judicial-fairness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6684 Yehonatan Kapach v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fairness jurisdiction traffic-court video-conference Was the traffic court in New Hampshire justified in denying a North Carolina resident and driver his application to appear by video conference, as it …
24-1009 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-03-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics procedural-rights Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated due process by denying an attorney the opportunity to rebut a disciplinary report containing alleged i…
23-7430 Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant based on its application of the 'willful blindness' doctrine and abuse …
23-7277 Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the plaintiff's claims of civil rig…
23A800 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete court-proceedings due-process judicial-fairness judicial-integrity trial-publicity trial-rights Whether pretrial publicity can constitute grounds for a new trial when it potentially compromises the fundamental fairness of judicial proceedings
23-6668 Roosevelt L. Lincoln, aka Roosevelt L. Linicomn v. Harris County Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness legal-procedure section-242 statutory-interpretation Does the 14th Amendment and Section 242 of Title 18 constitute a man justice?
23-815 Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC Texas 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure When a law firm sues its own clients, are the clients' Due Process rights violated?
23-6473 Joseph Bergeron v. William Bolin, Warden, et al. Minnesota 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis informa-pauperis judicial-fairness legal-obstruction minnesota-judicial-system pro-se pro-se-litigation Can the Minnesota Judicial system deny Informa Pauperis to impoverished Pro Se litigant as a means to obstruct Judicial fairness?
23-576 Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing Is the right to due process being violated for pro se litigants?
23-5819 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law due-process forum-shopping habeas-corpus judicial-fairness lockyer-v-andrade ninth-circuit-review panetti-v-quarterman prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Ninth Circuit take an inappropriately narrow view of what constitutes clearly established federal law in conflict with this Court's treatment …
22-6951 Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc…
22-6660 Winnie Diggs v. Martin Schmidt, et al. Colorado 2023-02-01 Denied IFP court-procedure due-process fair-treatment intentional-prolonged-suffering judicial-fairness judicial-resources legal-remedy perjury-deception res-judicata self-representation self-represented-litigants Whether res judicata makes it impossible for self-represented litigants to be treated fairly
21-6013 Zachary Scott Reed v. Michael Dixon, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clear-error due-process judicial-fairness pro-se-plaintiff qualified-immunity standing Whether the failure of the district court and the appellate court to ensure an earlier legal decision is fair and just and subsequent disregard of a p…
20-7980 Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing Does the unequal treatment of African-American co-defendants violate the equal protection clause?
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-820 Denise Jackson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Second Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-programs federal-rules hearing-notice judicial-fairness Whether the court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint without providing proper notice and opportunity to be heard
19-8709 Gregory Greer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States have a right to 'Due Process' under the law
19-7405 Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams New Jersey 2020-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred
19-6627 Andre Williamson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Will the Supreme Court re-affirm Boykin v. Alabama and Strickland v. Washington for mentally challenged defendants?
19-6219 C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund Florida 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jim-crow judicial-fairness public-accommodation race-discrimination racial-discrimination res-judicata segregation standing Is it legally sound to hold de facto segregated evidentiary hearings?
19-254 Jorel Shophar v. Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied constitutional-rights discrimination domestic-abuse false-allegations fathers-rights judicial-fairness legal-discrimination parental-rights procedural-justice strategic-legal-defense Are parental rights of fathers being treated as inferior to mothers?
18-1462 Nadejda Rozanova, et vir v. Rafael S. Uribe California 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-omission fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment grannis-v-ordean judicial-fairness judicial-procedure legal-procedure omission omission-of-facts omission-of-laws state-court-conflict Whether the California courts violated petitioners' due process rights by omitting numerous relevant and probative facts and laws in their decisions, …
18-889 Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber Illinois 2019-01-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural-due-process, of their federal-constitutionally-protected-liberty-interest in ha…
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution?
18-5118 Shane K. Floyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether racial bias can infect a jury's deliberations and decisions, violating the right to a fair trial