judicial-oversight

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6766 Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented as a valid arrest warrant, violates the…
25-6291 Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. Ohio 2025-12-05 Pending IFP equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation Whether a State's probate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by permitting substantially higher compensation for corpor…
24-7311 Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th…
24-712 Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy Whether the Supreme Court can relinquish Article III duties by deferring to arbitrators when enforcing arbitration awards
24-5911 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Medical University of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction healthcare-protections judicial-oversight Whether the Constitution provides protective health care rights for elderly and disabled individuals and allows judicial relief for violations of thos…
24-5009 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied IFP antitrust antitrust-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud financial-services fraud judicial-oversight jury-trial Question not identified
23-7758 In Re Janice Wolk Grenadier 2024-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accountability judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency oversight public-trust transparency Question not identified.
23-7130 In Re William Graven 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appeals-court appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal judicial-error judicial-oversight judicial-review mandamus motion-to-dismiss orders panel Can an Appeals Court Panel 'accidentally' miss/not rule on a second appealed/argued Order, and then just ignore that second argued Order, even when re…
23-981 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-07 Denied Response Waived agency-abuses agency-report article-iii-standing constitutional-right-of-access-to-the-courts constitutional-rights havens-realty-corp-v-coleman informational-standing judicial-oversight organizational-standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erroneously nullify the doctrine of organizational-standing,by-conflating-…
22-6036 Martin Robinson v. Jim Simone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied IFP case-documentation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction legal-review standing Whether the trial and appeals courts erred in failing to review and correct their lower court's decisions
22-5972 William Marion Patterson, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three civil-procedure civil-rights decision-making-process due-process judicial-oversight non-delegation pro-se-appeals staff-attorney-program standing Whether the Staff Attorney Program in the Eleventh Circuit and the Middle District of Florida violate the non-delegation principles of Article III dut…
22-389 Charles T. Johnson v. Jenna Dickenson Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (4) class-action eleventh-circuit fiduciary-duty greenough greenough-precedent incentive-payments judicial-oversight rule-23 Are incentive payments in Rule 23 class-action settlements per se unlawful under the rule from Greenough, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or sometimes p…
22-294 County of Ontario, New York v. Brian Gunsalus, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code bfp-v-resolution-trust-corp due-process foreclosure fraudulent-conveyance judicial-oversight real-estate-titles state-law tax-collection tax-foreclosure Did the Second Circuit err in refusing to extend the holding of BFP to a lawfully conducted tax foreclosure?
21-6369 Jeremy Denson v. Texas Texas 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion judicial-oversight plea-bargaining plea-canvass record-development Did the judge err in accepting the defendant's guilty plea without asking him about the contradictory statements?
21-6291 Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia…
21-6262 Guadalupe Padilla v. Texas Texas 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-review dna-mixture-analysis dna-testing due-process governmental-body governmental-immunity judicial-oversight post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing statutory-requirements Is a non-profit corporation, acting as a governmental body to review criminal convictions involving the re-calculation, re-analysis and/or re-testing …
21-495 Dennis Black, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process erisa judicial-oversight pbgc pension-plan pension-termination statutory-interpretation Does ERISA permit the termination of a distressed pension plan through an agreement between PBGC and the plan administrator?
21-5779 Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson Florida 2021-09-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight legal-fraud separation-of-powers Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution?
20-7541 Billian Jo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mee Jin-Jo v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure clerk-authority due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion judicial-oversight summary-order Whether the Second Circuit Clerk's authority regarding Summary Orders is appropriate under FRAP
20-7434 William Dawes v. California California 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication judicial-discretion judicial-oversight legal-incompetence mental-health prison punishment-standards state-procedure Whether the involuntary medication of a prisoner without judicial oversight or even a court order violates the 5th Amendment's due process protections
20-5855 In Re Ruben Orlando Benitez 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority civil-procedure court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent new-evidence recusal standing Whether the Court committed errors therein arising from oversight
20-5838 Daryl Dude Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied IFP circuit-court-review district-court due-process ex-parte-proceeding fact-finding fraud-on-the-court judicial-oversight legal-authority prosecutor prosecutorial-fraud relief-from-judgment Did the Circuit Court commit a reversible error and grossly violate petitioner's Due Process when it (1) overlooked the district court's fact-finding …
19-8403 Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review Whether the Court can exercise its encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of a disproportionate amount of time added to a primary base te…
19-8238 Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson Florida 2020-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-override due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-procedure legal-conspiracy separation-of-powers Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution?
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
19-6695 Ilana Rigwan v. Jordan Lee Neus Florida 2019-11-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure court-records docket-alteration evidence-tampering judicial-accountability judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency legal-accountability public-trust Should Judges be allowed to alter dockets and go unpunished?
19-6222 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. K. Harrington, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-errors due-process extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-oversight mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner public-policy standing Whether pro-se prisoner can be denied First Amendment right based on court errors?
19-6135 Kelvin Townsend v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency grand-jury indictment judicial-oversight sealed-records standing Is the government required to obtain a court order from the court to unseal a sealed criminal indictment?
19-5485 Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona Arizona 2019-08-06 Denied IFP arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's decision violates the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011)
18-1559 Velma Brooks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence falsification judicial-oversight judicial-review legal-conspiracy medical-evidence worker's-compensation workers-compensation Why did the Colorado courts refuse to seek the truth in this case?
18-1045 Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Plaintiffs' constitutional rights violated by administrative policy allowing probation officer to approve non-appealable, non-final, ex-parte orders w…
18-6844 Christopher John Kerr v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight search-and-seizure standing void-warrant warrant-validity Should a void ab initio warrant issued by a judge be treated as if it never existed and, consequently, should evidence obtained pursuant thereto not b…
18-6264 Adrian M. Requena v. Ray Roberts, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability judicial-oversight judicial-review prison-officials prisoner-rights Can Prison Officials violate a prisoner's Constitutional Rights and the Court System turn a blind eye?
18-5551 In Re Rafael A. Joseph 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight jurisdiction malfeasance mandamus nonfeasance oversight Can the Circuit & Court of Appeals Executive refuse to refer my petition for reconsideration; Clerk Court of Appeals refuse to docket my motions to sh…
18-170 John Anthony Gentry v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-enforcement due-process federal-jurisdiction government-reform judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight republican-form republican-government sovereign-immunity state-reform state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign immunity is vitiated when the state government is no longer republican in character or form
24A507 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia Presumed Complete due-process judicial-oversight national-security posse-comitatus userra whistleblower-protection Whether the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and the Posse Comitatus Act protect federal employees from unlawful det…