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25-6787 James Webb Hunter v. S. F. California 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment judicial-bias restraining-order second-amendment Whether California's prolonged disarmament of an individual under a non-violent restraining order violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments when n…
25A869 Robyn Abraham v. Abby Leigh, as Executrix of the Estate of Mitch Leigh Second Circuit 2026-02-03 Application due-process ex-parte-communication hobbs-act judicial-bias political-lobbying settlement-funds Whether a federal court judge may improperly target a litigant through ex parte communications and unauthorized legal representation by a political lo…
25-6668 Matthew Evan Davis, Sr. v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP court-martial habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdictional-review military-justice suspensions-clause Whether claims of judicial bias and improper referral of charges are jurisdictional in military justice, and whether the Tenth Circuit's Dodson factor…
25-6645 La'Shaun Clark v. New York City Housing Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment collateral-estoppel due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification magistrate-assignment Whether magistrate judge shopping violates the 14th Amendment due process when district court judges with financial interests allow defendants to mani…
25-6625 Roman V. Serpik v. Jill Weedon, former Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP access-to-courts due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-threshold qualified-immunity sovereign-citizen Whether the Tenth Circuit erred by failing to address jurisdictional thresholds before permitting qualified immunity and denying access to courts whil…
25-6604 In Re Angeliina L. Lawson 2026-01-16 Pending IFP ada-retaliation civil-rights judicial-bias mandamus pro-se rico Whether the Supreme Court should issue a writ of mandamus to correct the Tenth Circuit's denial of emergency relief for a pro se litigant facing proce…
25-6547 Cassandra Wiltz v. Chad Michael Miller, et al. Delaware 2026-01-12 Pending IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias standing vexatious-litigator Whether the Petitioner was denied 14th Amendment Due Process rights through judicial actions that prevented notice and opportunity to be heard in a ve…
25A763 Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court should reconsider its precedent in Liteky v. United States regarding judicial bias and the standard for judicial recusal in …
25-6443 Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee Connecticut 2025-12-30 Pending IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate ma…
25-6328 Talitha Lacey Combs, aka Talitha Lacey Randall v. Urban Restaurant Group, et al. Oregon 2025-12-09 Pending IFP constitutional-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss pro-se-status whistleblower-retaliation Whether a pro se plaintiff can guarantee her constitutional right to an independent and impartial tribunal when facing systemic bias and no federal ju…
25-6319 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP court-judgment due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias legal-review procedural-error Whether the district court's judicial bias and alleged procedural errors during the evidentiary hearing warrant reversal of the lower court's judgment
25-659 Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence Whether the clandestine replacement of a Jewish Administrative Law Judge with a Muslim ALJ was prejudicial and violated due process rights, and whethe…
25-655 In Re Rayon Payne 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations due-process judicial-bias procedural-limbo statutory-interpretation venue-transfer Whether a United States District Court may transfer a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) to a judicial district where the Plaintiff has already demonstrat…
25-644 Albert G. Gerhart v. Charity Linch, Chairwoman, Oklahoma Republican Party Oklahoma 2025-12-04 Pending Response Waived anti-slapp derivative-action due-process judicial-bias procedural-conflict shareholder-rights Whether due process was violated in a derivative action lawsuit involving shareholder rights and procedural conflicts
25-6154 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the New Hampshire Constitution or the United States Constitution requires a jury trial upon timely demand by one of the parties in an action f…
25A572 Ian Buenaventura v. Leslie Buot Maine 2025-11-14 Application anti-slapp due-process first-amendment judicial-bias pro-se procedural-fairness Whether the First Amendment and due process protections are violated by a court's systematic procedural bias that impairs a pro se litigant's ability …
25-6093 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Matthew Warren Oliver Michigan 2025-11-13 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-fairness res-judicata void-judgment Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to vacate a facially void judgment that was procured thr…
25-572 James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias toward pro se litigants violates due process and equal protection guarantees; and whether absolute an…
25-5997 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-30 Denied Amici (4)IFP brady-violation capital-punishment judicial-bias napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Should the Court grant a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct involving knowingly false witness testimony and hidden benefits in a capital murd…
25-5807 Tamatha Lynn Melom v. Stone County, Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-06 Denied IFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment Whether the seizure, destruction, and permanent transfer of a citizen's lawfully owned dogs, based on untested hearsay, without production of police r…
25-5560 Yancey J. Myers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-misconduct structural-error trial-procedure Whether a disqualified trial judge's recusal due to substantial prejudice constitutes a structural error when the judge previously presided as both ac…
25A262 Vincent Cannady v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n…
25-5547 Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz California 2025-09-04 Dismissed IFP appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of fair adjudication and meaningful …
25-5483 Z. G. v. M. C. Pennsylvania 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal Whether a judge who made stigmatizing statements about a disability contravened the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Due Process Clause by fail…
25A197 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete civil-procedure disqualification fraud-on-court judgment-renewal judicial-bias rule-60 Whether a district court judge's alleged bias and a party's claim of fraud on the court warrant vacating a final judgment under Federal Rule of Civil …
25-5402 Martin G. Plotkin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process judicial-bias levy-action recusal tax-court Whether the actions of Tax Court Judge Morrison and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals constituted judicial bias and deprivation of due process in a ta…
25-5326 Geneva Langworthy v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-access disability-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-representation self-representation Can a judge with personal bias deny access to courts as punishment for disrespectful language, and can a judge deny self-representation or require an …
25A176 James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion de-novo-review judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-petition standard-of-review Whether a judge's recusal decision should be reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard or de novo review when reviewing potential judicial bias
25A159 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Craig Jennings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Application appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias ninth-circuit record-correction Whether the Ninth Circuit's procedural actions, including deferring motions to correct the record and permitting premature briefing, constitute a viol…
24-1285 Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang California 2025-06-17 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant Whether a trial judge's prejudgment, bias, and usurpation of the adversarial role in a civil trial constitutes a violation of due process and equal pr…
24-7317 Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied IFP court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal Is it reversible error for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to treat opposing parties differently based on race, and are false statements by a feder…
24-1209 Daryll Boyd Jones v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young judicial-bias Whether the Court of Appeals erred in severance of retrospective damages claims from prospective injunctive claims under Ex parte Young and whether sy…
24-1139 Joe Patrick Flarity v. Washington Washington 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-action constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias state-court-review supreme-court-precedent Whether Washington State courts have shown contempt for Supreme Court precedents and constitutional rights through biased judicial proceedings
24-6993 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-04-15 Denied IFP disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the proc…
24-6869 Evelyn Thomas v. Quicktrip Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied IFP civil-rights colorism-discrimination eeoc-procedure judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice title-vii Whether colorism discrimination under Title VII and obstruction of justice by withholding EEOC documents constitute actionable legal claims
24-6871 Diego J. Jimenez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process judicial-bias jury-instructions structural-error Whether a bias and partial Judge that was recused before trial created a Structural Error when presiding over a criminal defendant's case, whether fra…
24-6858 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-03-26 Denied IFP intrajudicial-claims judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus-relief objective-observer statutory-interpretation Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals applied an overly vague and undefined standard for determining judicial bias and mandamus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 4…
24-6809 Ali R. Muhammad v. Lone Star Funds, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-court judicial-bias rooker-feldman-doctrine sherman-antitrust-act Does CAPERTON v. A.T. MASSEY COAL CO. allow a plaintiff to sue in federal court by claiming a due process violation due to an unconstitutional potenti…
24-6717 Allaquan Jackson, aka Khalif Jackson, aka Kailif Jackson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-03-07 Denied IFP alibi-witness due-process fair-trial judicial-bias recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is violated by a trial judge with personal knowledge of an alibi witness who did not testify due to …
24-6673 Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,…
24-6600 Michael Boutin v. Chicopee Housing Authority Massachusetts 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process housing-dispute judicial-bias procedural-irregularities tenant-rights Did the Massachusetts courts fail to address constitutional due process violations in a housing dispute involving judicial bias and tenant rights?
