disqualification

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25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa…
25A197 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete civil-procedure disqualification fraud-on-court judgment-renewal judicial-bias rule-60 Whether a district court judge's alleged bias and a party's claim of fraud on the court warrant vacating a final judgment under Federal Rule of Civil …
24-6993 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-04-15 Denied IFP disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the proc…
23-1241 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice disqualification due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding fifth-amendment prosecution-witness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does it deny a defendant due process of law to disqualify trial counsel based on a purported conflict of interest following the ex parte consideration…
23-719 Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2024-01-04 Judgment Issued Amici (78) 14th-amendment ballot-access constitutional-interpretation disqualification election-law insurrection insurrection-clause oath-of-office presidential-election presidential-eligibility state-election-law Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot
23-95 Philip Esformes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure disqualification forfeiture judicial-fact-finding prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant must show actual prejudice to establish a Sixth Amendment violation warranting dismissal of the indictment or disqualific…
22-6065 Samirkumar J. Shah v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure disqualification disqualification-motion due-process evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Petitioner was afforded a meaningful and fair adversarial process when the district court denied his motion to disqualify the United State…
22-6070 Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-11-16 Denied IFP aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct, in…
22-5172 Glen Torres v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-counsel constitutional-right counsel-of-choice disqualification indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-representation Does the Sixth Amendment right to choose one's attorney apply to private and pro bono co-counsel?
21-1374 Floyd Chodosh, et al. v. John Saunders, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 civil-procedure disqualification due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process rooker-feldman Whether Petitioners' procedural due process rights were violated
21-230 William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg…
21-105 Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied compelled-commerce compelled-consent disqualification due-process illegal-seizure judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution municipal-court pro-se-litigation transfer-of-venue venue-transfer Was it abusive to deny that extension?
20-8329 Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition ROBINSON WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O…
20-1348 True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification Whether a federal court judge should be disqualified for lack of impartiality due to prior violations of the automatic stay in bankruptcy and denial o…
20-1356 Eduardo Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied appellate-rights conflict-of-interest counsel-disqualification criminal-procedure disqualification guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-defect wheat-v-united-states Does a guilty plea automatically waive a defendant's right to appeal a structural defect in the underlying proceedings?
20-1320 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-judge administrative-jurisdiction disqualification due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure jurisdiction ohio-revised-code opportunity-to-be-heard state-court-review unconstitutional Can a case proceed if the petitioner argues that the administrative judge lacked jurisdiction?
20-524 Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process
19-7929 Caryn Hall Yost-Rudge v. A to Z Properties, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-03-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct city-attorney city-commission city-government civil-procedure disqualification due-process fraud legal-ethics municipal-fraud Whether the Due Process Clause is made invalid by denying disqualification of an opposing attorney whom caused great harm as city vice-mayor yet conce…
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-7134 Jessie Carter v. Department of Agriculture Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law administrative-law-judge arkansas-dept-of-human-services civil-rights declaration disqualification due-process federal-regulations national-disqualified-list usda usda-program usda-regulations What is the proper interpretation of CFR 7 226.6 (c) (v)
19-5103 Kenton G. Findlay v. Star Lakes Association, Inc. Florida 2019-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights disqualification due-process foreclosure foreclosure-appeal impartiality judicial-impartiality service-of-process Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
18-9717 Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Florida 2019-06-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendment …
18-7440 Christopher Whitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing Should the appeals court have appointed an attorney who did not have a conflict of interest?
18-6560 Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states Does Wheat v. United States clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a criminal defendant's coun…
18-375 Daniel H. Alexander v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC Florida 2018-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment disqualification due-process evidence-fraud foreclosure fraud judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure national-mortgage-settlement Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendment…
18-5765 DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata Has the refusal to properly adjudicate this case by the Eleventh Circuit presented prejudice and bias against the petitioner pro se?
18-187 Keith A. Simpson v. The Bank of New York Mellon Florida 2018-08-10 Denied bank-fraud civil-rights constitutional-rights disqualification due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement perjury standing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendment…