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25-6791 David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States First Circuit 2026-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t…
25-951 Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court 1. May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congress's command (co…
25-6295 Caleb L. McGillvary v. Nicholas Scutari, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review legal-standing 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir, L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportun…
25-622 Office and Professional Employees International Union v. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules intervention labor-law nlrb writ-of-certiorari Whether leave to intervene to file a petition for a writ of certiorari may properly be denied for a failure to show "exceptional" circumstances and "i…
25-6251 Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportu…
25-5981 Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib…
25-483 Edward Jacob Lang, et al. v. Daniel Thau, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules incarceration-rights judicial-discretion service-of-process The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—reciting its awareness that the Petitioners /Plaintiffs were incarcerated and even some in soli…
25-473 Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules judicial-discretion responsive-pleading 1. Whether a federal district court's refusal to enter a clerk's default and default judgment against a defendant who has failed to file a responsiv…
25-445 E&I Global Energy Services, Inc., et al. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-assignment expert-testimony federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Whether the district court violated the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 39(b) by denying petitioners' timely motion for a jur…
25A375 Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims Fifth Circuit 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-appeal federal-rules jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se time-bar Question not identified.
25-352 Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-24 Granted Response RequestedRelisted (3) affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-discretion pleading-rules summary-judgment Where a defendant has filed an answer without pleading an affirmative defense, may the defendant nonetheless assert that affirmative defense as the ba…
25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions 1. Whether a federal district judge commits judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders stating that a plaintiff both "failed to appear" at a he…
25-5451 Zephaniah S. Edwards v. Bland Management, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure district-court due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules virginia-law Question I: Whether under Virginia Law, when determining the majority of motions for this case, can unfair, unjust and biased decisions be made by de…
25-5359 Robert Joyce v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP arbitration-award collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employment-termination federal-rules labor-relations 1. Should Petitioner have been foreclosed from challenging the alleged fraud in Federal Court pursuant to 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act be…
25A155 Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment Question not identified.
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii "Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil P…
25-5146 Ahmad Abouammo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Granted Amici (6)Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-rules indictment prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations venue-statute 1. Whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute's intent element "contemplates" effects that coul…
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment This Court's precedent is clear that federal courts "should generally not depart from the usual practice under the Federal Rules on the basis of perce…
24A1270 Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review Question not identified.
24-6973 James Arthur Meeks, III v. Alvin DeBouse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied IFP constitutional-search due-process federal-rules judicial-review procedural-error search-and-seizure Question not identified.
24-1008 Justicia Rizzo v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied civil-procedure court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules judicial-discretion service-of-process 1. Whether the Petitioner, JUSTICIA RIZZO is entitled to Default Judgement. 2. Whether Eastern District Court Judge, David L. Bunning abused discreti…
24-6648 James A. Wolfe v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules judicial-discretion legal-error ^-ec> IdcdtS 6^ cP -fir- +hjum)d<5^ X05 -VW DOtfdoo^ 6 f P^n/T^U^o/c ■ On Mi da^L,J -fimt in error,\, 2. IM 0 4-W UrC,4c6 S-Mes c5 1 isMr? cJ- Co^rc-…
24-839 Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules inherent-power judicial-discretion mandamus I. Whether a district court may rely on its "inherent power" to contravene an express provision of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 16, where t…
24-730 Robert H. Gravatt, III v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction court-procedure federal-rules reconsideration-motion rule-4 time-limit Whether the 28-day limit to toll a postjudgment reconsideration motion of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(4)(A) is jurisdictional.
