judicial-appointment

10 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A503 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2025-11-03 Application due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc…
25-5642 Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas Texas 2025-09-16 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment government-code judicial-appointment misdemeanor-sentencing trial-judge Whether a visiting trial judge's improper appointment violates due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and conflicts with Texas Government Code pro…
23-7346 Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute?
23-7348 Oksana Marinaro v. Cheryl Eddy Benn, PC Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-mootness civil-procedure court-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment procedural-notice retirement standing state-statute Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute?
21-277 Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied daubert-standard district-court evidentiary-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-appointment methodology methodology-standards rule-706 Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is general…
21-165 In Re Gracie E. McBroom 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision
20-1631 Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Implicit, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-appointment officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-185 Rickey Nelson Jones v. Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland Maryland 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-appointment judicial-review judicial-selection maryland-law race-discrimination standing Was the United States Constitution violated when the highest court in Maryland supported the lower courts' decisions to apply federal statutory discri…
18-9218 Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands Can non-Article III judges serve indefinitely?
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional