements fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure official-document parole-board representation standing supreme-court tort tort-claim Whether making false statements in an official doc Whether the defendant is allowed to represent the Whether the respondent was required to apply the l Whether the lower court abused its discretion by not allowing the tort claim to go forward?
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint?
20-6069 Jeff Howell v. Indiana Indiana 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-rule civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process indiana-statute information-access juror-access juror-deliberation public-access trial-procedure trial-proceedings Whether the lower courts erred by denying Howell's right to access of information on jurors who deliberated at his trial
20-5504 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the Petitioner's due process and equal protection claims were correctly dismissed by the distric…
19-8116 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
19-7697 Rebecca Leigh Lovell v. Children's Corner Daycare Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alternative-dispute-resolution civil-procedure coercion constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process duress evidentiary-hearing settlement-dispute settlements trial-court Did the Court of Appeals err in finding the trial court did not abuse its discretion by enforcing settlements that were disputed by a party without ho…
19-7451 David Keith Rogers v. California California 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights court-discretion discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial hearing judicial-procedure juror-misconduct legal-review When a court is presented with admissions of clear juror misconduct is it constitutionally compelled to conduct a hearing to determine the extent and …
19-179 Naora Ben-Dov v. Shoshana Zelda Sragow, aka Stacy Suzanna Sragow, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal continuous-accrual court-discretion criminal-law criminal-offenses dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review pleadings procedural-violation statute-of-limitations Should an action based on multiple civil and criminal offenses be considered from the first instance, the last known instance, or after evidence of nu…
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-1504 Bruce Giles v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived civil-cases civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-appointment court-discretion due-process inherent-authority judicial-power legal-representation mallard-v-us-district-court standing statutory-authority Do federal courts have the inherent authority to make coercive appointments of counsel in civil cases?
18-9376 Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti…
18-9256 Zeeshan Khalid Syed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-affidavit court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se reasonableness-of-counsel standing waiver waiver-doctrine writ-of-certiorari When a pro-se files for a COA and discusses his claim extensively in his argument, can the Court construe the issue as being waived?
18-1402 Harold R. Stanley, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-05-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-procedure,filing-fees,refunds Can Circuits impose a burden to prove circumstance Can litigants present their case to appellate cour court-administration court-discretion due-process due-process,mandamus,judicial-misconduct,irs,recor irs judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-relief pacer,appellate-procedure,records-on-appeal procedural-due-process record-falsification rule-59-motion supervisory-powers When a judge refuses to adjudicate a Rule 59(e) motion alleging misconduct, can mandamus relief be conditioned on proving the refusal itself is 'egreg…
18-8996 Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Court sh…
18-8193 Ada Albors Gonzalez v. William M. Stern, et al. Florida 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fla-r-civ-p-1-540b legal-malpractice procedural-rights sovereign-powers statute-of-limitations void-or-voidable-orders void-orders Whether the State of Florida court abused its discretion
18-8103 Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to …
18-7805 Michael Bohannan v. Wesley Griffin Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-rights court-discretion deputy-clerk discretion-abuse due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure indigent-representation legal-access motion-classification reconsideration rule-26(b) standing time-extension Does a court of appeals deputy clerk abuse discretion by refusing to consider appellate procedure rules in a time extension motion decision
18-7462 William Anthony Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-discretion due-process finality finality-principle fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-discretion legal-finality mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice recall-mandate statutory-provisions Whether the appeals court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to recall mandate
18-7423 Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations What constitutes a specific DNA profile for the purposes of tolling the statute of limitations?
18-7054 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
18-6990 Elena Sturdza v. United Arab Emirates District of Columbia 2018-12-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion court-procedure due-process guardian-ad-litem incompetence incompetent-person judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-representation standing Whether the district court erred in its rulings on the motions for reconsideration, leave to file a supplemental complaint, and appointment of a guard…
18-6429 Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District Texas 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Texas Courts abuse their discretion when they ruled contrary to established Federal Law, or as now ruled contrary to this Honorable Court's Ru…
18-6134 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion dismissal due-process federal-claim legal-action procedural-issue standing summary-judgment Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of standing and failure to prosecute
18-5567 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment due-process failure-to-answer fraud judicial-review jurisdiction perjury procedural-due-process standing Should Plaintiff Curry been Awarded Default Judgement