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25A606 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Application bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions Whether federal courts can impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith in the context of discovery disputes
24-1237 Hans Goerz v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discovery pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discovery, …
24-7009 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting record development deprived Petitioner of a meaningful opportunity to p…
24-5096 Steven C. Levi v. Anchorage School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights dismissal due-process interrogatories judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Can a case be dismissed without allowing Discovery and Interrogators?
24-30 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process employment-law federal-rules motion-to-dismiss plausibility plausibility-requirement pleading-standards pleadings When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under Iqbal/Twombly standards?
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court
23-7623 Estephen Castellon v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment speedy-trial warrant-execution Whether the failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence under the Trombetta and Youngblood standards, coupled with delays in trial proceeding…
23-7485 William Glenn Chunn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-violations continuance continuance-denial discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion Whether a defendant's right to assistance of counsel and due process are upheld when he has no right to review discovery or confer with his attorney, …
23-7469 Kenneth Del Signore v. Nokia of America Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rules due-process false-claims-act medical-records pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing summary-judgment whistleblower-retaliation Should a Pro Se Plaintiff be granted special considerations by Federal Judges based on their lack of experience with the Federal Rules?
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment against a party without allowing that party to conduct discovery
23-7213 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-rights discovery discovery-request due-process government-misconduct judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Did the Defendant show good cause to obtain discovery after presenting evidence of government misconduct?
23-6923 Curtis Gorham v. Gary H. Lavine, et al. Florida 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery due-process expert-witness medical-malpractice standing Can a medical expert not review matters?
23-6777 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case?
23-6772 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. District Court Colorado 2024-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidentiality defendant-rights discovery due-process federal-litigation jurisdiction service-of-process standing Did the Supreme Court err when it failed to issue a writ of prohibition to preclude the District Court of El Paso County, Colorado from compelling the…
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient?
23-718 Darryl Heffner v. Timothy Heffner, et al. Texas 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process family-dispute judicial-discretion lis-pendens property-rights standing transcript-rate trust-litigation Question not identified
23-714 Bobby Len Franklin v. BWD Properties 2, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure concealment discovery discovery-concealment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct land-patent officers-of-court patent-rights standing Did the named officers of the court perpetrate fraud to conceal petitioner's patent rights?
23-6313 In Re Jason D. Fisher 2023-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion standing sua-sponte-dismissal Do appellate courts and district courts have authority to raise and decide issues without party input?
23-6107 Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations Whether exceptions to the AEDPA one-year time limitations rendered the district court's 2015 dismissal for untimeliness of Cua's habeas petition and d…
23A452 Ben Toma, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete discovery judicial-review legislative-immunity legislative-privilege state-legislators voting-rights Whether state legislators can invoke legislative privilege to shield their deliberative processes and communications from discovery in voting rights l…
23-472 Dora L. Bonner v. Triple S Management Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied admissibility-of-evidence affidavit-evidence circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-conflicts civil-procedure discovery discovery-dispute procedural-fairness rico-violations summary-judgment weighing-of-evidence Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in granting summary judgment to Triple-S Management Corporation and Triple-S Vida based solely on a merits …
23-5870 George Tolbert v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Seventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation consumer-protection discovery due-process federal-regulation foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure property-rights sanctions Whether Nationstar/Mr. Cooper failed to comply with discovery rules, the Dodd-Frank 120-day rule, and other consumer protection regulations, and wheth…
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner pled sufficient facts to support his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against Respondent Jonathan Henderson
23-5740 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-10-10 Denied IFP catastrophic-event catastrophic-fire civil-rights death-penalty discovery drug-administration due-process execution execution-protocol inmate-rights procedural-due-process Is an inmate who is to be executed entitled to procedural due process to discover the effects of a catastrophic fire on the drugs to be used in his ex…
23-350 Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether the lower court violated the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the 'reasonable impression' of bias …
23-5638 Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur whether-the-sixth-circuit-abused-its-discretion
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner When a state court of last resort denies a prisoner's attempt to obtain discovery and other hypotheses from evasive defendants, does the prisoner's in…
23-187 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 Are the cloud-based #NewOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court?
23-5284 John Wesley Lee, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation dna-evidence dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant video-recording Whether an Indigent Pro Se Petitioner is Entitled to counsel
22-7867 Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity…
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
22-7661 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-termination criminal-procedure discovery due-process fifth-amendment pro-se-defense sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who continually terminated (FIRED) his/her counsel ab initio of the proceedings and throughout the proceedings can gain access to …
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-7364 Matthew Caleb Ross v. Texas Texas 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance texas-court Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus due to community supervision not being revok…
22-7281 Steven Ray Rouse v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violations due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-identification How could lawyer (Rick Farqutte) send Steven Ray Rouse at discovery of 3 facts and 1? were duplicates?
22-7277 Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction discovery due-process essential-element ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-hearing trial-integrity Whether defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel
22-959 Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right …
22-6889 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP and if so attorney-fees civil-discovery civil-rights" Res-Judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine whether the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure discovery hyde-amendment res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the Hyde Amendment Attorney fees Award is 'Civil
22-6822 Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-21 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim?
22-6383 James T. Woo v. Colorado Colorado 2022-12-22 Denied IFP case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order Whether the district court improperly misused a protective order to deprive a pro se defendant of access to materials outside the scope of the order a…
22-6351 Shane Webster Upchurch v. Wastequip, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights jurisdiction-issue pro-se pro-se-plaintiff retaliatory-discharge summary-judgment workers-compensation Whether it was error to grant summary judgment to the defendant where the pro se plaintiff was not given any opportunity to engage in discovery
22-6170 Andrea Peterson v. HVM L.L.C., et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-rules disability-rights discovery due-process equal-protection legal-representation standing Whether a person(s) with a handicap or disability are protected by the Due Process Clause
22-422 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion brady-violation civil-procedure criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-concealment government-misconduct hearing prosecutorial-misconduct witness-payments Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a hearing into the government's alleged discovery violations
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error Did the court of appeals violate the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and discovery?
22-364 Ryan Noah Shapiro v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived agency-bad-faith civil-procedure discovery discovery-standard federal-civil-procedure foia foia-request motion-for-summary-judgment rule-56(d) rule-56d standing summary-judgment Must a plaintiff facing a motion for summary judgment provide evidence that the movant has acted in bad faith before obtaining discovery under Rule 56…
22-5763 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment due to a Brady violation
22-5736 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order to compel discovery
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements
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…
22-249 Chambers Self-Storage Oakdale, LLC v. Washington County, Minnesota Minnesota 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) assessment assessment-methodology constitutional-claim discovery due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-tax unequal-assessment Does the right to Due Process prohibit a State from depriving real property taxpayers the right to conduct discovery of assessment data and methods, t…
22-194 Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in de-novo review of summary judgment on disputed issues of fact
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions Whether a law office is subject to the non-discrimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act
22-5436 Oraine D. Brown v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process judicial-discretion new-jersey-court-rule pre-indictment-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motion speedy-trial trial-commencement trial-postponement Can a trial judge postpone a trial on its commencement date at the prosecutor's motion for additional discovery without establishing how the opposing …
22-159 Steven Pascale v. RPI Company California 2022-08-19 Denied civil-procedure concealment constitutional-rights disbarment discovery due-process federal-statutes lawyer-discipline legal-ethics legal-practice oath-of-office professional-misconduct Whether the district court erred in its August 3, 2021 ruling by closing discovery on July 20, 2020 and concealing the plaintiffs' case information pr…
22-137 BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. District of Columbia 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog…
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover retaliation by employers against employees?
21-1590 Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se Whether a litigant in pro se can be denied their right to due process under the 5th and 14th Amendments solely based on the court's assumption that th…
21-8203 Galina Rytsar v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs Third Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deportation-consequences discovery due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus impeachment-of-witnesses ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right translation Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-7492 In Re Jonathan Manwell 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal Does petitioner have a constitutional right to located and confirmed exculpatory forensic evidence, transcripts, and documents necessary for a meaning…
21-7487 Dion Fisher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure discovery district-court-order evidentiary-ruling harmless-error motion-to-suppress suppression-hearing trial-witness-list witness-disclosure witness-testimony Whether petitioner is entitled to a new trial based on the district court's order denying his motion to suppress
21-1180 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure discovery due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing whether-a-federal-court-may-disbar-an-attorney
21-1035 Joshua Harris v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived brady-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial in-limine tax-court Whether the U.S Tax Court and the Second Circuit conflicts with the United States Constitution, Amendment 6 and the Fourteenth Amendment to a fair and…
21-6922 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment Did the District Court err in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference claim
21-6866 Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court Can a State court deny access to a jury trial and court discovery through the inappropriate application on an AntiSLAPP statute?
