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24-6847 Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri Missouri 2025-03-25 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting …
24-6414 Albert Pinedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a prospective juror to make an unequivocal commitment to impartiality after revealing their actual bias
24-707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest due-process impartiality judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics right-to-appeal Can a judge with a financial conflict of interest issue a binding order in favor of the stock-issuing party?
24-5227 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is denied his Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury when the trial court determines that a potential…
23-7409 Fernando Ramirez v. New York New York 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their …
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation Does §455(b)(3) require recusal when a federal judge is assigned to a case involving the same parties, same facts, and same issues as a case in which …
23-978 Loan Phuong v. Cong Van Nguyen Virginia 2024-03-07 Denied 6th-amendment bias due-process impartiality judicial-bias legal-procedure prejudice sixth-amendment supreme-court virginia-law virginia-supreme-court Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's decision caused the Petitioner to suffer damages when it refused to rehear her case against the Respondent in vio…
23-6811 In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-fairness standing takings The legal issues being raised
23-730 Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. New York 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii Does federal law preempt New York's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral impar…
23A395 Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete discretionary-review impartiality judicial-disqualification mandamus recusal statutory-standard Whether a federal district court judge must recuse himself under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) when a party alleges potential judicial bias or prejudice in a civ…
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
22-7820 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality
22-858 John W. Fink v. Jonathan L. Bishop, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process impartiality judicial-bias plenary-hearing rule-12(b)(6) rule-60(d) standing third-circuit Did the Third Circuit judges repeatedly fail to impartially decide my underlying appeal case, as well as other previous appeal cases of mine?
21-7981 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2022-05-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-ethics public-trust Whether a trial-induced conviction can be valid when brought by uncredible persons who are guilty of misconduct, both in the instant case (specific, D…
21-5890 Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime…
21-412 Samantha V. Roussell v. Bank of New York Mellon Florida 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud impartiality judicial-review mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendmen…
20-1512 Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error Whether law enforcement officers can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial
20-6618 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Whether an appeal brought under 28 U.S.C. 2255 is subject to the avenue of relief granted when an appellate court fails to adequately resolve ineffect…
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-6357 Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles California 2020-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality Can a for-profit law firm be contracted to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial under the Due Process clauses?
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word 'shall' binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision
20-165 Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller Wisconsin 2020-08-14 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook 'friends'?
19-1185 Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied amendment civil-procedure civil-rights democratic-party due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duty fraud impartiality rule-12 rule-15 standing Does the DNC have a fiduciary duty to maintain impartiality in the Democratic Party presidential nominating process?
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-7424 Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2020-01-27 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su…
19-6286 Vara Birapaka v. United States Army Research Laboratory, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process fraud impartiality judicial-review plausibility prima-facie procedural-fairness professional-conduct rights rule-60-motion standing Whether a federal court may write off a Rule 60 motion without analyzing the elements
19-5103 Kenton G. Findlay v. Star Lakes Association, Inc. Florida 2019-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights disqualification due-process foreclosure foreclosure-appeal impartiality judicial-impartiality service-of-process Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
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 …
18-8840 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledge the particularism of any trial court judge's non-judicial palpable ac…
18-7951 Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial Should a judge recuse themselves from reviewing a motion challenging their rulings made during a bench trial?
18-7452 Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid…
18-888 Michael S. Bent v. Cheryl Strange, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-grants impartiality judicial-impartiality noncustodial-parent parens-patriae social-security-act state-courts strict-scrutiny title-iv-d Does the federal classification of 'noncustodial parent' under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act violate due process?
18-732 Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague?
18-723 Jose Rodriguez v. Bank of America, N.A. Florida 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equitable-relief foreclosure foreclosure-evidence impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the due process protections enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments prohibit Florida Courts from turning a blind eye to the continued use of …
18-711 Donny Marin, et al. v. The Bank of New York Florida 2018-12-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the due process protections prohibit courts from turning a blind eye to the use of fraudulent evidence to obtain foreclosure relief
18-6559 Tommy Alexander, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-rights court-recusal due-process fair-and-impartial-court impartiality judicial-bias recusal tribunal-fairness Whether the District Court displayed bias against the Petitioner, creating a constitutional issue of a fair and impartial court
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test
18-5928 Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the 6th Amendment
18-103 Nathalie Thuy Van v. Language Line LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived court-impartiality disqualification-requirement due-process fraud fraud-upon-court fraudulent-court-records impartiality judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-fraud procedural-irregularities seventh-circuit supreme-court-review void-orders Whether the disqualification of a judge is required if an objective observer would entertain reasonable questions about the judge's impartiality, whet…