estate-administration

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A473 Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-24 Application estate-administration federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation probate-jurisdiction procedural-challenge removal-statute Question not identified.
24-6219 Carla Cowan v. James Furlow Delaware 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP chancery-court color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration jurisdictional-challenge Did the lower courts Violate The Estate of Alvin David Smith's Fifth and Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and 42 U.S…
24A606 Lisa Washington v. Joseph Lee Washington California 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete administrator-fees due-process estate-administration judicial-review probate-jurisdiction racketeer-influenced Question not identified.
22-7028 John L. Dickerson, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jane Matlock, Deceased v. Emmanuel Noel Cruz Tancinco, et al. Arkansas 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-administration judicial-procedure medical-malpractice procedural-rights standing substantive-rights wrongful-death This medical malpractice wrongful death claim brought by the Petitioner on behalf of the estate of Betty Jane Matlock which has been dismissed twice a…
22-125 Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. Connecticut 2022-08-09 Denied due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes, C.G.S. §45a-273 ("Section 273"), which permits the no-notice administration of a decedent…
21-456 George C. Vann v. Roane County Commission, et al. West Virginia 2021-09-24 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-interests constitutional-rights disclosure due-process estate-administration jurisdiction-challenge probate-court standing To preserve the Right of the Fifth and Fourteenth of the Constitution of the United States should a party be denied the Right to Question Jurisdiction…
20-8114 Jimmy Christopher Jackson v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP bankruptcy breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraudulent-conveyance legal-standing property-rights standing trust-estate bills. bond instruments issues transactions detainers deposited with and manage by the corporation State of N.C. commercial brakers/ agents whom attac…
20-6672 Adam L. Coleman v. Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center Kentucky 2020-12-21 Denied IFP age-of-majority civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause estate-administration legal-representation medical-malpractice wrongful-death Can a state pass legislation that jeopardizes legal representation of a Wrongful Death or Medical Malpractice asserted claim that would otherwise be g…
20-754 Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester Second Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response Waived certification-to-state-court civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction estate-administration federal-court independent-cause-of-action legal-certification maladministration state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Does Title 14 Vermont Statutes Annotated Section 1208 provide for an independent cause of action for maladministration of an estate, which can be b…
20-6429 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud chapter-7-proceeding embezzlement estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraud injunction sanctions secured-creditor trustee-misconduct Petitioner is a secured estate claimant in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Donald Grodsky. Pursuant to a Promissory Note and Security Agreement executed b…
20-6430 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud breach-of-fiduciary-duty chapter-7-bankruptcy embezzlement estate-administration falsification-of-evidence fiduciary-duty fraud-upon-the-court secured-creditor trustee-duties trustee-misconduct Petitioner is a secured estate claimant in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Donald Grodsky. Pursuant to a Promissory Note and Security Agreement executed b…
20-5594 William N. Lucy v. Estate of Annie D. Fox Alabama 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights discretion due-process estate-administration judicial-review probate procedural-requirements standing Question not identified.
19-375 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al. Indiana 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-expense administrative-expenses administrative-law appeal appeal-on-merits civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment standing trial-court Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman's administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and othe…
18-1228 Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha Eighth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions Whether Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for alleged frivolous complaints should be returned with interest
18-804 Wanda McClure Dry, as Administrator Ad Litem for the Estate of Laurence R. Dry v. Christi Lenay Fields Steele, et al. Tennessee 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process estate-administration notice notice-requirement personal-service pro-se-litigant rule-25 rule-4 rule-5 service-of-process Does Rule 5 service by mail to a deceased pro se party satisfy the due process requirement of notice and opportunity to be heard prior to the taking o…