21-6414 Charles Wayne Marietta v. Leanne LoBue, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights discovery due-process judicial-discretion medical-evidence medical-treatment summary-judgment Did the District Court of Arizona err in granting Summary Judgment for Defendants without presenting all the elements of Appellants' medical complaint…
21-6271 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal Whether the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate cor…
21-6112 Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California California 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the California criminal street gang laws are unconstitutionally vague
21-6042 Marques Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-hour criminal-procedure discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-preparation Does the District of South Dakota's Standing Order 16-04 prohibit a defendant from independent review of discovery, denying their Sixth Amendment righ…
21-586 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment Is the Seventh Circuit decision contrary to Supreme Court precedent on later claims and preclusion of later events?
21-549 Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training To what extent should discovery be allowed from third-party eyewitnesses when the only evidence in support of 'what actually happened' is a soundless …
21-524 Schlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York Connecticut 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure discovery due-process foreclosure judicial-sanctions mortgage-law notice property-rights sanctions Whether granting sanctions without adequate notice and opportunity to be heard violates due process
21-5914 Tony Joseph Tabor v. Vincent Coleman Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery due-process free-speech retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated due to retaliation for his speech when the defendants used chemical agents against him
21-518 AlixPartners, LLP, et al. v. The Fund for Protection of Investors' Rights in Foreign States Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) 28-usc-1782 arbitration-proceeding commercial-dispute discovery discovery-authorization foreign-tribunal international-tribunal investor-state-arbitration investor-state-dispute section-1782 statutory-interpretation Whether an ad hoc arbitration to resolve a commercial dispute between two parties is a 'foreign or international tribunal' under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) w…
21-5716 Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens Second Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court erred and/or abused its discretion
21-5655 Timothy Dean Leners v. Wyoming Wyoming 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Was Defendant's 6th Amend. right to Effective Counsel violated?
21-362 Reuel Jacques Abale Gnalega v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery due-process federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment va-hospital veterans-affairs Whether Appellate review of a grant of summary judgment was de novo
21-5208 Samuel W. Wani v. George Fox University, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion causation discovery discovery-violation expert-testimony fair-trial insurance-policy medical-malpractice medical-records standard-of-care Wani's failure to provide expert testimony regarding the standard of care and causation
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been deemed for litigation
21-5083 Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas Kansas 2021-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Bieberlach's request for independent DNA testing?
21-5024 Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2021-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for relief
20-8373 Kevin Herriott v. Associate Warden Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights discovery due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements legal-mail mail-room procedural-law standing state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeals misunderstood the governing rule of law that the right to discovery was predicated upon?
20-8214 Warren D. Tisdale v. CASA Partners V, L.P. The Park at Winterset, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process interrogatories jury-trial magistrate-referral settlement sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was violated
20-1675 Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State?