24-6218 Anthony McCarary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness To determine whether a sentencing issue is preserved, "The question is simply whether the claimed error was 'brought to the court's attention." Holgui…
24-608 Daniel Montes, Jr. v. Bertha A. Tibbs Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-assignment federal-rules jurisdiction precedent-conflict summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision conflicts with this Court's binding precedent in Caribbean Mills, Inc., 394 U.S. 823 (1969), footnote 9 (citation…
24-6041 Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Second Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing? 2. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Proce…
24-5860 Elliot Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure due-process federal-rules fifth-amendment rule-60 (1) As to whether the Uhited States Court of Appeals 11th Circuit (USCAll) abused it's discretion, in it's opinion, that a Federal Rule of Civil Proce…
24A402 Carl Ezekiel Woods v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied constitutional-right extension-of-time federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5749 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court 1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE LOWER COURT DECISION BASED ON THE ASSERTIONS OF FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM, FAILURE…
24-5711 Jesse Regalado v. Town of Trion, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-rights copyright-law eminent-domain federal-rules governmental-immunity judicial-procedure Does FR 60(b)! and FR 60(d)(3) protect petitioners from judgments that are fraudulent and filled with mistakes? 2. Does "copyright inhere in authorsh…
24-358 Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment "Like the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are as binding as any statute duly enacted by Congress, and federa…
24-5412 Derrick Hills v. Richard A. Roble, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-procedure federal-rules motion-for-relief rule-60b zoom-deposition When the United States had not shown by clear, concise and adequate evidence that Petitioner acted in bad faith when he appeared at his deposition via…
24-5327 Daniel Lopez, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules revocation-hearing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b) defines the procedure for supervised release revocation hearings. The Ninth Circuit has split from other ci…
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 Question not identified.
24A112 David Hatchigian v. ABCO, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules good-cause pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension Question not identified.
24A109 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar Question not identified.
24-30 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process employment-law federal-rules motion-to-dismiss plausibility plausibility-requirement pleading-standards pleadings 1. When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under the standard set in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009) and applied in a broader context in…
24A26 William Hudson v. James T. Vaughn, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-7738 Terrill Goods v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver 1. Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim…
23-7433 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-7353 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim federal-rules in-forma-pauperis motion-to-dismiss res-judicata sovereign-immunity 1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY DISMISSING THE COMPLAINT BASED UPON THE CLAIMS THAT THE PETITIONER FAILED TO STATE A CLAIM, FA…
23-1174 Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) ("Rule 704(a)") allow an expert to opine that a person's conduct complied with the person's legal duties? Does R…
23A973 Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
23-7285 Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion manifest-error prejudice procedural-standard standard-of-review Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the District Court to apply a heightened standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur…
23-7197 Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing 1) Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under …
23A894 Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation Question not identified.
23-6900 Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F…
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 1. Whether in overview of the textual language set forth in Fed. R. App. P 4(a)(5)(A) (ii) did Congress afford differing terms allowing the lower cour…
23-777 Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court First Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger 1. Since Maine's Attorney General: Aaron Frey, "declined to participate" for the entire 293-day duration of this case while it was before the United S…
23A548 Mary M. Mooney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete circuit-court clerk-error federal-rules motion-for-reconsideration pro-se timely-filing The decision of the Fourth Circuit presents an important question that warrants this Court's review. In this case, the record establishes the pro se l…
23-6155 Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12(a)(1)(A) 18-usc-1964(c) civil-procedure default-judgment dismissal-motion equal-protection federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racketeering-statute standing Whether a plaintiff is entitled under Fed.R.Civ.Pro. 55 to award of a default judgment after defendants have failed to provide an answer to a complain…
23-6015 Kwame Ali Askia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-rule constitutional-law continuing-offense exculpatory-evidence federal-rules federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-protocol statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
23-515 Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Utrecht-America Holdings, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-rights rule-12(b)(6) rule-56 summary-judgment Is the Seventh Circuit correct in its view (contrary to that of other courts of appeals) that a district court may, in response to a motion made pursu…
23-5844 Loretta J. Alford v. Jeffrey Koses, Chairman, Committee for Purchase/AbilityOne, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-court-system federal-rules standing witness witness-examination Under the Constitution the 14th Amendment it gives everyone equal protection of the law, so why am I required to comply with all federal rules and reg…
23-5564 Trent Steven Griffin, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jury-trial motion-to-dismiss procedural-misconduct standing 1. Whether Honorable Jorge Solis (retired), and now Honorable Ed Kinkeade, District Court Judge, had the power or authority or there was an abuse of d…
23-5352 Cassandra McGuire v. Highmark Holdings, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-rules stare-decisis summary-judgment Did the Defendant Point out Defects in respect to the Motion for More Definite Statement Doc 14 and 15, Case 3:19-cv-00902? Do they have authority to…
23-5345 Henry Robledo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim?
