district-court-dismissal

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5305 Victor Mondelli v. Berkeley Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure-rule-17 district-court-dismissal guardian-ad-litem improper-discovery mental-health-competency Can a District Court dismiss a plaintiffs case by demanding improper discovery from him in connection with a Federal Rule of Civi Procure 17 inquiry a…
24A133 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete civil-rights district-court-dismissal jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se time-limitation Whether a pro se plaintiff's untimely notice of appeal in a civil rights case can be excused due to extraordinary circumstances or equitable tolling
23-6877 Omar S. Folk v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint certiorari-finality civil-procedure district-court-dismissal due-process procedural-error standing summary-affirmance third-circuit-error third-circuit-review Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Summarily Affirmed District Court Dismissal on Plaintiff's Third Amend Complaint Doc. 196 before his original Cert.…
23A774 Dexter Conrad Jackson v. Lavar Ham, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete appellate-filing-fee civil-procedure district-court-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis appeal can be dismissed without explicit assessment of the required appellate filing fee
22-7778 Kenneth Ueding v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-remedy speedy-trial state-convictions Did Mr. Ueding hold the right to challenge his state convictions in a habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254?
22-1024 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied 28-usc-1915 amendment-right appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-dismissal failure-to-state-a-claim frivolous frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis right-to-amend Whether the district court properly dismissed a civil action filed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) without first allowing the plaint…
21-1498 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional-violation…
21-7528 Philip A. Bralich v. Fox News Network, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure national-interest novel-issue pro-se-litigation standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York erred in dismissing the civil case sua sponte
20-1544 Felicia Ross v. Peregrine Health Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel counsel-request district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Did the District Courts err by not allowing Due Process?
20-1411 Starline Tours of Hollywood, Inc. v. EHM Productions, Inc., dba TMZ, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-participation ninth-circuit-interpretation pragmatic-approach technical-construction Whether the Ninth Circuit's undefined requirement for meaningful judicial participation impermissibly abandons this Court's longstanding mandate that …
19-5845 Shawn M. Thomas v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim district-court-dismissal due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation free-speech retaliation sixth-circuit-appeal standing summary-judgment Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals make the right decision in dismissing Plaintiff Thomas' appeal and affirming the dismissal of the District Cour…
18-1113 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
18-6386 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred
18-5626 Bruce Wishnefsky v. Jawad Salameh, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-appeal prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-provision Whether the 'three strikes' provision of the federal in forma pauperis statute bars a prisoner from appealing in forma pauperis a district court dismi…
18-5358 Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment Whether the district court improperly decided disputed factual issues and dismissed the case with prejudice, and whether the Sixth Circuit Court impro…
18-59 Eduardo Pineiro Perez, et al. v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived class-action class-action-rule-23 district-court-dismissal docket-management federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure multi-district-litigation multi-plaintiff multi-plaintiff-lawsuits procedural-rights rule-23 shady-grove shady-grove-v-allstate supreme-court Was the Court of Appeals' affirmance of the district court's dismissal with prejudice of the class action complaints contrary to the holding of this C…