fraud-upon-the-court

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24-5140 Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-sunnen constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-retaliation fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford-empire judicial-misconduct kremer-v-chemical-construction naacp-v-button res-judicata Claim Preclusion and Due Process
23-7407 Mario H. Lloyd v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel due-process fraud-upon-the-court indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ischemic-stroke judicial-misconduct seventh-circuit substantial-right Whether the Seventh Circuit and its predecessor made an error in the judicial proceedings by allowing a defective indictment by naming $1,240,675:00 a…
23-985 Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment wire-fraud Whether the district court judge committed fraud upon the court by intentionally planned and executed federal crimes of Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud to d…
23-338 Byron V. Bush, et ux. v. Reliant Bank, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) breach-of-contract civil-rights due-process fdic-bank fraud-upon-the-court judicial-defendants rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that facts from one party are sufficient to determine subject matter jurisdiction and case outcome
23-5485 Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 is unconstitutional
22-6007 Jerry Word v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court ineffective-assistance-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct remand search-and-seizure standing Whether lower courts may reject a claim of fraud upon the court without addressing the issue or remanding the case
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Whether the unrecognized transfer of a case from the Guam Superior Court to the Guam District Court, despite a lack of jurisdiction, led to a default …
21-7058 Adam Pelletier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider rule-60(b)(3) state-court-dismissal Is Petitioner's claim of prosecutorial 'Fraud Upon The Court' a valid claim under Rule 60(b)(3)?
21-6865 Justin Odell Langford v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP commission-statute constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure emergency-legislation fraud-upon-the-court judicial-power judicial-time-bars legislative-override legislative-power procedural-constraints state-supreme-court statutory-revision Separation-of-Powers
21-740 Richard E. Paulus, M.D. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ethical-violations fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court government-misconduct Did the Sixth Circuit err in ruling it lacked jurisdiction to consider allegations of fraud upon the court and due process violations in evaluating a …
21-500 Francis Finster v. New York New York 2021-10-05 Denied constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fraud-upon-the-court mode-of-proceedings-error waiver-of-indictment Whether the state trial court's failure to adhere to procedural requirements of the waiver of indictment process constitutes a mode of proceedings err…
21-5458 Henry J. DuLaurence, III v. Douglas P. Woodlock, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP bivens-action constitutional-rights criminal-obstruction-of-justice due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice Whether the May 21, 2021 dismissal in the instant case must be declared void
21-167 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler Vermont 2021-08-05 Denied 14th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-action fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court pre-trial-election standing Is it Unconstitutional to allow a party to make pre-trial elections that deprive another party their due process rights?
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption Does the de facto nullification of California state law [Cal. Gov. Code §§ 6258 and 6259] (resulting in fraud upon the court) by the Regents of the Un…
20-1477 Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court?
20-955 Delva Newhouse, Administratrix of the Estate of William Perry Newhouse, III v. Ethicon, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-law fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-discretion medical-device product-liability rule-60 summary-judgment Did the U.S. District Court and U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals justices abuse their discretion, create manifest injustice, substantially err, pr…
20-6430 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud breach-of-fiduciary-duty chapter-7-bankruptcy embezzlement estate-administration falsification-of-evidence fiduciary-duty fraud-upon-the-court secured-creditor trustee-duties trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors
20-6164 In Re Theresa S. Romain 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination Can a State encourage discrimination on the basis of race theory?
20-6136 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment collateral-attack due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-ab-initio void-judgment Validity of void judgment and order
19-8687 Hamidreza Ghazavi v. Virginia Virginia 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice speedy-trial trespass-statute Whether the circuit court and upper courts violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by engaging in a conspiracy with corrupt federal agents, de…
19-1240 Myron Hubbard v. Missouri Department of Mental Health Eighth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1251 appellate-review civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction retaliatory-action supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction void-judgment void-judgments Whether the Court of Appeals and District Courts breached its duty, departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding and is of such …
19-6853 Nhuong Van Nguyen v. Jackson Lucky, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-judgment court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct legal-remedy motion-to-vacate rule-60 standing Whether the District Court and the court of Appeals correctly rejected petitioner's claim that the United States committed 'FRAUD UPON THE COURT?
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered?
19-390 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice Whether district court orders denied petitioner's Civil RICO rights,
19-5899 Willie Harold House, et ux. v. Eileen Egland, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court judicial-procedure misprision-of-felony misprision-of-treason oath-of-office treason void-ruling Did the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overlook potential indication of treasonable actions in the District Court record, condoning a series of m…
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower issues being raised
19-98 Kyle D. Kennard v. Means Industries, Incorporated Sixth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court procedural-due-process standing Did the lower courts commit and allow fraud upon the court?
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court
19-5086 Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Claim …
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding
18-9047 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-motion-to-vacate,judicial- court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias motion-to-vacate recusal recusal-relief standing Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a Motion to Vacate under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60
18-1168 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking When the lower federal courts abandon the imperatives of the Fifth Amendment to provide just compensation and the Fourteenth Amendment to provide equa…
18-8008 Cedrick Euron Draper v. Muy Pizza Southeast LLC, dba Pizza Hut Fourth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-courts'-review-of-a-federal-courts'-decr appellate-review detected-fraud-upon-the-court-predominantly-voidab federal-courts fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court immunity impersonation-by-title-18 intentionally-and-unintentionally-protected-or-unp judgment-void judicial-immunity legal-misrepresentation overrule-frivolous-defiance pro-se-ligitant's-defense-not-identified-to-author pro-se-litigant procedural-defiance voidable-judgment fraud upon the court
18-7630 In Re William W. Frey 2019-01-29 Denied IFP appeals-review civil-rights court-duty due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-fraud perjury procedural-misconduct standing stare-decisis tainted-testimony testimony-integrity Can a conviction or civil judgment stand on tainted/perjury testimony?
18-5794 Ronnie Keith Davis v. Benjamin Maddie Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-procedure civil-rights-proceeding evidentiary-hearing first-national-bank-v-lustig fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass inherent-power miscarriage-of-justice rozier-v-ford-motor rule-60(b)(3) rule-60b3 sanctions summary-judgment Whether a motion to vacate a judgment under Rule 60(b)(3) is governed by the grave miscarriage of justice standard when alleging fraud upon the court …
18-5099 Lennie Williams v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation declaratory-relief due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-immunity officer-of-court perjury prospective-relief standing Whether a municipality engaged in an ongoing violation of the Constitution is immune from declaratory and other prospective relief in an action under …