good-cause
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A719 | Pamela McKethan v. GSLS GA, LLC | Georgia | 2025-12-18 | Application | certiorari family-emergency good-cause pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25-78 | Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors | Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted this Court's opinion in Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick… | |
| 25A22 | Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor | Second Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple petitions for certiorari from different circuit court judgments should be considered timely under the 90-day stat… | |
| 24-6230 | La'Tesa Cobbs v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2025-01-03 | Denied | IFP | appeals-board good-cause misinformation procedural-error resignation unemployment-insurance | Whether the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board erred in determining Petitioner lacked good cause for resignation and whether Respondents used misinf… |
| 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 | Whether a pro se litigant's motion for an extension of time to file an appeal meets the standard for good cause under Federal Rule of Appellate Proced… | |
| 24-5028 | Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver | Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 12, as amended in 2014, mandates a forfeiture or waiver of a multiplicity claim not timely raised in the district court, and … |
| 23-7577 | Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment due-process good-cause ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief postconviction-counsel potentially-meritorious rhines-standard rhines-v-weber voir-dire | Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel cannot establish 'good cause' under Rhines v. Weber? And… |
| 23-6867 | Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | consumer-dispute consumer-disputes credit-reporting-agencies credit-reporting-agency data-furnishers fair-credit-reporting-act frivolous-claims good-cause rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations | Whether each dispute sent to a Credit reporting agency or a data furnisher by a consumer that has not been determined to be frivolous or irrelevant st… |
| 23A730 | Darron Henderson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-work extension-of-time federal-defender good-cause supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the federal defender's supervisory responsibilities and pending appellate work constitute good cause for a 30-day extension to file a petition… | |
| 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 | Whether Congress intended to treat 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' separately in Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5)(A)(ii) and the appropriate standard of r… | |
| 23-711 | James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits | Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets the… |
| 23A493 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion | Whether federal courts must distinguish between 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' when evaluating untimely filing of a notice of appeal during extr… | |
| 22-1052 | Patricia Hermann v. Jonathan B. McFarland, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion procedural-motion reconsideration time-extension | Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a motion for extension of time under Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(A) where the record showed go… |
| 22-6731 | Lamon Demetrus Wright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation confrontation-rights due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts good-cause good-cause-standard hearsay hearsay-reliability reliability supervised-release | What manner of hearsay should be considered 'reliable' when federal courts decide whether the government has established 'good cause' to deny confront… |
| 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 | When a defendant raises a derivative theory on appeal that was not raised in a timely suppression motion in district court |
| 21-5953 | Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley | First Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour… |
| 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)(8) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause |
| 21-5489 | Jerris M. Blanks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion | Whether a defendant can refile a pretrial motion after withdrawing it |
| 21-173 | Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-closure alternative-service civil-procedure covid-19 due-process good-cause judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-rules service-of-process | Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion |
| 20-1823 | K. S. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources | West Virginia | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-timeframe due-process good-cause notice-of-appeal procedural-fairness state-supreme-court | Whether a due process violation under the 14th Amendment exists when a State Supreme Court refuses to permit the docketing of a late notice of appeal |
| 20-1813 | Terry Foster, et al. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1516, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | 501b due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty good-cause labor-law lmrda subject-matter-jurisdiction union-member union-membership | Did expulsion of a union member without his presence constitute a lack of due process, good cause as defined by 157.01 LMRDA, Section 501(b)? | |
| 20-7372 | Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion | Whether the court of appeals should review an untimely suppression argument for plain error under Rule 52 or require a showing of good cause |
| 20-1138 | Cimznhca, LLC v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction good-cause good-cause-analysis intervention motion-to-intervene non-final-order procedural-due-process standing | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously exercised jurisdiction over a non-final order | |
| 20-6413 | Maxine Shepard v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause pro-se-litigant procedural-default service-of-process standing | Whether the COA improperly held in conflict with other courts that the Petitioner did not show good cause to excuse procedural default and allow for a… |
| 20-5816 | Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver | Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard |
| 19-7493 | Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied appeal notice for lack of jurisdiction |
| 19-898 | Kimberly D. Collins v. Gwendolyn Thornton | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion service-of-process statute-of-limitations | Whether a district court has discretion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) to extend the time for service of process absent good cause |
| 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 | Whether Rule 12's good-cause standard displaces the plain-error standard in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) |
| 18-5601 | Jose Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation | Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a… |