24-901 Kaeun Kim v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process judicial-bias mandamus obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-immunity Whether the Third Circuit erred in denying the Petition for Writ of Mandamus despite compelling evidence of judicial bias, obstruction of justice, and…
24-6521 Lea Welles v. Marcel Lowitsch California 2025-02-10 Denied IFP civil-restraining-order constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-technicality Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal based on procedural technicalities that allegedly violated due process and equal a…
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-03 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau…
24-6311 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias precedential-decisions pro-se-litigants supreme-court-review Whether judicial bias, potential bribery, and conflicts with precedential decisions constitute grounds for Supreme Court review of Court of Appeals pa…
24-6293 Ohio, ex rel. John Paul Gomez v. Dan Favreau, Judge, et al. Ohio 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-bias vexatious-litigator Whether the lower court's vexatious litigator designation and dismissal of grievances against judicial officers violate the petitioner's constitutiona…
24A682 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus pro-se-litigation section-455 Whether a trial judge's repeated denial of motions for disqualification under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) constitutes a due process violation warranting mandam…
24-6258 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-bias sentencing-errors Whether a defendant's conviction should be voided due to ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial bias, and procedural irregularities during crimin…
24-6147 Mohamed Osman Mohamud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sting-operation Whether the Ninth Circuit is genuinely adhering to the Supreme Court's standard for issuing certificates of appealability or sub silentio denying them…
24-6142 Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark Washington 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift Whether courts have deviated from the original constitutional intent through linguistic drift and bias, undermining due process and the self-correctin…
24-5796 Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether a petitioner lacks standing to sue a Sheriff's Office for alleged First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations and whether a conspiracy to…
24-5784 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-trial motion-to-vacate writ-of-mandate Did the California Supreme Court and lower courts err in denying petitioner's writs and motions, potentially violating constitutional rights under the…
24A377 Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill Kentucky 2024-10-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations due-process family-law judicial-bias parental-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to deprive a parent of custody and visitation rights based on alleged racial bias, pr…
24-5666 Lidia M. Orrego v. Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice Whether the Second Circuit recognizes constitutional due process and equal protection rights before their deprivation, and whether judicial bias viola…
24-5604 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-conflict petition-review procedural-error supreme-court-procedure Whether the California Supreme Court improperly denied a petition and application for stay, leaving unresolved legal and factual conflicts
24-242 In Re Peter K. Stern 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) congressional-intent fifth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction and whether prosecutorial misconduct and judicial bias warrant reversal of the petitione…
24-234 Raymond Guzall III v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan Michigan 2024-08-30 Denied Response Waived court-manipulation due-process evidence-concealment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias legal-procedure Can a state prosecute upon manipulated court records or withhold original court recordings that potentially exonerate a defendant?
24A175 Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by his Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc., et al. Hawaii 2024-08-15 Presumed Complete due-process eviction hud-regulations judicial-bias section-8 summary-judgment Whether a state court's summary disposition order affirming multiple eviction proceedings against a Section 8 tenant violates due process protections …
24-123 Chunyi Xu, aka David Xu v. Denver Public Schools, School District No. 1 Tenth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias procedural-irregularity racism retaliation workplace-harassment workplace-retaliation Question not identified
24-5209 Charles S. Renchenski v. Frederic J. Ammerman, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Clearfield County Third Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP due-process impartiality objective-bias public-confidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-bias third-circuit Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District Court for Pennsylvania entered a decision that is in direct conflict with the United S…
24A88 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require reversal of a criminal conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial bias, and all…
24A82 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City of Colusa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete case-assignment court-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-bias non-random Whether a federal district court judge's non-random case assignment violates due process and judicial ethics when the assignment appears to be motivat…
24-5073 Billy Hammonds v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof fair-trial-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-bias mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-bias witness-testimony Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
24-5020 Velina M. Johnson v. Inland Residential Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-stay civil-procedure-60b-motion due-process fair-housing-act fraud-on-the-court housing-discrimination housing-retaliation judicial-bias rule-60-motion shotgun-pleading willful-violation-of-automatic-stay Whether a motion to vacate the court of appeals judgment is proper when the court of appeals defied its prior decision on the definition of a 'shotgun…
23-1350 Robert Korman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2024-06-27 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process extrajudicial-evidence judicial-bias judicial-bias-and-prejudice judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics legal-procedure recusal Whether proof of a judge's commission of bias and prejudice against a litigant in a case alone mandates his immediate disqualification and reversal of…
23-7801 Festus O. Ohan v. Chimezie C. Duruhesie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Dismissed IFP case-law civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process harassment judicial-bias judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rights retaliation standing statutory-provisions Question not identified
23-7750 James Eric Moore v. Jason Koenigsfeld, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-misconduct due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-requirement mandate-recall recusal rule-60(b) civil-procedure
23-7690 Wendell Johnson, aka Lamar Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-06-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-1266 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2024-06-04 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, violate the Fo…
23-1251 Paula Bourne, et vir v. Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, LLC Arizona 2024-05-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias medical-malpractice standing vexatious-litigant Did the Arizona Court of Appeals errantly affirm and allow Arizona Superior Court to designate Bourne's vexatious litigants and dismiss their case?
23-7557 Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, violate due-process…
23-1234 Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response Waived bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals act with bias in failing to reverse the District court's ruling on the Petitioner's civil-rights complaint?
23-7457 E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children Colorado 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights Whether this Court's precedents on judicial racial bias bind the Colorado Supreme Court
23-7377 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-procedure local-court procedural-fairness recusal standing whether-a-biased-judge-must-recuse-themselves
23-7360 Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination Whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recusal of a judge prior to a final determination on the merits
23-1152 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment despite disputed material facts
23-7252 Mychal Andra Reed v. California State Prison, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process judicial-bias medical-emergency medical-incapacity standing stare-decisis Can the district court lawfully dismiss petitioner's valid Civil Rights complaint (violation) case because he failed to appear due to 'EXCEPTIONAL CIR…
23-7273 Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recognizes the mitigating effects of upholding the Constitutional Rights to Due Proc…
23-7234 Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi…
23-7213 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-rights discovery discovery-request due-process government-misconduct judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Did the Defendant show good cause to obtain discovery after presenting evidence of government misconduct?