23-5337 Noel Brown v. State Correctional Institution at Somerset, Administration Office, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-rules default-judgment due-process federal-rules inmate-accounts notice-of-appearance standing stare-decisis 1. Does the substantial holding in case on point Commonwealth v. Spotz, No.9 MD 2008 . In which the Commonwealth Court, Senior Judge Kelly, held that …
23-5215 Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-rules financial-gain judicial-misconduct legal-malpractice oath-of-office summary-judgment The Petitioner Aisha Wright conducted an overall review of my case record and Concluded newly substantial evidence that was not supported by the Admin…
23-5212 DeAndra Stephenson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence notice-requirement standing sua-sponte-dismissal Question not identified.
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 1. The question presented is: Whether Petitioner Daniel Coleman Rule 60 is timely under Federal rules of Procedure Rule 60? 2. The question presented…
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-1104 Shawn Talbot v. Louis Eric Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process facial-challenge federal-court federal-rules jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations pleading-requirements standing The United States District Court, District of Nevada lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 2-09- CR-0078, and 2-10 'CR-00520 for the reasons below: …
22-7130 Timothy Fletcher v. United States First Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. …
22-6630 John Butler v. Howard Sissem, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure correctional-facility federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing prisoner-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third Circuit, did in fact have jurisdiction concerning Petitioners' appeal under the Federal Rul…
22-6532 Alfred E. Caraffa, aka Alfred Erik Caraffa v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules habeas-corpus state-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction 1) A writ corpus (ANKJC^^^u.'^or^CiUcA <d?.\<vy£ck ^ "{"cd -H/i<2L 'Ou.c ^CiCtSS Uo*.Ki a.»*H Ccju^I Le&<> O5? 4^ rZH"^ 4 /^AitrslC^ A\C.N]\ Ci-^r 4W_…
22-570 Richard Y. Kim v. Hawaii Office of Elections, et al. Hawaii 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process election-certification election-regulations elections federal-rules judicial-discretion state-rules state-sovereignty voting-machines If this honorable US Supreme Court determines Elections Office of Hawaii (EOH) failed to follow State Rules and Regulations and due process, e.g. fail…
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching QUESTION 1: Should Arbitrators deciding a Federal case have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure …
22-483 Paige Lee, et al. v. Anthony Lawrence Collection, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied civil-procedure federal-rules infringement joinder licensing nonparty-joinder rule-19 standing trademark trademark-joinder trademark-licensing Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 19(a), the joinder of IP owners/licensors as plaintiffs alongside licensees is required to prevent double recov…
22-456 Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a…
22-243 Museum of Fine Arts, et al. v. David L. de Csepel, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-14 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion federal-rules foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunity international-comity republic-of-philippines-v-pimentel rule-19 sovereign-defense (1) Whether non-immune foreign sovereign entities may raise a defense of international comity (exhaustion) when the defense is not barred by the FSIA,…
22-5567 Lamar Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver 1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to…
22-235 Paul S. Morrissey, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (2) appellate-circuit-split case-termination civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-standard federal-rules prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review statute-of-limitations willful-noncompliance Whether a discretionary dismissal without prejudice, which nevertheless functions as a dismissal with prejudice because it would end a case forever, i…
22-5529 Anthony H. Lett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states standing 1. Did. Court of appeals error when denying Petitioner's Rehaif v.: United States , 139 S.Ct. 204. 2. Was Petitioner 's ineffective assistance claim …
22-5258 Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) Question not identified.
