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25-6745 Linda Sun v. D.C. Office of Employee Appeals, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-06 Pending IFP administrative-law due-process fraud-on-court judicial-integrity mandate-rule party-presentation 1. Whether a court's inherent power to set aside a judgment for fraud on the court — as preserved in Super. Ct. Civ. R. 60(d) — is subject to a "reaso…
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud …
25-508 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect 1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations —previously adjudicated as l…
25-485 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-10-20 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct 1. Whether the doctrine of judicial immunity protects judges who engage in and facilitated fraud in violation of constitutional due process rights? 2…
25A277 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-10 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-rules fraud-on-court motion-for-leave page-limit pleading-requirements Whether the lower court improperly applied procedural rules that prevented a full and fair review of the petitioner's substantive claims involving fra…
25A197 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete civil-procedure disqualification fraud-on-court judgment-renewal judicial-bias rule-60 Whether a district court judge's alleged bias and a party's claim of fraud on the court warrant vacating a final judgment under Federal Rule of Civil …
25-5106 Milad Shaker v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-court jurisdictional-nullity post-conviction-relief 1. Whether a court may impose sentencing or supervised release after dismissing a criminal case under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) , whe…
24-7516 Darrell Allen Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-26 Denied IFP counsel-denial fraud-on-court habeas-corpus procedural-bars sixth-amendment state-ground Whether Oklahoma's application of successive postconviction procedural bars constitutes an adequate and independent state ground precluding federal re…
24A1167 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-05-30 Application constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court judicial-review procedural-bar rule-60(b) Whether a state court's procedural bar to Rule 60(b) motions alleging fraud on the court violates constitutional due process principles
24-7281 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation First Circuit 2025-05-23 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-prevention custody-definition fraud-on-court habeas-corpus second-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether subjects of abuse prevention orders are 'in custody' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, and whether state courts can permanently terminate Second Amendme…
24-937 Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas Texas 2025-03-03 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-authority Should the United States Supreme Court use its inherent authority to act sua sponte and vacate the prior decisions of the lower courts due to alleged …
24-787 Marco Destin, Inc., et al. v. Shaul Levy, Individually and as Agent of L&L Wings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence-tampering federal-courts fraud-on-court hazel-atlas judicial-integrity Whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. imposes a mandatory duty on federal courts to vacate judgments tain…
24-6055 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP asset-seizure compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court government-motion Whether fraud on the court occurred through improper government motions depriving petitioner of due process and compulsory process rights in asset sei…
24A343 Saaed Moslem v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights fraud-on-court grand-jury judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations Whether prosecutorial misconduct that materially misrepresents facts to a grand jury and deliberately conceals such misconduct warrants dismissal of a…
24A297 Ralph L. Hayes v. Fay Servicing, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-09-26 Presumed Complete civil-procedure fraud-on-court mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-servicer pro-se-plaintiff rule-60 Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a foreclosure based on alleged fraud by a mortgage servicer and trustee under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure…
24-5584 Pierre C. Marc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine due-process fraud-on-court pre-trial-appeal right-not-to-be-tried Whether an appeal of a collateral order based on a defendant's right not to be tried is reviewable under the Collateral Order Doctrine
23-7403 Alex A. Campbell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals conflict-of-interest court-appointed-counsel due-process fraud-on-court government-interference habeas-petition habeas-petitions judicial-conflict-of-interest procedural-due-process sitting-judges Whether procedural due process, due process rights, or the provision due process clause is violated/and or an conflict of interest, when an court appo…
23A828 Benedict C. Ogbodiegwu v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Texas 2024-03-08 Presumed Complete administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-review Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses require judicial review when state administrative proceedings involve alle…
23-6856 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit wrongly denied a COA
23-6414 In Re Joseph Raimondo 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity Whether the United States Eastern District of MI Court erred in granting Respondents qualified immunity after voiding civil case No. 2:01-cv-71352, di…
23-714 Bobby Len Franklin v. BWD Properties 2, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure concealment discovery discovery-concealment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct land-patent officers-of-court patent-rights standing Did the named officers of the court perpetrate fraud to conceal petitioner's patent rights?
23-6288 Carlos Velasquez v. Robert Baldock, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-procedure fed-r-civ-p-59 fed-r-civ-p-60(d) fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-immunity judicial-malpractice new-trial-timing rule-60 Will the Supreme Court of the United States reject Political-Fraud,fraud-and-false-statements-in-official-transactions,when-expressed-by-political-aut…
23-6239 Christopher Everson v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court independent-action judicial-procedure mandate-rule rule-60 timing timing-limitations Is the filing of an independent action under FRCP 60(d)(1) for fraud on the court distinguishable from FRCP 60(b)(3) fraud?
23-6125 Walter Lancaster v. Beats Electronics LLC, et al. California 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-review stare-decisis Whether the denial of a petition for writ of certiorari by the highest state supreme court, followed by a denial of a timely appeal by the state distr…
23-303 Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-opportunity fraud-on-court judge-misconduct judicial-misconduct procedural-rules res-judicata vacatur wage-discrimination Res-Judicata-Application
23-5378 Frank J. Capozzi v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation fourth-amendment franks-hearing fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause search-warrant Was the State search warrant obtained based on fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, and omitted statements
22-7159 Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit QUESTION(S) PRESENTED
22-891 John Earl Erickson, et ux. v. Vanessa Power, et al. Washington 2023-03-16 Denied civil-proceedings client-concealment due-process false-pleadings foreclosure-action forged-documents fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court legal-misrepresentation relief-from-judgments summary-judgment Does fraud on the court committed by officers of the court in civil proceedings violate due process requiring relief from judgments fraudulently procu…
22-6657 Alex Anderson v. Donald J. Trump Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraud-on-court judicial-review res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing Appellant's claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
22-6549 Anne Marie Jordan v. Historic Log Cabins, Inc., et al. South Dakota 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-judicial-misconduct democracy-preservation discrimination fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct misapplication-of-federal-law misapplication-of-state-law state-law-discrimination supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address issues of criminal judicial misconduct, fraud on the court, and the misapplication of fed…
22-6277 Paul E. Pavulak v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-bar rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) section-2255 successive-petition When a petitioner challenges a procedural bar in his 2255 which based on a fraud on the court, may a District Court Judge dismiss this motion as a Suc…
22-499 John Earl Erickson, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-6 Washington 2022-11-28 Denied civil-procedure civil-proceedings due-process false-pleadings foreclosure-action forged-documents fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct relief-from-judgment summary-judgment Does fraud on the court committed by officers of the court in civil proceedings violate due process requiring relief from judgments fraudulently procu…
22-454 Garey Webb v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for CRMSI REMIC Series 2006-03 REMIC Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-03 Oklahoma 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-on-court property-rights Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to address fraud and permitting a foreclosure judgment thro…
22-5960 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equity-proceeding final-order fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action independent-action-in-equity post-judgment-discovery rule-60(d)(3) Whether the dismissal of an independent action in equity seeking to set aside a judgment based on fraud on the court may be considered a final order
22-409 Alexander Moskovits v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-recusal supervisory-power Whether instituting sealed proceedings in a civil case violates Constitutional rights
22-55 Leo Kramer, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-estoppel judicial-misconduct property-rights rule-60-motion standing Should lawyers be allowed to commit fraud upon the court?
21-1493 James Joseph Knochel v. Amy Fackrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud-on-court habeas-corpus next-friend standing vexatious vexatious-litigant whitmore-standard Does Whitmore v. Arkansas require an evidentiary hearing before dismissing a next friend's petition for writ of habeas corpus?
21-1458 EPA Drug Initiative II v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-proceedings patent-invalidation patent-invalidity standing supervisory-power third-party-intervention Questions presented
21-7741 David Mejia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding fraud on the court not a substantive constitutional violation of due process?
21-7364 In Re David Lopez 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court habeas harmless-error judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-prohibition Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of prohibition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1651(a) to prevent further violations of the petitioner's c…
21-7125 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure coram-nobis criminal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 writ-of-coram-nobis Whether a lower court has a duty and obligation to correct a miscarriage of justice caused by fraud on the court, regardless of a harmless error of mi…
21-7099 Edwin Disla v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates of Supreme Court Precedent set…
21-6444 In Re James Joseph Knochel 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus inaccessibility judicial-process medical-rights mental-incompetence next-friend next-friend-standing standing May a next friend be declared vexatious without considering evidence of fraud on the court?
21-6038 In Re Brian David Hill 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitution constitutional-violations district-court due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-rebellion north-carolina supreme-court-authority uncontested-motions Where the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina had systematically and repeatedly deprived a Petitioner of Due Process of Law …
21-6036 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't properly grant a Certificate of Appealability to an improperly dismissed § 2255 Motion/Case asserting Actual In…
21-5652 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-procedure civil-petition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contempt due-process fraud fraud-on-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation standing Whether effective limitations on government power can define fraud on the court and criminal contempt in judicial misrepresentation of citizens' civil…
21-174 David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amended-complaint civil-procedure constitutional-rights fraud fraud-on-court judicial-conflict mandamus pecuniary-interest recusal rule-15 rule-15a standing whether-writ-of-mandamus-should-have-been-granted
21-65 Yvonne Bowers, Sr. v. Lynx Asset Services, LLC New Jersey 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court section-1983 state-action state-actions Whether violations of due process and equal protection of law by state actions present a constitutional challenge and violates Petitioner's civil righ…
21-8 Wilma M. Pennington-Thurman v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-rights due-process fraud-on-court judicial-ethics preclusion priority-rules standing Question not identified.
20-1816 David L. Whitehead v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-review recusal standing Whether the High Court has jurisdiction (Authority) to conduct judicial review
20-8278 L. Powers v. Arthur J. Morburger Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court property-rights Can the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Innocent Persons Thrust in 'Criminal' Courts Rendering False Judgments albeit in Civil Court? When There's no …
20-7494 Kirk A. Simmons v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-issue fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-innocence rule-60 rule-60-motion standing Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's Rule 60 motion, which asserted evidence falsification and Fraud on the Cour…
20-7015 Sabina Leigh Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-violations fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion rule-37 rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b speedy-trial-act Whether discovery violations can constitute fraud on the court
20-917 800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. Third Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Primary …
20-871 In Re Bryant Moore 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 23…
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions Claim-preclusion-issue
20-394 David Alan Schum v. Fortress Value Recovery Fund I, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-precedent officers-of-the-court rule-60 stare-decisis time-bar Whether a claim brought under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(d)(3) as a result of fraud on the court can be time-barred
20-243 James L. Robison v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Florida 2020-08-31 Denied 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court procedural-fairness property-rights standing state-court-procedure state-courts Due-process
20-17 Wade Robertson v. Richard A. Honn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1963 civil-procedure constitutional-challenge federal-judgment-registration federal-preemption fraud-on-court judgment-registration registration-court rendering-court state-proceeding void-judgment younger-abstention Whether a registration court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963, has the power to amend or annul the judgment of the rendering court so registered
20-5009 Curtis Wiggins v. Golden Corral Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights court-partiality defamation-claim due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-on-court judicial-misconduct standing Whether those lower courts' decisions are reversed if Defense Attorney for Respondent's misconduct to defeat Petitioner; supported, only by evidence o…
19-1426 Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
19-8001 Valery Vinarov v. CitiMortgage, Inc. Illinois 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-personhood corporate-power due-process equal-protection equality-before-law fraud-on-court judicial-independence property-ownership property-rights Whether US Constitution equally applicable to all entities in US, including large corporations — Banks
19-7701 Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing Will this court overturn the 9th circuit's denial of proven fraud on the district court and denial of Mr. Kerns' request for judgment by default?
19-1004 Robert James Jaffe v. Brad Sherman, United States Congressman Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) certiorari-review checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-oversight due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct summary-dismissal supervisory-power supreme-court-discretion void-judgment Whether US Supreme Court justices may refuse to enforce FRCP rules and precedent
19-7564 In Re Michael Dewayne Seibert 2020-02-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty-case due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-representation resentencing resentencing-hearing void-judgment Can a defendant raise a claim of fraud on the court pro se when their counsel refuses to do so?
19-958 Bahar Mikhak v. University of Phoenix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response Waived clear-and-convincing-evidence counsel-negligence dismissal-with-prejudice fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court frcp-60(b)(3) frcp-60b new-trial pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process Was the Ninth Circuit's holding wrong for departing from its own precedent and creating a conflict with other circuits over the application of the 'cl…
19-582 Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law
19-6263 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
19-5873 In Re Richard Arjun Kaul 2019-09-09 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction district-court fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption mandamus summary-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court's arbitrary refusal to adjudicate the petitioner's 22 motions for summary judgment was a consequence of judicial corruption…
18-9747 Glenn Damond v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bills-of-credit civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion financial-instrument fraud fraud-on-court judicial-function judicial-misconduct natural-rights plea-agreement trespassing Is it constitutional for the trial court to disguise an investment instrument into a criminal plea agreement, use it to extort the rights of an americ…
18-9717 Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Florida 2019-06-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendment …
18-1363 David G. Morton v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court misprision standing standing-issue summary-judgment tila tila-violation truth-in-lending-act Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment to the respondents despite their documented violation of the Truth in Lending Act, their de…
18-8835 Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional Are the lower courts abusing the Judiciary Act of 1925 to ignore fraud on the court?
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case based on the magistrate judge's fraudulent statements and Huawei's perjured testimony
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness Is a constitutional right of access to the courts being denied when a fraud on a state court decision is used to prove untimeliness when federal court…
18-7731 Anthony Ciavone v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence competency-hearing court-jurisdiction due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defects supervisory-power Whether Supervisory Power of this Court is necessary to investigate and correct an extrinsic fraud upon the lower courts
18-6864 Thomas Whitlow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-complaint criminal-complaint-validity false-statements fraud-on-court indictment perjury probable-cause reckless-disregard subject-matter-jurisdiction sworn-affidavit void-judgment Is the criminal complaint void when it was based on statements from Special Agent Terrance Taylor that were knowingly false and exhibited reckless dis…
18-435 LabMD, Inc. v. Tiversa, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-agency fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court government-fraud hazel-atlas intentional-misrepresentation judicial-procedure mens-rea rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) standing wilful-blindness Whether a judgment obtained by fraud on a court must be set aside
18-6221 Raymond P. Vinnie v. Bruce R. Henry, et al. Massachusetts 2018-10-04 Dismissed IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court litigation-privilege standing state-immunity supremacy-clause whether-private-attorneys-conspiring-with-clerk-of-court-for-favorable-judgment-violates-supremacy-clause
18-5922 Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court res-judicata violated-supreme-court-precedent administrative-law civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court manifest-injustice res-judicata void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other courts acted inconsistently with due process and Supreme Court precedent in affirming the peti…
18-5836 Ya'shua Amen Shekhem El-Bey v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court minute-order rule-60 rule-60-motion service-of-process standing Whether the district court denied Petitioner's rights to due process of law
18-5635 Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court-proceedings strickland-standard Whether the district court sidestepped the COA determination under §2253(c) when it denied Jackson's appeal and his COA and justified its denial of hi…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado…
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau…
18-5154 Edward Vincent Ray, Jr. v. Jamilah A. Jefferson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court ninth-circuit standing statute-of-limitations Whether a government attorney who allegedly committed fraud on the court is entitled to absolute immunity from a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit