federal-forum

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-707 Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona…
24-150 John R. Stensrud, et ux. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied condemnation federal-forum just-compensation knick-exception res-judicata state-court-litigation Whether the Supreme Court should recognize an exception to res judicata when post-Knick condemnees are denied a federal forum due to timing and state …
24-97 Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied causal-nexus federal-defense federal-forum federal-immunity federal-officer-removal statutory-right Whether the right to remove an action against 'any officer ... for or relating to any act under color of such office,' 28 U.S.C. §1442(a)(1), evaporat…
22-221 Jose Mendoza, Jr. v. Amalgamated Transit Union International, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-forum labor-management-relations-act labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act preemption state-law-claims state-law-preemption union-constitution union-constitutions union-governance Does § 301 of the LMRA completely preempt state law claims and remedies by union members against their unions to enforce union constitutions despite t…
20-5401 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abstention access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection federal-forum judicial-abstention pro-se-litigation standing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the U.S. District Court's abstention from ruling on Sundy's independent claims despite Su…
18-9750 John G. Curry v. Mark Joseph Lopez, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-violations constitutional-deprivation due-process federal-forum federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity mandamus mandamus-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether John G. Curry or someone similarly situated can be denied a federal forum, contrary to standards, by misapplication of doctrines, such as Rook…