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) Whether a habeas petitioner makes a valid Rule 60(b) motion by arguing that, due to an incorrect procedural-default ruling, the district court (1) onl…
20-8009 David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court Whether the district court was correct in denying petitioner's motion to compel production of documents and whether the court of appeals denied petiti…
20-7756 Brandon Lamar Tademy v. Colorado Colorado 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence sanctions spoliation Whether the district court erroneously denied the petitioner's motion to dismiss or impose other appropriate sanctions for destruction of evidence, in…
20-7726 James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-the-petitioner's-sentence-was-lawful
20-7603 In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion Unreasonable delay in ruling on 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion
20-1211 SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one-year statute of limitations for filing a Federal Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus statutorily or equitably tolled when a State Co…
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence
20-1051 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived appeal-procedure civil-procedure contempt discovery discovery-order foia-request intervenor judicial-review mandamus post-judgment-appeal writ-of-intervention Whether a witness can seek a writ of mandamus and bypass the 'disobedience and contempt route to appeal a discovery order' by becoming an intervenor f…
20-6959 Mason Somers v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance jail-recordings pre-trial-discovery right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for providing discoverable information to his client prior to receiving discovery from the government, resulting…
20-6665 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy standing trial-record Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of certiorari
20-6663 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York New York 2020-12-18 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti…
20-827 United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege
20-6611 John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas Minnesota 2020-12-11 Denied IFP academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)G&ii) in a punitiv…
20-6598 Stephen Frederick Baker, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling
20-6506 Andy Buxton v. Iva C. Dougherty, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure discovery due-process pro-se-litigant standing Question not identified
20-736 Adam Frasch v. Florida Florida 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to determine if a violation has occurred pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83…
20-6304 Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex part…
20-650 Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH v. RWE Trading Americas Inc. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure corporate-control discovery discovery-compliance document-search evidence-sufficiency judicial-discretion possession-custody-control reasonable-search subpoena subpoena-standard Whether the district court applied the wrong standard in concluding that the subpoena target's search was adequate and quashing the subpoena
20-541 James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress Question not identified
20-6103 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing Is a defendant entitled to copies of inventory documents related to executed search warrants connected to his criminal case?
20-6078 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process exhaustion fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 Should the judgment on habeas corpus be void for failure to adhere to due process requirements before entering judgment
20-5953 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP andrus-v-texas certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance discovery due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255 sixth-amendment Was trial counsel ineffective in his directive to advise McCoy to plead guilty by failing to review the government's discovery in violation of this co…
20-5866 Shawn Kristi Dicken v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner denied discovery pursuant to Brady v. Maryland 373 U.S. 83 violating her V, VI and XIV Const. Amends.?
20-405 City of Miami Gardens, Florida v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Amici (2) alabama-legislative-black-caucus article-three circuit-conflict civil-rights discovery due-process standing sua-sponte summary-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit's sua sponte dismissal of the case on standing grounds without providing the plaintiff an opportunity for discovery and e…
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because…
20-5752 Christopher Aundre Faulkner, aka Christopher A. Faulkner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-obligations due-process fifth-amendment government-diligence government-misconduct pretrial-detention Whether a prolonged length of pretrial detention violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the government has failed to exercise …
20-326 Mitchell J. Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government's knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged ev…
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview Whether an attorney provided effective assistance of counsel
20-5477 Elvis Henry Idada v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery?
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
19-8772 Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
19-8686 Beverley M. Harris v. The Bozzuto Group, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-access discovery due-process federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether the Court should resolve the questions for which the Federal District Court rejected/denied Petitioner's evidences and amendments, conducted n…
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by…
19-8520 Justin Mohn v. Progressive Insurance Tenth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination pretext-plus pretext-plus-rule prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii Whether a prima facie case and pretext-plus proof of discriminatory animus is sufficient for discovery, summary judgment, or finding employment discri…
19-1290 Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing If the Court finds that the Marvel Character 'Falcon' in the 2014 Captain America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck down…
19-8328 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing Is it an abuse of discretion for the First Circuit Court to deny mandamus because the District Court could respond but never has?
19-1214 Marty Friend v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm…
19-1206 Paul Boland, as Heir of the Estate of Dixie L. Boland, et al. v. Chris Boland, et al. Montana 2020-04-10 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process estate-dispute hearing probate probate-law standing Were Petitioners denied due process
19-8217 Blake Jones v. McKee Foods Corporation Eighth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery evidence pleadings summary-judgment Whether a defendant may ignore evidence provided through interrogatories, depositions, and motions for the purpose of summary judgment and have the wo…
19-8205 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2020-04-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review Whether [Mr. Brunson's] right to discover exculpatory evidence is still enforceable
19-8143 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority Whether appellees have authority without a statute law by Congress to impose tax for private household goods and personal effects that are non-commerc…
19-8095 Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to compel discovery
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States have a right to 'Due Process' under the law
19-7687 Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the excluded evidence and jury prevented from seeing or considering this evidence should be considered newly discovered evidence for purposes …
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial
19-1010 Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (6) civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery Whether a district court may compel a party that has not engaged in discovery-related misconduct to produce documents that are neither relevant nor re…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was 'thorough?