23-1104 In Re Robert M. Miller 2024-04-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bias-prejudice civil-procedure court-discretion federal-defendant judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation writ-of-mandamus Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus to reassign cases due to judge's bias
23-7188 Jacob Winding, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. California 2024-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-disqualification procedural-safeguards recusal-standards standing verified-statement Is a verified statement of disqualification required to meet the standards applied to a motion or Is a verified statement of disqualification a statem…
23A881 Linda Baldwin v. Robert Pitman, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-challenge in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether a federal district court judge's adverse rulings in prior cases constitute a cognizable constitutional violation or impermissible judicial bia…
23-7101 Deborah A. Redman v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ethical-lapses free-speech judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation procedural-trap standing May federal judges reframe and distort Petitioner's arguments?
23-7051 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Alaska 2024-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial?
23-7031 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-waiver procedural-fairness standing Was judge bias in raising affirmative defense
23-7032 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure petition-renaming recusal rule-60-b standing Was judge allowed to rename petition
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine Question not identified
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…
23A802 Raj G. Shekar v. Illinois Illinois 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights discretionary-review fourth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Fourth Amendment bars state court proceedings tainted by alleged judicial bias and prosecutorial misconduct when a judge and prosecutor ha…
23-6731 Carina M. Gonzalez v. Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination family-owned-business hostile-work-environment judicial-bias pay-equity procedural-technicalities retaliation sworn-testimony Defendant's-admission-of-guilt-overridden
23-851 John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal for…
23-843 Robert Michael Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response Waived agency-personnel-actions civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board political-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing whistleblower-reprisal Whether the district court's errors and abuses demonstrate antagonism toward a pro se litigant and favoritism toward a federal defendant
23-6661 Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied-bias
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-6450 Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (5)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the lower court and defense counsel violated federal rules of civil procedure, due process, and the appellant's constitutional rights
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Whether the judge's bias against the petitioner justifies recusal and whether the court's denial of access to the courts based on the petitioner's ind…
23-6209 Eddie Savage v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2023-12-08 Denied IFP due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Can a judge's failure to uphold the law during a trial demonstrate a spirit of ill-will or undue friendship, 'actual bias' or favoritism toward one of…
23-6182 Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial Whether the trial court erred in amending the indictment, affecting trial and sentencing
23-6168 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2023-12-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct petition-for-review public-trust recusal standing Did the Supreme Court of California deny petition of review, leaving an unresolved conflict and matter of public importance?
23-599 Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. Maryland 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court al…
23-5930 Brent Douglas Cole v. R. D. Keyes, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-privileges due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-ad-prosequendum Question not identified
23-5731 Rebekah Panzlau v. Adams County Housing Authority, dba Maiker Housing Partners Colorado 2023-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-trial relocation-act seventh-amendment uniform-relocation-act Did Ms. Panzlau receive a fair and unbiased trial free from even the appearance of Impropriety in her case?
23-5592 Beau John Greene v. Arizona Arizona 2023-09-15 Denied IFP appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania Did the appellate court violate Greene's due process rights by creating an impermissible risk of actual bias by allowing Justice Montgomery to decide …
23-5594 Brim Bell v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure warrantless-search Whether trial-counsel erred by excluding the Defendant from the last two-days of trial?
23-5577 Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to judicial bias and misconduct
23-5552 Lei Yin v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. Massachusetts 2023-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-bias legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-rights standing worker-compensation Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Court Systems in COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS?
23-5483 Dontavious Blake v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a life sentence after either a guilty plea or …
23-145 Aleksandra Shklyar v. Carboline Company Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion ada-pleadings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disability-discrimination due-process judicial-bias retaliation standing Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability-discrimination,retaliation
23-5349 Elbert Johnson v. Florida Florida 2023-08-14 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony Whether a circuit court judge's dual role as a witness and sentencer in the same case creates a conflict and reversible error when the judge imposes a…
23-5312 In Re Brian D. Smith 2023-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal plea-bargaining right-to-appeal Is Smith's plea of guilty invalid?
23-10 Miriam Brysk, et al. v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-semitism attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-bias synagogue synagogue-picketing Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a decision awarding attorney fees to defendant protesters
22-7868 Lawrence Broviak v. Florida Florida 2023-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection expungement judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-remedy sentence-commutation sentencing vindictive-sentencing Can a vindictive sentence be expunged due to personal bias committed by a judge?
22-7858 Wayne Anthony Aviles v. Captain Jason Kowalski Montana 2023-06-23 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process guardian-ad-litem ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sentencing Whether the Mentana, Tenth Judicial District court erred in finding Mr. Aviles guilty of Double Jeopardy by giving him 4 separate sentences
22-7838 Tori Smith v. Jehovah's Witnesses Organization, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied IFP civil-rights defamation due-process hate-crimes judicial-bias racial-discrimination religious-persecution standing Whether the plaintiff, a Black woman, was unlawfully barred from filing a lawsuit against a White women's organization due to racial discrimination
22-7819 Javier Bautista-Scheuber v. Alia Day Floren Montana 2023-06-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-access equal-protection judicial-bias mental-capacity procedural-fairness standing Does the violation of a fundamental constitutional right constitute grounds for the Supreme Court to review and reverse a judgment?
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
22-1204 William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell Colorado 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud…
22-7776 Saria Walker v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-bias legal-remedy standing Why is the Constitution Right To Due Process NOT being Upheld?
22-7777 Saria Walker v. R. Castriotta, et al. South Carolina 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias rule-interpretation standing Why is the Constitution ~~ Right To Due Process ' NOT being Upheld ?
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge Did former Judge Henderson's secret extramarital affair create an unconstitutional potential for bias?
22-7722 Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr…
22-1144 Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood should have voluntarily recused themselves
22-7610 Othniel Evans Maragh v. Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-bias standing summary-judgment Is it ethical or legal for the Southern District Court of New York's Judge, Jesse M Furman to disregard every shred of evidence presented by the Plain…
22-7601 Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. First Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Was recusal mandatory under § 455(b)(1) and § 144 and § 455(a) where the trial judge's activities involved disputed evidentiary facts and a reasonable…
22-7503 Earnest A. Davis v. Porsche Cars of North America, et al. California 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-forms due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-process procedural-fairness racial-discrimination standing Are U.S. judicial officers required to process court forms from all litigants regardless of race or ethnicity?
22-7486 TyJuan Keith v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the prosecutor's conduct during trial
22-7457 Bruce Allen Buckner v. Daniel Porter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-stay constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice stay Does a stay in one civil proceeding pending the outcome of a criminal case extend to all other civil proceedings stemming from the same criminal case?
22-1049 Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. California 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment color-of-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-impartiality lien real-property-rights wage-property Whether the lack of impartial judges, and that the state judges, under color of law, without due process of law, deprived appellant of his wage proper…
22-1042 Lauren Andersen v. British Airways PLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied brady-act civil-rights court-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-review political-affiliation standing Is it fitting for three Democrat judges from a district court and a panel of three Democrat judges from an appellate court to decide a case that has, …
22-7347 Kimberly S. Elkins v. Kathy Miller New Mexico 2023-04-21 Denied IFP civil-rights court-procedure due-process eviction excusable-neglect forced-evictions judicial-bias standing vulnerable-litigants Are all the reasons for New Mexico Court of Appeals dismissal of this case justified according to Petitioner's Civil Rights?
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether the right to an impartial judge is violated when the trial judge also performs the role of the advocate for incarceration
22-1004 Kurt Garrison v. City of Ottawa, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2023-04-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias prejudice procedural-due-process professional-engineering right-to-trial-by-jury standard-of-review substantive-due-process Whether substantive due process was denied
22-7293 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to 'review' when…
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Whether the systemic discrimination against pro se litigants by the federal courts, including the imposition of punitive sanctions for filing non-friv…
22-7182 Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing Whether 28 U.S.C. §46c and due process require en banc consideration of inter-panel conflict
22-7078 Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b6-dismissal civil-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-evidence first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse recusal standing Question not identified
22-7083 Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b-6-dismissal 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse standing Whether the petitioner received a fair and impartial proceeding that led to the 12(b)(6) dismissal of his civil rights complaint
22-6976 Golda D. Harris v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias judicial-discrimination prima-paint-corp-v-flood-conklin pro-se-litigation stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent unconscionable-claims zahid-n-quraishi Is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit allowed to substitute its decision(s) and overrule the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §81-…
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?
22-6892 In Re Willie Thomas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own de…
22-6865 Jennifer Reinoehl v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure complaint-sufficiency due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-bias judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Whether Courts have discretion to hold pro se litigants to a strictly following Fed.R.Civ.P. while ignoring represented litigants' late filings and wh…
22-6380 Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
22-575 William S. Toppi v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias massachusetts-appeals-court-rule-23.0 plea-waiver procedural-due-process recusal waiver-of-rights Whether the sentencing judge and defense counsel were required to recuse themselves after exhibiting clear bias relating to Defendant's case
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi— v…
22-6203 Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error issues-being-raised
22-6175 Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code § 1983, after exhausting all known…
22-5805 Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
22-329 Lu Tuan Nguyen v. David Ribal, et al. California 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bias conservatee-estate constitutional-rights deception demurrer due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the sustaining of the respondent's demurrer violates the Due Process Clause
22-5778 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-06 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions Should a judge be recused for bias and failure to provide due process?
22-5761 Prinyah Godiah Nmiaa Pa El-Bey v. Cubesmart Self Storage, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied IFP address-change bias-prejudice civil-procedure court-notification due-process judicial-bias notification pro-se-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing venue venue-change Under the rules of Unified Courts, do parties have the right to be notified of changes to the court's mailing address?
22-5681 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing Whether the Second Circuit and U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield prejudicially and biasedly ignored key facts, violating the petitioner's First and …
22-218 Steven Christopher Knapp v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-standards rule-8 standing Does a judge have an unqualified right to nullify a complaint based on length alone?
22-5513 Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-09-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori…
22-5348 Clarence Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge
22-5292 Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court can provide guidelines regarding the material term 'state courts' embedded in the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Rul…
22-5189 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-default rule-60b-motion whether-the-district-court-abused-its-discretion-in-denying-rule-60(b)-motion
22-5070 Lane Walker Waldron v. Texas Texas 2022-07-12 Denied IFP attorney-credibility constitutional-rights conviction-reversal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether petitioner was denied Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel
22-5030 Paul John Denham v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-07-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-protections due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-bias post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant's post-conviction habeas petition alleging the district attorney's office engaged in multiple intentional frauds to appea…
21-8251 John L. Miller v. S. Acosta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process judicial-bias religious-rights standing Is the Ish Amendment right of access to the courts violated?
21-1582 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2022-06-23 Denied 28-usc-455 bankruptcy-procedure bias-and-prejudice constitution-questions-and-federal-laws constitutional-taking due-process federal-jurisdiction inferior-officer judicial-bias liteky-v-united-states rule-22(a) Why is the Inferior Officer who was disqualified in June, 2018, for Bias and Prejudice, allowed to be in defiance to the order of the United States Su…
21-8192 Ronnie L. Thums v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process ex-parte-communications ex-parte-meeting habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias jury-tampering right-to-counsel whether-a-judge-has-jurisdiction-to-make-criminal-threats
21-8066 Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
21-1507 Houston Byrd, Jr. v. Christopher Cook, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-conspiracy due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-fairness Did the Circuit court violate one's civil and constitutional rights?
21-7990 Jerry Lee Craig, Sr. v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-bias standing Whether conflict of interest existed at trial after judge gamed the withholding of evidence from the defense
21-1485 In Re Eileen Vey 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct retaliation self-defense Whether this Court should clear Eileen Vey of all charges, since she was clearly criminally prosecuted and deprived of 'reasonable doubt'
21-1477 Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe routinely and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function and jur…
21-7922 Jason Michael Ehret v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-bias rule-11 standing structural-error uncounseled-counsel void-conviction Does an uncounseled guilty plea constitute a structural error that can be raised at any time?
21-1407 Symon Mandawala v. Northeast Baptist Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest conspiracy due-process judge judicial-bias lawyer section-1983 sixth-amendment Whether a judge's conspiracy with a private lawyer to obtain an out-of-time motion to dismiss violates due process
21-7658 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment
21-1345 Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied 28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law?
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Whether the criminal justice system lacks common sense in the treatment of pro se litigants
21-7481 Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan Michigan 2022-03-28 Denied IFP appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in refusing to review claims of judicial bias, ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel
21-1278 Judy Wright v. May 27, 2011 Order, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied civil-procedure coram-non-judice diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question in-rem-complaint judicial-bias judicial-neutrality standing standing-doctrine state-court-judgment Does a petitioner require proof of harm to have standing to challenge a judgment by a judge with an appearance of undermined neutrality?
21-1257 Brian K. Evans, as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Bousquet v. Ronald A. Marvin, et al. Massachusetts 2022-03-16 Denied appearance-of-impropriety conflict-of-interest due-process interests-of-justice judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice recusal Was the judge's failure to disclose his wife's connection to the hospital appropriate?
21-7248 John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson Arizona 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure Does a judge's pre-determination on the record prior to reviewing the evidence at trial violate a constitutional right to due process?
21-1177 Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy Fourth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias recusal Was Debtor's fundamental right to due process violated by the Bankruptcy Court's bias and failure to recuse itself?
21-7162 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence Whether it is consistent with this Court's holding in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 and the imperatives of Due Process to require the…
21-1103 Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness whether-due-process-warrants-judicial-disqualification
21-1050 Frederick S. Koger, et al. v. Clark V. Richardson, Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights color-of-law due-process educational-neglect family-court homeschooling judicial-bias judicial-misconduct racial-bias Did Justice Clark V. Richardson violate civil-rights under-color-of-law
21-6835 Roland Ma v. Gallery Belltown Condominium Association Washington 2022-01-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process homeowners-association judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge preliminary-injunction property-rights recusal standing Does the Homeowner Association have jurisdiction to eject a homeowner from his own home?
21-989 Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit?
21-6805 Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment Whether the district court judge erred in not recusing himself
21-969 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-01-06 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-courts Has the Trial Court accurately conclude that the Pervasive Bias which is evident in the states' justice systems, also extends even to this This Honora…
21-6617 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed IFP american-heart-association civil-rights civil-rights-violation drug-eluted-stents due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice procedural-error res-ipsa-loquitur Reverse and settle personal injury
21-881 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2021-12-14 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest court-jurisdiction due-process filing judicial-bias procedural-irregularity vexatious-litigant Question not identified
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-6181 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power bribery civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation Did the United States District Court — Central District of California's Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez violate the United States Constitution when he…
21-6183 In Re Charles Gary Bruce 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se When a petitioner makes a prima facie showing of constitutionally impermissible conduct by prosecution, must court hold a Franks hearing to investigat…
21-6079 Austin Brand v. Oregon Oregon 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP art-canon civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-order oregon-law pro-se standing supreme-court Is the maxim advised to the Oregon Supreme Courts mandamus order pre-discretionary to disposition concerning a judicial body's bias and awe inspiring …
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex…
21-6041 Eric Benson Skeens v. Indiana Indiana 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-procedure witness-testimony Whether the state courts erred when they allowed the state and its agents to tamper with, suppress, and withhold evidence favorable to the petitioner,…
21-565 Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement Whether an out-of-state law firm is subject to specific in-personam jurisdiction in the client's home state, where the client signed the representatio…
21-498 James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
21-5816 Ronald Peden v. Democratic National Committee, et al. First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP civil-rights dismissal-on-merits due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-conduct media-filtering political-preference preliminary-injunction prudential-standing res-judicata standing Are Federal judges at liberty to unilaterally issue rulings and orders based on personal political preferences, in addition to race and class bias, wh…
21-5643 Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii Can an employer justify zero accountability for wrongful employee discrimination with a federal policy or statute, as a loophole to pressure an employ…
21-5621 In Re Patrick Disanto 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-allegations child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest disability-rights due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-hearing-officer parental-rights standing Does the judicial hearing officer possess the ability to view the complicated case from a non-biased perspective, without expressing his own misogyny …
21-5566 Razhden Shulaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-interference due-process judicial-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions right-to-counsel structural-error trial-procedure Whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York provided a constitutionally flawed trial and committed structural error…
21-5569 Patrick Charles v. Caliber Home Loans, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation damages disability due-process elder-abuse emotional-distress fair-debt-collection judicial-bias property-rights wrongful-eviction Do the defendants have the right to abuse an elderly and disabled person without the law doing anything about it?
21-5390 Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal Judicial-misconduct
21-5328 James Robert Dowty v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-scene-search criminal-procedure custody-testimony due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-witnesses judicial-bias police-procedure sequestration Whether the District Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law
21-5309 Zachary Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-06 Denied IFP actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure Due-process-recusal
21-5292 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-bias recusal summary-adjudication writ-proceeding Did the California Court of Appeal justices' failure to recuse themselves from deciding the appeal of the final judgment violate the Due Process Claus…
21-5254 Baboucar Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. New Hampshire 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal Whether a party is entitled to a new trial for violations of their 5th, 13th, and 14th Amendment rights when the state judge presiding over the case i…
21-5198 Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing Appellant's right to due process of law
21-88 Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a strict uniform criteria
21-5074 Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief?
21-22 Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. California 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-corruption judicial-independence jury-trial legal-misconduct rule-of-law standing Judicial corruption
20-8343 Joseph Jenkins v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing Questions Presented
20-8329 Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition ROBINSON WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O…
20-8265 John Licausi v. New York New York 2021-06-09 Denied IFP altered-evidence bias-conflict-of-interest civil-verdict collateral-proceeding due-process judicial-bias newly-discovered-evidence right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment third-party-culpability Whether a hearing in a collateral proceeding was required to determine trial Judge's neutrality
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal Whether a judge must be disqualified under 28 U.S.C. § 455 if the judge makes rulings more restrictive against one party than the other in comparable …
20-8098 Mohammad Sohail Saleem v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias partiality petition-for-rehearing prejudice Did the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third District err in denying Mr. Saleem's Petition for Re-Hearing
20-8105 Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio Ohio 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the 'Bias' and 'Partial' behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement to prove 'Structural' Error?
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-7995 John C. Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-12 Denied IFP due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain for a conviction …
20-7966 James L. Rudzavice v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3582(c)(1)(a)(i) compassionate-release constitutional-rights due-process first-step-act judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-fairness sentencing-review Did the courts misconstrue the First Step Act and 3582(c)(1)(A)(i)
20-7938 Cherie Phillips v. Charo Rowley Idaho 2021-05-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardianship-rights hospice-mandate judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se standing state-action Whether the Idaho Courts denied the fairness and justice of Due Process
20-7925 In Re Clement Mosseri 2021-05-04 Denied IFP court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias legal-representation pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel unbiased-tribunal Is petitioner entitled to a fair hearing before an unbiased tribunal?
20-7869 Wilfredo Torres v. The Blackstone Group Second Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct legal-mail standing whether-a-federal-judge-violated-due-process
20-7827 Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia Maine 2021-04-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe…
20-1465 Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding…
20-1456 Walter Osborne v. Douglas E. Kellogg, et al. Florida 2021-04-16 Denied appellate-procedure change-of-venue civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-bias legal-review procedural-fairness recusal standing venue Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a change of venue due to bias and impartiality
20-7735 DeAndre Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2021-04-14 Denied IFP advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court reversibly erred in admitting highly prejudicial and irrelevant evidence related to an alleged threat to Ms. Branson by Petiti…
20-1421 Paul Ballerstein, et ux. v. Penelope McHatten, et al. Maine 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-bias property property-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Can a civil court arbitrarily override clearly written statutory requirements?
20-7654 Alan Douglas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing Reverse and settle personal injury
20-7585 Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas Kansas 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072, …
20-1348 True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification Whether a federal court judge should be disqualified for lack of impartiality due to prior violations of the automatic stay in bankruptcy and denial o…
20-7527 Kimberly Johnston v. Mark J. McGinnis, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP barron-test civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct property-rights retaliation Whether a judge can be liable for acts outside the scope of Barron judicial immunity, including theft of a non-party's personal property without due p…
20-7514 Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they…
20-7449 Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic…
20-7424 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-error due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari Reverse and settle personal injury judgment
20-7321 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-judgment due-process judicial-bias legal-procedure medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing Whether the appellant's U.S. constitutional and civil rights were violated
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution Whether the district court and appellate court erred in their handling of the defendant's claims of plain error, judicial bias, ineffective assistance…
20-7193 John C. Stuart v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-impartiality due-process judicial-bias pecuniary-conflict pecuniary-interest private-prison private-prisons state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Do this Court's holding in Tumey v. Ohio and Ward v. Village of Monroeville apply to cases wherein additional money is paid to the judge for convictio…
20-1115 Christopher R. Granton v. Washington State Lottery Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias lottery-dispute property-rights standing state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in its rulings on this case?
20-7080 Jimmy Lloyd Alexander v. California California 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to prosecutorial misconduct, judicial bias, and improper admission of evidence
20-1023 Jean Coulter v. Philip A. Ignelzi, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus rule-233.1 rule-making-authority standing vagueness Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutional?
20-6881 Alan Douglas v. Nancy Zimmerman, et al. California 2021-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari Reverse and settle personal injury
20-954 Ohio, ex rel. Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. v. Maureen O’Connor, et al. Ohio 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal panel-composition procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether a judicial panel's refusal to recuse themselves when they are named parties in the case constitutes a due-process-violation
20-6602 Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons New Hampshire 2020-12-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights What is best for E.B.
20-6574 Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford Seventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct recusal standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint based on the alleged bias of the district judge
20-6493 Neelam Uppal v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Florida 2020-12-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process foreclosure hobbs-act judicial-bias standing Whether a litigant is deprived of due process of law
20-6477 Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh…
20-719 Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation Does racial bias disproportionately affect the federal courts' treatment of marginalized people of color, when addressing the international treaty asp…
20-725 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine Pennsylvania 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived amendment-xi civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process existential-threats judicial-bias originalism pro-se-access systemic-bias systemic-justice Does Judge Colville's elevation to the federal bench or any other events during the pendency of this case lend urgency to the problem of Thrasymachus?
20-692 Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment that violated the Petitioner's fundamental rights by supporting an opinion that (I) rep…
20-6364 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge…
20-6302 Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-11-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was deprived of due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment due to a prosecution based on perjured testimon…
20-6219 Sascha Lynch v. Allen Y. Chao, et al. California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-455a civil-procedure due-process equitable-estoppel inquiry-notice judicial-bias statute-of-limitations Whether the California Court of Appeal erred by affirming judgment based on the federal district court's inquiry notice in favor of the defendants wit…
20-583 Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-breach due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus-petition pro-bono Should the Maryland Court of Appeals have granted Petitioner's request for a hearing on her Petition for Writ of Mandamus
20-524 Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process
20-5922 Julia Hook v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-5811 Ruth Torres v. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, et al. Texas 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection equal-protections governmental-immunity judicial-bias pro-se-litigation whistleblower-rights When Pro Se Indigent parties lack meaningful access, procedurally and meritoriously, does this constitute lack of due process and equal protections un…
20-373 Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to argue that the behavior of the Commission on Judicia…
20-5701 Prakash Narayan v. Rabindra Prasad California 2020-09-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-bias due-process judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-corruption judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-transparency legal-procedure procedural-irregularity Why are judges corrupted in California?
20-5502 Kareem K. Kirk, Sr. v. Janet Richardson, et al. Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-duties motion-for-rehearing unelaborated-decision MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN IT, AND PERFORM JUDICIAL DUTIES WITHOUT BIAS, OR PREJUDICE
20-5296 A. I. v. M. A. New Jersey 2020-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process expert-reliability judicial-bias judicial-system legal-fees standing trial-reversal Should a litigant be fully responsible for legal and expert fees of a reversed trial when experts were unreliable and no bad faith is shown?
20-5137 Antoine Dewayne Myles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias pre-sentencing pro-se-representation self-representation suppression suppression-of-evidence wire-tap-interception Whether the district court violated the defendants Due Process right to a fair in an impartial tribunal
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal Whether the trial court judge's, a former prosecutor of appellant's prior criminal trial, refusal to recuse himself and his subsequent judicial partic…
19-8851 Peter Szanto v. Alyce Ann Jurgens Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-157 bankruptcy-procedure district-court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigation res-judicata Whether the lower courts erred in disregarding the mandatory requirements of 28 USC § 157(c) and in exhibiting irrational bias against the pro se peti…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat…
19-8836 Bobby Ray Culpepper v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-error legal-remedy prejudicial-error standing structural-error trial-procedure Was Petitioner Denied a Fair Trial, or was Petitioner's Trial a Result of Structural Errors of Due Process
19-8818 Sharon Johnson v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2020-06-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-accommodation due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether in pro per parties are entitled to the same U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights as represented part…
19-8667 Diamante Alfred v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a 'promise' made by the judge, long before…
19-8657 Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Can-the-District-Court-deny-a-28-U.S.C.-§-2255-motion-without-holding-an-evidentiary-hearing
19-8644 Michael L. King v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-bias When a court shows partiality and bias by adopting nearly verbatim the prevailing party's brief as its order or opinion, particularly in capital cases…
19-8631 Claude Simpson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal personal-bias plea-agreement Is it an abuse of discretion for a judge to not recuse themselves due to personal bias or prejudice?
19-1314 Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille New Hampshire 2020-05-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights Whether the NH statute governing tenant eviction or the NH Supreme Court's interpretation of that statute resulted in an unlawful impairment of a cont…
19-8435 Jerome Lemeal Williams v. Wendy Duffy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-due-process speedy-trial unlawful-touching Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's civil rights by affirming the district court's ruling
19-1268 Jeanetta Springer, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial pro-se-litigation recusal standing Can a court force a pro se litigant to a bench trial despite demand for jury trial?
19-8379 Herbert Burgess v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-bias witness-credibility Whether the trial court's repeated displays of bias, hostility, and animosity toward Herbert Burgess violated the standard for prejudice and bias
19-1237 LeRoy K. Wheeler v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access court-access due-process judicial-bias judicial-review legal-prejudice meritorious-claims prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner Do poor pro-se prisoners have a constitutional right to access the courts and to justice that will compel courts to rule on the merits of valid consti…
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-8233 Reynaldo Alberto Cantu v. Texas Texas 2020-04-09 Denied IFP bias constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-bias juror-misconduct remand trial-procedure Whether the Texas High Court erred in denying Petitioner the right to a fair and impartial trial by failing to remand the case back to the trial court…
19-7989 Roger Bryner v. Clearfield City, Utah, et al. Utah 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-bias rule-of-law standing summary-judgment utah-rule-of-civil-procedure-83 Issues being raised
19-7979 Leo Chadwick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing Whether a judge's statements demonstrating extreme bias against pit bull owners as a class and advocating the elimination of anyone involved in dogfig…
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment Is it contrary to clearly established laws for an attorney to knowingly use court cases that were never filed or commenced, or maintained to use as ex…
19-7876 Aaron Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did an unconstitutional 'objective risk of bias' or 'probability of actual bias on the part of the judge' manifest itself during the sentencing hearin…
19-7627 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias
19-7541 Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his tr…
19-7473 Milon Jarr Brown v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights discretion due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-bias photographic-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the petitioner denied a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense?
