equity
22 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-1338 | Martin Shkreli v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response Waived | affiliate-liability civil-procedure disgorgement equity equity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction sec sec-enforcement traditional-equity-practice unlawful-gains | In Liu v. SEC , 140 S. Ct. 1936 (2020), this Court held that a federal court's congressionally granted power to issue "equitable relief" in an SEC act… |
| 23-698 | City of Pasadena, Texas v. Crown Castle Fiber, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | equitable-action equity federal-preemption local-regulation network-infrastructure public-rights-of-way standing state-local-regulation telecommunications-act | I. Whether 47 U.S.C. §253 allows a private party to sue a state or local government in equity to preempt a duly enacted state or local regulation wher… |
| 23-585 | John Duncan Fordham v. Georgia Department of Administrative Services, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-victims-restitution-act money-had-and-received presidential-pardon restitution restitution-funds | 1. Do funds collected from a defendant under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3664, vest in a claimant when received or are such fun… |
| 23-5106 | John B. Freitas v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | California | 2023-07-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-protection due-process equity equity-theft fifth-amendment government-action homeowner-rights just-compensation property-rights takings-clause | 1. The conduct of the Justices of the SCOTUS and the judges of the inferior courts merits impeachment and removal for knowingly and intentionally part… |
| 22-7403 | Anthony Carl Eccarius v. Mendocino County Social Services | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | IFP | 10th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equity federalism judicial-review legal-standing power-in-equity standing tenth-amendment | 1) Shall the People exclude a single citizen's 10th Amendment power in equity? |
| 22-7196 | Arthur Scott Prelle v. Chief Executive Officer of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-credit civil-procedure due-process equity equity-rights personal-property property property-ownership res-judicata standing | 1) Will the US Federal Courts allow USA certificate of full faith and credit, personal property and equitable interest to be dissipated or destroyed w… |
| 22-692 | April Premo Williams v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | ada ada-accommodations civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection equity judicial-procedure rehabilitation-act | 1. What are the terms to be used for the mentally disabled and the emotionally disabled? Did the Court error in allowing opposing counsel to use derog… | |
| 22-659 | Padma Rao v. Anita Rao, et al. | Illinois | 2023-01-18 | Denied | american-rule due-process equity equity-doctrine fee-shifting litigation-penalty pleading-requirements retroactive retroactive-application | Whether it was a violation of due process to retroactively impose a new fee-shifting penalty in contravention of the established American Rule, where … | |
| 22-485 | Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v… |
| 22-6102 | Samuel Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights | I. WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED BECAUSE THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF … |
| 22-5607 | Steven Justin Villalona v. Mr. Hansen, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine federal-rules-civil-procedure filing houston-v-lack notice notice-of-judgment pro-se pro-se-prisoner statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court's holding in Houston v. Lack — was based on equity or the interpretation of the word filed? 2. Whether district courts may pres… |
| 21-1250 | Jamal Darius Parker v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions equitable-remedy equity equity-doctrine fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion procedural-rights treaties treaty-law | Whether the lower court's and agent's who are people bound by oath to be Persons worthy of trust, decision to dismiss petitioner claim is not contrary… | |
| 21-7319 | Abraham A. Augustin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ancillary-jurisdiction civil-action criminal-investigation due-process equity federal-court property-seizure return-of-property rule-41(g) rule-41g | I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES INDICTMENT OF A DEFENDANT WHO'S PROPERTY WAS SEIZED BY THE STATE AND FBI DURING THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF A CASE PROS… |
| 21-5737 | Elizabeth Maya v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company | Florida | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equity equity-principle fair-trial legal-proceedings takings | These case is of great public importance raise the question whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United State Constitution has been igno… |
| 21-179 | Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George | Second Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 | 1. Does a state court judicial officer like Respondent Norman St. George have the right to malicious criminally slander and libel and malicious defame… |
| 20-7000 | Felix Brown v. Keith Foley, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim equity federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-default rule-60 | 1. In the context of a Habeas proceeding, does the United States Supreme Court require a showing of actual innocence in order to pursue an independant… |
| 20-5901 | Laura Marie Scott v. City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Treasurer, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | IFP | choice-of-law comity equity federal-contracts property-rights quasi-in-rem quasi-in-rem-action tax-foreclosure title | Does a violation of "choice of law" [retrocession, in 2013] create a quasi in rem action; which ultimately reverses itself [retrocession, in 2019] to … |
| 19-6476 | Charles Blunt v. Sherman Campbell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process equitable-jurisdiction equity fraud fraud-allegations habeas-corpus pro-se-pleadings rule-60 standing | 1. Did the district court contrary to Castro v. US abused its discretion when it recharacterized the petitioner ''"? pleadings In equiting under 60(b)… |
| 19-5240 | James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation | 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket. 2. Did the district court abuse its discretion by… |
| 18-8407 | Gregory Scott Savoy v. Craig M. Burns, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-15 | Denied | IFP | antipsychotic-drugs brain-volume brain-volume-reduction civil-rights constitutional-equity due-process equity involuntary-treatment judicial-deference medical-coercion mental-health | Considering that "extreme legality is the worst law" (Cicero, "De Officiis," 44 B.C.) and that there are victims and survivors of the schizophrenia sp… |
| 18-1174 | Ian Goldenberg, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response Waived | eminent-domain equity judicial-taking just-compensation just-compensation-clause natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction property-rights separation-of-powers takings | The Court has long emphasized the strict construction of condemnation statutes, especially as against corporate delegatees of this sovereign power. By… |
| 18-1169 | John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law | Thorne initiated a declaratory judgment action seeking inter alia declarations that he owned the stock certificate issued by a predecessor-in-interest… |