22-5254 William Paul Burch v. Mark X. Mullen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii bankruptcy-judge constitutional-violation federal-rules in-forma-pauperis sanction-fees unconstitutional-order vexatious-litigant There are no vexatious litigant rules or statutes currently in effect in Federal law, only in state statutes. Therefore, can a non-Article III bankrup…
22-89 Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c…
22-5135 Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to …
21-1546 Caroline S. Alasagas v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State Fourth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction court-procedures due-process federal-agency federal-rules legal-standing petition-for-rehearing standing With respect to the Laws of the United States of America under the U.S. Constitution of 1776, the Petitioner filed a Complaint for a Civil Case, compr…
21-1541 Quannah L. Harris v. Jerry Biddle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-limitations standing 1. Does Rule 4(a)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure limit equitable relief as it is part of the broad powers granted to the Federal Courts? 2. W…
21-8033 Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
21-8007 In Re Michael David Hower 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states plea-withdrawal Has AEDPA created an unconstitutional barrier that has rendered the petitioners remedy under 28 U.S.C. §2255 inadequate or ineffective to test the leg…
21-7946 Jesse Manuel Skinner v. GPCH-GP, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunctive-relief pro-se section-1983 standing without-prejudice 1) Whether Pro se Plaintiff has a lawful statutory right pursuant to Federal Civil Rule 41 to withdraw "without prejudice" an earlier filed Section 19…
21-7742 Marvel Jones v. John M. Carter, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-review criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules legal-ruling pleading prejudice res-judicata standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
21-1209 Jennifer B. Miller v. The Bank of New York Mellon, Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure free-speech judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards standing summary-judgment A. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN RULING THAT COUNTS II, III, V, VI, VIII and IX SHOULD BE DISMISSED PURSUANT To FED.R.CIV. P. 12(B)(6)? B. WHET…
21-7247 Kevin Herriott v. Lieutenant Jackson Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-courts federal-rules legal-mail mail-room standing statutory-provisions 1)WHETHER THE CLAIMANT IS ENTITLED TO OFFER EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT HIS CLAIMS?
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver I. This Court has clarified that waiver is the intentional relinquishment/abandonment of a known right. No federal rule specifies deadlines to object …
21-1047 Annick Roy, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Guy Veilleux, Deceased, et al. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company First Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Amici (1) appeal appeal-tolling bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure district-court federal-rules judicial-review title-11 1. The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure govern procedure in "cases under title 11 of the United States Code." Fed. R. Bankr. P. 1001. Does the te…
21-6881 Aaron J. Bressi v. Tracy McCloud, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals-court civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-dismissal public-interest standing subpoena-service 1. How does both U.S. District and U.S. Appeals Court motions for appointment of Counsel get dismissed and not be granted pursuant to rule C28 U.S.C. …
21-875 Harry Barnett v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-power local-rule local-rules procedural-authority separation-of-powers Whether a district judge has the power to enact a local rule that contravenes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
21-842 Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards 1. May allegations made in support of the claim that a case should proceed as a class action be struck from a pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Civ…
21-832 Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove The question presented is: 1. Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with this Court's decision in Shady Grove? In pa…
21-6497 Hye-Young Park v. Colin S. Bruce Seventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alternative-remedies due-process false-statements federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-act judicial-immunity judicial-process (1) Whether a judge knowingly replacing facts with false statements is a judicial act, which is a function normally performed by a judge. (2) Whether…
21-771 Justin Herrera v. Theresa Cleveland, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure identity-of-parties john-doe mistake-of-identity notice-requirement pleading-amendment relation-back Does Rule 15(c)(1)(C) categorically exclude relation back if the plaintiff initially used John Doe placeholders in the complaint due to inadequate kno…
21-654 Judith Frei, et al. v. Taro Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. Second Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion pleading pleading-standards standing Whether, consistent with Due Process and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15, a court has discretion to dismiss a plaintiff's complaint under Federal R…
21-6127 In Re Howard Griffith 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-rules habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation What was the reason for not making application for writ of habeas corpus to the district court of the district in which I am being held? (Rule 20.4[a]…
