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25-5961 Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland Maryland 2025-10-27 Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit violate the Second Amendment under Bruen by lacking historical tradition of d…
24-1282 Robert Menzer v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit ninth-circuit void-judgment Does the full faith and credit clause and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 require an independent court analysis of a void judgment where due process rights are alleg…
24-1069 In Re Symon Mandawala 2025-04-10 Denied due-process ex-parte-communication federal-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit summary-judgment witness-testimony Whether a district court judge's deliberate disregard of available witnesses and limited response time violates due process and federal civil procedur…
24A650 PCJV USA, LLC, et al. v. Shakey's Pizza Asia Ventures, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete federal-court-conflict full-faith-and-credit preclusive-effect res-judicata state-court-ruling trademark-dispute Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires federal courts to give preclusive effect to state court rulings in a complex multi-jurisdictional tr…
24A466 Eric Manuelian v. Jennifer Starr, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Trustee of the Laura Kirkland Trust dated 3/10/05 and in the Capacity as Trustee of the Starr Trust, et al. Florida 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation dissolution-of-marriage full-faith-and-credit interstate-recognition state-court-jurisdiction trust-litigation Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires state courts to give preclusive effect to a final order of dissolution of marriage from another stat…
23A768 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio 2024-02-22 Presumed Complete child-support due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit interstate-enforcement turner-v-rogers Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires interstate recognition of child support payments and procedural protections when a state court fails…
23-573 Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier North Carolina 2023-11-28 Denied custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based upo…
23-5260 Mary Beth Harcrow v. Clyde Harcrow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-enforcement judicial-notice protective-order vawa Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to recognize and enforce a Delaware domestic violence order under the Violence Against Wom…
23-70 Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's…
22-7811 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion affirmative-defense appellate-review full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss plea-to-the-jurisdiction res-judicata Whether an unauthenticated judgment has res judicata effects as an affirmative defense
22-1146 Tiger Mynarcik v. WV 23 Jumpstart, LLC California 2023-05-25 Denied due-process expired-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-debtor judgment-renewal money-judgments personal-jurisdiction registration-of-foreign-judgments sister-state-judgments sister-state-judgments-act Whether a judgment renewed through a sister state's money judgments act in a state where the judgment debtor has no contacts whatsoever, should be giv…
22-1094 Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li Georgia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption Whether Georgia law has been pre-empted by the FFCCSOA
22-1040 William Carlson, et al. v. Thomas Cronin, et al. Illinois 2023-04-26 Denied due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure legal-malpractice sham-proceeding statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose Whether Carlson's constitutional right to due process and constitutional right to receive full faith and credit of a final judgment was violated
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state court acts with jurisdiction and in a manner consistent with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process when it enters judgment on a pleading ex…
22-7295 Saleem D. Williams v. Annettia Toby, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit ex-post-facto full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-denial standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit lacked proper jurisdiction to rule on a case and allow that ruling to stand
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut…
21-1390 Robert LaPoint v. Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-enforcement full-faith-and-credit interstate-law jurisdiction legal-preclusion res-judicata state-jurisdiction state-law workers-compensation Does the full faith and credit clause preclude enforcement of a claim dismissed as unenforceable under one State's law in another State?
21-7514 Sidney J. Clark, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the sentencing of S.J.C.Jr. to the H.C.A. pursuant to K.S.A. 21-4504 without legal proof of a prior judicial court proceeding in Texas violate…
21-1280 In Re J. Cory Cordova 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-607 Maura Lee Wahlberg, Individually and as Trustee of the Grever-Burke Trust Agreement v. Roy Grever Florida 2021-10-26 Denied extrinsic-fraud fraud full-faith-and-credit interstate-judgment intrinsic-fraud judicial-fraud legal-preclusion procedural-comity sister-state-judgment state-court state-court-judgment Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause permit a state court refuse to give a sister state's judgment full faith and credit based on its belief that the…
20-8336 Guillermo Vera v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism full-faith-and-credit same-sex-marriage Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to recognize a same-sex marriage license from another State
20-1721 James Sawyer v. Rosemary Sawyer, et al. California 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived child-support civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process full-faith-and-credit modification state-sovereignty uifsa Is the right to Due Process as vested in a citizen of the United States durable, transportable, and enforceable in and between the originating and for…
20-1688 L. C. v. S. C., et al. New Jersey 2021-06-07 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights dna dna-certification due-process full-faith-and-credit sister-state-order Can the court deny Full, Faith and Credit to a valid sister state Order with a Certify DNA attached dated April 18, 2011 and not be in violation of 28…
20-1307 Michael White v. Donald Knapp, Jr., et al. Michigan 2021-03-19 Denied bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-law debtor-rights due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit preemption preemption-doctrine property-ownership property-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction When a debtor's bankruptcy exemptions conflict with state court jurisdiction, are state courts required to give full faith and credit to bankruptcy la…
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are 'judicial proceedings' entitl…
20-6696 La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights Does the Federal Rule [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a law of a State tha…
20-765 M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation
20-6501 Shannon Riley v. Carrie Kathleen Meehan South Carolina 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit original-jurisdiction public-interest writ-of-mandamus Has the 'public interest' requirement been met under the Full Faith and Credit Clause to entertain review of a petition for a Writ of Mandamus?
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint?
20-627 E. H., III v. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing Florida 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights concealed-carry constitutional-law due-process expungement expungement-order firearms firearms-permit full-faith-and-credit state-reciprocity Did the Florida Court of Appeal commit reversible error and abuse its discretion in declining to recognize and apply Petitioner's New Jersey Expungeme…
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?
20-496 Lynn Weinberg v. Deborah Bort Florida 2020-10-15 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court fourth-district-court full-faith-and-credit probate probate-law Whether the 4th District Court of Appeal of Florida violated due-process protections
19-8292 Russell Tinsley v. Sherry Yates, Administrator, Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-commitment constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process fauntleroy-doctrine full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction Whether the New Jersey civil commitment of Mr. Tinsley was a violation of the Fauntleroy doctrine and/or jurisdiction of the Full Faith and Credit Cla…
19-8068 Daniel B. Boudette v. Tammy Boudette, nka Tammy Oskerson Montana 2020-03-23 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law enforceability foreign-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-enforcement originating-state sister-state-judgment state-law time-limit time-limitation Does a state's enforcement of a sister state's judgment beyond the time limit when it is enforceable in the originating state contravene the Full Fait…
19-1047 Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2020-02-24 Denied and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed Whether the court erred in failing to declare the grant deed void as a result of the void court opinions, which is necessary for the proper dispositio…
19-7420 In Re Adrean Francis 2020-01-27 Denied IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender Whether the continued application of a vacated New York 'Youthful Offender' conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separate classes of…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-6167 Thaddeus Saunders v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP art-iv-section-1 article-iv constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-precedent miller-v-alabama people-v-house public-acts Whether the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution should apply to the rulings in Miller v. Alabama, 567 US 460 (2012), People…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5867 Angela Krasny v. Jacob Krasny New Jersey 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights commencing-during-pendency due-process full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction parental-rights protective-order standing takings Whether New Jersey can deny or limit civil procedural due process protected under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution especially when the court …
19-84 Lawrence Mulligan v. Bruce Jalbert, et ux. Second Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process full-faith-and-credit state-court-record summary-judgment Whether the United States Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the granting of summary judgment based on collateral-estoppel without reference …
19-79 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process federalism full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure jurisdiction marital-estate property-law sister-state Does this constitute a policy of 'hostility to the public Acts' of a sister State?
19-5085 Darren L. Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'violent felony' element of physical force, and one of which does not,…
18-9591 Brandon Wayne Taylor v. Texas Texas 2019-06-07 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-evidence standing state-law-conflict texas-law When evidence is illegally obtained in violation of California laws can Texas legally benefit from this illegal act by allowing this evidence in a Tex…
18-1348 Orion Insurance Group, et al. v. Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious burden-shifting-test deference disadvantaged-business-enterprise discrimination-law federal-agency federal-agency-deference federal-program full-faith-and-credit minority-certification minority-group-membership state-agency state-agency-determination state-program vagueness Whether a federal agency should give full faith and credit or extreme deference to a state agency's prior determination of minority group membership
18-8847 Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credible…
18-8507 Randall Jennette v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1738 admiralty-law admiralty-maritime full-faith-and-credit maritime-contract relief-sought statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court Whether Tax Court had subject matter jurisdiction under its Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdictions to grant Appellee relief sought in the absence of maritim…
18-1143 Ronald Lee Blake v. Federal Bureau of Investigation District of Columbia 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-determination employment-law expungement federal-employment federal-law-enforcement full-faith-and-credit standing state-felony-conviction can federal law enforcement employment determinations be based upon a state felony conviction that was expunged by operation of law within the state o…
18-7342 Robert Gross v. Jeanine Dannatt Texas 2019-01-09 Denied IFP civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-rights consent-judgment constitutional-rights due-process family-law full-faith-and-credit prenuptial-agreement statute-of-frauds texas-family-code Can a Texas Court refuse to give full faith and credit and not honor a Pennsylvania Court Order?
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin…
18-503 N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel Whether petitioners' summary removal from Colorado to Kansas violated clearly established rights to procedural due process, a warrant or valid court o…
18-6260 Jaime Traverso v. Maryland Maryland 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit-clause judicial-discretion law-of-case perjury prosecutorial-misconduct standing withheld-evidence Did the Maryland court abuse its discretion by refusing to reopen the law of the case established by the testimony of a convicted perjurer, withheld f…
18-397 William G. Clowdis, Jr. v. Virginia Board of Medicine Virginia 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process full-faith-and-credit medical-licensing modes-of-procedure sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires Whether the Virginia Board of Medicine violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause by declaring a physician a convicted felon based on a felony charge t…