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts
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…
19-7395 Jean Crump v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether a defendant's constitutional rights were violated when their court-appointed attorney failed to request a new judge despite being advised that…
19-918 Anthony J. Lucero v. James R. Koncilja, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice motion-for-default-judgment res-judicata state-action Did Respondents violate Petitioner's 14th-amendment-due-process rights
19-7267 Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-doctrine fraud fraudulent-concealment judicial-bias procedural-technicalities standing veterans-affairs whether-the-facts-and-circumstances-surrounding-case-no-3:18-cv-2900-s-bn-and-case-no-19-10547-indicate-bias-and-favoritism
19-7176 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bias due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief recusal trial-procedure Should recusal of a judge be allowed during the post conviction relief phase if the prejudice and bias of the trial judge is apparent on the face of t…
19-7189 Kevin D. Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge abuse his discretion in refusing to recuse himself
19-7184 Stanley Brewer v. Robert F. Cunningham, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct miller-el-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Did the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit misapply the ruling in Miller-El v. Cockrell?
19-842 Mark J. Schwartz v. Clark County, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias qualified-immunity section-1983 seniority-manipulation state-law supplemental-jurisdiction Does the district court abuse its discretion when it fails to differentiate between federal and state law claims under 28 U.S.C. §1367?
19-833 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2020-01-02 Denied Response Waived appeal bias civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-bias pro-se-litigant right-to-appeal standing state-appeal-courts Whether the state appeal courts have the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-834 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2020-01-02 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreign-litigant judicial-bias legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant state-courts Whether the state courts have the right to refuse due process to a foreign pro-se-litigant
19-7073 Anthony Thomas v. Kenmark Ventures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure bankruptcy-law civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-fraud mandate mandate-recall supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit commit error by failing to recall the mandate based upon this Court's intervening decision in Lamar, Archer & Cotrin. LLP v. App…
19-810 Avtar S. Badwal v. Ramandeep Badwal, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights divorce due-process judicial-bias judicial-complaint matrimonial matrimonial-law section-1983 Can the Petitioner request and receive a new trial from the Matrimonial Judge in a Divorce case whom acted against him with bias because he filed a ju…
19-7066 Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
19-775 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appeal appeal-rights bias constitution constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause-of-the-14th-amendment equal-protection federal-court foreign-litigant judicial-bias prejudice pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation Whether the Federal court has the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-602 Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge …
19-553 Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment Is the Second Circuit's refusal to apply the 'totality of circumstances' test for probable cause in a Monell suit constitutional?
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
19-6295 Antonio Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a broad appeal waiver preclude appellate review of a district court's findings if the judge created a constitutionally impermissible appearance o…
19-6237 Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claims of prosecutor…
19-459 Texas Brine Company, LLC v. Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC Louisiana 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias political-sensitivity random-assignment recusal When a litigant presents a colorable claim of judicial-bias, does due-process entitle that litigant to an evidentiary-hearing
19-6189 Lewis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit standing structural-error Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it committed clear error of judgment, by relying on clearly erroneous findings of fac…
19-6156 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6)IFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed …
19-6096 Jerry Simmons v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biased-judge constructive-denial constructive-denial-of-assistance-of-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine Whether the decision by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals contrary to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established F…
19-359 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-carrier due-process first-class-postage judicial-bias mandamus penalty-of-perjury recusal service standing supreme-court-rule third-party-carrier writ-of-mandamus Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district court to recuse itself from the unde…
19-5961 Mark Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove…
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-5978 Terence S. Chancellor v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals appeal-denial bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias perjury standing Whether Petitioner Terence S Chancellor's Constitutional right to due-process was violated during court proceedings by the 7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeal…
19-335 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-12 Denied appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without n…
19-5892 Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. Illinois 2019-09-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings Whether the trial court's actions amounted to a violation of the Due Process Clause
19-5854 Sabrina D. Davis v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company South Carolina 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and SCRCP(South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-bias precedent standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent time-for-service Can the South Carolina courts ignore precedent set by the US Supreme Court that clearly states that time for service cannot be reduced and produce con…
19-303 Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner due …
19-291 Anne K. Block v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights disassociation due-process first-amendment janus-v-afscme judicial-bias judicial-bias-recusal judicial-disqualification motion-on-pleadings retaliation standing Did the trial court err when the district court judge and the reviewing judge refused to disqualify themselves due to their membership in the defendan…
19-5765 Barbara E. Brown v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct legal-proceeding recusal redress standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred
19-5713 Larael Owens v. Tamesha Saddlers, et al. Florida 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-hearing due-process due-process' 'If a judge has a financial interest false-information financial-affidavit financial-interest fraud hearing judicial-bias judicial-ethics' 'Has the petitioner due process r lower-court lower-court' 'If a financial affidavit has false i procedural-due-process procedural-fairness recusal standing substantive-due-process void-judgment Is a judgment that was issued from a lower court void if the lower court did not offer a hearing for that matter?
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether Armand Roos' participation as Plaintiff's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Process
19-187 Kalim A. R. Muhammad v. AT&T, Inc., et al. Alabama 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-construction contract-immunities due-process equal-footing equal-protection federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge state-courts Does the Federal Arbitration Act allow state courts to construe the Congressional policy to incorporate or accommodate inherent inequality to parties …
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court
19-5019 Jennifer Perez v. Paul Grant Dwyer Florida 2019-07-01 Denied IFP child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process judicial-abuse judicial-bias parental-alienation parental-rights Are people with disabilities more likely to be protected or discriminated when regarding parental stigma
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…
18-9820 Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Is petitioner entitled to relief where his constitutional rights are/were violated by receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial court l…
18-9716 Andrew J. Hunter, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defense-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subpoena-power Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's favoritism toward the victim, denial of the defense's right to subpo…
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing Whether the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 justices should have recused themselves from the appeal of a judgment against the peti…
18-9561 In Re Benny Stewart 2019-06-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-procedure due-process due-process,recusal,probable-cause,felony-prosecut felony-prosecution information judge-recusal judicial-bias judicial-recusal probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion recusal state-law Whether the potential for bias and lack of impartiality when a judge makes probable cause determinations and presides over all proceedings in a felony…
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt…
18-9430 Bobby Ray Turner v. Texas Texas 2019-05-24 Denied IFP conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review Whether a state judge's personal conviction from personal experience is legally sufficient to set aside a felony conviction
18-9379 Paul A. Light v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed …
18-9386 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process — a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-9288 In Re Sherman Lamont Fields 2019-05-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Do petitioner have a Constitutional Right to be set free Immediately in light of the overwhelming evidence showing that he was framed for the crime(s)…
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-1387 Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom?
18-1370 Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci…
18-9047 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-motion-to-vacate,judicial- court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias motion-to-vacate recusal recusal-relief standing Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a Motion to Vacate under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60
18-9072 Dewey Lee McBride v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights direct-review due-process judicial-bias legal-claims ninth-circuit standing unbiased-judge Whether Mr. McBride's direct review continued until his claims were decided by an unbiased judge
18-9008 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias due-process evidentiary-facts in-re-murchison judicial-bias post-conviction-relief recusal rippo-v-baker williams-v-pennsylvania Whether there is an impermissible risk of actual bias, likelihood of bias, appearance of bias, or unconstitutional potential for bias on the issue of …
18-8848 Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-16 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias, d…
18-8678 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal
18-8605 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
18-1237 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Argante R. Grippa, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied accident appellate-jurisdiction dismissal-without-explanation highway judicial-bias leaving-scene motor-vehicle motor-vehicle-accident negligence new-evidence police-report racial-discrimination state-trooper sudden-stop taxi-driver-negligence traffic traffic-law Can a driver suddenly stop on a highway without warning?