21-595 Bruce Alexander v. Anheuser-Busch, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process employee-contacts federal-rules in-rem-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss personal-jurisdiction sales subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Western District Court erred by not allowing the Declaration by Kristin M. Byrne, an employee of Anheuser-Busch, LLC, et.al. be considered …
21-6032 Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court in direct contrave…
21-5844 James Malcolm Hale v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver Whether, in a federal criminal prosecution, a defendant who has not reserved in writing his right to appellate court review of an adverse determinatio…
21-5818 Cynthia Lozano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judgment judgment-amendment legal-rights notice-of-appeal time-to-file Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly split from the well-established rule of the Court and other Circuits that changes to the legal rights and obligat…
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules with their decision to render unappeal…
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ…
21-156 American Contractors Supply, LLC v. HD Supply Construction Supply, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial material-fact summary-judgment Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 permit the court to weigh competing evidence of a material fact from the moving party to grant summary judgmen…
21-51 Central Payment Co., LLC v. Custom Hair Designs by Sandy, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification contract-interpretation contractual-rights-and-obligations federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-defenses rule-23 rules-enabling-act Whether a class may be certified under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the class claims turn on materially different contractual …
20-8177 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process federal-rules informa-pauperis judicial-procedure pro-se-plaintiff rehabilitation-act retaliation standing 1. Can the federal courts ignore the Federal Rules? 2. Are the federal courts subject to the Rehabilitation Act and the American 's With Disabilities…
20-8056 Aaron J. Bressi v. Tracy McCloud, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amended-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-justice due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-for-appointment public-issue standing I. How does this motion for appointment of counsel or dismissal not be granted pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1) of the Federal Rules of C…
20-1591 Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation 1. Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the absolute qualified immunity? Which is luring, hiding, lying, cheating, stealing, RICO and committing f…
20-7762 Biner Ma v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules jurisdiction misrepresentation reliance standing Whether a plaintiff has standing to sue while she did not act in reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation but another party acted in reliance on …
20-7689 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misconstruction 1). Does the court's misconstruction of the habeas corpus claim violate due process of law? 2). Does the court's failure to adjudicate the merits of …
20-1389 Kaboni Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10 affords litigants multiple tools to ensure a complete appellate record. Rule 10(c) states that if a hearing tra…
20-7634 Nevia Abraham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-review rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the District Court's February 13, 2019 Order granting Petitioner's Federal Ru…
20-1343 Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur 1. Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in …
20-1323 Gregory Patmythes v. City of Madison, Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied appellate-rights civil-procedure clerk court-accessibility due-process electronic-filing federal-rules judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant procedural-failure standing Whether a pro se litigant who in good faith followed the procedure and practice of the district court when filing posttrial motion(s) can be penalized…
20-7541 Billian Jo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mee Jin-Jo v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure clerk-authority due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion judicial-oversight summary-order All Circuit Courts have various Local Rules or Internal Operating Procedures (IOPs) that use Summary Orders to reduce judicial workload. The Second C…
20-7528 Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied IFP appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. …
20-7303 John Joseph Barrera v. Jessica Newsome, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner judicial-review pleading-standard prisoner-rights pro-se standing WHETHER OR NOT THE COURTS BELOW HELD THE PRO. SE. PRISONER PLAINTIFF TO A HIGHER STRINGENT STANDARD OF PLEADING BY DISMISSING HIS PRO. SE. PLEADINGS W…
20-7010 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines 1) WHETHER THE SENTENCE WAS IMPOSED UNDER U.S.S.G. §2Dl.l(c) TO ESTABLISH THE BASE OFFENSE, THE GUIDELINES ARE IN REAL SENSE THE BASIC FOR THE SENTEN…
20-7001 Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffrey Brennen, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-29 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-rules free-speech judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standards standing 1. How does this Amended Complaint not 2. How does this Amended Complaint not be granted pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2) which freely gives the …
20-6828 Mwenda Murithi v. Bryan Gleckler, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP ANOER-Son-v.-LIBERTY-LOBBY civil-procedure credibility-determinations deposition-testimony district-court due-process federal-rules material-fact summary-judgment venue Whether or not the district court and the 7th circuit court of appeals superseded this Court's ruling in ANDERSON V LIBERTY LOBBY INC., 477 U.S. 242, …
20-820 Denise Jackson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Second Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-programs federal-rules hearing-notice judicial-fairness Is evidence the rule of law a part of our constitution? Does the court have the right to choose who benefits from the constitutional protections? Is…
20-625 Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's…
20-619 R. S., et al., Individually and on Behalf of Their Son, A. S. v. Board of Education Shenendehowa Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure autism civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limitations Whether an appellate court may sue sponte dismiss an appeal which has been filed within the time limitations stated in the Federal Rules of Appellate …
20-393 Alex Rahmi v. Pill & Pill, PLLC West Virginia 2020-09-25 Denied asset-liquidation bankruptcy-fraud class-action due-process federal-rules foreclosure-fraud foreclosure-scheme retaliation whistleblower-protection Statement of Appellate Turisdiction Appellate Jurisdiction is referred to power of Higher Court to revise lower's court decision, based on discovery …
20-5817 Thomas Lewis v. Jonathan Decker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules grievance-procedure jurisdictional-challenge procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
20-5778 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules forfeiture forfeiture-order jurisdiction money-judgment notice-of-appeal time-limits 1. Whether a district court exceeds its jurisdiction by entering a preliminary order of forfeiture and an order of money judgment beyond the time limi…
20-334 City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review Whether, as the Fifth Circuit alone has held, district courts "lack[] discretion to deny or reduce" appellate costs deemed "taxable" in district court…
20-5639 TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8), is his claim …
20-5604 Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine Under this Court's decision in United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1993), does a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the governme…
20-278 Marguerite Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction mandate-issuance standing Does the 11th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due…
20-235 Edward J. Mierzwa v. Arkadiusz M. Dudek, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-manipulation due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racketeering supervisory-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction unlawful-process As the Court of Last Resort, will the Supreme Court of the United States exercise its supervisory powers to remedy the unlawful process, enacted by th…
20-5300 Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court
20-96 United States v. Kane County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Relisted (5) circuit-conflict civil-procedure environmental-advocacy environmental-concerns federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intervention intervention-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action standing Whether an advocacy organization's environmental concerns qualify as an "interest" required by Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure f…
20-5098 Mikhail Tsukerman v. Western Community Unit School District No. 12 Seventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-uniformity res-judicata standing uniformity-of-opinion 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the Courts of Appeals are split (including the United States Court of Appeals for…
20-5061 Philip Emiabata v. BB&T, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice pleadings pro-se-litigant rule-12d summary-judgment 1. Whether the district court is required under Rule 12(d) of the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure to either exclude matters outside the pleadings or…
19-8829 Anastasia Purnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing SHOULDENT A COURT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS ABUSE OF DESCRETION WHEN IT FAILS TO FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW AS IT IS WRITTEN??? SHOULDENT A RULE OF LA…
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-1328 Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary District of Columbia 2020-06-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1) criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure grand-jury impeachment impeachment-trial judicial-proceeding legislative-body rule-6(e) rule-interpretation Whether an impeachment trial before a legislative body is a "judicial proceeding" under Rule 6(e)(3)(E)(i) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
19-8453 John Christopher Dobbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court 1. Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely/explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with …
19-7892 Frank Roark v. New York New York 2020-03-06 Denied IFP bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules judicial-procedure new-york-law standing 1. Is Frank Roorith the BAR part and whlly in and of His other in and of Anger 2 YES 2. Is Fronk Roor the BABin pert and undly iy ond K Ys matter in …
19-7796 Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr…
19-7645 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6).
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-993 Irma Rosas v. Austin Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-interpretation motion-to-reopen (1) WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S CLAIMS WHEN IT DENIED HER MOTION TO REOPEN HER APPEAL, CONTRARY TO FEDERAL RULE OF APPELL…
19-7536 James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation 1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t…
19-7454 Kenneth James Barfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen…
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-787 Michael Lynn Robertson v. Banner Bank Tenth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-procedure claim-processing-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-requirement jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal whether-an-untimely-motion-to-alter-or-amend-a-jud An appeal for a judgment of a bankruptcy court "shall be taken in the same manner as appeals in civil proceedings generally are taken to the courts of…
19-6952 Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Judy Gilmore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules procedural-compliance service-of-process standing summons time-limitation time-limits timely-answer waiver After waning deferdnts sirvice of summons, ore they 1. requred to comply with FeD.R. C.. P. (a(A) or 12C (A i When Gg timely answers? And if me anouer…
19-6825 Jorge Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal When the court does not file the summons and compliant for a Petitioner that was granted to proceed in forma pauperis, dose it violate Petitioners due…
19-6756 Rene Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-notification appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-notification dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure legal-procedure notice rule-42(b) rule-42b standing [1] Does the plain language of Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure require counsel, when retained, to notify Appellant of dismiss…
19-6724 Lorie Anne Gunderson Zarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore Lee Gunderson v. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, et al. California 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty harmless-error Question not identified. statute-of-limitations constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-rules fiduciary-duty judicial-review state-judiciary statute-of-limitations united-states-v-throckmorton I. Where through breach of the fiduciary; no cause has ever been tried on the merits, no adversary trial has ever been provided, no decision has ever …
19-6589 Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review KENDRA BRANTLEY: I. Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions …
19-6537 Christopher Everson v. Theresa Lantz, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules final-judgment frivolous frivolous-standard hearing judicial-discretion prima-facie-case rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing The Petitioner presents two questions: In Neitzke v. Williams 490 U.S. 319 at 325 (1989), quoting from Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), The…
19-579 William Boateng v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) rule-12(d) summary-judgment Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(d) provides, "If, on a motion under Rule 12(b)(6) or 12(c), matters outside the pleadings are presented to and not …
19-6471 Diego Alonso Lozano-Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-determination constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standing voluntariness voluntary-plea Whether the Court made the Constitutionally required determination that the guilty plea was truly voluntary, whereas it failed to comply with the rigi…
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment In Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. U. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 588 (1986), this Court held that "ambiguous" circumstantial evidence—evid…
19-6248 In Re Warren Parks 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure sanction-hearing sanctions standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Sanction procedural Prerequisite of F.R.C.P. Federal Rules Civil Procedure, the order of July 05" 2017, NO. 17-2342, William J. Bauer, Richard A. P…
19-393 Estelle Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure district-court due-process due-process-clause evidence evidence-submission federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment After a court of appeals vacated summary judgment in its favor, the Government filed a new summary judgment motion against a defendant taxpayer, with …
19-5714 Dianne Michele Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings 1. If the courts are to regard the Constitution and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, is it the Constitution, and n…
19-5683 Isaiah Jermale Legall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-deadline appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion standing time-limit 1. Whether equitable tolling applies to the time limit to appeal set forth in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)(1)(A).
19-207 David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of FRCP Rule 37, can be circumvented by a court ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent the l…
19-5553 Angela Roy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards Whether the widely criticized "inextricably intertwined" or "intrinsic evidence" family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf…
19-157 Eric Baggett v. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard Whether the sufficiency of a pleading should be held to a heightened pleading standard requiring facts of each element of the claim when the claim is …
19-5399 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP cestui-que civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal dismissals federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure local-procedural-rules local-rules pendent-jurisdiction standing (pendent jurisdiction): a. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedures of the Court of Appeals for the Second C…
19-5057 William Fletcher v. Corizon Health Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure grievance-procedures judicial-review prison-grievance standing 1. Did the Plaintiff Exhaust All Administrative Remedies of Idaho Department of Corrections Prison Policy of Grievance and Informal Resolution? 2. Di…
18-9780 Christopher Hannigan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts?
