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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6233 Rod Serp v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice case-dismissal federal-courts government-accountability judicial-review pro-se-litigation Whether a pro se litigant can obtain judicial review when federal courts have dismissed their case without a hearing
24-6706 Lisa Ann Deweese v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law child-welfare civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability Whether Child Protective Services systematically violates constitutional rights and fails to protect children
24-6619 Mutaz Al Shara v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure due-process government-accountability injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the judicial proceedings fundamentally unfair due to alleged judicial misconduct and procedural irregularities in an injunctive relief case invol…
24-346 Robert Beadles v. Jamie Rodriguez, et al. Nevada 2024-09-27 Denied election-grievances first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause pleading-standards rule-12b5-dismissal Whether the failure of state and local officials to address election grievances violates a citizen's First Amendment right to petition the government …
24-339 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure court-fee-waiver federal-employee-rights government-accountability userra-rights whistleblower-protection Does the whistleblower protection provisions of USERRA require waiver of court fees for federal employees engaged in protected whistleblowing activiti…
24-250 Samuel Biar Pech v. Central Intelligence Agency Fifth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-misconduct civil-liberties constitutional-rights government-accountability harassment surveillance Whether the CIA violated constitutional rights through alleged long-term surveillance and harassment
24-245 Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-transparency federal-records-disclosure freedom-of-information-act government-accountability judicial-standing mootness-doctrine Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly dismissed a FOIA request based on mootness and standing when the Navy failed to provide all responsive records
23A1175 Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Presumed Complete administrative-law foia government-accountability judicial-review military-records transparency Whether the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) permits judicial review of a federal agency's decision to withhold records related to potential miscondu…
23-7380 Kenneth Leslie Caldwell v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-rights color-of-law constitution due-process government-accountability government-power legal-remedies standing united-states Is the 'United States' a medium employed by the United States of America assigned for the upholding of the United States Constitution
23-7063 Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause standing Can the Department of Justice refuse to take a criminal complaint of federal crimes from Givey?
23-6708 Georgios V. Vloutis v. Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft District of Columbia 2024-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-accountability national-security patriot-act terrorism terrorism-allegations Whether Lufthansa Airlines' alleged negligence and association with terrorism violates the 14th Amendment and the U.S. Patriot Act
23-6651 Falastin Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-accountability judicial-review legal-immunity sovereign-immunity whistleblower-protection Will the courts recognize that individuals that work for the U.S. Government are not above U.S. law?
23-6636 Thomas Oliver v. Kristin T. Mihelic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-immunity civil-liability civil-rights court-orders government-accountability government-personnel judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics official-duties official-misconduct willful-crimes Should judges or other government personnel be protected by civil immunity for willful crimes?
23-5069 Lola Bonitta McGee v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights disability due-process employee-rights federal-employment government-accountability medical-disability retaliation workplace-discrimination workplace-harassment when-an-exemplary-employee-is-discriminated-against
22-7865 Tiffany Recinos v. Mike Kreidler, et al. Washington 2023-06-26 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process government-accountability government-liability government-transparency official-immunity public-records public-records-exemption vicarious-liability Whether laws exist without documents when public disclosure is exempted
22-6517 William F. Kaetz v. Freda L. Wolfson, Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-11 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-retaliation speech-suppression viewpoint-discrimination First-Amendment-retaliation
22-6455 Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum Fifth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government emplo…
22-5937 Prince Jones v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-power due-process government-accountability judicial-jurisdiction standing statutory-jurisdiction Can D.C. Superior Court Judges exercise Statutory Jurisdiction under the color of Article III judicial Power, when Article III does not provide a Stat…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional?
21-930 Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
21-6728 David Schied v. U-Haul International, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-oath criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties government-accountability judicial-immunity judicial-oaths whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the U.S. Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-5966 Cecile Andrea Brown v. John C. Coughenour, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process fundamental-rights government-accountability judicial-review mootness nominal-damages standing Whether nominal damages account for harms associated with past constitutional violations
21-5545 John Richardson v. Mobile Sheriff's Department Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-justice due-process government-accountability police-brutality systemic-issues Question not identified
21-5521 Antonia W. Shields v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-immunity petition-clause redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Government is sovereignly immune to duty under the First Amendment for the fair right of free U.S. citizens, rich and poor, to petition th…
21-93 Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such …
20-1768 Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' case on the basis of Qualified-Immunity
20-1091 Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. New York 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minnesota State Bd. for Community Colls. v. Knight, 465 US. 271 (1984)
20-6575 Ronald Jermaine Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech government-accountability indigenous-rights jurisdiction land-management standing tribal-sovereignty Is the Constitution of the United States of America, its Articles, and Amendments valid and legal under the Supreme Law of the Land?
20-5970 Dominique Little v. District of Columbia Public Schools, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability government-misconduct legal-liability oath-of-office official-accountability public-officials rule-of-law Who is responsible for holding public officials of the law accountable for violating citizens' constitutional rights and breaking the laws they are sw…
20-5900 Fane R. Sellers, et al. v. Wyoming, et al. Wyoming 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection good-behavior government-accountability judicial-procedure jurisdiction unbiased-judge When the inferior District Court failed and/or refused to initiate or commence the action by issuing the summons as required by Wyoming Rules of Civil…
20-5553 Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana Montana 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated to abide by the express provisions of the Montana Constit…
19-6274 Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity Whether the First Amendment guarantees the right to enter public offices and seek information or petition the government
19-334 Norman Douglas Diamond v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights document-retention due-process government-accountability government-liability jurisdictional-challenge non-resident-rights standing takings tax tax-refund unauthorized-collection Whether US non-resident citizens have any right to recovery of illegally retained tax overpayments, and to compensation for unauthorized collection ac…
19-56 Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico …
18-9369 Wade Travis Webb v. County of Pima, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process government-accountability grand-jury grand-jury-system legal-accountability prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the grand jury system is inherently flawed by allowing the government to damage citizens without consequences for constitutional violations
18-1240 Phil Kerpen, et al. v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) accountability articles-i-and-ii congressional-delegation constitutional-accountability constitutional-authority core-federal-power delegation federal-power federal-property federal-statute government-accountability guarantee-clause inherently-federal interstate-compact separation-of-powers Whether the delegation of federal power to an unaccountable interstate compact violates the separation of powers and the Guarantee Clause
18-796 Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing Did the Western District Court err in not allowing all parties to respond to the original complaint?
18-6264 Adrian M. Requena v. Ray Roberts, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability judicial-oversight judicial-review prison-officials prisoner-rights Can Prison Officials violate a prisoner's Constitutional Rights and the Court System turn a blind eye?
18-5344 Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-accountability jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Whether the district court erred in dismissing the lawsuit on the grounds that the petitioner lacked standing to challenge the government's actions