discretionary-appeal
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6295 | Caleb L. McGillvary v. Nicholas Scutari, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review legal-standing | 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir, L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportun… |
| 25-6251 | Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportu… |
| 25-5532 | James Randall Rogers v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence | Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of new evidence pro… |
| 24A561 | Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | criminal-defendant discretionary-appeal extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis incarceration pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's motion for extension of time to file a discretionary appeal should be granted when the defendant lacks counsel a… | |
| 23-7392 | Elaine Mickman v. Philadelphia Professional Collections, LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-summary-action circuit-courts civil-procedure continuing-tolling discretionary-appeal due-process equitable-tolling federal-appeal-process summary-action | Does Circuit Court Summary Action undermine and effectively convert the right to appeal a US District Court Order into a discretionary appeal, thereby… |
| 22-790 | Vanessa Wereko v. Lori Rosen, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-1291 28-usc-1292 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure congressional-intent discretionary-appeal district-court interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion status-quo statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress' intent for an interlocutory appeal as of right, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), can be 'unilaterally converted into a discretionary ap… |
| 20-1509 | Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee | Georgia | 2021-04-28 | Dismissed | article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing | Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Const… | |
| 19-5210 | Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. | Georgia | 2019-07-17 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation | Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants? |