19-7196 Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power Whether the lower state court erred in sanctioning the petitioner's departure from the accepted judicial proceedings regarding the decision governing …
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra.Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of a Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to Ru…
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance Whether the withholding of recorded statements by the government violates due process and Brady v. Maryland
19-6782 Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred in requesting all documents from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission on the petitioner's appe…
19-6544 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the Court can stay this matter until final resolution of a related and dependent money damages case, or order the petitioner be allowed to obt…
19-6551 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty p…
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court Should a writ of mandamus be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity violated an earlier subpoena for records?
19-6460 Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records Whether a defendant claiming mental incompetency should have the state court records reviewed prior to denying equitable tolling
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-10-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post-conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found him G…
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation Question not identified
19-6362 Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Are criminal defendants required to plead and prove their due diligence as an additional element under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its …
19-6371 Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence, c…
19-6325 Dewayne Barnes v. Sentry Management, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest discovery dismissal-order due-process in-forma-pauperis res-judicata speedy-trial standing trial-court Can defendants the St. Regis Apartments claim res-judicata
19-6244 Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion in dismissing the case, in violation of the petitioners' civil-rights, due-process, and free-spe…
19-461 Eleazar Corral Valenzuela v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response Waived civil-denaturalization civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues denaturalization discovery due-process equal-protection laches-doctrine procedural-due-process rule-12c standing summary-judgment Whether the equitable doctrine of laches applies in civil denaturalization proceedings?
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the exposure of cheating by the State of Arkansas and the concomitant collusion to cover up cheating evidence violates due process and the rig…
19-6004 Lynn Taylor v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion affidavit civil-procedure court-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion standing Did the Northern District Court abuse its discretion in not forwarding the full discovery to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals?
19-5980 In Re Sang Hing Wong, Jr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct body-worn-camera case-file civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence-destruction fair-hearing fair-trial prejudice Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for an order compelling the respondent to authorize the release of the body-worn came…
19-5821 Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence prior to trial
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing Whether the life of my pregnant companion & fetus was not being protected from imminent danger from real threat by two young men with burglary tools i…
19-246 Massood Jallali v. Florida Florida 2019-08-26 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense brady-rule brady-violation-claim criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence theory-of-innocence Whether the trial court's discovery rulings deprived petitioner of evidence under Brady that would support an affirmative defense and petitioner's the…
19-5696 Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plaintiffs…
19-207 David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of FRCP Rule 37 can be circumvented by a court ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent the losin…
19-190 Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees Third Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming the ERISA plan's misuse of a court order to docket it under state law for money judgments, contrary to ER…
19-5482 Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors be denied the procedural due process right to discovery and still …
19-5393 Joanna M. Eiermann v. Lawrence R. Bowers, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 9th-amendment civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process inheritance inheritance-dispute judicial-review ninth-amendment remains standing trust trust-litigation Is my 9th amendment right being violated by the Federal Appeals court by ignoring the fact that the State Court Justice dismissed my complaint with a …
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the Seventh Circuit's application of the 'dark web' doctrine creates a circuit split
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Whether petitioner was denied reasonable and/or adequate opportunity of assisting counsel during appeal process
19-5388 Marquis Travell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure discovery due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct tactical-advantage Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability (COA)
19-5254 Jose Arroyo v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-19 Denied IFP corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho…
19-5256 Anthony J. Livingstone v. United States Armed Forces 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process military-justice military-rules-of-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment special-victims-counsel Was the 6th Amendment right to confront witnesses violated due to a misapplication of MRE 412?
19-5225 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-records constitutional-review discovery due-process judicial-review minor-protection pennsylvania-v-ritchie records sexual-abuse social-services social-services-records standing Whether petitioner has a constitutional right to in camera judicial review of confidential social services records
19-5188 Jermaine Tart v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-access discovery discovery-limitations due-process employment-royalties ninth-circuit procedural-scope royalties standing state-rights statutory-interpretation takings Do the plaintiffs have a due process right to funds from existing or future employment royalties?
