excusable-neglect
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6706 | Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | bankruptcy-appeal equitable-review excusable-neglect fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-deadline pioneer-standard | Whether bankruptcy-appeal deadlines under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8002(d) are jurisdictional or subject to equitable excusable-neglect review consistent wit… |
| 25A762 | Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon | Third Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | due-process excusable-neglect notice-of-appeal pro-se property-rights rule-60 | Whether the district court and appellate court improperly applied the excusable neglect standard under Rule 60(b) and Pioneer Investment Services, the… | |
| 25-78 | Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors | Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick Assocs. Ltd. P'ship reg… | |
| 24A612 | Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | certiorari excusable-neglect extension-of-time federal-procedure pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple concurrent legal proceedings and lack of professional legal training constitute excusable neglect warranting an e… | |
| 24A398 | Ralph Berry v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure en-banc excusable-neglect legal-resources petition-for-rehearing pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's failure to timely file a petition for rehearing en banc due to lack of legal resources and understanding constit… | |
| 24-378 | Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-shifting civil-procedure excusable-neglect pioneer-factors qualified-immunity summary-judgment | Whether the Pioneer factors for excusable neglect are weighted unequally and whether summary judgment standards change when qualified immunity is rais… |
| 24A165 | Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-12 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules pioneer-factors summary-judgment | Whether a district court must comprehensively analyze all four Pioneer factors when determining excusable neglect under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur… | |
| 23-6717 | Steve Van Horne v. Robert Jones, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner legal-technicalities timeliness united-states-v-lee | Whether the circumstances surrounding the petitioner's late filing of an appeal qualify as surprise, excusable neglect, and other compelling circumsta… |
| 23-806 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-procedure electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-cause intervening-circumstances judicial-discretion pioneer-investment-services | Whether Congress intended to treat 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' separately in Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5)(A)(ii) and the appropriate standard of r… | |
| 23-6494 | Lewis Dean Armstrong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split competency-standard competency-to-assist-counsel due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure new-trial-motion pioneer-factors pioneer-investment-services-co-v-brunswick-associa rule-33 | Whether the district court may find excusable neglect based solely on the length of time elapsed between judgment and filing, when most circuits requi… |
| 23-711 | James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits | Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets the… |
| 23A493 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion | Whether federal courts must distinguish between 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' when evaluating untimely filing of a notice of appeal during extr… | |
| 23-5904 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-10-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 22-7845 | Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadvertence judicial-relief mistake mistake-of-law rule-60 summary-judgment surprise | Whether Petitioner Daniel Coleman Rule 60 is timely under Federal rules of Procedure Rule 60? |
| 22-7347 | Kimberly S. Elkins v. Kathy Miller | New Mexico | 2023-04-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights court-procedure due-process eviction excusable-neglect forced-evictions judicial-bias standing vulnerable-litigants | Are all the reasons for New Mexico Court of Appeals dismissal of this case justified according to Petitioner's Civil Rights? |
| 22-7313 | Rakim Moberly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal | Whether the petitioner's letter to the district court clerk qualified as a notice of appeal |
| 22-6767 | Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-13 | Dismissed | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing | Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in finding that the petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal wit… |
| 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 | whether-certiorari-should-be-granted |
| 21-8252 | Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was filed untimely |
| 21-8080 | Travis Horne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise | Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law |
| 21-559 | Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law | Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertence or excusable neglect under Federal R… |
| 21-5726 | Dexter Earl Kemp v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)IFP | civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise | Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law |
| 21-385 | Drasc, Inc., et al. v. Navistar International Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure class-action due-process excusable-neglect opt-out reasonable-indication settlement | Does an unnamed class member who provides reasonable indication of its intent to opt out sufficiently opt out, or must the class member rigidly adhere… |
| 21-5531 | Garlin Raymond Farris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-principles appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process excusable-neglect indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pioneer-investment-services procedural-hurdles sixth-amendment | Whether appointed counsel's misconduct can serve as excusable neglect for an indigent federal criminal defendant's late filing of a dispositive motion |
| 20-8153 | Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court civil-procedure docketing excusable-neglect filing-deadline jurisdictional-issue notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-filer | Did the Appellate Court erroneously calculate the filing deadline for the Notice of Appeal? |
| 20-7558 | Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal? |
| 20-6945 | Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing | Does the act of mailing a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion for reconsideration in time for normal US Mail Second Day delivery to the US Di… |
| 19-7493 | Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied appeal notice for lack of jurisdiction |
| 19-652 | Norman D. Cox, Jr. v. The Money Source, Inc. | New Jersey | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-default-judgment default-judgment due-process excusable-neglect newly-discovered-evidence r-4-50-1-a service-of-process traverse-hearing | Did the Trial Court err in or abuse its discretion by entering default judgment against Petitioner based upon the Respondent's defective Service of Pr… |
| 18-8304 | Whitney N. Broach v. David G. Peake, Chapter 13 Trustee | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | attorney-mistakes bankruptcy-attorney bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-filings bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure medical-bills procedural-rights | Does a Federal Bankruptcy Judge deny the debtor's procedural and substantive due process by holding the debtor responsible for the Bankruptcy Attorney… |
| 18-6718 | Timothy Edwards v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-abandonment due-process excusable-neglect pro-se pro-se-defendant rule-4(b) rule-4b sixth-amendment | Whether the Appellate Court violated Mr. Edwards' Sixth Amendment due-process rights and Supreme Court precedent by strictly applying Rule 4(b) where … |
| 18-6437 | Corey Holder v. Michael Sepanek, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect extension-of-time ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prima-facie-request record-review remand time-extension | Had the Circuit Court of U.S. errored in failing to properly review the record and remand to the district court for consideration and necessary findin… |
| 18-424 | Judith M. Brown-Williams, et vir v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-warranty court-sanctions due-process excusable-neglect fraud rico standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigation warranty | Did the Petitioner prevail in the Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act violation? |