18-1238 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute Denial of due process in dismissal of case without considering evidence, denial of discovery, improper consolidation of cases, judicial bias and misco…
18-1225 Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o…
18-1227 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights conservatorship due-process free-speech government-corruption judicial-bias judicial-misconduct municipal-fraud municipal-liability property-rights standing takings Whether the City of Bethlehem improperly seized Kanofsky's property through abuse of process and collusion with the courts
18-8390 Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime Whether a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a 'victim' of the offense in deciding to sentence a defendan…
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process
18-1138 Charles Kinney v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-03-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-discretion retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Unconstitutional vagueness of California vexatious litigant law, violation of civil and constitutional rights, bankruptcy law violations, due process …
18-8235 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the deprivation of Alo's civil rights under the United States Constitution Amendments 1 and 6 violates his constitutional rights to free speec…
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7880 Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Were the charges filed at the same time and no other firearm was involved during the offense?
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether harmful legal error occurred in the lower court proceedings
18-7758 Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar Texas 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial?
18-1005 Eileen L. Zell v. Katherine M. Klingelhafer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure court-misconduct cover-up due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice perjury political-influence settlement-conference Whether the actions of the district and appellate courts violated due process by allowing perjury, denying motions, and covering up misconduct by a pr…
18-7648 William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc…
18-7433 Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac…
18-7337 Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia abuse its discretion and commit clear error in failing t…
18-7314 Deontae Thomas v. Florida Florida 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias newly-discovered-evidence standing summary-judgment Whether Procedural Due Process of Law was Mandated An Evidentiary hearing on Newly Discovered Evidence that Establishes Petitioner was denied a Neutra…
18-7248 Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d…
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2018-12-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in reversing the lower court's decision in favor of the petitioner
18-756 William Gittere, Warden, et al. v. Jose Lorente Echavarria Ninth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied aedpa compensatory-bias due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct law-of-the-case Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's application of the law of the case in the state habeas appeal was an adjudication of Echavarria's compensatory bias…
18-6992 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Amici (1)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-misconduct-allegations standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its reading of Gonzalez v. Crosby, allowing Rule 60(b) motions to remedy procedural defects in habeas proceedings
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?
18-6723 Robert Noel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal structural-error when-the-district-judge-has-a-direct-personal-substantial-pecuniary-interest-in-the-outcome
18-6700 Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. New Jersey 2018-11-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness Why is Judge Fuentes denying everything I brought in front of him, including caselaw?
18-6704 Aaron Jonathon Zemke v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bias criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargain plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment
18-598 Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ Whether the Second Circuit erred in granting Appellees' motion for summary affirmance while denying Chien's motions as moot
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
18-6361 Bob Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense impeded the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-487 D. A. v. D. P., II Indiana 2018-10-16 Denied caperton-standard caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co caperton-v-massey due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias magistrate-ruling williams-v-pennsylvania Did the Indiana Court of Appeals decision conflict with the due process standard in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.?
18-6259 Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias big-business cfpb-enforcement civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting fair-debt-collection foreclosure judicial-bias mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business?
18-401 Faye Rennell Hobson v. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violation evidence fifth-amendment judicial-bias legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant united-states-constitution What is the level of bias that must be demonstrated before it constitutes a violation of a pro se litigant's right to due process guaranteed by the Fi…
18-372 Ryan Joe Coddington v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-21 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality prosecutor-conflict prosecutorial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Is a criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial before a fair and impartial tribunal denied when the tribunal is linked by marriage to …
18-6070 Carlos Cornwell v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bracy-v-gramley expert-testimony forensic-evidence hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in a case dependent on forensic evidence
18-6052 Mohsen Khoshmood v. Catholic Charity, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-20 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights court-system discrimination due-process judicial-bias judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-system standing Whether the judicial system in the superior courts is completely corrupt, resulting in misjudgments or unjust judgments that undermine public trust in…
18-6031 Noah R. Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just…
18-6018 In Re Gary Ivan Terry 2018-09-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion…
18-335 Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its 'sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter'…
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption issues being raised
18-5905 Cortez Moore v. Illinois Illinois 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias officer-testimony opening-argument prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testifying-officers witness-credibility Whether the State of Illinois deprived Cortez Moore of a fair trial where during opening argument it repeatedly characterized the testifying officers …
18-278 Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. New York 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection Are men in America becoming a discriminated class?
18-5850 In Re Christopher D. Schneider 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights courthouse-access discrimination due-process economic-status first-amendment judicial-bias mandamus retaliation self-censorship standing Does Mr. Schneider have a right to both the appearance and actuality of neutrality; and does mandamus lie when that fundamental right is going to be m…
18-5765 DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata Has the refusal to properly adjudicate this case by the Eleventh Circuit presented prejudice and bias against the petitioner pro se?
18-215 Lisa M. Aubuchon, et al. v. Maricopa County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied 9th-circuit 9th-circuit-panel bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-contract fact-finder fact-finding government-attorneys judicial-bias judicial-decision legal-precedent notice-of-claim political-bias standing Was the 9th Circuit Panel's Decision a Politically Charged Decision that Assumed the Role of a Fact Finder, as Asserted by the Dissent?
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs Whether an indigent defendant in a criminal contempt proceeding has a right to appointed counsel and a free transcript on appeal
18-198 Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law Whether a plaintiff should be allowed to plead facts related to a collective bargaining agreement and administrative regulations under §1981 and Title…
18-5417 David Hardy v. William Adams, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-duty due-process judicial-bias judicial-conduct legal-precedent rule-10 sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court Do federal judges have a constitutional duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, via the mandate language of Article VI of same Constitution?
18-5396 Calvin McMillan v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-30 Denied IFP appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction Can a state court require a petitioner to establish actual, subjective bias to obtain judicial recusal even though this Court has held that the consti…
18-5382 Muriel Fiedler v. Mace Brindley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1441 civil-procedure civil-procedure-removal diversity-jurisdiction due-process forum-defendant-rule judicial-bias remand remand-procedures removal removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's case
18-45 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied appellate-process civil-procedure-subpoena civil-rights due-process federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-discretion marbury-v-madison pecuniary-interest standing subpoena subpoena-violation Whether Petitioner's case relating to Federal Judge violating the subpoena issue allows him to by-pass the appellate process to petition the Supreme C…
18-26 Pepi Schafler v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied bank-securities character-defamation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud fraud judicial-bias judicial-misconduct standing stock-theft theft Whether the corrupt and criminal Bank of America Securities, now Merrill Lynch et al, in conspiracy with liars, gangsters, criminals, and a sleazy dir…
18-5090 Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the wrong legal standard in evaluating the petitioner's judicial misconduct claim
18-5020 In Re Lewis Brown 2018-06-28 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th…
24A50 Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-misconduct Whether the Second Circuit violated constitutional due process and equal protection rights through judicial bias and procedural misconduct in a civil …