19-5146 Isiah Edward Gilliam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-11 Denied IFP discovery discovery-violation due-process fair-trial habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mistrial prior-convictions prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Was Mr. Gilliam denied due process and a fair trial
18-9813 Levar Brown v. California California 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying the right of the petitioners to discovery further and to rebut a conspiracy which infringes thei…
18-9765 Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness Whether a United States Attorney must be a member of the bar in the city or state to prosecute cases in the United States District Court and Superior …
18-9748 George Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea Does the 'fair and just reason' standard for withdrawal of a guilty plea properly encompass the post-plea, pre-sentence acquisition of information abo…
18-9560 Anthony Wright v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure,civil-rights,due-process,free-spee civil-rights discovery due-process evidence standing summary-judgment Whether the court erred in ruling against the plaintiff
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning When is it appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37?
18-1457 Joseph Allen May v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7431 civil-rights discovery discovery-denial-authority discovery-rights due-process federal-courts irs irs-disclosure perpetrator-liability standing tax-law taxpayer-information title-26 Under what authority do the Federal Courts deny Discovery when the IRS and IRS officers have all of the documents and the United States' employees wer…
18-9390 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2019-05-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery civil-rights court-jurisdiction court-order discovery divorce divorce-proceedings document-access due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure order-of-separation separation-agreement standing Can NYS Kings County Supreme Court Judge Eric I. Prus block me from seeing a critical document? Can Susan's lawyer, Myla Serlin, block me from seeing …
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process …
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment Has the State of Louisiana committed Constitutional Error in its refusal to Order production of Dr. Laga's grand jury testimony to petitioner?
18-8861 Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime?
18-8815 Scott Randall Reich v. Mike Slagle, Correctional Administrator, Mountain View Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial standing witness-testimony Has rules of evidence precluded by Speedy Trial Act from being used to impeach witness testimony?
18-8751 William Len Rainey v. Texas Texas 2019-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses Whether the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Part 33.37 is unconstitutional as applied at trial on June 24, 2013, denying the petitioner basic Due Pro…
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case based on the magistrate judge's fraudulent statements and Huawei's perjured testimony
18-8674 Dewayne Montgomery v. Garry Lewis Properties Louisiana 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process landlord-tenant precedent slum-landlords standing summary-judgment tenant-rights tenants Whether the court of appeal's decision below, which effectively shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner, a non-moving party at the summary judgmen…
18-8630 Joseph Christopher Birdtail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal section-2255 Is it error for a district court to deny either discovery proceedings or an evidentiary hearing under the Federal Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceed…
18-8633 James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics Whether the First Circuit Court erred when it affirmed the District Court's denial of an indigent plaintiff's (Greene's) motion to provide and pay for…
18-1238 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute Denial of due process in dismissal of case without considering evidence, denial of discovery, improper consolidation of cases, judicial bias and misco…
18-8481 Ricky Thompson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process government-disclosure government-investigation materiality sealed-affidavit sealed-records Did requiring the assertion of detail known only to the government to show 'materiality' impermissibly raise the threshold?
