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25-6777 Olda Rachel Guardiola v. Maricela Rodriguez Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction nunc-pro-tunc procedural-change state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court —after its plenary jurisdiction has expired —to use a nunc pro tunc order to retroactively…
25-6588 Derek Skellchock v. Laurie K. Dean, Judge, 8th Judicial District Court, Larimer County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending IFP civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Veterans Judicial Review Act (VJRA) Pub. Law 100-687 (1988) pursuant to Article I § 8 of the Constitution,…
25-5888 Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction 1. The court has without jurisdiction to chose the file a certified legal for stitioner? And petitioner did not receive it? 2. The court violated pro…
25-381 AdvanFort Company v. Zamil Offshore Services Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-10-01 Denied case-splitting foreign-forum forum-non-conveniens judicial-jurisdiction multi-court-litigation plaintiff-rights In Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235 (1981), this Court held that "[a]t the outset of any forum non conveniens inquiry, the court must determi…
25-328 Norman Douglas Diamond v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-error iRS-procedure judicial-jurisdiction statutory-compliance tax-refund withholding-credits 1. The case of Peretz v. US (Fed. Cl. 2020 affd Fed. Cir. 2022) reveals a malicious pattern including cases of Peretz and petitioner Diamond. The IRS …
25-307 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-09-16 Denied due-process foreign-will international-comity judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause testamentary-rights "Comity " entails "the recognition which one nation allows within its territory to the ... judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both t…
25-5528 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arguable-claims criminal-defendant habeas-relief judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-determination ninth-circuit-procedure Under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), whether the Magistrate, the District Court Judge, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction t…
25-5287 Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. Georgia 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-guarantees due-process election-contest fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction service-of-process 1. Whether Georgia courts may dismiss election-contest petitions for "failure to perfect service " when O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524(f) places that duty on cle…
25-62 Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-17 Rehearing Relisted (2) appellate-review constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction procedural-due-process separation-of-powers ultra-vires 1. When a judge ignores or removes the requirements for a mandatory hearing as set forth in the language of a statute, and thus violates the separatio…
25-5065 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence REffiritenfs WflV'F tefilioN&tJfJ COMl^V^LAMof^CoiJ^ifoMoF^ Utifeb CeuRfUftS ToRiSblClioiU Mteiu REfrfion/EA SEEK^AiJEublCATfBfJo^TffS Mer/1s QFUM Pe…
24-1228 Christopher Everett Stone v. Iryna Hermanova Stone nka Iryna Hermanova Mokhoshchokova Colorado 2025-06-03 Denied constitutional-amendments divorce-decree involuntary-servitude judicial-jurisdiction marriage-dissolution property-rights Do the First, Fifth, Thirteenth, or Fourteenth Amendments bar a state from failing to issue, unilaterally revoking, or deferring reissue of a divorce …
24-1217 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action federal-indian-law judicial-jurisdiction rule-60 tribal-recognition Whether the Rule 60 motion should be granted due to alleged lack of jurisdiction and agency misconduct in tribal recognition proceedings
24-7026 In Re Andre Monteek Edwards 2025-04-17 Denied IFP claim-adjudication district-court judicial-jurisdiction legal-finality sixth-circuit writ-of-mandamus Whether Edwards has a clear and indisputable entitlement to a writ of mandamus declaring the district court's failure to adjudicate the merits of his …
24-6944 Andrew Isaacs v. Interplex Sunbelt, Inc., et al. Florida 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction labor-law osha-regulations workers-compensation workplace-safety Whether a Judge of Compensation Claims' jurisdictional ruling over an employee's Fourteenth Amendment claim creates an unconstitutional judicial void …
24-6884 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arguable-claims court-rulings criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction legal-representation Whether the Magistrate, District Court Judge, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction after determining an arguable issue existed without…
24-1022 Susan Hutson v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction motion-to-terminate prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a State or local official who moves to terminate prospective relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(1)(A) bears any affirmative burden beyond demons…
24-6762 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity custody-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause Whether Virginia State, County, and City Courts are Unconstitutional based on the 1971 Virginia Constitution, U.S. Supremacy Clause, and Due Process C…
24-6361 Zachary Crouch v. Christopher Canning Georgia 2025-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-freedoms state-court-abuse treason-allegations Whether state courts have improperly infringed upon constitutional rights and freedoms
24-601 The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) environmental-regulation foreign-tort-claims international-comity judicial-jurisdiction sovereignty trade-promotion-agreement Did the Eighth Circuit err in denying dismissal based on international comity and in interpreting the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement as requiring…
24-5582 Clement Mosseri v. 7 West 21 LI LLC Second Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-review judicial-jurisdiction Whether the United States Supreme Court has an obligation to correct lower court deviations from constitutional procedures and ensure jurisdictional p…
