judicial-impartiality

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25-6506 John Wesley Patton v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Louisiana 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal Whether a Louisiana District Judge can be considered impartial when presiding over cases involving claims against himself and when district attorneys …
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality Whether a state court violates due process by allowing a privately compensated discovery referee to continue exercising judicial authority after their…
25-6139 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-prosecution due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal reasonable-person-standard Would a reasonable person conclude that a judge could remain impartial during a conspiracy prosecution when the judge has already found others guilty …
25-360 J. P. v. J. N. New Jersey 2025-09-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights judicial-corruption judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal Did corruption within the NJ judiciary violate the petitioner's constitutional rights and foster impropriety in judicial proceedings?
25-260 Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter First Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate have been disrupted so significantly that they canno…
24-1231 Andrew Dowd v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution Whether a district judge impermissibly blends judicial and prosecutorial roles by urging investigation and then presiding over the trial, whether an a…
24A562 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, LLC Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality mandamus-petition procedural-irregularity writ-of-possession Whether a federal district court judge's potential conflict of interest, arising from being a named defendant in a related lawsuit, requires mandatory…
24-579 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process Must a district court judge recuse himself when an expert affidavit challenges his impartiality after reporting a criminal defendant's attorney to an …
24-281 Kishna S. Minor v. Anne M. Heishman, Commissioner of Accounts Virginia 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest due-process fiduciary-oversight judicial-impartiality quasi-judicial-officer state-court-procedure Whether a Commissioner of Accounts violates the Due Process Clause by acting as both an accuser and adjudicator in fiduciary oversight proceedings
24A121 Richard Lee Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court, et al. Arizona 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete due-process ex-parte fraud-allegations judicial-impartiality labor-law workplace-dispute Whether a state court's alleged ex parte actions and procedural irregularities in a multi-court litigation involving workplace and non-workplace dispu…
23-1348 In Re Charles Simon 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation Whether the Three Judge Panel's order denied and rubber-stamped the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ignor…
23-816 In Re Shiva Akula 2024-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue Does district-court-judges have-to-disclose-financial-holdings
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…
23A468 Deirdre Baker v. JEA Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete civil-rights-act judicial-impartiality procedural-due-process race-retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether a federal district court judge violates procedural due process and judicial impartiality by relying on fabricated evidence and displaying bias…
23-399 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2023-10-17 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act article-iii circuit-disqualification civil-rights civil-rights-claims constitutional-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality mandamus mandamus-relief standing Whether a U.S. circuit court may concede its disqualification to adjudicate a matter and then refuse to transfer the action to another qualified circu…
23A321 Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence due-process innocence-claim judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief recanted-expert-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to grant post-conviction relief based on recanted expert testimony t…
23-66 Norbert A. King, II v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation Does the lower court's decision to allow the government to supplement the record mid-appeal demonstrate a misapplication of statutory canons and affec…
22-1214 Mohsin Mazhar Syed v. Texas Texas 2023-06-15 Denied campaign-contributions caperton-precedent caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co constitutional-conflict due-process impartial-judge judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality recusal recusal-standards Whether the due process clause requires recusal of a judge who has received substantial campaign contributions from a party or the party's attorney in…
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…
22-1013 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
22-7164 Paul A. Bernard v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-review opposing-parties procedural-rules standing state-procedure substantive-rights Whether the State of Michigan's complete failure to ensure judicial impartiality, as evidenced by the lack of procedure to address allegations of judi…
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether a criminal defendant's due process right to a fair trial is violated when numerous media reports raise reasonable questions about a district c…
22-6158 L. Powers v. Unclaimed Property, et al. Florida 2022-11-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process guardianship-dispute inheritance inheritance-rights judicial-impartiality judicial-technicality standing state-funds Shall we send the wrong message to public that judges use illogical technicalities over interests of justice to cover for Florida Governor?
22-458 TIG Insurance Company v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation Second Circuit 2022-11-15 Dismissed 28-usc-455 appellate-review financial-conflict judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal legal-procedure liljeberg-test public-confidence-in-judiciary Whether a court must automatically decline to vacate a judgment rendered by a judge with a financial interest in the party in whose favor he ruled, in…
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?
21-1147 Yehoram Uziel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-extortion self-representation self-represented-litigant standing Can a judge ignore a party's challenge to his impartiality, maintain jurisdiction and abuse his adjudicative authority to extort the challenging party…
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
21-6638 Michael Lewis Gibbons v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment alleged-victim contradictory-testimony criminal-procedure due-process impartial-juror inconsistent-statements judicial-impartiality no-physical-evidence physical-evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony Question not identified
21-6636 Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality
21-6522 Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. Maryland 2021-12-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal Will the US Supreme Court provide a fair trial to the Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges have conflicts of interest?
21-710 Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s…
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresented litigan…
21-5806 Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram-nobis-relief should remain unresolved
21-230 William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg…
21-5035 Ronald Pyles v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2021-07-08 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation civil-rights due-process ethical-standards ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal witness-testimony Question not identified
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 …
20-1491 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-04-26 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court Is being a stakeholder in an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment a…
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…
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 Whether Petitioner was unconstitutionally deprived of property without due process
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-5180 Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley Missouri 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal whether-the-trial-court-judge-should-have-recused-themselves
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…
19-8631 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?
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-822 Laurie A. White, Judge, Section A of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, et al. v. Alana Cain, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-conflict criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fines-and-fees judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality state-court-funding state-court-jurisdiction Does the federal court have jurisdiction to disqualify state criminal court judges from adjudicating matters, over which they have exclusive jurisdict…
19-6974 Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 455(a) is unconstitutionally vague, ambiguous, arbitrary, capricious, and violates due process of law
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
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…
19-5961 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…
19-5459 Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled to a fair trial from an impartial judge who is not corrupt to preside and rule over his tria…
19-5103 Kenton G. Findlay v. Star Lakes Association, Inc. Florida 2019-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights disqualification due-process foreclosure foreclosure-appeal impartiality judicial-impartiality service-of-process Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
18-9717 Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Florida 2019-06-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendment …
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-06-03 Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as t…
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…
18-8240 Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgment where he personally opposed post-conv…
18-1016 Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules Was the new standard from People v. Stevens a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court interpreting the federal Constitution?
18-888 Michael S. Bent v. Cheryl Strange, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-grants impartiality judicial-impartiality noncustodial-parent parens-patriae social-security-act state-courts strict-scrutiny title-iv-d Does the federal classification of 'noncustodial parent' under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act violate due process?
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
18-723 Jose Rodriguez v. Bank of America, N.A. Florida 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equitable-relief foreclosure foreclosure-evidence impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the due process protections enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments prohibit Florida Courts from turning a blind eye to the continued use of …
18-711 Donny Marin, et al. v. The Bank of New York Florida 2018-12-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the due process protections prohibit courts from turning a blind eye to the use of fraudulent evidence to obtain foreclosure relief
18-6649 Thelma R. Davis v. Brown & Dortch LLC, et al. Maryland 2018-11-13 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-rights judicial-impartiality partiality standing state-court-corruption unfair-treatment Corruption-within-state-court-system
18-577 David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata Does the above scenario represent a violation of Rule 455(a), an appearance of impropriety and/or conflict of interests?
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 …
18-5020 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…