federal-court-jurisdiction

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25-6880 Shariff Ahmad Jones v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights federal-court-jurisdiction personal-injury-law racial-discrimination section-1981 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether this court must reverse its decision in Goodman v. Lukens Steel Co., 482 U. S. 656 (1987) that places federal court reliance on state perso…
24A1223 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim contracts-clause federal-court-jurisdiction section-1983 sixth-circuit statutory-remedy Question not identified.
24-6598 Rodney Boyles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction statutory-provisions Question not identified.
24-5631 Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review citizenship-petition federal-court-jurisdiction naturalization-jurisdiction uscis-procedure 1. Whether the district court has exclusive jurisdiction in cases filed pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c) (understandable from Ninth Circuit opinion) or …
24-5203 James B. Jordan v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified.
23-7340 Kelton Vondre Yates v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court-jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations WHgTKiRThe Petitioner ih^ Statute df LimrrATidNSENTtfU 0 To tGMWbie TolUtic, IH ILUiSdhlxuQtiQ 1? WHETHER 1ME 57H CiKCaiT HA5 THEREfty, QSCiOirfG Ai…
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts 1. Conflict concerns the international sovereignty of the United States of America and sovereignty of all U.S. Courts effecting millions of homeowners…
23-5909 Eric A. Zevely v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 article-iii-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-conviction judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-183 Eastern Pacific Shipping PTE, Limited, dba EPS v. Kholkar Vishveshwar Ganpat Fifth Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied civil-procedure conflict federal-court-jurisdiction foreign-anti-suit-injunction foreign-anti-suit-injunctions frustration hardship injunctive-relief litigation-hardship procedural-conflict standard u.s.-litigation Whether a federal court may properly issue an injunction requiring the termination of litigation in a foreign court based solely on a conclusion that …
23-102 Marvin Carrera v. Rhonda K. Forsberg Ninth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations eleventh-amendment federal-court-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-federal-court 1.) Can a Judge use the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to divert the State Federal Court from looking in to violation of civil and Constitutional violations?…
22-7648 In Re William M. Windsor 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure exceptional-circumstances federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-order in-forma-pauperis judicial-review jurisdiction-challenge state-court-authority void-orders I. Is a federal court order void when jurisdiction is never determined? If so, every order of the DISTRICT COURT and 11TH CIRCUIT are invalid, and thi…
22-1098 David Parsons Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts property-rights retroactive-application retroactivity statute-of-limitations takings takings-litigation 1. When Knick changed the world of takings litigation by allowing—for the first time since 1985—a property owner with a claim for unconstitutional tak…
22-7199 William Paul Burch v. Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc. Texas 2023-04-04 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court community-property federal-court-jurisdiction lien lien-extinguishment standing standing-issue summary-judgment texas-constitution The lien on this property was extinguished under the Texas Constitution because neither the loan nor the Deed of Trust was signed by Petitioner, Willi…
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation First Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection 1. Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court? Or, the case law of this Honorable Court is merely persuasiv…
22-5268 Anthony Peters v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus limitations-defense petition-dismissal procedural-timeliness state-court-review state-courts timeliness (1) Whether a federal court lacks authority, on its own initiative, to dismiss a habeas petition as untimely, once the State's highest court has answe…
21-8220 Mary Alice Nelson-Rogers v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-limitations damages federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction internal-revenue-code moot-controversies mootness standing 1. Involves both constitutional limitations on federal court jurisdiction and prudential limitations on its exercise concerning moot controversies. Th…
21-1571 Rozalyn Ragan, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Phillip Ragan, Deceased v. Melissa Ragan, aka Melissa Hudson Colorado 2022-06-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) after an ERISA plan administrator has fully distr ERISA preempts a claimant's state-law right to th beneficiary-rights benefit-distribution distribution distribution-dispute erisa ERISA-preemption federal-court-jurisdiction life-insurance life-insurance-proceeds plan-administrator preemption state-law state-law-claim In Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan, 555 U.S. 285 (2009), this Court held that ERISA foreclosed a claim against a pl…
21-1334 Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Dismissed Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims 1. Does § 301 of the LMRA preempt claims brought in federal court under federal statutes, like the RICO claims in this case? 2. In interpreting the a…
21-7491 Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729? 2. Dose a Judge have Immunity for their judicial a…
21-983 Rhonda Meisner v. Zymogenetics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-membership diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction incorporated-parent-company legal-ethics limited-liability-company procedural-standing standing 1. Does diversity jurisdiction exist when the sole member of a named Limited Liability Company defendant, is its incorporated parent company? 2. Whet…
21-474 In Re Wisconsin Legislature 2021-09-28 Denied article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature (1) Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute ch…
20-5495 Ruben Sanchez v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights complaint-amendment due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction immunity marginalized-defendants pro-se standing state-actor-immunity 1. Does a Pro Se plaintiff have the right to appointment of counsel for the purpose of amending a complaint, which complaint sought to challenge the d…
20-151 Joe Blessett v. Beverly Ann Garcia Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process federal-contract federal-court-jurisdiction homestead-exemption property-seizure standing title-iv-d 1. Has the Court decision denied Blessett 's U.S. Constitution protected right not to contract into Title IV-D services? 2. Did the 5th Appellate Cou…
19-1411 Barry L. Rupert, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for Stanford Receivership Estate, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction non-receivership-entities ponzi-scheme receivership receivership-estate settlement settlement-bar standing third-party-claims Petitioners were investors who lost their investment in the Stanford International Bank Ponzi scheme. Petitioners brought suit in state court against …
19-8603 Melvin P. White, Jr. v. Internal Revenue Service Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-docket-entry civil-procedure constitutional-challenge district-court-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-review notice-and-certification procedural-standards record-keeping standard-of-review Did THE US.DISIRET CF. CITRK EAI TH ENTER PETITION FoR REVIEW ST. CT, CASENG LXCYDI6T FUOCE ORDER FoR MONEY OWED IN THE cai DOCKET ? PCLoRDIWE TC FR …
19-1153 Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied 28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments This case presents two straightforward questions: 1) the limits the Constitution and Congress impose on the jurisdiction of lower federal courts; and …
19-7351 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-14th-15th-amendments 14th-amendment-property 8th-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment amendment-interpretation black-negro-colored-citizenship citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-questions-28-usc-1331-1332 jurisdiction moorish-american-national property racial-identity-rights standing 1. Do the United Siates Constiiution, the United States Congress and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have Averoment of Jurisdiction…
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A …
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-1532 Timothy J. Johnston v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction privity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments The Rooker-Feldman doctrine prevents "the lower federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over cases brought by 'state-court losers' challenging 'st…
18-9187 Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules (1) Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subseque…
18-9095 Michael Hall v. Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction hospital-status medical-negligence mental-health mental-hygiene-law new-york-state section-1915-review standing Clarification of the factual, exact and/or precise status of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center as a "Private Hospital"? As insisted fro…
18-8339 Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co…
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether it can be presumed given the fact that (1) the USSC in Blackledge clearly stated that guilty plea cases were cognizable for federal review?; W…
18-7044 Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr. v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-review federal-jurisdiction federal-laws-and-statutes habeas-corpus indian-treaties indian-tribes-and-reservations state-habeas-corpus Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's reliance on precedent derived from the state-friendly deferential standard of the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat…
18-6526 In Re Masao Yonamine 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights district-court exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus personal-liberty state-writ unlawful-detention void-judgment writ-of-mandamus POINT I PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 USC 2241(a)(c)(3) SUBMITTED AGAINST THE PERSON(S) WHO HOLDS PETITIONER IN WHAT PETI…
18-159 Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o…