ex-parte-communication

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A869 Robyn Abraham v. Abby Leigh, as Executrix of the Estate of Mitch Leigh Second Circuit 2026-02-03 Application due-process ex-parte-communication hobbs-act judicial-bias political-lobbying settlement-funds Question not identified.
25-6667 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment neutral-arbiter probation-revocation Does a district court violate the Fifth Amendment's neutral-and-detached-arbiter requirement, as recognized in Morrissey, when it engages in ex parte …
25A808 In Re Esaias Joseph Menasi Eighth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application due-process evidence-tampering ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct supreme-court witness-intimidation Question not identified.
25-5231 Joseph-Allen Davis v. OM SRP, LLC Ohio 2025-07-29 Denied IFP constitutional-violation disciplinary-counsel due-process ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics recusal-standard Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court judge, previously disciplined for ex parte communication, en…
25-5079 Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Should a writ of habeas corpus issue when a bailiff reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial by directing it to continue deliberating until it rea…
24-7376 Yu Hin Chan v. Honorable Joy F. Campanelli, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied IFP court-documents due-process ex-parte-communication immunity legal-ethics official-act 1. Is Joy I . Campanelli 's behavior of forging Court documents an official act? 2. Is Joy F. Campanelli 's repeated ex parte communication with Peti…
24-1069 In Re Symon Mandawala 2025-04-10 Denied due-process ex-parte-communication federal-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit summary-judgment witness-testimony Whether writ of mandumus should issue direct to both the Appeals and district court to uphold Article IV of the US constitution "full faith and credit…
24-6221 Adaeze Nwosu v. Karla Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Whether it is legal and/or constitutional for sitting judges to affirm illegal and unconstitutional ex-parte discussions of sitting judges with a w…
23-1152 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether if I didn't give consent for my case to be conducted by the magistrate Judge Kelly Pate. Rule 73. 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). A record must be made of…
23-599 Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. Maryland 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing 1. Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court…
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-5800 Collin Kaiser v. Sue Krecko, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bribery civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-housing ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice-insurance obstruction-of-justice public-corruption Whether there was public corruption, judicial misconduct, and bribery within the Eastern District of New York Central Islip Federal Courthouse and the…
22-147 Reshawn Armstrong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts prima-facie-case protected-class similar-situated summary-judgment supervisor-liability Whether a Judge committed ex parte communication
21-7993 Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing Whether the lower courts violated due process, exceeded their jurisdiction, and failed to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
21-7348 Andrew Prescott v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District Illinois 2022-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-parte-communication fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal self-representation sixth-amendment Do the 6th Amendment; Section1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals the right to …
21-7290 James L. Caudle v. Florida Florida 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence Whether the right to due process of law has been denied
21-723 Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law Whether the United States is allowed to reduce the income of a person and then tax the income reduction of that person without due process or equal pr…
20-1535 Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence
20-7661 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error Whether the district court violated due process by appointing the Federal Defender to represent a juror and inform the juror of the legitimacy of the …
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
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…
20-5659 Gabriel M. Robles v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-09-11 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication extraordinary-writ mandamus-petition standing veterans-benefits Question not identified
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…
19-773 Ann Merlino, et al. v. Cara Buonincontri New York 2019-12-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-investigation hearing investigation judicial-conduct state-court state-court-judge Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United States Constitution, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment for a State Court Judge to conduct a …
19-5468 Tara Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release Whether a Chief Circuit Judge should be required to notify a criminal Defendant once a non-party submits a pre-trial judicial misconduct complaint as …
19-5223 Bobby Minnis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-modification state-sentencing Whether a federal district judge can amend a final sentence years later to a defendant's detriment
18-8750 Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal Must a judge recuse himself after improper ex parte communication?
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error