involuntary-servitude

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-663 Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance IL CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of equality, should consider gender-based servitude ripe for correction. II. UNCONS…
25-5782 In Re Ramsey E. Clayter 2025-10-02 Denied IFP due-process ineffective-assistance involuntary-servitude probable-cause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether court-appointed, counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment where counsel (a) sought to secure a guilty plea agains…
24-1228 Christopher Everett Stone v. Iryna Hermanova Stone nka Iryna Hermanova Mokhoshchokova Colorado 2025-06-03 Denied constitutional-amendments divorce-decree involuntary-servitude judicial-jurisdiction marriage-dissolution property-rights Do the First, Fifth, Thirteenth, or Fourteenth Amendments bar a state from failing to issue, unilaterally revoking, or deferring reissue of a divorce …
23-7525 Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-05-21 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment Is the State of Louisiana barred by the Thirteenth Amendment from punishing involuntary servitude at hard labor for a class of offenders without due c…
22-7634 Alan Headman v. Camille Headman, aka Camille Bromley Utah 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment alimony alimony-servitude civil-rights court-coercion due-process involuntary-servitude jury-trial pre-nuptial-agreement thirteenth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court should order the use of a 'Headman Deference' doctrine for alimony-related servitude
22-1034 Lackawanna Recycling Center, Inc. v. William L. Burrell, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-contemnors civil-rights due-process fair-labor-standards-act human-trafficking involuntary-servitude trafficking-victims-protection-act work-release work-release-program Whether lawfully incarcerated civil contemnors have a claim under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
22-6275 Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP 13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the statutory presumption of consent when participating in a government program violates the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and…
22-91 Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav…
21-1481 John Destin Alexander v. Department of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process freedom-of-speech government-overreach imprisonment involuntary-servitude privacy privacy-violation Can the government impose and maintain thirty years of involuntary servitude imprisonment upon an American citizen without filing any charges against …
20-6847 Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuries received f…
20-698 Alan Headman v. Royal I. Hansen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inadequate-forum involuntary-servitude judicial-immunity thirteenth-amendment Whether the lack of 'specific' terms within a written agreement should prevent state court officers from imposing terms of servitude
20-288 ALCR, LLC v. Linda W. Swain, et al. Arizona 2020-09-04 Denied business-operation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-order involuntary-servitude private-property thirteenth-amendment Whether a court order requiring the owner of private property to operate a business on the private property violates the involuntary servitude provisi…
20-181 Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision conflicts with the Thirteenth and Fifth Amendments
19-124 Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentence criminal-sentencing dred-scott due-process emancipation involuntary-servitude judicial-relief thirteenth-amendment Does duly convicted include duly sentenced, and did petitioner's Thirteenth Amendment enslavement end when he discharged from his Thirteenth Amendment…
18-9749 Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabitant …
18-9250 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case
18-1300 Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation Was federal law violated under color of law for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural due process and equal protection when hu…
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'…
18-5580 In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El 2018-08-14 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the involuntary servitude of African Americans and other racial minorities
18-5104 Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex…