ex-parte
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A770 | John De Light v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. | California | 2026-01-05 | Application | due-process ex-parte judicial-review pro-se procedural-irregularity state-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25-508 | Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. | Arizona | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect | 1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations —previously adjudicated as l… |
| 25-414 | The Sunshine Group, LLC v. City of Dana Point, California, et al. | California | 2025-10-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte notice-requirement property-rights regulatory-taking | The City of Dana Point "red tagged" Petitioner's motel and then had a receiver appointed to oversee its rehabilitation without ever providing notice o… |
| 24-7441 | In Re Amy R. Weissbrod Gurvey | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-jurisdiction due-process ex-parte federal-circuit patent-infringement sovereign-immunity | Whether the Supreme Court has a constitutional duty to exercise original jurisdiction in a patent infringement dispute between New York and California… | |
| 24A121 | Richard Lee Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court, et al. | Arizona | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | due-process ex-parte fraud-allegations judicial-impartiality labor-law workplace-dispute | Whether a state court's alleged ex parte actions and procedural irregularities in a multi-court litigation involving workplace and non-workplace dispu… | |
| 24A113 | Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-misconduct state-actor | Whether a state court judge's alleged ex parte communications and procedural rulings violate a pro se litigant's constitutional rights to due process … | |
| 24-5160 | Duane Leo Ehmer, Darryl William Thorn, and Jake Ryan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution ex-parte jury-selection jury-trial petty-offenses presley-v-georgia sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte | Whether the district court's sua sponte, ex parte, and case-specific excusal of trial jurors for cause constituted reversible structural error? |
| 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… |
| 23-6430 | Nicholas Dwayne Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-warrant truthfulness | Does a defendant in a criminal proceeding still retain the right under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to challenge the truthfulness of statements… |
| 23-6055 | Debora D. v. John D., et al. | California | 2023-11-20 | Denied | IFP | custody due-process ex-parte ex-parte-orders idea-law jurisdiction parental-rights special-education state-encroachment | Did the court make a mistake rendering orders on an ex-parte basis? |
| 23-152 | Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… | |
| 22-7408 | Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction | Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in ex parte denying unheard petitions for judicial notice, investigation, post-conviction relief, and presen… |
| 22-711 | Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, et al. | California | 2023-01-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-system state-action | Should the State of California, its judicial system, and the Catholic Church be required to adhere to the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution a… |
| 22-302 | Brent Ristow v. Amanda Cunningham | Minnesota | 2022-09-28 | Denied | absolute-immunity adversarial-proceeding civil-rights defamation ex-parte free-speech government-communication private-citizen | Whether a private citizen who has submitted allegedly defamatory statements, to the government, ex parte, outside of any adversarial proceeding, about… | |
| 21-638 | David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims | Whether it violates due-process for a district-court to adopt verbatim a final-opinion on discretionary-matters ghostwritten by a prevailing-party's l… |
| 21-6084 | Jacquelyne Jones v. Nicole Jobe | Kansas | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | canon-of-judicial-ethics civil-rights court-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding judicial-canon judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-rules state-courts supreme-court-precedent | Did the Kansas Supreme Court fail to follow the law and rules of the judiciary in condoning a procedure of one of its state courts in violation of Kan… |
| 21-201 | Nehad Abdelnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik | Tennessee | 2021-08-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure counsel-withdrawal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-oral-arguments objection opposing-counsels oral-arguments tennessee-court-of-appeals trial-court | Did the Tennessee Court of Appeals deny the petitioner's due-process rights when it allowed ex-parte-oral-arguments by opposing-counsels over the peti… |
| 21-5197 | T. A. S., Father of R. A. S., a Minor Child v. Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-rights due-process ex-parte family-association no-contact-order parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights termination-of-rights | Is there any way possible that a permanent 'No Contact Order' sanctioned against BOTH my son and I since Sept. 2015 coupled with the maternal half sis… |
| 20-8371 | Luz Hernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | counsel-withdrawal due-process ex-parte felony-sentencing restitution right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the imposition of financial penalties as part of a felony sentencing violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process and Sixth Ame… |
| 20-1699 | E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a 'bright line' rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures |
| 20-6304 | Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances | Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex part… |
| 20-516 | D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo | Pennsylvania | 2020-10-20 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte | Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter without… | |
| 19-1431 | David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency | Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm… |
| 19-7907 | David Allen Olsen v. Kaylee Ann Francois | Wisconsin | 2020-03-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-communication due-process emergency ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding free-speech imminent-threat involuntary-default irreparable-harm original-writings-rule pro-se-respondent quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-matter standing | Does asking someone for help constitute an emergency, threat of danger, or irreparable harm? |
| 19-7506 | David Andrew Hunt, Lusion Yoshua Rice, and Dendrick Demond Hall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | 28-usc-2244 binding-precedent due-process ex-parte federal-courts supervisory-authority | Whether Alabama robbery categorically requires 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of anothe… |
| 19-5277 | Robert M. Kowalski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | administrative-action bankruptcy constitutional-safeguards contempt-proceeding criminal-contempt due-process ex-parte judicial-review u.s-trustee us-trustee | Whether the Order of the Executive Committee for the Northern District of Illinois declaring that an attorney is 'loud and disruptive' and ordering hi… |
| 18-1544 | Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County | Washington | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte | Whether a court-appointed professional guardian has a property interest in the business expectation of continued fees, and a pre-deprivation right to … |
| 18-9287 | Carole L. Scheib v. James Rozberil | Pennsylvania | 2019-05-16 | Dismissed | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte federal-question fifth-amendment foreclosure property-law real-property statute-of-limitations | Whether an appellate court must apply established state rules and laws pertaining to real-property, statute-of-limitations, due-process, but continue … |
| 18-1324 | Moses Watts, Sr., et ux. v. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. | Arkansas | 2019-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process eminent-domain equal-protection ex-parte ex-parte-order judicial-procedure pro-se property-rights severance-damages takings | Whether petitioners were denied due process of law by an ex parte order enabling an electric utility to seize their property without notice and a prel… |
| 18-947 | Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules | Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a 'racist' mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a… |
| 18-257 | Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity | Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining witnes… | |
| 18-5651 | Samuel W. Swoopes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant defendant-exclusion due-process ex-parte jury jury-question mid-deliberation sixth-amendment | Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court's consideration and answering of a jury question? |
| 18-5316 | Susan Wells Vaughan v. Jennifer Vaughan, et al. | North Carolina | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | absolute-immunity child-neglect child-neglect-cases-recusal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-initiations judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction troxel-v-granville | Whether a judge who regularly participates in unlawful ex parte initiations of child neglect cases should recuse herself from hearing a challenge to t… |
| 18-5275 | Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment | Does federal court deference to an ex parte judicial order violate due process? |