federal-appellate-procedure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-811 Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence?
24-205 Michael Alan Weiss, as Executor of Estate of Jane L. Marsh v. Peggy Pei Lin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Relisted (2) 9th-circuit constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct property-rights Whether the 9th Circuit panel and its staff have used unconstitutional procedural or substantive means to deprive petitioners of their contractually v…
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…
23-361 Brian D. Swanson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-appellate-procedure frivolous-sanction income-tax insular-cases puerto-rico territorial-status uniformity-clause unincorporated-territory Has Puerto Rico become an incorporated Territory and become fully subject to the Constitution's Uniformity Clause when collecting the Federal Income T…
22-1234 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author…
22-990 Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit has statutory authority to deny oral argument to indigent and unrepresented litigants by applying incorrect standards, in co…
22-5587 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability from a specifically chosen circuit judge?
22-5089 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances grand-jury-investigation mandamus pro-se-litigation standing writ-of-mandamus Whether a prima facie case under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act or 18 U.S.C. § 1512 establishes a clear and indisputable right t…
21-815 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Bruce S. Rogow, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts jurisdictional-limits notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-documents standing Has a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the relevance of the resetting of the end date for the filing of the Notice of Appeal under FRAP …
20-7657 David Erike MacLloyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circuit failed to apply the Pro-Se-Litigant-Standard to a Pro-Se-Defendant's-Pleadings
20-7540 Anthony V. Caiby v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-court-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-error jurisdiction opinions pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process standing Was the Circuit Court in err when it dismissed this case without Mr. Caiby ever having an opponent?
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
19-8867 Leonard Lashun Bradley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure district-court-discretion federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction motion-for-permission out-of-time-appeal procedural-error standing time-limits Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Bradley's Motion for Permission to File Out of Time Appeal
19-8555 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error Whether Rehaif error is structural and requires automatic reversal, or is subject to harmless error review
19-8089 Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.…
19-6209 John Hudson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certificate of Appealability in this § 2255 case
18-1118 Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law Whether the presumption against federal court subject matter jurisdiction is rebutted by state procedural law
18-737 Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law Whether a federal court should certify an issue of state law to the highest state court
18-5925 Dean Loren v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-filing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct public-forum standing state-actor Whether the lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings in failing to file an appeal under FRAP Rule 4, …