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment Whether summary judgment was proper where the respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. moved to dismiss before filing an answer, no discovery had …
18-1200 Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment Whether the District Court and the Circuit Court erred in applying a case dating from 1981 from a lower Florida Court to hold that JEA was entitled to…
18-8332 Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th…
18-1155 James Michael Murphy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata Defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of first lawsuit due to withholding of key information about additional, later, widesprea…
18-8143 Stephen Talbert v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process fraud fraudulent-misrepresentation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial voluntariness Can a defendant voluntarily and intelligently enter a plea where counsel fraudulently misrepresents a key fact
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation
18-7972 Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2019-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted …
18-7812 Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B should be retroactively applied to the petitioner's case
18-1020 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Communicar, Inc., et al. New York 2019-02-06 Denied case-consolidation civil-procedure Conflict-of-interest consolidation Discovery due-process Examination-before-trial judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-review pro-se-litigation standing subpoena Subpoena-Duces-Tecum Whether consolidation of three separate cases without a motion and overriding by another judge is legal and ethical
18-7599 Jesus E. Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-witness discovery discovery-order due-process exclusion non-disclosure sixth-amendment tactical-advantage willful-nondisclosure Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment precludes exclusion of an undisclosed defense witness to enforce a discovery order if the…
18-966 Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (52)Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-decision agency-decision-making census discovery executive-branch standing Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census
18-7527 David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-23 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether Mr.…
18-7458 Samuel Lewis Taylor v. Michael Miller, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment access-to-court access-to-courts cell-search civil-rights discovery due-process prison-conditions property-rights retaliation Whether or not petitioner's civil rights discovery material confiscated from petitioner's cell during cell search and disposed of denied access to the…
18-7395 Wilfred H. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does the materiality standard require that the suppressed evidence directly go to proving any count again…
18-7400 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility Whether the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications ends once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at tr…
18-7319 Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards Whether the court of appeals' decision is in conflict with the Twigbal holdings
18-861 WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation Federal Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar Whether the court of appeals and agency erred by holding that 'real party in interest, or privy of the petitioner' refers only to others who 'control'…
18-7188 Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa…
18-7073 Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves…
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff
18-7069 John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Commonwealth commit misconduct when it intentionally withheld various forms of material evidence in violation of the 14th Amendment?
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?
18-655 Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested …
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege con…
18-557 Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing Whether a district court may order discovery outside the administrative record to probe the mental processes of an agency decisionmaker when there is …
18-6442 Phillip T. Merritt v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discovery due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ sanctions standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Was it an abuse of sanction on behalf of the judge to refuse to seal the discovery papers?
18-541 Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on pleading standards, circuit court rulings on discovery law, and the scope…
18-6108 Sontay T. Smotherman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process election-integrity jury-selection records-inspection standing voting-rights Whether a defendant has an unqualified right to inspect voter selection records in order to aid in the preparation of a constitutional claim
18-6094 Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa Is the prosecution required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA by the DEA and its confidential infor…
18-6015 Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights were violated when trial counsel failed to utilize an expert witness, failed to present defense witness…
18-5963 Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure Whether the district court's dismissal of all but 2 defendants caused prejudice to petitioner
18-5981 Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights New York 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii Should the lower court have denied full discovery for the purpose of violating Title VII?
18-5944 Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18 U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing a …
18-259 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense
18-5842 Ricky B. Chhea v. Theresa DelBalso, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no substantive text was provided in your mess I cannot generate a meaningful question presented please provide the full text of the petition. aedpa civil-rights discovery due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus notes-of-testimony right-to-appeal standing statute-of-limitations Is equitable tolling warranted, where a petitioner is denied access to the notes of testimony and discovery, even after properly and timely invoking h…
18-5824 James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-5790 Uiki Teaupa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment entitle a pro se defendant the right to conduct discovery and have an evidentiary hearing on claims of government m…
18-243 Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no…
18-5729 Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for production of documents and placing excessive burdens on the respondents to produ…
18-5733 Steven Pinder v. Alva Green McDowell, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process medical-records patient-privacy patient-privilege privilege standing Whether the 'propagated authorization' for release of medical records put forth by the defendants is in fact constitutional?
18-5664 Chan Cheeseboro v. Little Richie Bus Service, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accident-report civil-procedure deposition discovery district-court due-process evidence false-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing witness witness-testimony Why the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York would allow the law firm of Lewis Bris Bois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. allowed …
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether a non-party subpoena recipient is automatically entitled to recover significant expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena before a court o…
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure Was the federal court required to accept petitioner's factual allegations as true when the state court made findings against the petitioner without a …
18-5513 My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the district court's judgment due to the state's failure to timely provide repla…
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou…
18-131 Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Whether Appellant Terry Should Have Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability as Evidence Exists in the Record That His Trial Attorney Was Clearly In…
18-5252 Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence Whether a petitioner can be denied discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of the government's spoliation of potentially exculpatory evidence i…
18-5 Dennis Riley v. Ohio Washington 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-discovery discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence internal-investigations investigative-officer-misconduct plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct whether-defendant-entitled-to-impeachment-or-exculpatory-evidence-after-pleading-guilty