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25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-6029 Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department Fourth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 1. Discovery Rights in § 1983 Cases: Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defe…
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment This Court's precedent is clear that federal courts "should generally not depart from the usual practice under the Federal Rules on the basis of perce…
24-7176 Miriam Pope v. Chetan Patel, fka Hitesh Patel Alabama 2025-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law discovery-rights due-process immigration-status undocumented-persons Whether a statutory rule of civil procedure denying discovery to a defendant violates the Constitution's due process clause, and whether due process a…
24-6297 Donald Sherman v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability discovery-rights due-process factual-findings ninth-circuit state-appellate-courts Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to address Sherman's argument that the state appellate courts' factual findings were objectively unreasonable wit…
24A664 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete civil-procedure constitutional-claims discovery-rights discrimination due-process rule-12b6 Whether the district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) and denial of discovery rights violated the plaintiff's constitutional due process protecti…
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?
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
23-6194 Christopher Andrew Canales v. Nathan Hoffman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-discovery voluntariness-of-plea Whether petitioner should be entitled to full discovery (inculpatory and exculpatory) during the plea bargaining process
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
23A323 Robert Perkel, et al. v. Jane (Canella) Perkel, et al. New Jersey 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete discovery-rights due-process-clause equal-protection notice-and-hearing probate-procedure will-contest Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a state probate court from denying an heir notice and an opp…
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 …
22-6351 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
22-5917 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?
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…
21-1518 BYD Company Ltd. v. Vice Media LLC Second Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied actual-malice defamation discovery-rights first-amendment iqbal pleading-standard public-figure twombly 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…
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
20-6304 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…
20-5525 Larry R. Bailey v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion discovery-rights due-process federal-lands fee-authority fees judicial-procedure public-lands public-records standing Whether the District Court erred when it determined that the Secretary of the Interior can charge an amenity fee
20-29 Sara Discepolo v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rights foia-review freedom-of-information-act judicial-presumption national-security presumption-of-good-faith summary-judgment Are the courts violating the FOIA and its mandate to conduct de novo review by applying the presumption in cases which have nothing to do with nationa…
19-8768 Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court Question not identified
19-1206 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
19-8156 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied IFP 7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
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…
19-886 Israel K. Negash, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure discovery-rights due-process government-data judicial-review regulatory-enforcement snap-benefits standing statistical-analysis summary-judgment Should SNAP retailers accused of trafficking be permitted to conduct discovery on judicial review under 7 U.S.C. §2023 prior to summary judgment?
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 …
19-6847 Lawrence Keith Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discovery-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,standing,civil-procedure, equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing witness-testimony Does any court that does not follow the well established law violate an individual's Constitutional rights by denying a motion or petition without sta…
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…
19-5393 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 …
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…
18-1238 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…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)?
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?
18-5252 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…
25A908 Yehonatan Kapach v. New Hampshire New Hampshire Application default-judgment discovery-rights due-process meaningful-access out-of-state-defendant remote-participation Question not identified.