24-5568 Steven Gantt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-dismissal certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction rule-60b section-2255 Whether an attorney's dismissal of a §2255 motion without prisoner consent warrants Rule 60(b) relief and whether a court can issue, recall, or withdr…
23-7686 Sammy David McLain, Jr. v. Michelle L. Thaller, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-fines judicial-jurisdiction standing sua-sponte-dismissal tort-claim Can a Judge(s) dismiss a Claim sua sponte (frivolous) involving a Tort (civil wrong) Code (statute) Injury (loss of a legal right) and an Act (law) wi…
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j…
23-7441 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2024-05-09 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Whether the use of legislative history as law, despite this Court's precedents that it is not law, is a separation of powers offense
23-1073 Raland J. Brunson v. Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-conflict due-process first-amendment governmental-immunity judicial-jurisdiction misprision-of-treason oath-of-office standing treason Whether the lower court has jurisdiction to try the merits of this case
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing Whether the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal as untimely conflicts with the 'mailbox rule' established by this Court and other cir…
23-988 Justin Holder v. Jeffrey Young, et al. Maryland 2024-03-11 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment fifth-amendment in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction land-transfer merger-doctrine municipal-power police-power property-rights subdivision-ordinance taking takings Does the State employee judge Andrew Wilkinson's orders refusing to join the State, and voiding the deeds of Petitioner that contested the State's col…
23-963 Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon Florida 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure Does Florida's legal scheme violate constitutional rights by not allowing its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an …
23A781 Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process and judicial precedent by improperly declining jurisdiction over its own remand order
23-697 Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that district courts lack jurisdiction to consider motions under Section 1927 after a court of appeals has issu…
23-674 Rafael Hernández-Montañez v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy civil-procedure financial-crisis financial-oversight-and-management-board judicial-jurisdiction municipal-bankruptcy promesa promesa-act puerto-rico puerto-rico-debt territorial-instrumentality territorial-oversight Whether an action to enforce the provisions of Titles I and II of PROMESA may be brought before the judge appointed by the Chief Justice to preside on…
23-6140 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2023-11-30 Pending IFP 28-usc-636 civil-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-conspiracy judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge venue-change whether-district-court-dismissal-order-must-be-reversed
23-539 Raymond De Botton v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii case-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process good-behavior judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-review standing Whether Article III courts are required to apply the law to the facts of a dispute
23-484 Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act May a single-judge district court's ruling on a Section 2 claim divest a 3-judge panel of jurisdiction to decide a Fourteenth Amendment claim?
23-5814 Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court system, obstruction of justice across state lines, and tampering with …
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing whether-the-united-states-of-appeals-has-entered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-the-decision-of-another-united-states-court-of-appeals-on-the-same-justic…
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Whether the appellate and trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
23-5373 Ronald Barnett v. Florida Florida 2023-08-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers sexual-predator statute-of-limitations Whether the Third District Court of Appeal and Florida Supreme Court violated the laws governing the separation of power by creating an unwritten ex p…
22-1167 Baron Bond, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frank Bond, et al. v. Roger D. Silk Ninth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response Waived accounting accounting-claim decedent-estate federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction marshall-precedent marshall-v-marshall probate-exception valuation Whether a complaint seeking, or requiring, an accounting or valuation of the assets of a decedent's estate continues, in the wake of Marshall v. Marsh…
22-1110 Justin Paul Dreiling v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived constitution court-of-federal-claims equitable-jurisdiction equitable-relief executive-department executive-regulation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction monetary-claims statutory-interpretation united-states Shall the Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded upon any regulation of an exec…
22-7081 Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing Whether petitioner has a right to have his allegations disputed by respondents
22-6999 Allen Maki v. Texas Texas 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a)
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-548 Randall E. Rollins v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction justice-courts pro-se pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity Did the court below err in not considering the issue that pro se litigants in Texas justice courts are treated unequally from all litigants in non-jus…
22-5963 Russell Spain v. Shenese Jones New York 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority custody custody-dispute federal-law federal-law-violation judicial-jurisdiction national-security procedural-compliance rule-10 Did the lower courts preside within the scope of the United States Constitution?
22-5937 Prince Jones v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-power due-process government-accountability judicial-jurisdiction standing statutory-jurisdiction Can D.C. Superior Court Judges exercise Statutory Jurisdiction under the color of Article III judicial Power, when Article III does not provide a Stat…
22-5874 Dustin Nguyen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process final-order judicial-jurisdiction rules-of-construction void-judgment Did the panel err, violate statute or the public trust, when they failed to State their reasoning for deciding they had no jurisdiction?
22-5797 Marie C. Russo v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee on Behalf of the Holders of the Harborview Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-12 New Mexico 2022-10-07 Denied IFP due-process fair-adversarial-process jurisdiction stare-decisis constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-jurisdiction stare-decisis substantive-due-process Whether the Judiciary of the State of New Mexico violated my right of substantive due-process
22-5145 Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 189 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 54 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a civil…
21-7932 Sameer Muhammad v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority Whether the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter an order reinstating the previous order vacating offense under double jeopardy principle des…
21-7678 Robert Elton v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to inv…
21-7537 Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas Texas 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana Whether Texas Penal Code §21.02 is unconstitutional on its face
21-7504 Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause
21-7123 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction record-keeping records standing Can the Supreme Court of Florida rule on whether to accept jurisdiction on a case which has no records?
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels
21-818 EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals may refuse to consider constitutional issues raised at the administrative level when reviewing the Secretary of Housing a…
21-6338 Danquan A. Fanning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-authority article-iv-court constitutional-authority court-judgment criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-usurpation territorial-court Whether the United States District Court, as an Article IV Territorial Court, illegally usurped Article III Constitutional Authority and illegally ent…
21-6359 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority Whether magistrate judges exceed their statutory authority by issuing orders with the practical effect of granting or refusing injunctive relief
21-731 Jesse Plasola v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied 5-cfr-1653-2-b-1 court-jurisdiction divorce-decree federal-employees-retirement-system federal-employees-retirement-system-act-of-1986 judicial-jurisdiction retirement-benefits thrift-savings-plan zero-balance zero-balance-account Whether the state court's 09-14-2006 TSP final judgment divorce decree violated The Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 (FERSA), Public L…
21-6304 Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland Minnesota 2021-11-16 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i…
21-5113 Michael Anthony Almendarez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied IFP article-vi constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process state-court-records united-states-constitution Is a judge categorically in excess of jurisdiction to enter an order if said judge refuses to obey the interplay between Article VI, cl. 2 of the Unit…
20-8365 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-jurisdiction legal-remedy standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit exceeded the scope of its analysis in rejecting the appellant's resistance claim
20-1718 Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia Where may a family court take jurisdiction over a child custody case
20-8191 Steven E. Hill v. C. V. Rivera, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-courts due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdictional-status limited-jurisdiction military-tribunals reconsideration supreme-court-review united-states-v-briggs Whether the status of military tribunals as Article I courts of special limited jurisdiction warrants reconsideration of United States v. Briggs
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan 2021-04-28 Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits Congress's-military-powers-preempt-state-law-on-veterans-benefits
20-1499 American Civil Liberties Union v. United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 2021-04-27 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (3) article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation Whether the FISC has jurisdiction to consider a motion asserting a qualified public right of access to its significant opinions
20-7848 Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud individual-capacity judicial-jurisdiction non-judicial-acts official-capacity Is non-judicial acts by judges and clerk in their official capacity under color of law, and in their individual capacity for non-judicial acts subject…
20-1482 Cheri Lynne Melchione v. Timothy Temple Florida 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-review district-court-power due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court supreme-court-access Did the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's unchecked power to withhold or strip jurisdiction from the Florida Supreme Court to hear cases involv…
20-1477 Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court?
20-1227 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation Whether the 9th Circuit Court had full jurisdiction of the appeal, having no notice of appeal filed by petitioner in the District Court until 1 year a…
20-1201 Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. Shirley Swain District of Columbia 2021-03-01 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law concurrent-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-funds court-order-validity federal-bankruptcy-law federal-law-interpretation fraud-discharge judicial-conduct judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct void-orders Whether a local court can order release of core bankruptcy funds when it does not assume concurrent jurisdiction per 28-U.S.C.-§-1334(b)
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell?
20-1113 American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2021-02-12 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic…
20-6858 Benjamin Mario Soto v. AFSCME Union Council 5 Local 12181, et al. Minnesota 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct state-constitution employment-contractual-due-process-property-rights
20-933 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2021-01-11 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fraud-prevention injunction judicial-jurisdiction standing Was the petitioner denied equal protection under the 14th Amendment?
20-516 D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo Pennsylvania 2020-10-20 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter without…
20-5942 John Tran v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule
20-5654 Aaron Jose Acuna-Duenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process
20-267 Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein New Hampshire 2020-09-02 Denied Relisted (2) child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively gran…
20-5045 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified
19-1423 George Vortman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-8537 Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing whether the Ninth Circuit should sua sponte vacate a grand jury conviction and sentence because the defendant alleges court error in failing to apply …
19-8189 Jose E. Ramos v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-compliance ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the jurisdiction of the trial court to decide the issue is called into question, and whether the party seeking the exercise of jurisdiction ha…
19-7534 Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's refusal to re-invest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider petitioner Scott's petition for writ of error co…
19-6564 In Re Wei Zhou 2019-11-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite…
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a bare violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act constitutes concrete injury for purposes of Article III standing
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?
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court?
19-8 Jessie D. McDonald v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process judicial-conduct judicial-council judicial-discretion judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Judicial Council have supervisory powers over district court judges?
18A1337 Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete convention-against-torture due-process habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction removal-proceedings Whether 8 U.S.C. §1252(g) and §1252(f)(1) unconstitutionally divest federal courts of jurisdiction to provide class-wide injunctive relief for immigra…
18-9538 Mark Anthony Head v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to construe the appellant's motion under Rule 60(b)
18-9476 In Re Anthony K. Anderson 2019-05-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Nevada District Court erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus despite the court's lack of subject matter jur…
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…
18-9346 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent patent-prosecution procedural-fairness Whether preclusive effect should not be given to agency/court determination where a financially conflicted agency/court lacked jurisdiction to adjudic…
18-9124 Garland D. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 Does jurisdiction exist to correct an illegal sentence at any time?
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment Whether the ruling in Marbury v. Madison still stands
18-8610 Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article…
18-8124 Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden Ohio 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction
18-7213 Akash Dixit v. Christopher Brasher, Judge, Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial Circuit Georgia 2019-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure attorney civil-rights divorce-proceeding due-process family fraud immigration immigration-status international-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct service-of-process standing unethical visa void-judgment Whether the Georgia appellate courts erred in not addressing questions about unethical conduct of a subordinate judge and a void lower court order des…
18-6857 Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal?
18-566 Heriberto Menendez v. Marshall Garber Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-burden due-process interstate-commerce judicial-jurisdiction limitations long-arm-statute non-resident-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling Whether a state statute that tolls limitations while the defendant is absent from the state imposes constitutionally impermissible burdens on intersta…
18-6357 In Re Rajamani Senthilnathan 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure commitment court-authority document-upload due-process electronic-case-filing electronic-filing filing-requirements judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-filing-procedure pleading pleading-submission standing Does the court have the authority to consider an ECF (Electronic Case Filing) pleading as having filed when the filing is not fully committed to, with…
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-5891 James Edward Whitney v. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, et al. Arkansas 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 9th-amendment administrative-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-pleadings standing Whether courts can deny individuals' secured, guaranteed, and protected rights to due process