18-1560 Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that "defendants timely responded to Plaintiffs amended complaint …
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines WHETHER THE HONORABLE JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY JAMES BOHLING UTILIZE TWO-INAPPLICABLE STATUTORY ENHANCEMENTS ENACTED BY THE UNITED S…
18-9590 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-33-b-1 criminal-procedure-33-b-2 federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure giglio giglio-violations napue napue-violations new-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct I Whether evidence of Giglio/Napue violations can be utilized as new evidence under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 33(b)(1) or if it is limited t…
18-9276 In Re Jesus Avila 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure miscarriage-of-justice motion-recharacterization rule-60 rule-60(b)(6) standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE RE-CHARACTERIZATION OF JESUS AVILA'S PROPERLY FILED RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION CONSTITUTES AN IMPERMISSIBLE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
18-8914 Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, which states "the Petitioner may submit …
18-8363 Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal dismissal federal-rules greenlaw-v-united-states gvr in-forma-pauperis neitzke-v-williams party-presentation-rule sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal May the Second Circuit dismiss a criminal appeal sua sponte under Neitzke v. Williams and 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) without briefing by any party and witho…
18-8163 Pierre Andre Basson v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules motion-to-dismiss notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-plaintiff summary-judgment When considering a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon which Relief May be Granted Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(…
18-8144 Sami Albra v. Selene Finance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure injunctive-relief judicial-discretion standing Does the 9th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due …
18-1086 Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated…
18-7908 Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing Federal rule 39. (in forma Pauperis) [FP. Is an [FP that is granted by District Court (Eastern District of Pa.) transferable to another district Court…
18-7319 Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards Whether the court of appeals' decision, purporting to follow the principles elucidated by this Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S. Ct. 19…
18-885 Bennie Kennedy, et al. v. Schneider Electric, fka Square D Company Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 case-consolidation civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleadings standing summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether or not this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning which affirmed th…
18-7040 Adam L. Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-codes court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing state-codes state-courts Is Americas state courts allowed have concurrent jurisdiction with federal courts and state court judges allowed facilitate correct procedures cause w…
18-7009 Jimmy Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure notice notice-requirement procedural-due-process supervised-release third-circuit Whether Mr. Davis was denied procedural due process as required under the Constitution of the United States and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedur…
18-6586 Bruce Wood v. Delaware Delaware 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-rules judicial-review new-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief privileges-and-immunities Does Delaware's "Amended" Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 (post-conviction motion) and/or Delaware State Courts' decisions, make or enforce Laws/Rules…
18-582 Stephen Yagman v. Michael J. Colello Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied anti-SLAPP civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure iqbal rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent twombly May a state anti-SLAPP statute be used to dismiss a claim in federal court, when its application is contrary to the Rules Enabling Act, 28 U.S.C. § 20…
18-6300 Cheryl Singleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-stipulation presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing Does the filing of joint stipulation(s) as to the presentence investigation report entitle the defendant to allocution on the (A)(i), (ii) ?
18-326 Estate of Bernice Goldberg by Executor Gary Goldberg v. Philip Nimoityn, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perjury procedural-due-process sanctions trial-evidence 1. In National Hockey League v Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc., 427 U.S. 639 (1976), this Court ruled that the failure to comply with Rule 26 and 37 of…
18-316 Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion…
18-5758 Annamalai Annamalai v. Parvathi Sivanadiyan Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-68 dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice federal-rule-68 federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules frivolous frivolous-complaint judgment-offer mailbox-rule offer-and-acceptance offer-of-judgment prejudice prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing Whether a district court can dismiss a complaint filed under 9 U.S.C.4 as frivolus and can dismiss with prejudice, after " the' mailing " of an "uncon…
18-5575 In Re Allah 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review malicious-prosecution mandamus standing (1) Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 48. Dismissal. (a) By the Government. The government may dismiss an indictment, information or complaint:…
18-115 Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion…
18-5125 Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro…
25A439 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 28-usc-1447 diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules remand removal sua-sponte Whether due process and controlling circuit precedent require a district court to permit jurisdictional discovery before remanding a removed case when…